100 Notable alumni of
Vilnius University
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Vilnius University is 269th in the world, 92nd 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. 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
- farmermilitary personnelresistance fighter
- Biography
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Witold Pilecki was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
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Czesław Miłosz
- Occupations
- translatorwriteruniversity teacherpedagogueliterary historian
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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
- translatorwriterpoetplaywrightdiplomat
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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
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist and banker who is serving as the ninth and current president of Lithuania since 2019. He was previously 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 teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Ingrida Šimonytė is a Lithuanian politician, public servant and economist who is serving as the 17th and current prime minister of Lithuania since 2020. 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 presidential election, but lost in the second round runoff to Gitanas Nausėda. 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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Pylyp Orlyk
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack starshyna, Hetman in exile, diplomat, secretary and close associate of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. He is the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.
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Marija Gimbutas
- Occupations
- prehistoriananthropologistuniversity teacherarchaeologist
- 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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Abba Kovner
- Occupations
- writermilitary officerpoet
- Biography
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Abba Kovner was a Polish-born 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, but 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 genocidal revenge by murdering six million German people, but Kovner was arrested in the British zone of Occupied Germany before he could successfully carry out his plans. He made aliyah to the State of Israel in 1947. 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
- opinion journalistplaywrighthistorianjournalistliterary critic
- 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
- statespersondiplomatmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a 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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Ignacy Domeyko
- Occupations
- university teachergeographermeteorologistmining engineergeologist
- 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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Gabrielius Landsbergis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gabrielius Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 18th Government of the Republic of Lithuania led by the Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. He is a Member of the Seimas for Centras – Žaliakalnis constituency, and a former member of the European Parliament. He was a member of Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats). Landsbergis was elected as the Chairman of the Homeland Union in 2015. He is credited with modernising the Homeland Union.
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Juozas Budraitis
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- 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
- historianjournalist
- 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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Balys Sruoga
- Occupations
- literary criticpoetwritertheatre critic
- Biography
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Balys Sruoga was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist.
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Simonas Daukantas
- Occupations
- historianlexicographerwriter
- 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
- Occupations
- military personnelwriterjudgephilosopher
- 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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Justinas Marcinkevičius
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoetplaywrightjournalist
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Justinas Marcinkevičius was a prominent Lithuanian poet and playwright.
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Michał Sopoćko
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Michael Sopoćko was a Polish Roman 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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Napoleon Orda
- Occupations
- painterpianistcomposer
- 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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Meletius Smotrytsky
- Occupations
- Catholic priestwriterlinguistCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Meletius Smotrytsky, né Maksym Herasymovych Smotrytsky (c. 1577 – 17 or 27 December 1633), Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kyiv), was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 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 and became the standard grammar book in Russia right up till the end of the 18th century.
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Remigijus Šimašius
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- 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 poet.
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
- Occupations
- literary scholarpoetwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, was Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.
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Vytenis Andriukaitis
- Occupations
- Esperantistpoliticianinternational forum participant
- 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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Barys Kit
- Occupations
- chemistphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Boris Uladzimiravich Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist.
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Marijonas Mikutavičius
- Occupations
- singerjournalistsongwriter
- 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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Jan Czeczot
- Occupations
- translatorfolkloristpoetwriterethnographer
- Biography
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Jan Czeczot of Ostoja was a Polish romantic poet 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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Andrius Kubilius
- Occupations
- politicianphysicist
- Biography
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Andrius Kubilius is a Lithuanian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. He was leader of the conservative political party Homeland Union.
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Vytautas V. Landsbergis
- Occupations
- journalistfilm directorpoet
- 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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Andrius Tapinas
- Occupations
- writertelevision presentertranslatorlinguistjournalist
- 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
- writeruniversity teacherpoettranslatorliterary 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
- politicianjournalist
- 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. 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
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Aušrinė Armonaitė is a Lithuanian politician who is the current chairperson of the Freedom Party since 2019. 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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Kazimierz Siemienowicz
- Years
- 1600-1651 (aged 51)
- Occupations
- physicistengineermilitary engineer
- Biography
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz was a 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 Netherlands. No portrait or detailed biography of him has survived and much of his life is a subject of dispute.
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Tomasz Zan
- Occupations
- writerpoetplaywrightinventortraveler
- Biography
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Tomasz Zan, was a notable Polish and Belarusian poet and activist. Zan played a significant role in the cultural and literary movements of his time, advocating for the preservation and promotion of both Polish and Belarusian cultures. 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
- politicianlawyer
- 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
- television presenterpoliticiantelevision 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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Arvydas Anušauskas
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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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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Algirdas Paleckis
- Occupations
- diplomatjournalistpolitician
- 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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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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Stanisław Swianiewicz
- Occupations
- juristeconomisthistorianuniversity 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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Karol Olgierd Borchardt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- In 1924 studied law
- Occupations
- writerhead teachermaster marinersoldierlecturer
- Biography
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Karol Olgierd Borchardt was a Polish writer and captain of the Polish Merchant Marine.
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Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
- Occupations
- sociologistpsychologisteconomist
- 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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Laurynas Gucevičius
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Laurynas Gucevičius was an 18th-century architect from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and all of his designs were built there.
