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List Of People From Vilnius
The following is a list of notable people from Lithuania's capital city of Vilnius (historically known by the names of Vilna/Wilna/Wilno). It includes people who were born or resided there. A * Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna (c. late 18th century-1808), renowned Jewish Talmudist * Neringa Aidietytė (born 1983), Lithuanian athlete * Gediminas Akstinas (born 1961), Lithuanian painter * Frantsishak Alyakhnovich (1883–1944), Belarusian playwright and journalist * Algirdas (1296–1377), Grand Duke of Lithuania * Ana Ambrazienė (1955–2025), Lithuanian hurdler, former world record holder * Ieva Andrejevaitė (born 1988), Lithuanian actress * Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836–1893), Polish-Lithuanian painter and architect of Italian descent * Irena Andriukaitienė (born 1948), Lithuanian politician and signature of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania * Mark Antokolsky (1843–1902), Russian-Jewish sculptor * Laura Asadauskaitė (born 1984), Lithua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Coat Of Arms Of Vilnius
Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor Places * Grand, Oklahoma, USA * Grand, Vosges, village and commune in France with Gallo-Roman amphitheatre * Grand County (other), several places * Grand Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone, USA * Le Grand, California, USA; census-designated place * Mount Grand, Brockville, New Zealand Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Grand'' (Erin McKeown album), 2003 * "Grand" (Kane Brown song), 2022 * ''Grand'' (Matt and Kim album), 2009 * ''Grand'' (magazine), a lifestyle magazine related to related to grandparents * ''Grand'' (TV series), American sitcom, 1990 * Grand Production, Serbian record label company Other uses * Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal, also known as GRAND Canal * Grand (slang), one thousand units of currency * Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection, also known as GRAND See also * * * Grand Hotel (other) * Grand sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ieva Andrejevaitė
Ieva Andrejevaitė (born 21 November 1988) is a Lithuanian actress. She has acted in films and TV series in Great Britain, Lithuania, Russia, United States, and Ukraine. Filmography *2012 – ', role: Marija; Lithuanian TV series *2014 – , role: Inga *2015 – ** Fartsa (TV series), role: Tanya ; Russian ** ''Kill Your Friends (film), Kill Your Friends'', role: Anna;British satirical black comedy crime-thriller film ** ''He's a Dragon'', role: Yaroslava; Russian 3D romantic fantasy adventure film *2016 – ''The Good Boy'', role: school teacher; Russian comedy film *2016–2019 – Berlin Station (TV series), role: Irina Krik; American drama television series *2017 – ** ("Emilija from the Laisvės alėja, Liberty Avenue"), lead role: Emilija; Lithuanian historical drama ** «Штрафник» ** «Перекрёстки судьбы» *2018 – ** , role: Angelina; Ukrainian comedy film, with elements of fantasy ** «Русалки» ** «Пуля» *2019 – , role: Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Birshtein
Boris Joseph Birshtein (; born 11 November 1947 in Vilnius or Chișinău) is a Soviet-born Israeli-Swiss-Canadian businessman and the former chairman of Seabeco, an investment and trading company. Career Birshtein emigrated to Israel in 1979, and then to Switzerland and Canada, where he began building the Seabeco Group, an international network of companies that officially traded oil, gold, diamonds and chemicals. The very well connected Birshtein was an influential figure across the former Soviet Union. Birshtein survived a car crash that killed the then Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Nasirdin Isanov. In 1991 Kyrgyzstan's then president, Askar Akayev, appointed Birshtein president of the country's committee for reconstruction and development. Shortly afterward, the Kirgiz government empowered Birshtein to act as its trade representative abroad. In 1992 Birshtein helped ensure Canada’s Cameco Corp. won the contract to develop Kyrgyzstan’s giant Kumtor Gold Mine. He was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. Berkman was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vilna in the Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) and emigrated to the United States in 1888. He lived in New York City, where he became involved in the anarchist movement. He was the one-time lover and lifelong friend of anarchist Emma Goldman. In 1892, undertaking an act of propaganda of the deed, Berkman made a failed attempt to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead strike, for which he served 14 years in prison. His experience in prison was the basis of his first book, '' Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist''. After his release from prison, Berkman served as editor of Goldman's anarchist journal, '' Mother Earth'', and later established his own journal, '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian to enter the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time. Berankis has reached two finals on the ATP World Tour, at the Los Angeles Open (tennis), Los Angeles Open in 2012 and at the Kremlin Cup in 2017. He is also a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Early years Berankis started playing tennis at the age of two, when his six years older sister Lina took him to her tennis practices. Berankis' first coach was Valdas Adomaitis from Jurbarkas. When Berankis was nine years old he accepted an invitation from Remigijus Balžekas to practise with him at the Šiauliai tennis school (over 200 km from Vilnius). It turned out to be a long-term partnership and friendship. Career Juniors In 2004, Berankis dominated the U14 circuit of the Tennis Europe Junior Tour, winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Basanavičius
