Jairo is a common Spanish name. Notable people with this name include:

• Francisco Jairo Silva Santos (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
• Jairo Aguirre (born 1956), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Álvarez Gutiérrez (born 1986), Spanish footballer
• Jairo Ampudia (born 1966), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Arboleda (born 1947), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Arias (born 1938), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Arreola (born 1985), Guatemalan footballer
• Jairo Arrieta (born 1983), Costa Rican footballer
• Jairo de Assis Almeida (1904–1997), Brazilian footballer
• Jairo Luis Blumer (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
• Jairo Campos (born 1984), Ecuadorian footballer
• Jairo Castillo (born 1977), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Henríquez (born 1993), Salvadorian footballer
• Jairo Jiménez (born 1993), Panamanian footballer
• Jairo de Macedo da Silva (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
• Jairo Montaño (born 1979), Ecuadorian footballer
• Jairo Martínez (born 1978), Honduran footballer
• Jairo do Nascimento (1946–2019), Brazilian footballer
• Jairo Neto (born 1994), Brazilian/East Timorese footballer
• Jairo Palomino (born 1988), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Patiño (born 1978), Colombian footballer
• Jairo Pérez (born 1976), Guatemalan footballer
• Jairo Puerto (born 1988), Honduran footballer
• Jaïro Riedewald (born 1996), Dutch footballer
• Jairo Samperio (born 1993), Spanish footballer
• Jairo Sanchez-Scott (born 1987), Cayman Islands footballer
• Jairo Suárez (born 1985), Colombian footballer
• John Jairo Castillo (born 1984), Colombian footballer
• John Jairo Culma (born 1981), Colombian footballer
• John Jairo Ruiz (born 1994), Costa Rican footballer
• John Jairo Tréllez (born 1968), Colombian footballer
• John Jairo Ulloque (born 1986), Colombian footballer
• Juan Jairo Galeano (born 1962), Colombian footballer

• Jairo (born 1949), Argentine singer
• Jairo Clopatofsky (born 1961), Colombian politician
• Jairo Cossio (born 1970), Colombian weightlifter
• Jairo Duzant (born 1979), sprinter from the Netherlands Antilles
• Jairo Guedz, lead guitar player of Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura
• Jairo Hernández (born 1972), Colombian cyclist
• Jairo Labourt (born 1994), Dominican baseball pitcher
• Jairo Miguel (born 1993), Spanish bullfighter
• Jairo Penaranda (born 1958), American football running back
• Jairo Pérez (born 1973), Colombian track and road cyclist
• Jairo Salas (born 1984), Colombian road cyclist
• Jairo Varela (born 1949), Colombian musician, composer and songwriter of Salsa music and other tropical genres