List of Famous people born in Riga, Latvia

Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People since 2019 and European Commissioner for Trade since 2020. He previously served as European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 2016 to 2020 and Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 to 2014.

Vasiliy Vasilievich Ulrikh was a senior judge of the Soviet Union during most of the regime of Joseph Stalin. Ulrikh served as the presiding judge at many of the major show trials of the Great Purges in the Soviet Union.

Arnis Mednis is a Latvian singer. He represented Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Denmark with the song, "Too Much", and finished in 18th place out of the 23 competing nations, with 16 points.

Yuriy Yakovlev was a Bulgarian stage and film actor.

Victor Arthur Eduard Janson was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity.

Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald was a German chemist and biologist researching colloids.

Paul Nicolai Hartmann was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth century metaphysicians.

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.

Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander, was a Russian Empire ethnic Baltic German biologist and embryologist.