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Litvakai

Litvaks

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lithuanian_Jews
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Belarusian_Jews
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ukrainian_Jews
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
• https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/famous-litvaksartists-and-scientists/
• https://vilnews.com/2011-01-world-famous-litvaks
• https://www.lzb.lt/en/2020/03/10/lithuanian-government-lists-famous-litvaks/
• https://madeinvilnius.lt/en/the-history-of-Vilnius/antisemitism-in-vilnius/The-most-prominent-Lithuanian-Jews-are-known-all-over-the-world./

Ješivos

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yeshivas_of_Lithuania
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yeshivas_of_Belarus

Įžymūs litvakai

• Marc Chagall. Lyozna, Vitebsk, St.Petersburg, Paris, Moscow, Côte d'Azur, Israel, New York. White Crucifixion.

Valstybininkai

Izraelyje

• Moshe Arens, former Israeli defence minister and foreign minister
• Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995–2006
• Ehud Barak, Israeli Chief of Staff, foreign minister, prime minister, defence minister and Labour leader
• Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister from Brest-Litovsk
• Hillel Kook, Revisionist Zionist activist, politician, and prominent member of the Irgun
• Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, original family name was Milikowsky
• Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister, from a family of Georgian Jews of Lithuanian descent
• Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister, Nobel Prize winner (1994)
• Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, inventor of synthetic acetone, born in Motal
• Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli prime minister (1984–85 1988–90), born in Ruzhany
• Zerach Warhaftig, born in Vaukavysk
• Berl Katznelson, One of the intellectual founders of the Labor movement in Israel
• Kadish Luz, Israeli speaker of the Knesset, born in Bobruysk
• Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister, Nobel Prize winner (1994)

JAV

• Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
• Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor
• Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Rockefeller family, U.S., Republican politician (his mother was a Litvak)
• Milton Shapp (b. Milton Jerrold Shapiro), cable TV pioneer and governor of Pennsylvania; parents were Lithuanian Jews

Pietų Afrika

• Bernard Friedman, South African politician
• Ronnie Kasrils, South African communist leader, minister of Intelligence Services
• Tony Leon, South African former opposition leader
• Joe Slovo, South African Communist and MK leader, minister of construction in Nelson Mandela's government

Kanada

• Irwin Cotler, Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 2003–2006, and international human rights lawyer
• David Lewis (Losz), ex-leader of the NDP

Rusija

• Hesya Helfman, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya
• Valeriya Novodvorskaya, liberal Russian politician, Soviet dissident
• Iosif Bleikhman, anarchist revolutionary

Baltarusija

• Viktor Sheiman, adviser to President Alexander Lukashenko, influential Belarusian politician (of partial Jewish descent)
• Mikola Abramchyk, president of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (of partial Jewish descent)

Visuomenininkai

• Dovid Katz
• Lietuvos žydų vėikėjai: Faina Kukliansky, Emanuelis Zingeris...
• Sammy Marks, ‘father’ of Litvak South Africa, businessman, politician, entrepreneur
• Emma Goldman, anarchist
• Jay M. Ipson, founder and president of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond
• Helen Suzman, South-African anti-apartheid activist
• Meir Vilner, Israeli communist leader, the last of the signatories of Israel's declaration of independence to pass away

JAV

• Leonard Adleman, Computer Scientist
• David Dubinsky, labor leader, born in Bieraście
• Joseph Schlossberg, labor activist
• Baruch Charney Vladeck, journalist, labor leader and politician

Tarptautinis

• Alexander Parvus, international revolutionary, born in Bierazino

Verslininkai

• Roman Abramovich, Oligarch and owner of Chelsea F.C.
• Eli Broad, American philanthropist and investor; founder of KB Home
• Mendel Kaplan, was a South African Jewish industrialist, philanthropist and community activist
• Bernard Gordon, South African businessman and philanthropist, Rand pioneer, founder of Kibbutz Mayan Baruch in Israel
• Sol Kerzner, South African casino magnate (Sun City)
• Michael Marks, founder of retail network Marks and Spencer

Menininkai

• Marc Chagall, Russian-born French painter
• Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor
• Willy Ronis, photographer
• Chaïm Soutine, painter
• Clara Nathanson, sculptor. Lithuanian (Vilnius, b.1887)
• Emmanuel Lubezki, 3 time Academy Award nominee, cinematographer
• Sergio Lubezky, Latin American photographer
• Naum Aronson, sculptor. Born in Kreslavka, worked in Paris. Moved to USA.
• Massimiliano Fuksas, Italian architect
• Hermann Kallenbach, (Žemaičių Naumiestis), architektas, Gandhi draugas

