Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Lituania
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Dalia Grybauskaitė es una política lituana. Fue la presidenta de Lituania desde 2009 hasta 2019, lo que la convierte en la primera mujer que ostenta la jefatura de Estado de ese país.
Aivaras Abromavičius
Aivaras Abromavičius is a Lithuanian-born Ukrainian investment banker and politician. He was Ukraine's Minister of Economy and Trade starting in December 2014. He did not retain his post in the Groysman Government that was installed in 14 April 2016. Abromavičius was Director General of Ukroboronprom, Ukraine's biggest defense industry company, from 31 August 2019 until 6 October 2020.
Aloyzas Kveinys
Aloyzas Kveinys was a Lithuanian chess player, who was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1992.
Anastasia von Kalmanovich
Anastasia von Kalmanovich is a Russian actress and music producer.
Donatas Banionis
Donatas Banionis was a Lithuanian actor. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Vladislao II de Polonia
Jogaila, después Vladislao II Jagellón, fue gran duque de Lituania (1377-1434) y más tarde rey de Polonia (1386-1434), primero como consorte de su mujer Eduviges hasta 1399, y luego como monarca hasta su muerte. Gobernó Lituania desde el 1377.
Moshe Arens
Moshe Arens fue un ingeniero aeronáutico, investigador, diplomático y político del Likud. Fue miembro del Knesset entre 1973 y 1992, y nuevamente entre 1999 y 2003, además de Ministero de Defensa en tres ocasiones y una vez Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores. Junto a ello Arens también se desempeñó como Embajador de Israel en Estados Unidos y profesor en Technion en Haifa.
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, conocida como Marija Gimbutas, fue una arqueóloga y antropóloga lituanoestadounidense, reconocida por su investigación sobre las culturas del neolítico y la Edad del Bronce de la «vieja Europa» —término que introdujo en los estudios arqueológicos—; y por su hipótesis de los kurganes, que situaba la patria protoindoeuropea en la estepa póntica.
Darius Kasparaitis
Darius Kasparaitis is a Lithuanian-American former professional ice hockey defenceman. He mainly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins, Colorado Avalanche, and New York Rangers. He is a four-time Olympian and three-time medalist, winning one gold medal, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. He received the title of Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1992 and was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016. His 28 career Olympic games is a record among Russian national team's players.
Antanas Impulevičius
Antanas Impulevičius-Impulėnas was an officer of the Lithuanian Army, reaching the rank of major in 1937, and later a Nazi collaborator. After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he was arrested by NKVD. He was freed during the Uprising of June 1941. Impulevičius joined the Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft and commanded the 12th Police Battalion. His unit was sent to Belarus where it participated in mass executions of the Jews, particularly in Minsk and Kletsk. He also joined the short-lived Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. In 1944, he moved to Germany, in 1949 he relocated to the United States. In 1962, Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR sentenced him to death in absentia. After the trial, United States dismissed Soviet request to extradite him.