List of Famous people born in Lithuania
Airinė Palšytė
Airinė Palšytė is a Lithuanian high jumper. She won gold medal at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Zvi Yehuda Kook
Zvi Yehuda Kook was an Orthodox rabbi, a prominent leader of Religious Zionism, and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
Virgilijus Noreika
Virgilijus Kęstutis Noreika was a Lithuanian tenor.
Leo Jogiches
Leon "Leo" Jogiches, also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania and Germany.
Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz
Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz was an Israeli author whose works became classics of modern Hebrew children’s literature. Born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1909, she arrived in Palestine in 1921, at the age of 12.
Anna Radziwiłł
Anna Radziwiłłówna was a Lithuanian noble woman and Duchess of Masovia.
Stanisław Radziwiłł
Stanisław "the Pious" Radziwiłł was a sixth generation Radziwill family noble (szlachcic) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a general starost (elder) of the Duchy of Samogitia, a first ordynat of Olyka, and the Great Lithuanian Marshal.
Jerzy Chodkiewicz
Knyaz Yurii Chodkiewicz (1515–1569) was a Ruthenian noble, Bielsk starost in 1556, Puńsk starost in 1568, Great Master of the Pantry of Lithuania in 1554, Grand Krajczy of Lithuania in 1555, and Trakai castellan in 1566.
Gintaras Staučė
Gintaras Staučė is a former Lithuanian footballer. He currently works as a goalkeeping coach with the Russia national team.
Antoni Radziwiłł
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł was a Polish and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as a scion of the Radziwiłł family he also held the honorific title of a Reichsfürst of the Holy Roman Empire. Between 1815 and 1831 he acted as Duke-Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia created out of Greater Polish lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland.