List of Famous people born in Vilnius County, Lithuania
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.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is a Lithuanian conductor. She is currently music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO).
Zygmunt Malanowicz
Zygmunt Malanowicz is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in 30 films since 1962.
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."
Yitzhak Arad
Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.
Vasily Kachalov
Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, was one of Russia's most renowned actors. He worked closely and often with Konstantin Stanislavski. He led the so-called Kachalov Group within the Moscow Art Theatre. It was Kachalov who played Hamlet in the Symbolist production of 1911.
Rachel Messerer
Rachel Mikhailovna Messerer-Plisetskaya, also known by her stage name Ra Messerer, was a Russian silent film and theatre actress.
Antanas Kavaliauskas
Antanas Kavaliauskas is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He serves as the director of player development for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He played college basketball at Texas A&M University.
Romualdas Ramanauskas
Romualdas Ramanauskas is a Lithuanian film and theater actor.
Lina Braknytė
Lina Braknytė is a Lithuanian actress.