page_title: List of people from Kaunas
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Kaunas
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Aharon Barak. Français&#160;: Aharon Barak. Русский: Член комиссии судья Аарон Барак.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
  Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania
  Aharon Amir, Israeli Hebrew poet, translator, and writer
  Moshe Arens, Israeli statesman and diplomat
  Donatas Banionis, actor
  Aharon Barak, 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 m official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police during World War II
  Marija Gimbutienė, archaeologist
  Sara Ginaite, former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic
  Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet
  Emma Goldman, anarchist
  Leyb Gorfinkel, advocate, journalist, and politician who was originally of Lithuanian and later of Israeli nationality
  Juozas Grušas, writer and editor
  Joseph Gurwin, American philanthropist
  Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, basketball player
  Tadas Ivanauskas, zoologist and biologist
  Valdas Ivanauskas, footballer
  Šarūnas Jasikevičius, basketball player
  Romas Kalanta, student protester
  Kęstutis Kemzūra, basketball player
context_section_description: The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania.
  Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania 
  Aharon Amir, Israeli Hebrew poet, translator, and writer
  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)m 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, 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
  Romas Kalanta, student protester
  Kęstutis Kemzūra, basketball player
  Linas Kleiza, basketball player
  Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius, historian, theologian, and translator
  Lazare Kopelmanas, lawyer and diplomat
  Vytautas Landsbergis, politician and member of the European Parliament
  Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
  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
  Arvydas Sabonis, basketball player
  Sidney Shachnow, US Army general
  Mykolas Sleževičius, lawyer, political figure, and journalist
  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
  L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of the Esperanto language
caption: Aharon Barak
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