100 Notable alumni of
Vilnius University
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Vilnius University is 261st in the world, 90th in Europe, and 1st in Lithuania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Vilnius University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Adam Mickiewicz
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1815
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature. A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" (Polish: Trzej Wieszcze) and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard". A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.
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Witold Pilecki
- Occupations
- resistance fighterfarmermilitary officer
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Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
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Czesław Miłosz
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1934 graduated with magister degree in law
- Occupations
- literary historianpedagogueuniversity teacherwritertranslator
- Biography
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Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".
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Juliusz Słowacki
- Occupations
- philosopherdiplomatplaywrightpoetwriter
- Biography
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Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, Polish history, mysticism and orientalism. His style includes the employment of neologisms and irony. His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas Kordian and Balladyna and the poems Beniowski, Testament mój and Anhelli.
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Gitanas Nausėda
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019. Born in Klaipėda, Nausėda graduated from Vilnius University with an economics degree in 1987. He was director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 to 2018.
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Ingrida Šimonytė
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Ingrida Šimonytė is a Lithuanian politician, public servant and economist who served as the 17th prime minister of Lithuania from 2020 to 2024 She has been a Member of the Seimas for the Antakalnis constituency since 2016 and was Minister of Finance in the second Kubilius cabinet from 2009 until 2012. Šimonytė was a candidate in the 2019 and 2024 presidential election, but lost in the second round runoff to Gitanas Nausėda both times. She has been a member of Homeland Union since 2022, having previously been an independent politician.
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Šarūnas Marčiulionis
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest international players, he was one of the first Europeans to become a regular in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Marčiulionis was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014 and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Marija Gimbutas
- Occupations
- ethnologisthistorianarchaeologistprehistoriananthropologist
- Biography
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Marija Gimbutas was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
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Pylyp Orlyk
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack statesman, diplomat and starshyna who served as the hetman in exile from 1710 to 1742. He was a close associate of Ivan Mazepa and the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.
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Abba Kovner
- Occupations
- writerpoetsoldier
- Biography
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Abba Kovner was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan to murder all Jews. His attempt to organize a ghetto uprising failed. He fled into the forest, joined Soviet partisans, and survived the war. After the war, Kovner led Nakam, a paramilitary organization of Holocaust survivors who sought to take revenge by murdering six million Germans, but Kovner was arrested in British-occupied Germany before he could successfully carry out his plans. He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1947, which would become the State of Israel one year later. Considered one of the greatest authors of Modern Hebrew poetry, Kovner was awarded the Israel Prize in 1970.
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Occupations
- translatorartistwriterjournalistlinguist
- Biography
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski was a Polish novelist, journalist, historian, publisher, painter, and musician.
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
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- military personneldiplomatstatesperson
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian military commander of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army, who was from 1601 Field Hetman of Lithuania, and from 1605 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was one of the most prominent noblemen and military commanders of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth of his era. His coat of arms was Chodkiewicz, as was his family name.
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Gabrielius Landsbergis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabrielius Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician and diplomat who served as Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 2020 until November 2024 in the Šimonytė Cabinet. A key figure in Lithuanian politics, Landsbergis previously served as a Member of the Seimas from 2016 to 2024, representing the Centras–Žaliakalnis constituency. He is also a former Member of the European Parliament (2014–2016), where he represented Lithuania as part of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). During his tenure in the European Parliament, Landsbergis served on the Committee on International Trade and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, focusing on global trade and defense policy.
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Ignacy Domeyko
- Occupations
- university teachermineralogistmeteorologistgeologistmining engineer
- Biography
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Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.
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Juozas Budraitis
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Juozas Budraitis is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film Wounded Game, which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis also played a minor role in the finale of the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit.
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Pawel Jasienica
- Occupations
- journalisthistorian
- Biography
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Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar, a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier.
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Nina Andrycz
- Occupations
- film actorwriterstage actorpoet
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Nina Andrycz was a Polish actress and the wife of Józef Cyrankiewicz. She studied law at the Wilno University.
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Balys Sruoga
- Occupations
- theatre criticwriterpoetliterary critic
- Biography
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Balys Sruoga was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist.
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Simonas Daukantas
- Occupations
- writerlexicographerhistorian
- Biography
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Simonas Daukantas was a Lithuanian/Samogitian historian, writer, and ethnographer. One of the pioneers of the Lithuanian National Revival, he is credited as the author of the first book on the history of Lithuania written in the Lithuanian language. Only a few of his works were published during his lifetime and he died in obscurity. However, his works were rediscovered during the later stages of the National Revival. His views reflected the three major trends of the 19th century: romanticism, nationalism, and liberalism.
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Kazimierz Łyszczyński
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- judgewritermilitary personnelphilosopher
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Kazimierz Łyszczyński, also known in English as Casimir Liszinski, was a Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.
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Justinas Marcinkevičius
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- politicianjournalistplaywrightpoetwriter
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Justinas Marcinkevičius was a prominent Lithuanian poet and playwright.
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Napoleon Orda
- Occupations
- composerpianistpainter
- Biography
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Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda was a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Michał Sopoćko
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Michael Sopoćko was a Polish Catholic priest and professor at Vilnius University. He is best known as the spiritual director of Faustina Kowalska. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.
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Meletius Smotrytsky
- Occupations
- writerCatholic priestCatholic bishoplinguist
- Biography
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Meletius Smotrytsky, Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kyiv), was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a Ruthenian linguist whose works influenced the development of the Eastern Slavic languages. His book "Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619) systematized the study of Church Slavonic. It became the standard grammar book in Russia until the end of the 18th century.
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Remigijus Šimašius
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Remigijus Šimašius is a Lithuanian lawyer and politician, member of Seimas (2012–2015), Minister of Justice (2008–2012), Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2023.
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Vytautas Mačernis
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian existentialist poet.
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpoetliterary scholar
- Biography
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was a Polish poet. He is considered Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.
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Andrius Kubilius
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Andrius Kubilius is a Lithuanian politician who is currently serving as the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space in the Second von der Leyen Commission. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024 and as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He was the leader of the conservative political party Homeland Union from 2003 to 2015, which he continues to be a member of.
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Vytenis Andriukaitis
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- Esperantistpolitician
- Biography
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Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis is WHO Special Envoy for the European region, the former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, a heart surgeon, a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
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Jan Czeczot
- Occupations
- playwrightethnographerwriterpoetfolklorist
- Biography
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Jan Czeczot of Ostoja was a Polish romantic poet and Belarusian folklorist and ethnographer. Fascinated by the folklore and the traditional folk songs of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a confederal part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he recollected hundreds of them in his works. Inspired by them, he also wrote several poems in what could be considered a pre-modern Belarusian language. As such, he is often cited as one of the first Polish ethnographers and one of the predecessors of the Belarusian national revival.
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Marijonas Mikutavičius
- Occupations
- journalistsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Marijus Mikutavičius, known better as Marijonas Mikutavičius, is a Lithuanian singer, musician and songwriter, a television journalist, a comedian and a talk show host from Vilnius. He is best known for his sports anthem Trys Milijonai as well as an official Eurobasket 2011 song Celebrate Basketball and for representing his country at Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as part of LT United.
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistpoet
- Biography
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis: Lithuanian writer, journalist, director of films and theater, children's book writer, son of Vytautas Landsbergis and father of Gabrielius Landsbergis.
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Barys Kit
- Occupations
- physicistchemistmathematician
- Biography
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Boris Uladzimiravich Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist.
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Andrius Tapinas
- Occupations
- translatortelevision presenterwriterjournalistlinguist
- Biography
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Andrius Balys Tapinas is a Lithuanian journalist. Tapinas is the anchor of a long-running popular Lithuanian TV program The Money Generation. He has also launched his own online TV channel on YouTube called "Freedom TV", which has proven to be a great success. Along with the "Freedom Group", Andrius has completed multiple fundraising campaigns during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the 2021 Lithuanian migration crisis. He hosted the "Freedom Chain" from Vilnius to Belarus border during 2020 Belarusian protests.
