Famous People with Name Risto

Risto Laakkonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Laakkonen: a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1986 to 1993. He won a gold medal in the team large hill competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.His biggest successes were at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he won two medals in the team large hill event (gold: 1989, silver: 1991). At the World Cup level, he won the 1989 Four Hills Tournament without winning a single competition.

Risto Isomäki            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Risto Isomäki: a Finnish environmental activist and author of science fiction and nonfiction books. His 2005 novel Sarasvatin hiekkaa was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja award in 2006. [1]

Risto Kägo            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Risto Kägo: is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in the Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He plays the position of defender.

Risto Kallaste            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Risto Kallaste: is a former Estonian professional footballer. He was playing the position of defender and midfielder. He won a total of 36 international caps for the Estonia national football team. Kallaste earned his first official cap on 1992-06-03, when Estonia played Slovenia in a friendly match.

Risto Mätas            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Risto Mätas: is an Estonian javelin thrower.His personal best throw is 80.53 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Yokohama.

Pekka Ristola            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Pekka Ristola: was a Finnish nordic combined skier who competed in the 1960s. He finished fourth in the Nordic combined event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

Nikola Ristov            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Nikola Ristov: is a Macedonian footballer who plays as a midfielder for FK Pobeda in the Macedonian First League.

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski            Origin/Culture/Country: Slavic

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski: is a Serbian actor, director, producer, musician and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Belgrade as an actor. He has appeared on stage about 3000 times, and starred in over 40 films, TV series and TV dramas, mostly

Borko Ristovski            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Borko Ristovski: is a Macedonian handball player who plays for the VfL Gummersbach in the German Bundesliga and for the Macedonia national handball team. He started his handball career in 1995 as a member of the handball club "Rabotnicki" (1995/96, and 1996/97). In 1997 he signed for the handball club "Jug", in which he stayed for two years, until 1999. He spent the season 1999/2000 in the handball club Makedonija (now known as RK Metalurg Skopje). In 2001 he won the Macedonian handball championship with Vardar Vatrostalna. The same year he won the Macedonian Cup. His first experience in a European Championship was in Greece in 2000 in the Championship for juniors. Between the years 2001-2003 he played for Vardar Vatrostalna and in 2002 he won the second championship in his career. In 2002 he participated in the European Championship in Poland for juniors. The same year he was proclaimed for the best young sportsman in Macedonia. After two years in the handball club Vardar, he decided to make a transfer in another club. In 2003 he signed a two-year contract for that year's champion RK Metalurg Skopje. After the expiry of the contract, Ristovski decided to go to Spain, where he signed a one-year contract for the second league handball club SD Teucro. In the year 2006/2007 he marked a transfer in the Spanish handball club Algeciras BM, and became the first Macedonian handball player who played in the ASOBAL league. Due to family reasons in 2007 Ristovski has returned in Macedonia and signed a one-year contract with the handball club RK Metalurg Skopje, where he became one of the best players, and in the season 2007/2008 he won the Macedonian handball championship, third in his career. He signed for another two seasons, and in 2008/2009 he won the Macedonian cup again. Later he signed a deal with RK Vardar. In February 2012 Ristovski signed 2,5 year contract with the German team VfL Gummersbach.

Michael Ristow            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Michael Ristow: is a German medical researcher who has published influential articles on the metabolic basis of human diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer, as well as general aging processes. Amongst more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, Ristow published a seminal article describing a genetic mutation associated with extreme human obesity.[1]