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List of people from Kaunas
Summary
The following is a list of
notable people from
Kaunas
,
Lithuania
.
1st Brigade of Kaunas of Army of
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
in 1792
Aharon Barak
Adam Mickiewicz
Chiune Sugihara
L. L. Zamenhof
Valdas Adamkus
, President of Lithuania
[1]
Diana Adlienė
(born 1954),
medical physicist
and doctor of physical sciences
[2]
Aharon Amir
,
Israeli
Hebrew
poet, translator, and writer
Antanas Andrijauskas
, habilitated doctor and professor
Moshe Arens
, Israeli statesman and diplomat
Donatas Banionis
, actor
Aharon Barak
(originally Brick), professor of law at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
Antanas Baranauskas
, poet, mathematician, and Catholic bishop
Svetlana Beriosova
, prima ballerina with the
Royal Ballet of England
Montague Burton
, British retail magnate
Algimantas Dailide
(1921–2015), official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) during World War II
Marija Gimbutienė
, archaeologist
Sara Ginaite
(born 1924), former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic
Leah Goldberg
(1911–1970), Israeli poet
Emma Goldman
(1869-1940), anarchist
Leyb Gorfinkel
(1896–1976), advocate, journalist, and politician who was originally of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality
Juozas Grušas
, writer and editor
Joseph Gurwin
(1920–2009), American philanthropist
[3]
Žydrūnas Ilgauskas
, basketball player
Tadas Ivanauskas
,
zoologist
and
biologist
Valdas Ivanauskas
, footballer
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
, basketball player and coach, 2005
Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Romas Kalanta
, student protester
Kęstutis Kemzūra
, basketball player
Linas Kleiza
, basketball player
Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius
, historian, theologian, and translator
Władysław Komar
, Polish shot putter and actor
Lazare Kopelmanas
, lawyer and diplomat
Vytautas Landsbergis
, politician and member of the
European Parliament
Emmanuel Levinas
, philosopher
Moshe Leib Lilienblum
, early Zionist thinker
Aleksandras Machtas
, chess player
George Maciunas
, artist, founding member of
Fluxus
Maironis
, poet
Abraham Mapu
, Hebrew novelist of the
Haskalah
movement
Šarūnas Marčiulionis
, basketball player
Rūta Meilutytė
, swimmer
Adam Mickiewicz
, Romantic poet
Hermann Minkowski
, mathematician and one of
Einstein
's teachers
Oskar Minkowski
, physician and medical researcher
Donatas Motiejūnas
, basketball player
Yitzhak Olshan
, second President of the
Supreme Court of Israel
Vlado Perlemuter
, pianist
Petras Rimša
, sculptor and medalist
Vladimir Romanov
, businessman, chairman of UBIG Investments
Mykolas Romeris
, lawyer and judge
Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg
, countess
Arvydas Sabonis
, basketball player
Israel Sack
, American antiques dealer
Sidney Shachnow
, US Army general
Mykolas Sleževičius
, lawyer, political figure, and journalist
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
, Rabbi of Kaunas and Talmudic authority
Ladislas Starevich
,
stop-motion
animator
Yehezkel Streichman
, Israeli painter
Daniel Tammet
, British writer
Gintautas Umaras
, retired
track
and
road racing cyclist
Lukas Verzbicas
, American long-distance runner and triathlete
Jonas Vileišis
, lawyer, politician, and diplomat
Edita Vilkevičiūtė
, model
Vytautas Žalakevičius
, film director and writer
Marius Žaliūkas
, professional footballer
L. L. Zamenhof
, inventor of the
Esperanto
language
References
edit
^
Official website of the President of Lithuania
^
"Diana Adlienė".
Kaunas University of Technology
. Retrieved
2023-08-14
.
^
Martin, Douglas (26 September 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89".
The New York Times
. Retrieved
29 September
2009
.