# List of people from Kaunas

The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
* Valdas Adamkus, 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
* 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
* 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
* 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