List of Famous people born in Latvia

Solvita Āboltiņa née Mellupe is a Latvian politician who was Speaker of the Saeima from 2010 until 2014.

Inese Šlesere is a Latvian politician and former model and beauty queen. She was the runner-up in the 1999 Mrs. World and a contestant in Miss World 1991. She was a member of the Latvian Parliament from 2002 to 2011. Since 2010, she is the main organizer of the annual Latvian Prayers breakfast. She is married and has five children.

Uldis Sesks, is a former mayor of Liepāja, Latvia and a businessman and former auto racer.

Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet Communism and for his service in Minsk, Belarus. Cardinal Swiatek was the former Metropolitan Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, and Apostolic Administrator of Pinsk.

Theodor Georg Andreas Molien was a Baltic-German mathematician. He was born in Riga, Latvia, which at that time was a part of Russian Empire. Molien studied associative algebras and polynomial invariants of finite groups.

August Matthias Hagen was a Baltic German painter and graphic artist. He specialized in landscapes and cityscapes with figures.

Ainārs Šlesers is a Latvian businessman and former politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia, as well as Deputy Mayor of Riga.