Vilnius

Vilnius (Belarusian ??????, {{P-L}} ', Russian ???????, formerly ??????, German Wilna; see also cities' alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of over 540,000 in 2003. It is the capital of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the county seat of Vilnius County.

Famous Vilnians

• Micha? Andriolli (1836?1893), painter
• Teodor Bujnicki (1907?1944), poet
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560?1621), politician and hetman
• Icchak Cukierman (1915?1981), one of the leaders of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Elijah ben Solomon Gaon mi Vilna (1720?1797), Jewish scholar and Kabbalist
• Antoni Gorecki (1787?1861), writer
• Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), violinist
• Stanis?aw Jasiukiewicz (1921?1973), actor
• Mieczys?aw Kar?owicz (1876?1909), composer
• Kazimierz Kontrym (1776?1836), writer and politician
• Czes?aw Mi?osz (1911?2004), poet, Nobel prize in Literature
• Maurycy Orgelbrand (1826?1904) and Samuel Orgelbrand (1810?1868)
• Bohdan Paczy?ski (1940?), astronomer
• Jerzy Passendorfer (1923?2003), film director
• Art?ras Paulauskas (b. 1953), speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas
• Emilia Plater (1806?1831), revolutionary and hero
• Kazimierz Plater (1915?2004), chess master
• Ada Rusowicz (1944?1991), singer
• Boles?aw Bohusz-Siestrze?cewicz (1869?1940), general
• Piotr Skarga (1536?1612), theologist, writer and the first rector of the Wilno Academy
• Irena S?awi?ska (1913?2004), historian and theatrologist
• J?drzej ?niadecki (1768?1838), chemician, biologist and philosopher
• Józef ?wi?torzecki (1876?1936), general
• W?adys?aw Syrokomla (1823?1862), poet, writer and translator
• Zygmunt Vogel (1764?1826), painter
• Antoni Wiwulski (1877?1919), sculptor and architect
• Tomasz Zan (1796?1855), Polish poet