Muzikantai

• Erran Baron Cohen, English-born trumpeter and composer
• Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist
• Aaron Copland, U.S. composer, original family name was Kaplan
• Dan Bern, American folk singer, poet, painter
• Jascha Heifetz, acclaimed 20th century violinist born in Vilnius
• Al Jolson, singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer
• Pink (Alecia Moore), U.S. musician, mother is of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry
• Paul Zukofsky, violinist and conductor from New York.
• Bob Dylan, U.S. singer-songwriter, author, musician and poet (original name was Robert Allen Zimmerman)
• Brian Epstein, The Beatles Manager
• Philip Glass, U.S. minimalist composer
• Leopold Godowsky, composer and pianist
• Itamar Golan, pianist
• Karnofsky family (Vilkija, New Orleans)(Louis Armstrong)
• Moshe/Michael Tchaban, Lithuanian born singer-songwriter
• Lauren Grant, modern dancer, Mark Morris Dance Group. Maternal grandfather from Lithuania, circa 1900.
• Modest Altschuler, cellist, orchestral conductor and composer
• Irving Berlin, American composer
• Arkadi Duchin, Israeli singer-songwriter and musical producer
• Mark Fradkin, Soviet composer

Mokslininkai

• Sydney Brenner, biochemist, Nobel laureate 2002
• Harry Dexter White, economist
• Lewis Wolpert, South African born geneticist
• George Marcus, anthropologist
• Gideon Mer, Israeli scientist who worked on malaria research
• Aaron Klug, biophysicist, Nobel laureate 1982.
• Zhores Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2000), born in Viciebsk (Jewish mother)
• Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist
• Lev Vygotsky, (Orsha, Gomel, psychologist
• Seymour Lubetzky, cataloging theorist
• Semyon Kosberg, Soviet aircraft and rocket engineer, born in Słucak
• Lera Boroditsky, Cognitive psychologist
• Noam Chomsky, linguist
• Paul Krugman, economist
• Paul B. Sigler, biochemist, parents from Minsk

Matematikai

• Naum Akhiezer, mathematician, born in Čerykaŭ
• Issai Schur, German-Israeli mathematician, born in Mahiloŭ
• Oscar Zariski, Belarusian mathematician
• Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician, regarded as the founded of fractal geometry
• Hermann Minkowski, mathematician (born in Kaunas)

Istorikai

• Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian
• Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar
• Avraham Harkavi, historian
• S. Ansky, a scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs, born in Chashniki

Artistai

• Kirk Douglas
• Michael Douglas
• Harrison Ford, American film actor and producer
• Woody Allen (Panevėžys)
• Louis B. Mayer (Demre, tarp Minsko ir Vilniaus)
• Moe Howard (born Harry Moses Horwitz), Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz) and Curly Howard (born Jerome Lester Horwitz) of the Three Stooges, a U.S. comedy trio
• Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Hesselberg), American actor
• Laurence Harvey, British actor
• Peggy Lipton, U.S. actress
• Walter Matthau, U.S. actor
• John Stewart, U.S. TV comedian
• David Suchet, famous English actor
• Mary Louise Weller, U.S. actress and model
• Maury Povich, U.S. talk-show host
• Fanny Mikey, Colombian theatre impresario, daughter of a Lithuanian immigrant to Argentina
• Sacha Baron Cohen, English-born entertainer
• Larry King, of Belarusian-Jewish parents

Rašytojai

• Jillian Becker, South African writer
• Yaffa Eliach, Author (wrote Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust)
• Esther Hautzig, award-winning writer
• Alexander Ziskind Maimon, author and scholar
• Jerome David Salinger, writer
• Romain Gary, French writer
• Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize for literature
• Joseph Klausner, scholar of modern Hebrew literature and former Israeli presidential candidate
• Seymour Hersh, American journalist
• Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist and journalist
• Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, author and Jewish folklorist who under the pseudonym, S. Ansky wrote the play, The Dybbuk
• Isaac Dov Berkowitz, Israeli writer
• Źmitrok Biadula, Belarusian poet
• Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
• Leon Kobrin
• Lazar Lagin
• Ayn Rand, father born in Brest-Litovsk
• David Pinski, American and Israeli writer, born in Mahiliou
• Ryhor Reles
• Mendele Mocher Sforim, writer
• Carlos Sherman, Belarusian-Uruguayan writer and translator (Jewish father)
• Immanuel Velikovsky, cosmology writer
• Celia Dropkin, American poet (Yiddish)
• Samuel Ornitz, American novelist and screenwriter
• Eugene Lyons
• Andrew Patner, of Belarusian-Jewish grandparents

Sportininkai

• Senda Berenson Abbott

Kariai

• Lietuvos žydai partizanai Vilniuje ir Kaune

Komunistai

• LKP veikėjai
• saugumiečiai

Nusikaltėliai

• Meyer Lansky, Maier Suchowljansky, Gardinas
• Boris Mikhailovich Nayfeld, Gomel

Dvasininkai

• Vilna Gaon, preeminent religious leader and Talmudist
• Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky

Mąstytojai

• Aron Gurwitsch, philosopher in the field of phenomenology
• Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher

Kiti

• L.L. Zamenhof, founder of the Esperanto language