Mika
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Mika may refer to:
- Mika (singer)Mika (singer)Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...
(born 1983), a singer-songwriter based in London - FC MIKA, Armenian football team
- Mika StadiumMika StadiumMika Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Yerevan, Armenia, built in 2007. It can serve around 8,000 supporters and is the home ground of Mika FC.The stadium is also a home venue of the Armenia women's national football team.-References:...
- Mika Stadium
Male given name (primarily used in Finland)
- Mika AaltonenMika AaltonenMika Aaltonen is a former Finnish football player. His position was an attacking central midfielder. He also played for the Finnish national team....
(born 1965), Finnish football player - Mika AntićMika AnticMiroslav "Mika" Antić was a Serbian poet, movie director, journalist and painter. Antić was born in Mokrin, Kikinda municipality, Vojvodina, Serbia . He had six children. His oldest son, Igor Antic, is a visual artist.He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries...
(1932–1986), Serbian poet - Mika ChunuonseeMika ChunuonseeMika Chunuonsee is a Welsh-Thai footballer.-Club career:Born in Bridgend, Wales, Chunuonsee joined Neath Athletic in July 2008 from Welsh League side Bryntirion Athletic...
(born 1989), Welsh-Thai football player - Michael "Mika" Simões DominguesMichael Simões DominguesMichael Simões Domingues , aka Mika, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.L. Benfica as a goalkeeper.-Club career:...
(born 1991), Portuguese goalkeeper - Michaël "Mika" GoossensMichaël GoossensMichaël Goossens is a retired Belgian footballer who played as a striker.-Club career:Goossens started playing professionally with R.F.C. Seraing at the age of 16, then moved to Standard Liège...
(born 1973), Belgian football player - Mika HäkkinenMika HäkkinenMika Pauli Häkkinen is a Finnish racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion...
(born 1968), former Finnish Formula One driver and double World Champion, former DTM racer as well - Mika HalvariMika HalvariMika Kristian Halvari is a Finnish shot putter who has quit active competition. When competing, he represented Kemin Kunto and Helsingin Kisa-Veikot, weighing in at 140 kg on his 190 cm frame....
(born 1970), Finnish shot putter - Mika HannulaMika HannulaMika Stefan Hannula is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently playing with Modo Hockey.- Playing career :...
(born 1979), Swedish ice hockey player - Mika HelinMika HelinMika Helin is a Finnish professional football player who currently working as playing coach with Kiffen.-Football:Helin has played for several Veikkausliiga sides during his career. He has represented PK-35, FC Haka, FC Jokerit, TPS and FC Honka. Helin has also played for FC...
(born 1978), Finnish football player - Mika Horiuchi (born 1986), Japanese-American musician
- Mika ImmonenMika ImmonenMika Immonen is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "the Ice Man."He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deuel in the US Open Nine-ball ChampionshipHe has represented Team Europe on thirteen occasions in the...
(born 1972), Finnish pool player - Mika KallioMika KallioMika Kallio is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in 2001 and was awarded the "Rookie of the Year" in 2002...
(born 1982), Finnish motorcycle racer - Mika "Gas" KarppinenMika KarppinenMika Kristian Karppinen, better known as Gas Lipstick , is currently the drummer for the rock band HIM. He is also the drummer of Finnish deathgrind band To Separate the Flesh from the Bones, punk band Ääritila and metal band Bendover. He also was a drum tech for Stratovarius at one point and was...
(born 1971), Finnish drummer - Mika KaurismäkiMika KaurismäkiMika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.He is the elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki, and the father of Maria Kaurismäki who graduated from Tampere School of Art and Media in 2008 with her movie Sideline.Mika Kaurismäki has lived in Brazil since approximately 1992 and has made several...
(born 1955), Finnish film director - Mika KoivuniemiMika KoivuniemiMika Juhani Koivuniemi is a Finnish ten-pin bowler, currently on the Professional Bowlers Association tour in the United States, who has won bowling titles in 12 different countries in his career....
