The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania Official website of the President of Lithuania Diana Adlienė (born 1954), medical physicist and doctor of physical sciences Aharon Amir, Israeli Hebrew poet, translator, and writer Antanas Andrijauskas, habilitated doctor and professor Moshe Arens, Israeli statesman and diplomat Donatas Banionis, actor Aharon Barak (originally Brick), professor of law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel Antanas Baranauskas, poet, mathematician, and Catholic bishop Svetlana Beriosova, prima ballerina with the Royal Ballet of England Montague Burton, British retail magnate Algimantas Dailide (1921–2015), official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) during World War II Marija Gimbutienė, archaeologist Sara Ginaite (born 1924), former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic Nerijus Glezekas (born 1985), American singer, musician and songwriter Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist Leyb Gorfinkel (1896–1976), advocate, journalist, and politician who was originally of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality Audronė Girdzijauskaitė, theatre and art critic Juozas Grušas, writer and editor Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), American philanthropist Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, basketball player Tadas Ivanauskas, zoologist and biologist Valdas Ivanauskas, footballer Šarūnas Jasikevičius, basketball player and coach, 2005 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP Romas Kalanta, student protester Leonardas Kazokas, painter (1905–1981) Kęstutis Kemzūra, basketball player Linas Kleiza, basketball player Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius, historian, theologian, and translator Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor Lazare Kopelmanas, lawyer and diplomat Vytautas Landsbergis, politician and member of the European Parliament Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher Moshe Leib Lilienblum, early Zionist thinker Aleksandras Machtas, chess player George Maciunas, artist, founding member of Fluxus Maironis, poet Abraham Mapu, Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah movement Šarūnas Marčiulionis, basketball player Døvydas Maščinskas, musician and content creator Rūta Meilutytė, swimmer Adam Mickiewicz, Romantic poet Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and one of Einstein's teachers Oskar Minkowski, physician and medical researcher Donatas Motiejūnas, basketball player Yitzhak Olshan, second President of the Supreme Court of Israel Jonas Paulavičius, veteran of the Lithuanian Wars of Independence, and Righteous Among the Nations Vlado Perlemuter, pianist Petras Rimša, sculptor and medalist Vladimir Romanov, businessman, chairman of UBIG Investments Mykolas Romeris, lawyer and judge Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, countess Arvydas Sabonis, basketball player Israel Sack, American antiques dealer Sidney Shachnow, US Army general Markas Šilkūnas racing driver Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, political figure, and journalist Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, Rabbi of Kaunas and Talmudic authority Ladislas Starevich, stop-motion animator Eliyahu Stoupel, prominent Lithuanian-Israeli cardiologist Yehezkel Streichman, Israeli painter Daniel Tammet, British writer Gintautas Umaras, retired track and road racing cyclist Lukas Verzbicas, American long-distance runner and triathlete Jonas Vileišis, lawyer, politician, and diplomat Edita Vilkevičiūtė, model Andrius Zakarauskas, painter Vytautas Žalakevičius, film director and writer Marius Žaliūkas, professional footballer L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the Esperanto language Fania Brancowska, teacher, member of the Jewish resistance
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