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
 * 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
 * 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