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Tomas Venclova
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1960 studied philology
- Occupations
- translatorpoetuniversity teacherwriterliterary historian
- Biography
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Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Considered a major figure in world literature, he has received many awards, including the Prize of Two Nations (received jointly with Czesław Miłosz), and The Person of Tolerance of the Year Award from the Sugihara Foundation, among other honors.
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Artūras Zuokas
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Artūras Zuokas is a Lithuanian journalist, businessman and politician who served as the mayor of the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, from 2000 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2015, and as member of Lithuania's unicameral parliament, Seimas, from 2008 to 2009 and from 2024. He was the leader of the Liberal and Centre Union, then YES - Homeland Revival and Perspective and the Lithuanian Freedom Union, and has been the chairman of Freedom and Justice since 3 February 2024.
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Aušrinė Armonaitė
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Aušrinė Armonaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the chairperson of the Freedom Party from 2019 to 2024. Previously a member of the Liberal Movement and a vice chairperson from 2017 until 2018, Armonaitė was first elected to the Seimas in the 2016 parliamentary election. In 2018, she resigned from the Liberal Movement and later joined the social liberal and progressive Freedom Party. She led the party into the 2020 parliamentary election, where the party won 11 seats and became represented in the Seimas for the first time.
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Tomasz Zan
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- inventorplaywrightpoetwritermineralogist
- Biography
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Tomasz Zan was a Polish poet and activist. Zan played a significant role in the cultural and literary movements of his time, advocating for the preservation and promotion of Polish culture. Zan's poetry touched upon various themes, including patriotism, nature, and the human experience. He is often recognized as one of the pioneers of Belarusian literature.
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Artūras Paulauskas
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Artūras Paulauskas [ɐrˈtuːrɐs pɐʊˈɫɐ̂ˑʊskɐs] is a Lithuanian politician. He was the Speaker of Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania, from 2000 to 2006, and he served as Acting President of Lithuania from 6 April 2004 to 12 July 2004.
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Arūnas Valinskas
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presentertelevision producer
- Biography
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Arūnas Valinskas is a Lithuanian showman, TV producer, TV show host and politician. As the leader of the National Resurrection Party, he was elected to the Seimas, Lithuanian parliament, in the 2008 Lithuanian parliamentary election. Valinskas is married to a Lithuanian singer and TV show host Inga Valinskienė and has two sons Arūnas and Šarūnas. In 2002 he was granted a master's degree in law at Vilnius University.
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz
- Years
- 1600-1651 (aged 51)
- Occupations
- engineerphysicistmilitary engineer
- Biography
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz was a Polish general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and one of pioneers of rocketry. Born in the Raseiniai region of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served in the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, the ruler of the Dutch Republic. No portrait or detailed biography of him has survived and much of his life is a subject of dispute.
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Leonidas Donskis
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- politicianpolitical theoristhistorianpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leonidas Donskis was a Lithuanian-Jewish philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, and political commentator, professor of politics and head of "VDU Academia Cum Laude" at Vytautas Magnus University, Honorary Consul of Finland in Kaunas and deputy chairman of the Lithuanian Jewish Community. He was also the member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
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Gediminas Kirkilas
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- restorerpolitician
- Biography
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Gediminas Kirkilas was a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.
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Arvydas Anušauskas
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- politicianuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Arvydas Anušauskas is a Lithuanian politician and historian. He focuses on the history of the interwar Lithuanian secret services, KGB actions in Lithuania, and Soviet repressions in Lithuania. As a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, he was elected to the Seimas (parliament) in 2008 and reelected in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
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Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Vilija Blinkevičiūtė is a Lithuanian lawyer and politician, Member of the European Parliament and former long-term Minister for Social Security and Labour. Blinkevičiūtė is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania since 2006.
