List of Famous people born in Lithuania
Sophia of Lithuania
Sophia of Lithuania (1371–1453) was a Grand Princess consort of Muscovy by marriage to Vasili I of Russia. She was regent of Muscovy during the minority of her son from 1425 to 1434.
Iosif Grigulevich
Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was a Soviet NKVD Operative between 1937 and 1953, when he took a leading role in assassinating Communist and Bolshevik individuals who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin.
Saulius Skvernelis
Saulius Skvernelis is a former prime minister of Lithuania, serving between 2016 and 2020. He is currently a member of the Seimas. Previously he served as police commissioner, and he was Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer.
Jacques Sernas
Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas, commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is a Lithuanian conductor. She is currently music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO).
Darius Labanauskas
Darius Labanauskas is a Lithuanian darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. In 2015, he was the WDF world number 1.
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Zygmunt Malanowicz is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in 30 films since 1962.
Uļjana Semjonova
Uļjana Larionovna Semjonova is a retired Soviet-Latvian basketball player.
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist. Born in Vilna (Vilnius), he moved as a teenager to the United States, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He was a virtuoso since childhood—Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said on hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."