(born 1967), Finnish ten-pin bowler - Mika KojonkoskiMika KojonkoskiMika Kojonkoski is a Finnish ski jumping coach and politician. Kojonkoski was a ski jumper himself in the 1980s, but he never reached the level of the best Finnish jumpers like Matti Nykänen...
(born 1963), Finnish ski jumper and politician - Mika KuusistoMika KuusistoMika Kuusisto was a cross country skier who competed during the 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and also had his best individual Winter Olympics finish with a 23rd in the 50 km event in those same games.Kuusisto also won a bronze in...
(born 1967), Finnish cross-country skier - Mika LahtinenMika LahtinenMika Lahtinen is a Finnish footballer. He is a forward and he plays for Finnish team RoPS of the Veikkausliiga. He has previously also played for JJK at the top level and on loan at RoPS, Rovaniemi.-References:*...
(born 1985), Finnish football player - Mika LaitinenMika LaitinenMika Antero Laitinen is Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a gold medal in the Team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville....
(born 1973), Finnish ski jumper - Mika LuttinenMika LuttinenMika Luttinen was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1971. In 1990, he formed the Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene, where he is the singer and main lyricist. After numerous line-up changes, he remains the only original member. Besides his main project, he has been in the death/black metal band...
(born 1971), Finnish musician - Mika MuranenMika MuranenMika Kalevi Muranen , a military conscript, returned to his barracks in Hamina from a holiday on Sunday, April 17, 1994, stole an Rk 62 assault rifle from the barracks and fled to his hometown Kotka....
(born 1971), Finnish prisoner - Mika MyllyläMika MyllyläMika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...
(born 1969), Finnish cross-country skier - Mika NiskanenMika NiskanenMika Niskanen is a professional ice hockey defenceman, currently with Ilves in the Finnish elite league SM-liiga.- References :...
(born 1973), Finnish ice hockey player - Mika NoronenMika NoronenMika Noronen is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender, currently playing for Lukko of SM-liiga.- Career :...
(born 1979), Finnish ice hockey player - Mika NurmelaMika NurmelaMika Nurmela is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for the Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu.- Trivia :He is a right sided player who has played most of his career as a wide midfielder or winger, but can also play at full back....
(born 1971), Finnish football player - Mika-Matti Paatelainen (born 1967), Finnish football manager, better known as Mixu PaatelainenMixu PaatelainenMika-Matti Petteri "Mixu" Paatelainen is a former Finnish international football player and the current manager of the Finnish national team, having started the role in April 2011...
- Mika PeltonenMika PeltonenFinnish Army Major General Mika Peltonen is the current commander of the Multinational Task Force North of EUFOR.General Peltonen was born January 23, 1956 in Tampere, Finland. He was a foreign exchange student taking part in the Youth For Understanding exchange program. He lived in Glendale,...
(born 1965), Finnish military officer - Mika PohjolaMika PohjolaMika Pohjola is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in New York City. He is one of the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation.-Childhood in Helsinki, Finland 1971-87:...
(born 1971), Finnish jazz pianist - Mika RonkainenMika RonkainenMika Ronkainen is a Finnish film director from Oulu, Northern Finland. His best-known films are documentaries Screaming Men and Freetime Machos , the former being a portrayl of a Finnish screaming male choir Mieskuoro Huutajat, and latter being a portrayal of a rugby team which is allegedly the...
(born 1970), Finnish film director - Mika SaloMika SaloMika Juhani Salo is a Finnish racing driver. He competed in Formula One between and . His best ranking was 10th in the world championship in 1999. He also won the GT2 class in the 2008 and 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans....
(born 1966), Finnish auto racer - Mika Singh (born 1977), Indian singer
- Mika ŠpiljakMika ŠpiljakMika Špiljak was a Croatian politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.He was born in Odra Sisačka . His father Dragutin was a railway worker. Špiljak began working at the age of 16...
(1916–2007), Yugoslav politician - Mika StrömbergMika StrömbergMika Strömberg is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques as their eleventh-round pick, #211 overall, in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft....
(born 1970), Finnish ice hockey player - Mika TauriainenMika TauriainenMika Tauriainen is a Finnish vocalist. He is currently a member of gothic metal band Entwine and ex-vocalist of atmospheric rock band ShamRain.-Discography:With Entwine* Painstained...
(born 1975), Finnish rock singer - Mika Vainio, member of the Finnish electronic duo Pan sonicPan sonicPan Sonic was a Finnish experimental electronic music duo consisting of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen.-Music:...
- Mika VasaraMika VasaraMika Tapani Vasara is a male shot putter from Finland.Vasara won his first medal in the Finnish Championships in 2006 when he won the bronze in the indoors championships and silver in the outdoors...
(born 1983), Finnish shot putter - Mika Väyrynen (born 1981), Finnish football player
- Mika VukonaMika VukonaMika Vukona is a New Zealand professional basketball player for the Australasian National Basketball League's New Zealand Breakers and for the New Zealand Tall Blacks...
, (born 1982), Fijian-born New Zealand basketball player - Mika WaltariMika WaltariMika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian .- Early life :...
(1908–1979), Finnish author
Female given name (primarily used in Japan)
- Mika Akino (born 1973), the Japanese wrestler AKINO
- Mika ArisakaMika Arisakais a Japanese-American singer and vocalist. Due to her upbringing, she is bilingual and has performed in both English and Japanese. She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a member of Reggae Disco Rockers and has a solo career...
, Japanese-American singer - Mika BooremMika BooremMika Sue Boorem is an American actress who has appeared in the films Blue Crush , Carolina , Sleepover , and Smile ....
(born 1987), American actress - Mika BrzezinskiMika BrzezinskiMika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski is an American television news journalist at MSNBC. Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program...
(born 1967), American Television Journalist, co-host of Morning Joe - Mika DoiMika Doi, née is a veteran voice actress who was born in Sendai.-Anime:* Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple * Air Master * Aura Battler Dunbine * Canvas 2 ~Niji Iro no Sketch~...
(born 1956), Japanese voice actress - Mika Handa, singer with the band Mika BombMika BombMika Bomb is a London-based, Japanese pop-punk band.Lead singer Mika Handa arrived in London in 1998, with the goal of playing in a punk band. Recruitment for the band began with the arrival in London of the guitarist Agi , who now sings in the electronic duo, Long Kuan Jiu Duan...
- Mika KamitaMika KamitaMika Kamita is a Japanese singer, songwriter. She was born in Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan. She auditioned 3 times before she got a musical contract. Her first release came in 2006, and since then she's been working and interviewing in radio....
(born 1982), Japanese singer - Mika KanaiMika Kanaiis a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo. She is currently attached to Ken Production. Her pet name is . She is best known for her roles in Idol Tenshi Yōkoso Yōko , Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka , Goldfish Warning! , Soreike! Anpanman , Yadamon , After War Gundam X , Tokyo...
(born 1964), Japanese voice actress - Mika Kato, namesake singer of the Sadistic Mika BandSadistic Mika Bandwas a Japanese rock group formed in 1972. Its name is a parody of the "Plastic Ono Band". Produced by Masatoshi Hashiba on Toshiba-EMI Records , the band was led by the then husband and wife team of guitarist Kazuhiko Kato, and his wife, singer Mika Fukui...
- Mika KawamuraMika Kawamurais a Japanese manga artist and author, best noted for being the creator of the manga series UFO Baby.-Other works:* Daa! Daa! Daa! * Shin Daa! Daa! Daa! * Happy Ice Cream!...
, Japanese manga artist - Mika KikuchiMika KikuchiMika Kikuchi , born on December 16, 1983 in Misato, Saitama, Japan, is a Japanese actress and seiyū. She is affiliated with Production Ogi.-Biography:...