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Gintautas Paluckas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gintautas Paluckas is a Lithuanian politician serving as the 18th prime minister of Lithuania since December 2024. Paluckas served as Deputy Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2019, as the leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) from 2017 to 2021 and has been a member of the Seimas since the 2020 election.
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Algirdas Paleckis
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- politicianjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Algirdas Paleckis is a Lithuanian diplomat, politician, columnist, leader of the political movement The Dawn of Justice. Šiauliai district court convicted Paleckis for spying for Russia in July 2021. The conviction was upheld by the Lithuanian Court of Appeal in May 2022.
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Stanisław Swianiewicz
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianeconomistjurist
- Biography
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Stanisław Swianiewicz was a Polish economist and historian. A veteran of the Polish-Soviet War, he was during World War II a survivor of the Katyn massacre and an eyewitness of the transport of Polish prisoners-of-war to the forests outside Smolensk by the NKVD.
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Kazimira Prunskienė
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė is a Lithuanian politician who was the first prime minister of Lithuania after the declaration of independence on 11 March 1990, and then Minister of Agriculture in the government of Gediminas Kirkilas.
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Airinė Palšytė
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Airinė Palšytė is a Lithuanian high jumper. She won the gold medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1924 studied law
- Occupations
- head teacherwriterlecturersoldiermaster mariner
- Biography
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt was a Polish writer and a captain in the Polish Merchant Navy. He wrote maritime-themed short stories and contributed to the Polish merchant marine service before and during the Second World War.
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Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
- Occupations
- psychologistsociologisteconomist
- Biography
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Aušra Augustinavičiūtė was a Lithuanian psychologist, economist and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. Founder of socionics, the theory of information processing and personality types.
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Juras Požela
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Juras Požela was a Lithuanian politician who served as the Minister of Health of Lithuania from March 2016 until his death on 16 October 2016 from pancreatitis. He was also a Seimas member, Youth and Sports Affairs Committee Chairman and a presidium member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.
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Laurynas Gucevičius
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Laurynas Gucevičius was a Polish -Lithuanian architect from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where all of his designs were built.
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Ignas Vėgėlė
- Occupations
- lawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ignas Vėgėlė is a Lithuanian lawyer and right-wing politician who served as president of the Lithuanian Bar Association from 2014 to 2022, as well as president of the Lithuanian Lawyers' Association from 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the right-wing Christian conservative Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 1994 and served as the party's deputy chairman of the board from 2002 to 2004, and as interim chairman of the board from 2004 to 2006 (replacing Petras Gražulis). Upon the party's merger with the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, he became an independent politician.
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Juozas Aputis
- Occupations
- translatorshort story writerwriter
- Biography
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Juozas Aputis was a Lithuanian modernist writer, translator and editor. Along with other writers such as Ričardas Gavelis, Aputis is credited for the post-war modernist novella revival in the Lithuanian SSR. He is best known for depicting village life with psychological insight and subtext. His most famous work is Anthill in Prussia (Skruzdėlynas Prūsijoje), which tells the story of an ascetic man and woman who retreat into the Prussian wilderness.
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Antoni Tyzenhaus
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antoni Tyzenhauz was a noble from the Tyzenhaus family, son of Benedykt Tyzenhauz. As a personal friend of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Tyzenhaus became Treasurer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and administrator of royal estates. He began to implement various agricultural reforms and pioneered industrialization in an effort to increase productivity and economic power of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. At first, he was successful and managed to gain considerable political influence; he was considered to be the second man after the King. However, the efforts were based on the old system of serfdom (forced labor) and failed. Eventually, amidst increasing political rivalry with other nobles and mounting debts, Tyzenhauz was accused of fraud and removed from public offices in 1780.
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Jan Piotr Sapieha
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1587
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary commandermilitary personneldiplomat
- Biography
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Jan Piotr Sapieha was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, general, politician, diplomat, governor of Uświat county, member of the Parliament and a skilled commander of the Polish troops stationing in the Moscow Kremlin.
