What is "matti"

Matti may refer to:

• Matti, Karnataka, a village in India
• Matti: Hell Is for Heroes, a film about Matti Nykänen
• Matti (given name), people with the given name
• Matti (surname), people with the surname

Matti is a given name, a Finnish version of the name Matthew (name). Matti (מתי or מטי) is also a nickname for the Hebrew boy's name Mattisyahu, or for the Yiddish girl's name Mattel. It may refer to:

In sports:

• Matti Breschel, professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProTour outfit Team CSC
• Matti Hagman, Finnish hockey player
• Matti Hautamäki, Finnish ski jumper
• Matti Klinga, Finnish football player
• Matti Mäki, Finnish backstroke swimmer
• Matti Nuutinen, Finnish basketball player
• Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
• Matti Oivanen, Finnish volleyball player
• Matti Pitkänen, Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Matti Rajakylä, Finnish swimmer
• Matti Santahuhta, Finnish football manager and former player
• Matti Wasama, Finnish hockey player

In music:

• Matti Caspi, Israeli composer, musician, singer and lyricist
• Matti Salminen, Finnish bass singer

In politics:

• Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
• Matti Nikki, Finnish anti-censorship activist
• Matti Mattson, veteran of the Spanish Civil War

In other fields:

• Matti Klinge, Finnish historian
• Matti Saari (disambiguation), multiple people
• Matti Shemoelof Israeli poet, editor, journalist and activist
• Matti Seppälä, Finnish geomorphologist

Matti is the surname of:

• Andreas Matti (born 1959), Swiss actor
• Erik Matti (born 1965), Filipino filmmaker
• Peter Matti (born 1965), Swiss former slalom canoer
• Ueli Matti (born 1959), Swiss former slalom canoer, brother of Peter Matti