Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Letonia

Alfons Bērziņš was a Latvian long track speed skater. He competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics. In 1939 he became overall champion at the European Championships.

Oswald Külpe (1862-1915) fue un filósofo y psicólogo alemán. Destacó por sus trabajos de psicología experimental. En filosofía, consideró el conocimiento como conjunción entre pensamientos y experiencia.

Marion von Klot (1897–1919), was a Latvian (Baltic-German) noblewoman.

Leon Solomon Moisseiff fue un ingeniero civil estadounidense nacido en Letonia, líder en el diseño de puentes colgantes en los Estados Unidos durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930. La brillante trayectoria de sus diseños, como el Puente de Manhattan, fue truncada por el desplome en 1940 del Puente de Tacoma.

Ansis Alberts Kaupēns was a Latvian robber and serial killer; perhaps, the most famous Latvian criminal of the interwar period. Kaupēns was born in 1895 and baptized in Platone Parish. In 1916 he began serving in the Imperial Russian Army, and after that for the Red Army's 9th Latvian Riflemen Regiment, but in 1919 or 1920, he deserted and returned to live in Latvia. He committed his first robbery on 29 January 1920 and the last on 29 May 1926. During this period, more than 30 robberies and 19 murders were supposedly committed. In the meantime, Kaupēns worked as a paper hanger in Jelgava during the day. He was even able to stop and rob a passenger train, but mostly robbed on highways. Arrested on 8 June 1926 and sentenced to death, Kaupēns was executed by hanging on 6 May 1927. He was buried in Svēte Parish.

Julijans Vaivods was the Apostolic Administrator of Riga and of Liepāja from 10 November 1964 to his death, and Cardinal Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati from 1983 to his death. He was the first Latvian cardinal and also the oldest living cardinal at the time of his death at age 94.

Abraham Zevi Idelsohn was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world.