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Arvydas Juozaitis
- Occupations
- swimmerjournalistwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Arvydas Juozaitis is a Lithuanian writer, philosopher, politician, cultural worker and former swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1988, he was a member of the Sąjūdis Initiative Group. He was registered as a candidate for 2019 Lithuanian presidential election.
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Vygaudas Ušackas
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Vygaudas Ušackas is Member of the Board of Directors of a Lithuanian born European-American company Avia Solutions Group, which is a Leader in End-to-End Capacity Provider for Passenger and Cargo Airlines Worldwide.
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Nerijus Numavičius
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Nerijus Numa is a Lithuanian businessman. Nerijus Numa is an investor and ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of private holding company Vilniaus prekyba.
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Virginijus Šikšnys
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Virginijus Šikšnys is a Lithuanian biochemist and a professor at Vilnius University. He is a chief scientist at the Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology.
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Rokas Žilinskas
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Rokas Žilinskas was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament until his death. He was the first openly gay member of the parliament.
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Arūnas Dulkys
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Arūnas Dulkys is an economist, PhD in Social Sciences and former State's Auditor General.
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Teodor Narbutt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1803
- Occupations
- journalisthistorianarchaeologistland ownerwriter
- Biography
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Teodor Narbutt was a Polish–Lithuanian romantic historian and military engineer in service of the Russian Empire. He is best remembered as the author of a nine-volume Polish-language history of Lithuania from the early Middle Ages to the Union of Lublin.
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Jurga Šeduikytė
- Occupations
- singeractor
- Biography
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Jurga Šeduikytė, known by her stage names Jurga and formerly Dingau, is a Lithuanian singer and songwriter.
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Bronius Krivickas
- Occupations
- translator
- Biography
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Bronius Krivickas was a Lithuanian writer, poet, literary critic, and anti-Soviet partisan. His work is mainly characterized by satire and literary criticism against the occupying Soviet state. Among the partisans he was also widely known by his codename Vilnius.
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Stanisław Kierbedź
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1828
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Stanisław Kierbedź was a Polish railway engineer. He designed and supervised the construction of dozens of bridges, railway lines, ports and other objects in Central and Eastern Europe. He served in the Imperial Russian Army with the rank of Lieutenant General.
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Vilija Matačiūnaitė
- Occupations
- actorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Vilija Matačiūnaitė is a Lithuanian singer, actress and songwriter. She represented Lithuania in the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with her song "Attention".
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Justas Vincas Paleckis
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Józef Sękowski
- Years
- 1800-1858 (aged 58)
- Occupations
- literary criticjournalistuniversity teacherscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky, born Józef-Julian Sękowski, was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist and entertainer.
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Haika Grossman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Haika Grossman was an Israeli politician and member of Knesset. In her youth, she was a Zionist leader in Europe, a partisan, and a participant in the ghetto uprisings in occupied Poland.
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Žygimantas Pavilionis
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Žygimantas Pavilionis is a Lithuanian politician, Member of the Seimas, former Lithuanian diplomat. From August 2010 to July 2015, he served as the Lithuania's Ambassador to United States and Mexico (2011).
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Konstantinas Sirvydas
- Occupations
- lexicographeruniversity teacherwriterpreacherlinguist
- Biography
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Konstantinas Sirvydas was a Lithuanian religious preacher, lexicographer, and one of the pioneers of Lithuanian literature from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, at the time a confederal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a Jesuit priest, a professor at the Academia Vilnensis, and the author of, among other works, the first grammar of the Lithuanian language and the first trilingual dictionary in Lithuanian, Latin, and Polish (1619). Famous for his eloquence, Sirvydas spent 10 years of his life preaching sermons at St. Johns' Church in Vilnius (twice a day – once in Lithuanian and once in Polish).
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Jurgita Jurkutė
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- film actormodelbeauty pageant contestantactor
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Jurgita Jurkutė is a Lithuanian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who is the winner of Miss Lithuania 2007 pageant.
