List of Vilnius-related people
The following is a list of notable people from Lithuania's capital city of Vilnius (Vilna/Wilno). It includes both the people born there and people born elsewhere but otherwise connected to it.
A
- Neringa Aidietytė, athlete[1]
- Francišak Alachnovič, Belarusian playwright and journalist
- Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Ana Ambrazienė, hurdler, former world record holder[2]
- Michał Andriolli (1836–1893), painter
- Irena Andriukaitienė (b. 1948), politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Mark Antokolski (1843–1902), sculptor
- Laura Asadauskaitė (1984), modern pentathlon athlete[3]
B
- Francišak Bahuševič (1840-1900), Belarusian poet
- Živilė Balčiūnaitė, long-distance runner, European champion
- Aidas Bareikis, artist[4]
- Liutauras Barila (1974), Olympic biathlete[5]
- Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927), leader of Lithuania's national revival movement
- Ričardas Berankis, the top ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time[6]
- Mykolas Biržiška, historian of literature, politician, signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania
- Vaclovas Biržiška, publisher, historian
- Eglė Bogdanienė, textile artist
- Kazys Bradūnas (b. 1917), poet
- Algirdas Brazauskas (1932-2010), Lithuanian President and Prime Minister
- Danutė Budreikaitė, politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), poet
C
- Saint Casimir (1458–1484), patron saint of Poland and Lithuania
- Dalius Čekuolis, politician
- Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560–1621), politician and hetman
- Leonard Cohen (1934), Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist; his mother Masha Cohen and maternal grandfather Rabbi Solomon Klinitsky-Klein were from the area of Wilno
- Icchak Cukierman (1915–1981), one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
D
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, actress
- Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), historian
- Mikalojus Daukša, publisher of the first printed Lithuanian book in GDL
- Gintaras Didžiokas, politician
- Ignacy Domeyko (1801–1889), geologist and engineer
- Raminta Dvariškytė (1990), Olympic swimmer[7]
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), founder of the Soviet secret police
- Audrius Dzikaras, painter
G
- Romain Gary (1914–1980), French writer
- Martynas Gecevičius, basketball player
- Gediminas (1275–1341), Grand Duke of Lithuania, founder of Vilnius city
- Petras Geniušas (b. 1961), classical pianist
- Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), archeologist
- Rolandas Gimbutis, swimmer[8]
- Liudas Gira (1894–1946), poet, writer, and literary critic
- Johann Christoph Glaubitz (c. 1700-1767), architect
- Kęstutis Glaveckas (b. 1949), politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Antoni Gorecki (1787–1861), writer, poet, soldier
- Albertas Goštautas, Chancellor of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Mindaugas Griškonis (1986), Olympic rower[9]
- Hubertas Grušnys (1961–2006), media proprietor, in 1989 launched the first-ever private radio station in Lithuania and the post-communist Eastern Europe
- Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania
- Laurynas Gucevičius (1753–1798), architect
- Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (1965), shooter, Olympic gold medalist[10]
H
- Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987), violinist
I
- Juozas Imbrasas, former mayor of Vilnius
- Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961–2007), writer
J
- Edgaras Jankauskas (b. 1975), first Lithuanian footballer to win the UEFA Champions League in 2004
- Gintaras Januševičius, pianist
- Simas Jasaitis, basketball player
- Rolandas Jasevičius, boxer
- Paweł Jasienica
- Jakub Jasiński (1761–1794)
- Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Arvydas Juozaitis, swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist[11]
- Eglė Jurgaitytė, singer
K
- Virgilijus Kačinskas (b. 1959), architect, politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Lina Kačiušytė (1963), swimmer, Olympic gold medalist[12]
- Saint Raphael Kalinowski
- Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909), composer
- Rimantas Kaukėnas, basketball player
- Antanas Kavaliauskas (b. 1984), professional basketball player, 2005 FIBA Under-21 World Championship gold medalist
- Valdas Kazlauskas, athlete and coach
- Vytautas Kernagis (1951-2008), singer-songwriter, considered a pioneer of Lithuanian sung poetry
- Rebeka Kim, figure skater
- Gediminas Kirkilas, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Szymon Konarski
- Oskaras Koršunovas (b. 1969), theatre director
- Simon Kovar (born Kovarski) (1890–1970), bassoonist
- Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, writer
- Andrius Kubilius, Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Jonas Kubilius, mathematician who works in probability theory and number theory
- Abraomas Kulvietis, reformer, publicist
- Jolanta Kvašytė, ceramic artist
L
- Vytautas Landsbergis (b. 1932), politician, contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union
- Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), historian
- Romas Lileikis, poet, musician, film director
- Michalo Lituanus, publicist, humanist of the 16th century
- Józef Łukaszewicz
- Meilė Lukšienė, cultural historian and activist
M
- Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985), writer
- Andrius Mamontovas, singer
- Gritė Maruškevičiūtė, Miss Lithuania 2010[13]
