List of Lithuanians
By nationality
Arts & Literature
- Antanas Škėma - writer;
- Donatas Banionis - actor, and star of Tarkovsky's Solaris;
- Šarūnas Bartas - film director;
- Charles Bronson, Karolis Bučinskis - born 1921-11-04 in Pennsylvaniain the family of Lithuanian immigrants;
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis - famous painter and composer;
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė - actress;
- Danutė Dirginčiūtė-Tamulienė - opera singer (mezzosoprano), Primadonna of operetta;
- Stasys Eidrigevičius - artist;
- Laurence Harvey - actor (real name Laruschka Mischa Skikne);
- Oskaras Koršunovas - theater director;
- Jacques Lipchitz - artist;
- Brandi Marie - actress, also of African, Chinese, Italian, and Native American heritage;
- Jurgis Mačiūnas, George Maciunas - initiator of Fluxus movement;
- Eimuntas Nekrošius - theater director;
- Virgilijus Noreika - opera singer (tenor);
- Sabina Martinaitytė - opera singer (soprano);
- Jonas Mekas - film director;
- Irena Milkevičiūtė-Grigorian - opera singer (soprano), Primadonna of Lithuanian opera;
- Juozas Miltinis - theater director;
- Tomas Venclova - writer and poet;
- Violeta Urmanavičiūte-Urmana - opera singer (soprano-mezzosoprano);
- Vydūnas, Vilhelmas Storosta - Prominent Lithuanian writer and philosopher, leader of Lithuanian cultural movement in Prussian Lithuania in the beg. of 20th century.
Politics
- Valdas Adamkus - President of Lithuania.
- Algirdas Brazauskas - the former First secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of Lithuanian SSR, the former president of Lithuania after 1990, prime minister of Lithuania
- Kazys Grinius - politician
- Vytautas Landsbergis - the most outstanding political figure in Lithuania after 1990, professor, the first Head of Lithuania after declaration of its independence in 1990, former speaker of Lithuanian parliament - Seimas, member of European Parliament
- Stasys Lozoraitis politician
- Rolandas Paksas - former President, removed after impeachment.
- Antanas Smetona - The first president of Lithuania in 1919
Science
- Jurgis Baltrušaitis junior - art-historian, expert of medieval art
- Birutė Galdikas - anthropologist
- Marija Gimbutas - archeologist
- Algirdas Julius Greimas - linguist who contributed to the theory of semiotics, and also researched Lithuanian mythology.
- Hannibal Lecter - psychiatrist (fictional)
Sports
- Arvydas Sabonis - former NBA player with Portland Trail Blazers, used to play for the USSR.
- Virgilijus Alekna- olympic and world champion in discus throwing
- Žydrūnas Ilgauskas - current NBA player with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius - basketball star with several European clubs, currently in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers.
- Vitas Gerulaitis - tennis player (member of the Lithuanian diaspora in the US)
- Darius Kasparaitis- NHL player
- Šarūnas Marčiulionis - former NBA player with several teams, used to play for the USSR.
- Darius Songaila - current NBA player with the Chicago Bulls.
- Dainius Zubrus- NHL player
- Raimondas Rumsas - cyclist
- Marius Sabaliauskas - cyclist
Other
- Jurgis Baltrušaitis senior (1873-1944) - art-historian, poet, diplomat
- Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas - pilots.
- Jurgis Kairys - aerobatic pilot, FAI World Grand Prix of Aviation FAIWGPA champion, famous of flight under 10 bridges in Vilnius. He also flew inverted under a bridge in Kaunas.
- Benedictus Mikulis - Lithuanian freedom fighter.
- Margarita Švėgždaitė - famous top model.
By birthplace (before 1918) or citizenship (after 1918)
- Elijah ben Solomon - the Gaon of Vilna
- Emma Goldman - Anarchist deported from U.S., feminist, activist.
- Adam Mickiewicz - poet
- Czesław Miłosz - Polish poet and essayist, Nobel prize winner
- Józef Piłsudski - marshal of Poland
- Rabbi Abraham Issac ha-Kohen Kook (1865-1935) - first Chief Rabbi of Palestine
- Abraham Cahan
- Karl Shapiro
- William Zorach
- S. J. Perelman
- Uriel Weinreich
- Bernard Berenson
- Hermann Minkowski - mathematician, one of Einstein's teachers.
- Emmanuel Levinas - prominent philosopher
See also List of North European Jews
Note:
In a case when a person was born in the territory of former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and not in the territory of modern Lithuania, only persons, who named themselves Lithuanians or were strictly connected to Lithuania in other way, are included. See also List of famous Poles and List of Belarusians.