(born 1983), Japanese actress - Mika MiyazatoMika MiyazatoMika Miyazato is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour.As an amateur, Miyazato won the 2004 Japan Amateur Women's Championship at the age of 14, and was the youngest player to win the event. In the Asian Games, she won silver medals in the...
(born 1989), Japanese golfer - Mika NakashimaMika Nakashimais a Japanese singer, model, and actress. She has achieved five number-one albums in Japan and also embarked on an acting career, most notably in the live-action movie Nana, based on the manga of the same name.- Early life and debut :...
(born 1983), Japanese singer - Mika NewtonMika NewtonMika Newton , born on 5 March 1986, is a Ukrainian singer from the city of Burshtyn. She leads a rock band whose other members are known as Uncle Fe, Snow, Andrew and "Loco" Vitalii. Their début album Anomaliya was released in 2005.-Style:Newton has been singing since the age of nine...
(born 1986), Ukrainian singer - Mika TanMika TanMika Tan is the stage name of a fetish model , and pornographic actress of Asian ancestry.-Background:...
(born 1977), American adult actress - Mika Todd (born 1984), American jazz singer and former Hello! Project member
- Mika YamauchiMika YamauchiMika Yamauchi is a former volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team.Her nickname is Mika .-Profile:*Birthplace: Yurihonjo, Akita*Height: 182 cm...
, volleyball player
As a surname
- Brad MikaBrad MikaBradley Moni Mika is a New Zealander rugby union player. His position is lock. He was educated at St Peter's College....
(born 1981), New Zealand rugby union player - Setefano MikaSetefano MikaSetefano Mika is a Samoan middle distance runner.-External links:...
(born 1985), Samoan middle distance runner
Fictional characters
- Mika Ahonen, a character from the anime/manga Strike WitchesStrike Witchesis a mixed-media project originally created by Humikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. It was later adapted into two light novel series, three manga series, an anime OVA, a televised anime series and various video games. The story revolves around teenage girls who are...
- R. MikaStreet Fighter Alpha 3Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, fictional character from the Street Fighter video game series - Mika Kujiin, one of the main characters in the KanamemoKanamemois a Japanese four-panel comic strip written and illustrated by . The strip has been serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Max since June 19, 2007...
anime/manga - Mika Nogizaka, a character from the light novel and anime Nogizaka Haruka No HimitsuNogizaka Haruka no Himitsuis a Japanese light novel series by Yūsaku Igarashi, with illustrations by Shaa. The series originally started serialization in volume thirty of MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp on June 18, 2004. One more chapter was published until the first bound novel of the series was...
Other uses
- Mika AlasMika AlasMika Alas is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula....
, urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia - Sadistic Mika BandSadistic Mika Bandwas a Japanese rock group formed in 1972. Its name is a parody of the "Plastic Ono Band". Produced by Masatoshi Hashiba on Toshiba-EMI Records , the band was led by the then husband and wife team of guitarist Kazuhiko Kato, and his wife, singer Mika Fukui...
, Japanese hard rock band - Mika BombMika BombMika Bomb is a London-based, Japanese pop-punk band.Lead singer Mika Handa arrived in London in 1998, with the goal of playing in a punk band. Recruitment for the band began with the arrival in London of the guitarist Agi , who now sings in the electronic duo, Long Kuan Jiu Duan...
, Japanese pop-punk band - Mika MikoMika MikoMika Miko was a band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. In 2004 they gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances. Featuring Victor Fandgore , Jet Blanca , Michelle Suarez, Jessica Clavin, and Jon Erik Edrosa, the original line up of the band made its first demo CD-R, its...
, American punk-noise band - Mika VMMika VMThe Mika VM is an open source implementation of the Java virtual machine specification, together with class libraries which implement the Connected Device Configuration of Java ME. The Mika VM is based on the Wonka VM, which was developed independently of any other implementation, including Sun...
, open-source Java VM for embedded use - Mika, Masovian VoivodeshipMika, Masovian VoivodeshipMika is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trojanów, within Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Garwolin and south-east of Warsaw.-References:...
(east-central Poland)