List of people from Vilnius
The following is a list of notable people from Lithuania's capital city of Vilnius (historically known by the names of Vilna/Wilna/Wilno). It includes people who were born or resided there.
A
- Neringa Aidietytė (b. 1983), athlete[1]
- Frantsishak Alyakhnovich (1883–1944), Belarusian playwright and journalist
- Algirdas (1296–1377), Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Ana Ambrazienė (b. 1955), hurdler, former world record holder[2]
- Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836–1893), Polish-Lithuanian painter and architect of Italian descent
- Irena Andriukaitienė (b. 1948), politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Mark Antokolsky (1843–1902), Russian-Jewish sculptor
- Laura Asadauskaitė (b. 1984), modern pentathlon athlete[3]
B
- Francišak Bahuševič (1840–1900), Belarusian poet
- Živilė Balčiūnaitė (b. 1979), long-distance runner, European champion
- Aidas Bareikis (b. 1967), artist[4]
- Liutauras Barila (b. 1974), Olympic biathlete[5]
- Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927), leader of Lithuania's national revival movement
- Ričardas Berankis (b. 1990), the top ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time[6]
- Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century
- Mykolas Biržiška (1882–1962), historian of literature, politician, signer of the Act of Independence of Lithuania
- Vaclovas Biržiška (1884–1956), publisher, historian
- Eglė Bogdanienė (b. 1962), textile artist
- Kazys Bradūnas (1917–2009), poet
- Algirdas Brazauskas (1932–2010), Lithuanian President and Prime Minister
- Danutė Budreikaitė (b. 1953), politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet
C
- Saint Casimir (1458–1484), patron saint of Poland and Lithuania
- Dalius Čekuolis (b. 1959), politician
- Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560–1621), politician and hetman
- César Cui (1835–1918), Russian composer and music critic of French, Polish and Lithuanian descent
D
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (b. 1963), actress
- Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), historian
- Mikalojus Daukša (1527–1613), publisher of the first printed Lithuanian book in GDL
- Gintaras Didžiokas (b. 1966), politician
- Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889), geologist and engineer
- Raminta Dvariškytė (b. 1990), Olympic swimmer[7]
- Dynoro, DJ and musical producer
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), founder of the Soviet secret police
- Audrius Dzikaras (b. 1957), painter
F
- Yechezkel Feivel (1755–1833), Maggid
G
- Romain Gary (1914–1980), French writer
- Martynas Gecevičius (b. 1988), basketball player
- Gediminas (c. 1275–1341), Grand Duke of Lithuania, founder of Vilnius city
- Petras Geniušas (b. 1961), classical pianist
- Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), archeologist
- Rolandas Gimbutis (b. 1981), swimmer[8]
- Liudas Gira (1884–1946), 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
- Alexander Goldberg, Israeli chemical engineer and President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Antoni Gorecki (1787–1861), writer, poet, soldier
- Albertas Goštautas (c. 1480–1539), Chancellor of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Mindaugas Griškonis (b. 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 (b. 1956), President of Lithuania
- Laurynas Gucevičius (1753–1798), architect
- Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (b. 1965), shooter, Olympic gold medalist[10]
- Asmik Grigorian (b. 1981), operatic soprano, named as the best female singer in International Opera Awards 2019[11]
- Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (b. 1986), conductor, music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) in England[12]
H
- Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987), violinist
I
- Juozas Imbrasas (b. 1941), 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 (b. 1985), pianist
- Simas Jasaitis (b. 1982), basketball player
- Rolandas Jasevičius (b. 1982), boxer
- Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist and soldier
- Jakub Jasiński (1761–1794), Polish general
- Jogaila (c. 1352/1362–1434), Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Arvydas Juozaitis (b. 1956), swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist[13]
- Eglė Jurgaitytė (b. 1998), singer
K
- Virgilijus Kačinskas (b. 1959), architect, politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
- Lina Kačiušytė (b. 1963), swimmer, Olympic gold medalist[14]
- Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835–1907), Polish Discalced Carmelite friar inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor and priest
- Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909), Polish composer and conductor
- Rimantas Kaukėnas (b. 1977), basketball player
- Antanas Kavaliauskas (b. 1984), professional basketball player, 2005 FIBA Under-21 World Championship gold medalist
- Valdas Kazlauskas (b. 1958), athlete and coach
- Vytautas Kernagis (1951–2008), singer-songwriter, considered a pioneer of Lithuanian sung poetry
- Rebeka Kim (b. 1998), South Korean figure skater
- Gediminas Kirkilas (b. 1951), former Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Szymon Konarski (1808–1839), Polish radical democratic politician and revolutionary
- Oskaras Koršunovas (b. 1969), theatre director
- Simon Kovar (born Kovarski) (1890–1970), bassoonist
- Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887), Polish writer, historian, journalist, scholar, painter and author
