List of Famous people with last name Paleckis

Justas Paleckis was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was nominal acting president of Lithuania after the Soviet invasion while Lithuania was still ostensibly independent, in office from 17 June to 3 August 1940. He then remained as the nominal head of state of the Lithuanian SSR until 1967.

Justas Vincas Paleckis is a Lithuanian ex-communist and politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. He is also a member of the Party of European Socialists. Justas was born in Samara, Russia where his family resided during the Second World War. His father, Justas Paleckis was communist and served as the unrecognised President of Lithuania and personally signed orders authorizing the mass deportation citizens to Siberia. Later, the family returned to Lithuania, where he finished school in 1959 and then went on to study journalism at Vilnius University in 1964.