List of people from Kaunas
The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
- Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania [1]
- Diana Adlienė (born 1954), medical physicist and doctor of physical sciences[2]
- Aharon Amir, Israeli Hebrew poet, translator, and writer
- Antanas Andrijauskas, habilitated doctor and professor
- Moshe Arens, Israeli statesman and diplomat
- Donatas Banionis, actor
- Aharon Barak (originally Brick), professor of law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Antanas Baranauskas, poet, mathematician, and Catholic bishop
- Svetlana Beriosova, prima ballerina with the Royal Ballet of England
- Montague Burton, British retail magnate
- Algimantas Dailide (1921–2015), official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) during World War II
- Marija Gimbutienė, archaeologist
- Sara Ginaite (born 1924), former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic
- Nerijus Glezekas (born 1985), American singer, musician and songwriter
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist
- Leyb Gorfinkel (1896–1976), advocate, journalist, and politician who was originally of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality
- Juozas Grušas, writer and editor
- Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), American philanthropist[3]
- Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, basketball player
- Tadas Ivanauskas, zoologist and biologist
- Valdas Ivanauskas, footballer
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius, basketball player and coach, 2005 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
- Romas Kalanta, student protester
- Kęstutis Kemzūra, basketball player
- Linas Kleiza, basketball player
- Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius, historian, theologian, and translator
- Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor
- Lazare Kopelmanas, lawyer and diplomat
- Vytautas Landsbergis, politician and member of the European Parliament
- Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
- Moshe Leib Lilienblum, early Zionist thinker
- Aleksandras Machtas, chess player
- George Maciunas, artist, founding member of Fluxus
- Maironis, poet
- Abraham Mapu, Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah movement
- Šarūnas Marčiulionis, basketball player
- Rūta Meilutytė, swimmer
- Adam Mickiewicz, Romantic poet
- Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and one of Einstein's teachers
- Oskar Minkowski, physician and medical researcher
- Donatas Motiejūnas, basketball player
- Yitzhak Olshan, second President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Vlado Perlemuter, pianist
- Petras Rimša, sculptor and medalist
- Vladimir Romanov, businessman, chairman of UBIG Investments
- Mykolas Romeris, lawyer and judge
- Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, countess
- Arvydas Sabonis, basketball player
- Israel Sack, American antiques dealer
- Sidney Shachnow, US Army general
- Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, political figure, and journalist
- Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, Rabbi of Kaunas and Talmudic authority
- Ladislas Starevich, stop-motion animator
- Yehezkel Streichman, Israeli painter
- Daniel Tammet, British writer
- Gintautas Umaras, retired track and road racing cyclist
- Lukas Verzbicas, American long-distance runner and triathlete
- Jonas Vileišis, lawyer, politician, and diplomat
- Edita Vilkevičiūtė, model
- Andrius Zakarauskas, painter
- Vytautas Žalakevičius, film director and writer
- Marius Žaliūkas, professional footballer
- L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the Esperanto language
- Fania Brancowska, teacher, member of the Jewish resistance
References
[edit]- ^ Official website of the President of Lithuania
- ^ "Diana Adlienė". Kaunas University of Technology. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ^ Martin, Douglas (26 September 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2009.