Hjalmar Fabian Parikka (16 October 1891 – 27 March 1959[1]) was a Finnish revolutionary soldier, actor and artistic director.

Jalmari Parikka was born in the Eastern Finnish town of Sortavala and went to school in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.

Parikka started his acting career in 1910 as a member of a touring theatre in Kajaani, where he had learned the profession of a typesetter.

As the 1918 Finnish Civil War broke out, Parikka was head the Worker's Theatre in Enso.

[2] After the 1921 general pardon, Parikka worked as an artistic director in the Worker's Theatres of Pori and Vyborg and the theaters of Mikkeli and Vaasa.