100 Notable alumni of
Vilnius University
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Vilnius University is 261st in the world, 91st 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 and affected Russian 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
- soldiermilitary officerfarmerresistance fighter
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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
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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
- playwrightpoetwritertranslatorphilosopher
- 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 paganism, 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
- university teachereconomistpolitician
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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
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- 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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Abba Kovner
- Occupations
- poetsoldierwriter
- Biography
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Abba Kovner was a Jewish partisan leader, and later Israeli poet and writer. In the Vilna Ghetto, his 1942 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.
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Marija Gimbutas
- Occupations
- prehistoriananthropologistuniversity teacherethnologisthistorian
- 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 member of Cossack starshyna. Described as the first Ukrainian political emigrant, he served as the hetman in exile from 1710 to 1742. He was a close associate of hetman Ivan Mazepa, and the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.
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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Occupations
- journalistlinguistdraftspersonnovelistpainter
- 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
- Occupations
- diplomatstatespersonmilitary personnel
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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
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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
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- actortelevision actor
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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
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- writerstage actorpoetfilm actor
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Nina Andrycz was a Polish actress and the wife of Józef Cyrankiewicz. She studied law at the Wilno University. She was one of the first noted customers of the photographer Zofia Nasierowska.
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Balys Sruoga
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- writerpoetliterary critictheatre critic
- Biography
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Balys Sruoga was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist.
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Simonas Daukantas
- Occupations
- historianwriterlexicographer
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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
- Occupations
- writermilitary personnelphilosopherjudge
- Biography
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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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Gintautas Paluckas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gintautas Paluckas is a Lithuanian politician who was the 18th prime minister of Lithuania from December 2024 until his resignation on 4 August 2025. He was previously Deputy Mayor of Vilnius from 2015 to 2019, led the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) between 2017 and 2021, and has been a member of the Seimas since the 2020 election. In 2025, Paluckas returned as LSDP leader after Vilija Blinkevičiūtė decided not to run for another term.
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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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Justinas Marcinkevičius
- Occupations
- playwrightpoetwritertranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Justinas Marcinkevičius was a Lithuanian poet and playwright.
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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 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, of which he continues to be a member.
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Meletius Smotrytsky
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishoplinguistwriter
- Biography
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Meletius Smotrytsky, Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kiev), 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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Vytautas Mačernis
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian existentialist poet.
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Remigijus Šimašius
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- 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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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
- Occupations
- writerpoetliterary scholaruniversity teacher
- 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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Jan Czeczot
- Occupations
- writerpoetfolkloristtranslatorplaywright
- 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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Vytenis Andriukaitis
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- Esperantistpolitician
- Biography
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Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis is a Lithuanian physician and politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2024. A heart surgeon by profession, he previously served as European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety in the Juncker Commission from 2014 to 2019. Andriukaitis was a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis
- Occupations
- theatrical directormusicianpublisherfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis is a Lithuanian writer, journalist, director of films and theater, children's book writer. He is son of Vytautas Landsbergis and father of Gabrielius Landsbergis.
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Marijonas Mikutavičius
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- singersongwriterjournalist
- 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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Remigijus Žemaitaitis
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Remigijus Žemaitaitis is a Lithuanian populist politician and member of the Seimas. He is the founder and leader of the political party Dawn of Nemunas.
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Andrius Tapinas
- Occupations
- television presenterwriterjournalistlinguisttranslator
- Biography
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Andrius Balys Tapinas is a Lithuanian journalist, TV anchor, and writer. Tapinas was the anchor and producer of a long-running popular Lithuanian TV program The Money Generation. Since 2014, he hosts the Lithuanian TV program The Golden Mind with Arūnas Valinskas. In 2016, he 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 the Belarus border during the 2020 Belarusian protests.
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Tomas Venclova
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1960 studied philology
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterliterary historiantranslatorpoet
- 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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Tomasz Zan
- Occupations
- playwrightpoetwritertravelermineralogist
- 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 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 Centre-Right Union since 3 February 2024.
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Barys Kit
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- mathematicianphysicistscientistchemist
- Biography
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Barys Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist.
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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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Arūnas Valinskas
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision producerpolitician
- 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
- military engineerengineerphysicist
- Biography
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz was a Polish–Lithuanian 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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Artūras Paulauskas
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Artūras Paulauskas is a Lithuanian politician who was Speaker of Seimas, the parliament of Lithuania, from 2000 to 2006. He served as acting President of Lithuania from 6 April to 12 July 2004.
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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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Dovilė Šakalienė
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Dovilė Šakalienė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the Minister of National Defence from 12 December 2024 until 22 October 2025. She has been a member of the Seimas since 2016 and previously worked as a psychologist and human rights defender.
