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The following is a list of notable people from
Kaunas,
Lithuania.
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Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
[1]
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Diana Adlienė (born 1954),
medical physicist and doctor of physical sciences
[2]
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Aharon Amir,
Israeli
Hebrew poet, translator, and writer
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Antanas Andrijauskas, habilitated doctor and professor
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Moshe Arens, Israeli statesman and diplomat
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Donatas Banionis, actor
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Aharon Barak (originally Brick), professor of law at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
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Antanas Baranauskas, poet, mathematician, and Catholic bishop
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Svetlana Beriosova, prima ballerina with the
Royal Ballet of England
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Montague Burton, British retail magnate
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Algimantas Dailide (1921–2015), official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) during World War II
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Marija Gimbutienė, archaeologist
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Sara Ginaite (born 1924), former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic
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Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
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Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist
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Leyb Gorfinkel (1896–1976), advocate, journalist, and politician who was originally of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality
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Juozas Grušas, writer and editor
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Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), American philanthropist
[3]
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Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, basketball player
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Tadas Ivanauskas,
zoologist and
biologist
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Valdas Ivanauskas, footballer
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Šarūnas Jasikevičius, basketball player and coach, 2005
Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
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Romas Kalanta, student protester
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Kęstutis Kemzūra, basketball player
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Linas Kleiza, basketball player
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Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius, historian, theologian, and translator
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Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor
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Lazare Kopelmanas, lawyer and diplomat
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Vytautas Landsbergis, politician and member of the
European Parliament
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Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
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Moshe Leib Lilienblum, early Zionist thinker
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Aleksandras Machtas, chess player
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George Maciunas, artist, founding member of
Fluxus
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Maironis, poet
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Abraham Mapu, Hebrew novelist of the
Haskalah movement
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Šarūnas Marčiulionis, basketball player
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Rūta Meilutytė, swimmer
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Adam Mickiewicz, Romantic poet
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Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and one of
Einstein's teachers
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Oskar Minkowski, physician and medical researcher
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Donatas Motiejūnas, basketball player
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Yitzhak Olshan, second President of the
Supreme Court of Israel
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Vlado Perlemuter, pianist
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Petras Rimša, sculptor and medalist
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Vladimir Romanov, businessman, chairman of UBIG Investments
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Mykolas Romeris, lawyer and judge
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Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, countess
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Arvydas Sabonis, basketball player
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Israel Sack, American antiques dealer
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Sidney Shachnow, US Army general
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Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, political figure, and journalist
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Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, Rabbi of Kaunas and Talmudic authority
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Ladislas Starevich,
stop-motion
animator
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Yehezkel Streichman, Israeli painter
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Daniel Tammet, British writer
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Gintautas Umaras, retired
track and
road racing cyclist
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Lukas Verzbicas, American long-distance runner and triathlete
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Jonas Vileišis, lawyer, politician, and diplomat
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Edita Vilkevičiūtė, model
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Vytautas Žalakevičius, film director and writer
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Marius Žaliūkas, professional footballer
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L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the
Esperanto language
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