Jorma Kariluoto

Jorma Juhani Kariluoto is a fictional character in Väinö Linna's 1954 war novel The Unknown Soldier and one of its main characters. At the beginning of the novel, he is a sergeant major, like Vilho Koskela, but later during the Continuation War he rises to lieutenant and eventually even captain.

Linna said in one of his last interviews that Kariluoto was a typical AKS officer whose idealism evaporates in the whirlwind of war.