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Stanisław Stomma
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Stanisław Stomma was a Polish lawyer, habilitated doctor of law, specialist in criminal law, academic teacher, publicist, Catholic activist, and politician. From 1957 to 1976, he was a member of Sejm of the Polish People's Republic (II, III, IV, V, and VI terms) representing Znak. From 1981 to 1984, he served as the chairman of the Primate's Social Council. From 1989 to 1991, he was a senator in the first term and the senior marshal of the Senate in the first term. He was awarded the Order of the White Eagle.
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Dainius Žalimas
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- judgepoliticianuniversity teacher
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Dainius Žalimas is a Lithuanian lawyer, jurist and politician who served as the chairman of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania from 2014 to 2021. He was the candidate of the Freedom Party in the 2024 Lithuanian presidential election. In the 2024 European Parliament election he won a seat for the Freedom Party.
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Irena Degutienė
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- politician
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Irena Degutienė is a Lithuanian politician and member of the conservative Homeland Union. She is currently the Deputy Speaker of Seimas, and was twice the acting Prime Minister of Lithuania, first from 4 May 1999 to 18 May 1999 and then from 27 October 1999 to 3 November 1999. She has also been the Speaker of Seimas from 15 September 2009 to 14 September 2012, as well as Minister for Social Security and Labour from 1996 to 2000. In 1978, she graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in medicine. For almost twenty years, she worked in Vilnius Red Cross Hospital before becoming a secretary in the Ministry of Health in 1994. She was initially elected to Seimas in 1996. Degutienė is the first woman to be Speaker of Seimas in Lithuania's history.
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Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt
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- mathematicianastronomer
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Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt was a Polish–Lithuanian Jesuit, astronomer and mathematician. He was professor of Vilnius University for over 50 years, serving as its rector from 1780 to 1799. The crater Poczobutt on the Moon is named after him, as is the main-belt asteroid 191775 Poczobut. Poczobutt is also the author of the University's motto, Hinc itur ad astra (from here one rises to the stars).
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Laurynas Kasčiūnas
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- politicianpolitical scientist
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Laurynas Kasčiūnas is a Lithuanian right-wing politician, political analyst, Member of the Seimas for the Homeland Union and Minister of National Defence of Lithuania from 25 March 2024 to 11 December 2024, replacing Arvydas Anušauskas.
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Rokas Masiulis
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- politicianeconomistmanagerstatutory auditor
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Rokas Masiulis is a senior manager and a Lithuanian politician. He is former Minister of Transport and Communications of Lithuania and Minister of Energy of Lithuania. He is the chief executive officer of Litgrid.
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Darius Mockus
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- entrepreneur
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Darius Mockus is a Lithuanian entrepreneur who is owner and President of business group MG grupė, UAB which is one of the largest groups in Lithuania, involved in production, sales, real estate, construction, IT and mass media industries.
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Eugenijus Gentvilas
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- university teacherpolitician
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Eugenijus Gentvilas is a Lithuanian politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania and Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal and Centre Union (Liberal Movement since 2006), sitting with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He was mayor of Klaipėda from 1997 to 2001. In mid-2001, Gentvilas briefly acted as Prime Minister of Lithuania.
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Mindaugas Sinkevičius
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- juristpolitician
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Mindaugas Sinkevičius is a Lithuanian manager and politician, Mayor of Jonava District Municipality (2011–2016 and 2019–2024), former Minister of Economy of Lithuania (2016–2017) and Vice-Mayor of Jonava (2008–2011).
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Česlovas Juršėnas
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- politicianjournalistuniversity teacher
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Česlovas Juršėnas is a Lithuanian politician and a former Speaker of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament.
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Zigmantas Balčytis
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Zigmantas Balčytis is a Lithuanian politician who briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Lithuania in 2006. He took office on 1 June 2006 following the resignation of Algirdas Brazauskas, but failed to be approved by the Parliament to become prime minister. He was succeeded on 4 July by Gediminas Kirkilas. Balčytis was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP) until 2021 and was Minister of Finance in the Brazauskas government from 2005 to 2007.
