Tarja is the Finnish short form of Daria — possibly also from the Finnish tarja (hill, fortress). **Tarja Halonen (born 1943)** — **Finnish politician; first female President of Finland (2000-2012); social democratic leader and trade union lawyer who led Finland's response to the 2008 financial crisis**. **Co-Chair of the United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (2010)**; champion of women's rights, LGBTQ+ equality (officiated the first same-sex civil partnership in Finland), and indigenous Sami rights. **First Finnish head of state to address the Finnish Parliament in Sami (2008)**. **Tarja Turunen (born 1977)** — **Finnish soprano and former lead singer of Nightwish (1996-2005), the symphonic metal band whose 2004 album *Once* sold 2.7 million copies worldwide**. **Both Finnish national icons of the same generation**. **Tarja Karjalainen** — Finnish journalist.
Subject of countless 2000s Finnish political histories.
Tarja reduces to five — the number of Finnish president.