List of Famous people born in Vilnius County, Lithuania

Deividas Sirvydis

Deividas Sirvydis is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Sirvydis was selected 37th overall by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2019 NBA draft and was then traded to the Detroit Pistons.

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Alexander Zass

First Name Alexander
Last Name Zass
Born on February 23, 1888
Died on September 26, 1962 (aged 74)
Height 167 cm | 5'6

Alexander Zass was a Russian strongman, professional wrestler, and animal trainer. He was better known by his stage names, The Amazing Samson, Iron Samson, or simply Samson, Zass has been credited as the "first Russian champion in weightlifting in the pre-Revolutionary era".

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Ernest Mackevičius

First Name Ernest
Last Name Mackevičius
Born on November 25, 1968 (age 55)

Ernest Gedrevich Mackevičius is a Russian journalist and TV host of Lithuanian origin. Presenter of the programs Good Morning, Russia (2002–2005) and Vesti.

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Dalia Grybauskaitė

First Name Dalia

Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth President of Lithuania from 2009 until 2019. She is the first woman to hold the position and became in 2014 the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

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Aivaras Abromavičius

First Name Aivaras
Born on January 21, 1976 (age 48)

Aivaras Abromavičius is a Lithuanian-born Ukrainian investment banker and politician. He was Ukraine's Minister of Economy and Trade starting in December 2014. He did not retain his post in the Groysman Government that was installed in 14 April 2016. Abromavičius was Director General of Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's biggest defense industry company, from 31 August 2019 until 6 October 2020.

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Aloyzas Kveinys

First Name Aloyzas
Born on July 9, 1962
Died on July 26, 2018 (aged 56)

Aloyzas Kveinys was a Lithuanian chess player, who was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1992.

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Władysław II Jagiełło

First Name Władysław
Born on January 1, 1362
Died on June 1, 1434 (aged 72)

Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434) and then the King of Poland (1386–1434), first alongside his wife Jadwiga until 1399, and then sole King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377. Born a pagan, in 1386 he converted to Catholicism and was baptized as Władysław in Kraków, married the young Queen Jadwiga, and was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1387 he converted Lithuania to Christianity. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of King Jadwiga, and lasted a further thirty-five years and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The dynasty ruled both states until 1572, and became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern Europe. During his reign, the Polish-Lithuanian state was the largest state in the Christian world.

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Marija Gimbutas

First Name Marija
Born on January 23, 1921
Died on February 2, 1994 (aged 73)

Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.

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Darius Kasparaitis

First Name Darius
Last Name Kasparaitis
Born on October 16, 1972 (age 51)
Born in Lithuania
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Darius Kasparaitis is a Lithuanian-American former professional ice hockey defenceman. He mainly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins, Colorado Avalanche, and New York Rangers. He is a four-time Olympian and three-time medalist, winning one gold medal, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. He received the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1992 and was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016. His 28 career Olympic games is a record among Russian national team's players.

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Sophia of Lithuania

First Name Sophia
Last Name Lithuania
Died on October 27, 1453

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.

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