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Gediminas Kirkilas
- Occupations
- 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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Leonidas Donskis
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacherphilosopherpoliticianpolitical theorist
- Biography
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Leonidas Donskis was a Lithuanian-Jewish philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, and social analyst. In addition to this, he was also a 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 a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
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Arvydas Anušauskas
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- 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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Kazimira Prunskienė
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- 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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Stanisław Swianiewicz
- Occupations
- historianeconomistjuristuniversity teacher
- 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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Algirdas Paleckis
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Algirdas Paleckis is a Lithuanian politician, former diplomat, and public figure.
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1924 studied law
- Occupations
- writerlecturersoldiermaster marinerhead teacher
- Biography
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt was a Polish writer and a captain in the Polish Merchant Navy. He was twice awarded the Polish Cross of Valor for heroism and survived the sinking of both the m/v Piłsudski and the m/v Chrobry during the Second World War. He wrote maritime-themed short stories and worked in the Polish merchant marine service before and during the Second World War.
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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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Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
- Occupations
- economistpsychologistsociologist
- Biography
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Aušra Augustinavičiūtė was a Lithuanian psychologist, economist and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. She was the founder of socionics, the theory of information processing and personality types.
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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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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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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.In 2024, he participated in the Lithuanian presidential election and placed third, behind incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė.
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Jan Piotr Sapieha
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1587
- Occupations
- military commandermilitary personneldiplomatpolitician
- 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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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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Juozas Aputis
- Occupations
- short story writerwritertranslator
- 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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Laurynas Kasčiūnas
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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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. He was elected chairman of Homeland Union on 9 February 2025, winning a landslide with 78% of the vote.
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Arvydas Juozaitis
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherphilosopherpoliticianswimmer
- 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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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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Vygaudas Ušackas
- Occupations
- diplomatjuristpolitician
- 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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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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Teodor Narbutt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1803
- Occupations
- historianarchaeologistland ownerwritercollector
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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Justas Vincas Paleckis
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjournalist
- 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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Mindaugas Sinkevičius
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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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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Žygimantas Pavilionis
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- university teacherpolitician
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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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Haika Grossman
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- politician
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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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Konstantinas Sirvydas
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- university teacherwriterpreacherlinguistlexicographer
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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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Juozas Olekas
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- university teacherpoliticiansurgeon
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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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Irena Degutienė
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Dainius Žalimas
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- university teacherjudgepolitician
- Biography
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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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Jurgita Jurkutė
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- modelbeauty pageant contestantactorfilm actor
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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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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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Eugenijus Gentvilas
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- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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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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Darius Mockus
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- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Darius Mockus is a Lithuanian entrepreneur who is sole 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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Rokas Masiulis
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- economistmanagerstatutory auditorpolitician
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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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Česlovas Juršėnas
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- university teacherpoliticianjournalist
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Česlovas Juršėnas is a Lithuanian politician and a former Speaker of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament.
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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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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 Speaker of the Knesset.
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Marcelijus Martinaitis
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- university teacherpoliticianwriterjournalistpoet
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Marcelijus Teodoras Martinaitis was a Lithuanian poet, essayist, translator.
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Zigmantas Balčytis
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- politicianeconomist
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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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Petras Auštrevičius
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
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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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- opinion journalistwriterEastern Orthodox priest
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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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Joachim Chreptowicz
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- opinion journalistmilitary officerpoetdiplomattranslator
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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.
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Rimantas Šadžius
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- university teacherpoliticianphysicist
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Rimantas Šadžius is a Lithuanian politician and economist affiliated with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. He served as the Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas, a position he assumed on 12 December 2024. Šadžius has held the finance portfolio multiple times, having previously held it from 2007 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as Acting Prime Minister from 4 August to 25 September.
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Antanas Sutkus
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- photojournalistphotographerjournalist
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Antanas Sutkus is a Lithuanian photographer.
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Antoni Edward Odyniec
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1823
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- memoiristlinguistpoetGerman–Polish translatortranslator
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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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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 (transl. The Beginnings of Poland).
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Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł
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- civil servantpoliticianchancellorhistorian
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Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł was a Polish nobleman, a Reichfürst and a politician from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, who served as the Lithuanian Vice-chancellor from 1619, the Lithuanian Grand Chancellor and starosta of Vilnius from 1623. He was a member of the powerful Radziwiłł family, last of the Ołyka line, fourth to bear the name of Albrycht. During his life he was an influential magnate and diplomat in the country. Radziwiłł was a vigorous Roman Catholic and staunch supporter of Counter-Reformation, but also the arch enemy of the Protestant community.
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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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Alfredas Bumblauskas
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- historiantelevision presenteruniversity teacher
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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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Aistė Smilgevičiūtė
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- singer
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Aistė Smilgevičiūtė is a Lithuanian singer. She performs folk music, jazz, pop rock, and other kinds of alternative music. Since 1996, Smilgevičiūtė has been a member of the music band "Skylė".
