By nationality

• Valdas Adamkus - President of Lithuania.
• Jurgis Baltrušaitis senior (1873-1944) - art-historian, poet, diplomat
• Donatas Banionis - actor, and star of Tarkovsky's Solaris
• Algirdas Brazauskas - the former First secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of Lithuanian SSR, the former president of Lithuania after 1990, prime minister of Lithuania
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis - famous painter and composer.
• Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas - pilots.
• Marija Gimbutas - world-known archeologist
• Kazys Grinius - politician
• Zydrunas Ilgauskas - current NBA player with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• Sarunas Jasikevicius - basketball star with several European clubs, currently with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.
• Jurgis Kairys - aerobatic pilot, FAI World Grand Prix of Aviation FAIWGPA champion, famous of flight under 10 bridges in Vilnius. He also flew inverted under a bridge in Kaunas.
• Vytautas Landsbergis - the most outstanding political figure in Lithuania after 1990, professor, the first President of Lithuania after declaration of its independence in 1990, former speaker of Lithuanian parliament - Seimas, member of European Parliament
• Šarūnas Marčiulionis - former NBA player with several teams, used to play for the USSR.
• Rolandas Paksas - former President, removed after impeachment.
• Arvydas Sabonis - former NBA player with Portland Trail Blazers, used to play for the USSR.
• Antanas Smetona - The first president of Lithuania in 1919
• Darius Songaila - current NBA player with the Sacramento Kings.
• Tomas Venclova - writer and poet
• Vilhelmas Storosta Vydūnas - Prominent Lithuanian writer and philosopher, leader of Lithuanian cultural movement in Prussian Lithuania in the beg. of 20th century.

By birthplace (before 1918) or citizenship (after 1918)

• Elijah ben Solomon - the Gaon of Vilna
• Emma Goldman - Anarchist deported from U.S., feminist, activist.
• Adam Mickiewicz - Polish poet
• Czesław Miłosz - Polish poet and essayist, Nobel prize winner
• Józef Piłsudski - marshal of Poland
• Rabbi Abraham Issac ha-Kohen Kook (1865-1935) - first Chief Rabbi of Palestine
• Abraham Cahan
• Karl Shapiro
• William Zorach
• S. J. Perelman
• Uriel Weinreich
• Bernard Berenson

Note:

In a case when a person was born in the territory of former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and not in the territory of modern Lithuania, only persons, who named themselves Lithuanians or were strictly connected to Lithuania in other way, are included. See also List of famous Poles and List of Belarusians.

See also

List of people by nationality
List of people by EU state