* 1959 – Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver

For the 2002 season, Hyundai hired the four-time world champion Juha Kankkunen, along with Freddy Loix and Armin Schwarz.

In the 1986 season, Vatanen's young replacement Juha Kankkunen beat Lancia's Markku Alén to the drivers ' title and Peugeot took its second manufacturers ' title ahead of Lancia.

Some of the drivers to have taken part are among the best-known names in rallying, such as Juha Kankkunen, Bruno Thiry, Henri Toivonen, Colin McRae, Jimmy McRae, Marc Duez, François Duval, and Freddy Loix among others.

In 2000 however, Solberg was able to leave Ford's M-Sport outfit prematurely, due to an insufficient contract, to sign with the Prodrive Subaru World Rally Team ( SWRT ), then led by a driving staff of Richard Burns and Juha Kankkunen.

It had many celebrities as shareholders, such as the rally driver Juha Kankkunen.

2s of Timo Salonen, Juha Kankkunen and Mikael Sundström took three of the top four places, with only Markku Alen's second position in the Lancia Delta S4 preventing a monopoly of the podium.

A tweaked version of the HF dominated the World Rally Championship, scoring 46 WRC victories overall and winning the Constructors Championship a record six times in a row from 1987 to 1992, in addition to Drivers ' Championship titles for Juha Kankkunen ( 1987 and 1991 ) and Miki Biasion ( 1988 and 1989 ).

In the 1981 season, he was signed up for a larger WRC programme and had a new co-driver, Fred Gallagher, who would later partner Juha Kankkunen and Björn Waldegård in a Toyota Celica Twincam Turbo.

The pair retired from the event, but Piironen would become his main co-driver for the next two seasons, and later have a long and successful partnership with four-time world champion Juha Kankkunen.

The Lancia Martini partnership in the World Rally Championship was one of the company's longest, remaining until the end of the 1992 season, with several cars, including the Group B Delta S4 and Group A Delta Integrale winning events and titles with drivers such as Juha Kankkunen, Bruno Saby, Massimo Biasion and Didier Auriol.

Burns moved to the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Team under David Richards for the 1999 season, joining Juha Kankkunen and Bruno Thiry as part of the factory team driving Subaru Impreza WRCs, replacing Ford-bound fellow Briton, Colin McRae.

His team-mate, by then two-time world champion Juha Kankkunen, also gave the Celica GT-Four ST165 its debut win at the inaugural Rally Australia.

Juha Matti Pellervo Kankkunen () ( born 2 April 1959 in Laukaa ) is a Finnish former rally driver.

Despite having to fare from mid-season with two substitute co-drivers after Juha Piironen suffered a brain hemorrhage, Kankkunen went on to take a record fourth drivers ' title by winning five of his ten WRC events ; the Safari Rally with Piironen, the Rally Argentina, the Rally Australia and the RAC Rally with his new co-driver Nicky Grist, and the 1000 Lakes Rally with Denis Giraudet due to Grist's pre-arrangement with Armin Schwarz.

Kankkunen with his 1997-2002 co-driver Juha Repo.

Vatanen briefly led the event before being overhauled by eventual winner Juha Kankkunen.

Mäkinen is one of the most successful WRC drivers of all time, ranking second in championships ( 4 ), tied with Juha Kankkunen and behind Sébastien Loeb ( 8 ), and fifth in wins ( 24 ).

In early 2007, a Bentley Continental GT Speed equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta Sport Utility 5 studded winter tyres and driven by four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, broke the World Speed Record on Ice-on the frozen Baltic Sea near Oulu, Finland.

Finland has also produced most of the world's best rally drivers, including the ex-WRC World Champion drivers Marcus Grönholm, Juha Kankkunen, Hannu Mikkola, Tommi Mäkinen, Timo Salonen and Ari Vatanen.

In 1984, Peugeot returned to the World Rally Championship and, in 1985 and 1986, the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Group B driven first by Timo Salonen then by Juha Kankkunen obtained stunning results ( back-to-back manufacturers ’ World Championship titles ).

From 1987 to 1990, he enjoyed dazzling success with four successive victories in the Paris-Dakar with Ari Vatanen and Juha Kankkunen.

In one of the tightest duels in the event's history, Toyota's Juha Kankkunen led Lancia's Markku Alén by just two seconds after 33 of the 39 stages.

Drivers such as Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen, Possum Bourne and Tommi Mäkinen all competed for the team.

* 1976 – Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer

Previous directors include Raimo Väyrynen ( 2002 – 2004 ) and Juha Sihvola ( 2004 – 2009 )

* Juha Tiainen – former Olympic gold medallist in hammer throw

* Juha Salminen – twelve time World Enduro Champion

* Juha Lind ( 1993 – 97, 1998 – 99, 2008 – 10 )

* Juha Lind ( 2004 – 05 )

* Juha Kylmänen – guest vocals on A Virgin and a Whore ( For My Pain ..., Reflexion )

* Juha Kylmänen – clean vocals, 2001 ( For My Pain ..., Reflexion, To / Die / For )

* Juha Ikonen ( 1997 – 99 )

* Juha Ylönen ( 2002 – 03 )

* Juha Pajuoja 2010 – 12 *

74 – Juha: opera in six tableaux ( 1934 )

* Juha Pekka Alanen – guitar ( 2005 – present )

* Juha Kylmänen – Vocals ( see ex-Reflexion )

* 1991 – Juha Kankkunen, Lancia

* 1986 – Juha Kankkunen, Peugeot

* 1999 – Juha Kankkunen, Subaru

* 1993 – Juha Kankkunen, Toyota

* Juha Raivio-guitar ( 2000 – present )