List of Famous people born in Latvia
Ingrīda Andriņa
Ingrīda Andriņa was a Latvian stage and film actress.
Boris Zosimov
Barbara von Krüdener
Beate Barbara Juliane Freifrau von Krüdener, often called by her formal French name, Madame de Krüdener, was a Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian who exerted influence on wider European Protestantism, including the Swiss Reformed Church and the Moravian Church, and whose ideas influenced Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
Alexey Belan
Alexey Belan Alexeevich is a Latvian and Russian hacker on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals. He has been accused of illegal access to the computer networks of three US companies in the states of Nevada and California. As a result of breaches committed in 2012 and 2013, a hacker stole personal data of company employees and several million registered users of their services, which was later sold through the Internet. He is known under the pseudonyms Абыр Валгов, Абырвалг, Федюня, Магг, М4G, and Мой.Явик.
Gražbylė Venclauskaitė
Karl Otto Georg von Meck
Karl Otto Georg von Meck, was an important 19th century Baltic German businessman, one of the founders of Russian Empire railways.
Hans Detterman Cronman
Meinhard von Gerkan
Yanka Maur
Janka Maŭr, was a famous Belarusian writer. Janka Maŭr was actually his pseudonym, while his real name was Ivan Michaiłavič Fiodaraŭ. His son, Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, was a famous Belarusian physicist.
Tomass Dukurs
Tomass Dukurs is a Latvian skeleton racer who has competed since 1998. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014.