The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
1st Brigade of Kaunas of Army of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1792Aharon BarakAdam MickiewiczChiune SugiharaL. L. Zamenhof
Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania [1]
Diana Adlienė (born 1954), medical physicist and doctor of physical sciences[2]
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
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
Juozas Grušas, writer and editor
Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009), American philanthropist[3]
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
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
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
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
Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, political figure, and journalist
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, Rabbi of Kaunas and Talmudic authority
Ladislas Starevich, stop-motion animator
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
Vytautas Žalakevičius, film director and writer
Marius Žaliūkas, professional footballer
L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the Esperanto language
^Official website of the President of Lithuania
^"Diana Adlienė". Kaunas University of Technology. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
^Martin, Douglas (26 September 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
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