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Kazimira Prunskienė
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- 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 of 11 March 1990, and Minister of Agriculture in the government of Gediminas Kirkilas.
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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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Vygaudas Ušackas
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjurist
- 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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Arvydas Juozaitis
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterjournalistswimmerpolitician
- 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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Jan Piotr Sapieha
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1587
- Occupations
- military personnelmilitary commanderpoliticiandiplomat
- 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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Gediminas Kirkilas
- Occupations
- politicianrestorer
- Biography
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Gediminas Kirkilas is a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008.
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Rokas Žilinskas
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- 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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Virginijus Šikšnys
- Occupations
- researcherbiochemist
- 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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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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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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Jurga Šeduikytė
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- 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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Teodor Narbutt
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1803
- Occupations
- anthropologistcollectorwriterland ownerarchaeologist
- 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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Nerijus Numavičius
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Nerijus Numa originally from Lithuania, now lives in the UK and is the second richest Lithuanian. Nerijus Numa is an investor and ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of private holding company Vilniaus prekyba.
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Stanisław Kierbedź
- Enrolled in Vilnius University
- Studied in 1828
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- 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
- singeractorsongwriter
- 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
- diplomatjournalistpolitician
- 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
- sinologistwriterscience fiction writeruniversity teacherjournalist
- Biography
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Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky, born Józef Julian Sękowski (31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1800 in Antagonka, near Vilnius – 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1858 in Saint Petersburg), 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
- politicianuniversity teacher
- 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
- preacherwriteruniversity teacherlexicographerlinguist
- 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
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodelfilm actoractor
- Biography
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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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Rokas Masiulis
- Occupations
- statutory auditormanagereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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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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Irena Degutienė
- Occupations
- 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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Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt
- Occupations
- astronomermathematician
- Biography
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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.
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Darius Mockus
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Darius Mockus is a Lithuanian entrepreneur 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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Zigmantas Balčytis
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- 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 until 2021 and was Minister of Finance in the Brazauskas government from 2005 to 2007.
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Antoni Gołubiew
- Occupations
- historianjournalist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- 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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Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Česlovas Juršėnas
- Occupations
- university teacherjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Česlovas Juršėnas is a Lithuanian politician and a former Speaker of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament.
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Eugenijus Gentvilas
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- 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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Mindaugas Sinkevičius
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Mindaugas Sinkevičius is a Lithuanian manager and politician, Mayor of Jonava District Municipality (2011–2016 and since 2019), former Minister of Economy of Lithuania (2016–2017) and Vice-Mayor of Jonava (2008–2011).
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Petras Auštrevičius
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priestwriteropinion journalist
- Biography
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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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Algirdas Šemeta
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianminister
- Biography
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Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta is a Lithuanian economist and politician.
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Vanda Juknaitė
- Occupations
- essayist
- Biography
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Vanda Juknaitė is a Lithuanian writer, playwright and essayist.
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Alfredas Bumblauskas
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachertelevision presenter
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- memoiristtranslatorwriterpoetlinguist
- Biography
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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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Antanas Sutkus
- Occupations
- journalistphotographerphotojournalist
- Biography
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Antanas Sutkus is a Lithuanian photographer.
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Henryk Łowmiański
- Occupations
- medievalisthistorian
- Biography
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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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Aleksander Chodźko
- Occupations
- professorcollector of fairy talesinterpreterorientalistwriter
- Biography
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Aleksander Borejko Chodźko was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist.
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Aistė Smilgevičiūtė
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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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".
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Romualdas Ozolas
- Occupations
- university teacherjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Romualdas Ozolas [rɔmʊˈɐɫdɐs ˈoːzɔɫɐs] was a Lithuanian politician, activist, writer and pedagogue who taught at Vilnius University. He was of Latvian descent on his father's side.
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Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł
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- civil servanthistorianchancellorpolitician
- Biography
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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 Lesser Lithuanian Chancellor from 1619, the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania and Governor 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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Juozas Olekas
- Occupations
- university teachersurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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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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Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė is a Lithuanian philologist, professor, human rights activist, feminist writer and politician. She had been a member of Seimas from 2004 to 2008 as a member of Liberal Democratic Party of Lithuania and since 2009 as a member of Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.
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Gintautas Paluckas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gintautas Paluckas is a Lithuanian politician.
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Józef Oleszkiewicz
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Józef Oleszkiewicz was a Polish-Lithuanian painter, known primarily for his portraits and his eccentric behavior.
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Kęstutis Glaveckas
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Kęstutis Glaveckas was a Lithuanian politician.
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Stefan Jędrychowski
- Occupations
- juristeconomistdiplomatjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Stefan Jędrychowski was a Polish communist politician, economist and journalist, who served as deputy prime minister, foreign minister and finance minister in Poland.
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Stanisław Zarakowski
- Years
- 1907-1998 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Stanisław Zarakowski was a chief military prosecutor in the People's Republic of Poland who was famous for his role in several trials of Polish Underground State officers which resulted in many death sentences.
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Joachim Chreptowicz
- Occupations
- military officeropinion journalistcivil servantpoliticiantranslator
- Biography
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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.
