page_title: Šiauliai
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Šiauliai / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: A view over Siauliai from Hotel Siauliai 14th. floor.
context_page_description: Šiauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 107,086. From 1994 to 2010 it was the capital of Šiauliai County.
context_section_description: According to the population census of 2001, ethnic Lithuanians comprise 93%, Russians – 5%, and the remaining 2% consist of Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Roma, Latvians, Armenians and other ethnic groups. About 94% of the city's population consider Lithuanian their native language, 5% are Russian speakers and the remainder speak Ukrainian, Belarusian, Latvian, Roma, Armenian etc. About 80% of those older than 20 have a command of the Russian language, while only 17% can speak English and 7% – German.
  The list of notable people who were born in Šiauliai:
  Regimantas Adomaitis, movie and stage actor, born here
  André Andrejew, a classic Russian and French movie art director, born here
  Šarūnas Bartas, film director, born here
  Wojciech Buyko, Polish classic photographer, born here in 1882 (†1942?)
  Virgilijus Noreika, opera singer, born here
  Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (image), rabbi, and grandson of a kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Ben Hayim Haikel Eliashiv zt"l (Leshem), a native of this city
  Jacob Gens, self-proclaimed Vilnius Ghetto police commander under the Nazi occupation (1941–1943), born here (1903)
  Nesse Godin, Shoah survivor and Shoah awareness advocate in the United States.
  Robertas Javtokas, professional basketball player
  Olga Jegunova, classical pianist
  Veniamin Kagan, mathematician specializing in geometry
  Samuel Kessel, father of Joseph Kessel, physician was born here
  Igor Kisiel, scientist, professor at the Technical University of Wroclaw, born in Illovieciai near Šiauliai
  Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł,  magnate, noble, a duke and a politician. He held the post of Starosta (city foreman) of this city.
  Jan Sawicki-Stella, colonel in the Russian army who during the insurrection against Russia in 1863, went to fight on the Polish-Lithuanian side, born here
  Meyer Schapiro, art historian, born here
  Henrietta Schumann, concert pianist, born here in 1909 before emigrating to America in 1924.
  Antanas Sireika, born near Šiauliai was a coach for a hometown basketball team for many seasons.
  Olegas Truchanas, Lithuanian photographer, went to school here, recognized in Australia for his ecological conscious photography
  Wiktoryn Witkiewicz, father of the legendary Russian envoy to Afghanistan Jan Prosper Witkiewicz, has been the Vice-Marshall of Šiauliai in Kingdom of Poland
  Mindaugas Žukauskas, professional basketball player was born here
  Marius Žaromskis, mixed martial artist fighter
  Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė, athlete triple jumper, Lithuanian national record holder and former European Under-23 Champion, World Junior silver medalist, wife of British former World Indoor 60 metres champion Richard Kilty.
caption: View of Šiauliai
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