- Raimundas Mažuolis, swimmer, olympic medalist
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), poet
- Jeronimas Milius, singer[14]
- Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), poet, Nobel prize in Literature
- Vytautas Miškinis, music composer and professor
- Gediminas Motuza, geologist and author of geology textbooks
N
- Onutė Narbutaitė (b. 1956), composer
- Ludwik Narbutt (1832–1863), military commander
- Teodor Narbutt (1784–1864), historian
- Eimuntas Nekrošius (b. 1952), theatre director
- Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968), physicist
O
- Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienė (b. 1954), actress and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
P
- Bohdan Paczyński (b. 1940), astronomer
- Rolandas Paksas, former Lithuanian president and mayor of Vilnius
- Jerzy Passendorfer (1923–2003), film director
- Artūras Paulauskas (b. 1953), former speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas
- Józef Piłsudski, politician, military commander and Polish head of state
- Emilia Plater (1806–1831), revolutionary and female military commander
- Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004), chess master
- Martynas Pocius (b. 1986), professional basketball player, member of the Lithuanian national basketball team, 2010 FIBA World Championship bronze medalist
- Karol Podczaszyński (1790–1860), architect
- Romualdas Požerskis (b. 1951), photographer
R
- Barbara Radziwiłł (Barbora Radvilaitė) (1520–1551), Queen of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Mykolas Riomeris, rector of Vytautas Magnus University, lawyer
- Michał Józef Römer (1778–1853), writer and politician
- Audrius Rudys (b. 1951), economist, politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870–1936), painter
S
- Lew Sapieha (1557–1633), politician and military commander
- Maciej Sarbiewski
- Šarūnas Sauka (b. 1958), postmodern painter
- Andrew Schally (b. 1926), US endocrinologist, Nobel Prize winner
- Kazimierz Siemienowicz (ca 1600 - ca 1651), military commander, engineer, theorist of artillery and pioneer of rocketry
- Konstantinas Sirvydas, lexicographer, writer
- Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), theologian, writer and the first rector of the Wilno Academy
- Francysk Skaryna, publisher, regarded as a publisher of first printed Ruthenian (sometimes credited as Old Belarusian) Bible
- Boris Skossyreff, King of Andorra
- Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Juliusz Słowacki, poet
- Antanas Smetona, publicist, President of Lithuanian Republic
- Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon mi Vilna (1720–1797), Jewish scholar and Kabbalist
- Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838), chemist, biologist and philosopher
- Audrius Stonys (b. 1966), renowned documentary filmmaker
- Vytautas Straižys (b. 1936), astronomer, developer of Vilnius photometric system
- Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862), poet, writer and translator
- Deividas Šemberas, football player
- Algirdas Šemeta, economist and the European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud
- Stasys Šilingas, lawyer and statesman, a significant figure in the history of Lithuania's independence
- Tadas Šuškevičius, athlete
T
- Emanuel Tanay, Holocaust survivor and American forensic psychiatrist
- Aurimas Taurantas (b. 1956), politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar (1909–98), Israeli author
- Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814–73), historian
V
- Alis Vidūnas, former mayor of Vilnius
- Jonas Vileišis, politician, lawyer
- Petras Vileišis, Lithuanian millionaire, mecenate, politician, publisher
- Zygmunt Vogel (1764–1826), painter
- Giedrė Voverienė, orienteering competitor
- Vytautas the Great (1344–1430), Grand Duke of Lithuania
W
- Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), Zionist politician and the first president of Israel
- Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński (1806–1885), archaeologist
- Antoni Wiwulski (1877–1919), sculptor and architect
- Tadeusz Wróblewski, lawyer, collector
Z
- Ludwik Zamenhof (1859–1917), philologist, creator of Esperanto
- Tomasz Zan (1796–1855), poet
- Artūras Zuokas, mayor of Vilnius city municipality (2000–2007 and 2011–2015), Lithuanian politician
- Robertas Žulpa, swimmer, Olympic champion
References
- ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=200703/index.html
- ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=60045/index.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/laura-asadauskaite-1.html
- ↑ http://the-artists.org/artist/Aidas-Bareikis
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/liutauras-barila-1.html
- ↑ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Be/R/Richard-Berankis.aspx
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dv/raminta-dvariskyte-1.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gi/rolandas-gimbutis-1.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/mindaugas-griskonis-1.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/daina-gudzineviciute-1.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ju/arvydas-juozaitis-1.html
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/lina-kaciusyte-1.html
- ↑ http://www.alfa.lt/straipsnis/10405403/?Mis.Lietuva.2010.tapo.vilniete.Grite.Maruskeviciute=2010-08-27_21-23
- ↑ http://www.eurovision.tv/event/artistdetail?song=24520&event=1470
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