Jonas Basanavičius (, ; 23 November 1851 – 16 February 1927) was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival. He participated in every major event leading to the independent Lithuanian state and is often given the informal honorific title of the " Patriarch of the Nation" () for his contributions. Born to a family of farmers, Basanavičius was to become a priest but instead chose to study medicine at the Moscow Medical Academy. He worked as a doctor from 1880 to 1905 in the Principality of Bulgaria. Despite the long distance, he dedicated substantial effort to the Lithuanian cultural work. He founded the first Lithuanian-language newspaper ''Aušra'' (1883), contributed articles on Lithuania to the press, collected samples of Lithuanian folklore (songs, fairy-tales, legends, riddles, etc.) and published them. He was also involved with local Bulgarian politics. He returned to Lithuania in 1905 and immediately joined Lithuanian cultural life. He became chairman o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liutauras Barila
Liutauras Barila (born 10 February 1974) is a Lithuanian biathlete. He competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi .... References External links * 1974 births Living people Lithuanian male biathletes Olympic biathletes for Lithuania Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Vilnius {{Lithuania-biathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aidas Bareikis
Aidas Bareikis (born October 4, 1967) is a Lithuanian artist, currently working in the United States. Bareikis studied at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts between 1987 and 1992. His previous attempt at finishing art school in Vilnius was interrupted when he was drafted by the Soviet Army and sent to Afghanistan, where he saw gunfighting, injured soldiers of war, and caskets, before inflicting delirium on himself through sleep deprivation and the inhalation of graphite powder. In 1993 he received a scholarship and moved to America. Between 1993 and 1997 he studied at Hunter College in New York, graduating with an MFA. In 2000 he exhibited at the Berlin Contemporary Art Center and at the Eleni Koroneou Gallery in Athens. In 2004 he showcased his artwork at the Miller Durazo Gallery in Los Angeles. He showed at Leo Koenig Gallery, and Happy Lion Gallery. ''The New York Times'' describes his work as "sprawling, grotesque yet artfully color-coordinated messes of found objects, pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Živilė Balčiūnaitė
Živilė Balčiūnaitė (born 3 April 1979 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian Marathon runner. Career Balčiūnaitė finished 4th at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She also competed in the same event at the 2004 Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ..., finishing 14th. She finished 11th at the 2008 Olympics. Doping bans In April 2011, the Athletics Federation of Lithuania announced Balčiūnaitė has been banned for two years for a positive drug test and was stripped of her marathon gold medal from the 2010 European Athletics Championships. Balčiūnaitė received an eight year ban in July 2016 by the Athletics Federation of Lithuania after testing positive for meldonium. Achievements References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Balc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francišak Bahuševič
Francišak Bahuševič (; ; – ) was a Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer, considered to be one of the initiators of modern Belarusian literature. Origins Francišak Bahuševič was born in the folwark of Świrany, near Vilnius (now , Lithuania), into a family of minor nobility — Kazimir and Konstantsiya (née Hałaŭnia) Bahuševič. For a long time, it was believed that the folwark was rented by the poet’s father. However, Świrany belonged to the Hałaŭnia family, from which his mother, Konstantsiya, came. She had gone to her parents and grandparents before the birth of her son (the first son was Uładzisłaŭ-Anton, four years older than Francišak). Between 1841 and 1846, the family moved to the hereditary estate of Kušliany in the Ašmiany Uyezd, which had belonged to the Bahuševič family since the mid-18th century. According to a deed recorded in the Ašmiany town court books on March 13, 1749, the poet's ancestor, Anton Bahuševič, for 450 Polish z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Asadauskaitė
Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė (born 28 February 1984) is a Lithuanian modern pentathlete. She is a two-time Olympic medallist, having won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with an Olympic record score, as well as winning the silver in Tokyo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is a three-time European Champion (2012, 2015, 2016) and a World Champion in pentathlon, having claimed the title in 2013. She has been a member of the Seimas (Parliament of Lithuania) since 2024. Career Asadauskaitė took part in her first Olympics at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she finished 15th overall. Asadauskaitė did not compete at all in 2010 after she became a mother for the first time, but became world number one in the modern pentathlon in May 2012. She won Olympic gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics, ahead of British athlete Samantha Murray and Yane Marques of Brazil. Her total score in the event of 5,408 points set a new Olympic record. Asadauskaitė bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Antokolsky
Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky (; 2 November 18409 July 1902) was a Russian sculptor of Lithuanian–Jewish descent. Biography Early life Mordukh Matysovich Antokolsky was born in Vilnius ( Antokol city district), Lithuania (at the time part of the Russian Empire). He was born into a Jewish family of eight children. He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts (1862–68) at St. Petersburg. He first began with Jewish themes, statues: "Jewish Tailor", "Nathan the Wise", "Inquisition's Attack against Jews", "The Talmudic Debate". Later life and career From 1868–1870, Mark Antokolsky lived in Berlin. His statue of Ivan the Terrible (1870) was purchased for the Hermitage by Emperor Alexander II of Russia. The latter approved his work and awarded the sculptor the title of Academic. Antokolsky believed that sculpture was a social and humane ideal. In order to improve his failing health, he moved to the Italian resorts in 1871 and settled in Paris six years later. Every year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