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Marcelijus Martinaitis
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- poetuniversity teacherpoliticianwriterjournalist
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Marcelijus Teodoras Martinaitis was a Lithuanian poet, essayist, translator.
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Menachem Savidor
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- politician
- Biography
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Menachem Savidor was an Israeli civil servant and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 1977 until 1984. Between 1981 and 1984 he was the Knesset's eighth Speaker.
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Antoni Gołubiew
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- journalisthistorian
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Antoni Gołubiew, nicknames Goa, Jan Karol Wayda, Jerzy Cichocki, was a Polish historian, writer and a Catholic publicist. He was one of the cofounders of the pre World War II biweekly Pax. After the war he wrote for the magazines Znak, Odra, and Tygodnik Powszechny. He was also one of the organizers (together with, among others, Czesław Miłosz) of the poetry group Zagary. He is best known as the author of the four volume historical epic Bolesław Chrobry which was written over the whole lifetime of the author. This epic tells the story of the founding and first years of existence of the Polish state.
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Petras Auštrevičius
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- politiciandiplomateconomist
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Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian liberal politician, diplomat, civil society activist, former member of Seimas, and since 2014, a member of the European Parliament.
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Athanasius of Brest-Litovsk
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- Eastern Orthodox priestopinion journalistwriter
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Athanasius of Brest is a saint and hieromartyr of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Polish Orthodox Church. He was killed by Catholics for opposition to the Union of Brest. Athanasius is commemorated on September 5 by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Juozas Olekas
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- politiciansurgeonuniversity teacher
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Juozas Olekas is a Lithuanian surgeon and politician, a former Minister of National Defence, from 2006 to 2008. In 1990 and from 2003 to 2004 he also served as the Health Minister. In 2019 he was elected to the European Parliament.
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Antanas Sutkus
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- photographerjournalistphotojournalist
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Antanas Sutkus is a Lithuanian photographer.
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Alfredas Bumblauskas
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- television presenteruniversity teacherhistorian
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Alfredas Bumblauskas is a professor at Vilnius University and one of the best known Lithuanian historians, specializing in the research of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Antoni Edward Odyniec
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1823
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- playwrightlinguistpoetwritertranslator
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Antoni Edward Odyniec was a Polish Romantic-era poet who penned the celebrated "Song of the Filaretes".
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Vanda Juknaitė
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- essayist
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Vanda Juknaitė is a Lithuanian writer, playwright and essayist.
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Henryk Łowmiański
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- historianmedievalist
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Henryk Łowmiański was a Polish historian and academic who was an authority on the early history of the Slavic and Baltic people. A researcher of the ancient history of Poland, Lithuania and the Slavs in general, Łowmiański was the author of many works, including most prominently the six-volume monumental monograph Początki Polski (The Beginnings of Poland).
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Algirdas Šemeta
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- politicianministereconomist
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Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta is a Lithuanian economist and politician.
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Dovilė Šakalienė
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- politicianjournalistuniversity teacher
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Dovilė Šakalienė is a Lithuanian psychologist, journalist, and politician who has been serving as the Minister of National Defence since 12 December 2024. She has been a member of the Seimas since 2016 and previously worked as a psychologist and human rights advocate.
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Joachim Chreptowicz
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- translatorpoliticiancivil servantopinion journalistmilitary officer
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Joachim Litawor Chreptowicz, of Odrowąż Coat of Arms, was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, writer, poet, politician of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, marshal of the Lithuanian Tribunal, and the last Grand Chancellor of Lithuania. He was a member of the Permanent Council, activist of the Commission of National Education, physiocrat and a vivid supporter of the Targowica Confederation. He also founded the library of the Counts of Chreptowicz in Szczorsy (now in Belarus), which was augmented by his son and contained over 10,000 volumes, including valuable collections of Polish histories from the 16th to 18th centuries.