- Andrius Kubilius (b. 1956), Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Jonas Kubilius (1921–2011), mathematician who works in probability theory and number theory
- Abraomas Kulvietis (c. 1509–1545), reformer, publicist
- Jolanta Kvašytė (b. 1956 Vilnius), ceramic artist
L
- Vytautas Landsbergis (b. 1932), politician, contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union
- Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian
- Jacob Liboschütz (1741—1827), physician
- Romas Lileikis (b. 1959), poet, musician, film director
- Michalo Lituanus, publicist, humanist of the 16th century
- Eduard Lobau (b. 1988), Belarusian activist with the nation's democracy movement
- Józef Łukaszewicz (1863–1928), Polish physicist, geologist and mineralogist
- Meilė Lukšienė (1913–2009), cultural historian and activist
M
- Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985), Polish writer
- Hillel Noah Maggid (1829-1903), Jewish historian
- Andrius Mamontovas (b. 1967), singer
- Gritė Maruškevičiūtė (b. 1989), Miss Lithuania 2010[15]
- Raimundas Mažuolis (b. 1972), swimmer, olympic medalist
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet
- Jeronimas Milius (b. 1984), singer[16]
- Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet, Nobel prize in Literature
- Lazar Minor (1855–1942), Russian neurologist
- Vytautas Miškinis (b. 1954), music composer and professor
- Gediminas Motuza (b. 1946), 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 (1952–2018), 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 (1940–2007), astronomer
- Rolandas Paksas (b. 1956), former Lithuanian president and mayor of Vilnius
- Jerzy Passendorfer (1923–2003), Polish film director
- Artūras Paulauskas (b. 1953), former speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas
- Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935), politician, military commander and Polish head of state
- Emilia Plater (1806–1831), Polish revolutionary and female military commander
- Kazimierz Plater (1915–2004), Polish 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), Polish architect
- Romualdas Požerskis (b. 1951), photographer
- Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
R
- Antoni Radziwiłł (1775–1833), Polish and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician and politician
- Barbara Radziwiłł (Barbora Radvilaitė) (1520–1551), Queen of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Clara Rockmore (1911–1998), classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin
- Michał Pius Römer (1880–1945), rector of Vytautas Magnus University, lawyer
- Michał Józef Römer (1778–1853), writer and politician
- Maria Roszak (1908–2018), Polish nun awarded Righteous Among the Nations
- 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 Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), poet
- Šarūnas Sauka (b. 1958), postmodern painter
- Andrew Schally (b. 1926), Polish-American endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- Žydrūnas Savickas (b. 1975), Strongman champion
- Lasar Segall (1891–1957), Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor
- Kazimierz Siemienowicz (c. 1600 – c. 1651), military commander, engineer, theorist of artillery and pioneer of rocketry
- Konstantinas Sirvydas (1579–1631), lexicographer, writer
- Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), theologian, writer and the first rector of the Wilno Academy
- Francysk Skaryna (c. 1490–1552), publisher, regarded as a publisher of first printed Ruthenian (sometimes credited as Old Belarusian) Bible
- Boris Skossyreff (1896–1989), King of Andorra
- Mykolas Sleževičius (1882–1939), lawyer, Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish poet
- Antanas Smetona (1874–1944), publicist, President of Lithuanian Republic
- Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon mi Vilna (1720–1797), Jewish scholar and Kabbalist
- Blessed Michał Sopoćko (1888–1975), Apostle of Divine Mercy
- 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), Polish poet, writer and translator
- Deividas Šemberas (b. 1978), football player
- Algirdas Šemeta (b. 1962), economist and the European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud
- Stasys Šilingas (1885–1962), lawyer and statesman, a significant figure in the history of Lithuania's independence
- Tadas Šuškevičius (b. 1985), athlete
T
- Emanuel Tanay (1928–2014), 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 (1909–1998), Israeli author
- Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814–1873), historian
V
- Moi Ver (1904–1995), photographer and painter
- Alis Vidūnas (1934–2009), former mayor of Vilnius
- Jonas Vileišis (1872–1942), politician, lawyer
- Petras Vileišis (1851–1926), millionaire, mecenate, politician, publisher
- Zygmunt Vogel (1764–1826), Polish painter
- Giedrė Voverienė (b. 1968), 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 (1858–1925), lawyer, collector
Y
- Dov Yaffe (1928–2017), rabbi
Z
- Ludwik Zamenhof (1859–1917), philologist, creator of Esperanto
- Tomasz Zan (1796–1855), poet
- Aleksander Zawadzki (1859–1926), political and educational activist [17]
- Yitzhak Zuckerman (1915–1981), one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Robertas Žulpa (born 1960), swimmer, Olympic champion
- Artūras Zuokas (born 1968), mayor of Vilnius city municipality (2000–2007 and 2011–2015), Lithuanian politician
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