- Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
- Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman aka 'Red Emma', was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman.
- Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994) a Lithuanian-American archeologist, researched the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", a term she introduced. Her works published between 1946 and 1971 introduced new views by combining traditional spadework with linguistics and mythological interpretation.
- George Maciunas
George Maciunas was a Lithuanian artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Maciunas is generally credited with having invented the name "Fluxus." George Maciunas (pronounced "machunas") was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, to a Lithuanian father and Russian mother. As a young man, he moved to the United States where he studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
- John Shimkus
John Mondy Shimkus (born February 21 1958), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing (map). He was born in Collinsville, Illinois. Shimkus earned his bachelor's degree at West Point Military Academy. Shimkus then attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and received a Master's of Business Administration.
- Richard Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbin, (born November 21 1944) is currently the senior United States Senator from Illinois and Democratic Whip, the second highest position in the party leadership in the Senate. He became Majority Whip of the US Senate when the 110th Congress convened on January 4, 2007.
- Steponas Darius
Steponas Darius (born Steponas Darašius; January 8, 1896 in Rubiškė, now Klaipėda district of Lithuania - July 17, 1933 near Soldin, Germany) was a Lithuanian-American pilot. Born in Rubiškė, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire, Darašius emigrated to the USA with his family in 1907. In 1917 he joined the United States Army, after the United States entered World War I, and changed his name to Darius.
- Saul Anuzis
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis (b. March 6, 1959) is an American Politician from the U.S. State of Michigan and is the current Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
- Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000.
- Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist, muralist, social activist, photographer and teacher. He is best known for his works of Social realism, his leftist political views, and his series of lectures published as "The Shape of Content". He was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, to Joshua Hessel and Gittel (Lieberman) Shahn. His father was exiled to Siberia for alleged revolutionary activities in 1902, at which point Shahn, …
- Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian scholar, poet, author and translator of literature. Tomas Venclova is son of poet and Soviet politician Antanas Venclova. He was educated at the Vilnius University. As an active participant in the dissident movement he was deprived of Soviet citizenship in 1977 and had to emigrate. He is one of the founders of Lithuanian Helsinki Watch group (December 1, 1976).
- Johnny Unitas
John Constantine "Johnny" Unitas (May 7, 1933 - September 11, 2002) was a professional American football player in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He was the National Football League's most valuable player in 1959, 1964 and 1967.
- Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he prefers the term "theater music". He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (apart from precursors such as Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein), …
- Vytautas Kavolis
Vytautas Kavolis (b. 1930 in Kaunas - d. 1996 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian-American sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian.
- Algis Budrys
Algis Budrys (born January 9 1931) is an American science fiction author.
- Juozas Kazickas
Dr. Juozas Petras Kazickas in the family of the 1863 Uprising refugees. He is Lithuanian-American businessman, a self-made multi-millionaire and philanthropist. Juozas Kazickas graduated from Vilnius University in 1942 receiving degree in economics. In 1951 Kazickas received Doctor’s degree at Yale University, USA. He is the Doctor of Honour of Kaunas University of Technology. After the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, with a help from Juozas Kazickas, …
- George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. He is best known for his Dead Series, a tetralogy of horror movies (with a fifth installment in production as of October 2006) featuring a zombie apocalypse theme and a commentary on modern society.
- Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus (born December 9, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football player and actor. Butkus starred as a football player for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears. He was best known for his punishing tackles. Terry Bradshaw once claimed Butkus to be "a killer on the field, but an angel sent by God from heaven above off the field".
- Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962) is the lead singer and a co-founder of the Grammy award winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He is also responsible for writing most of the band's vocal melodies and lyrics. Though his style was originally a rap/rock fusion, over time Kiedis developed his singing voice.
- Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the vocalist and keyboardist in the American synth rock band The Killers.
- Joe Jurevicius
Joseph Michael Jurevicius (born December 23, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL. He was originally drafted in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the New York Giants out of Pennsylvania State University. He has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks.
- Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American movie director, producer and writer. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the eighties as the director of "intricate cinematic jungle gyms" like "Back to the Future" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", though he has since diversified into more dramatic fare, including "Forrest Gump", for which he won an Oscar.
- Stasys Girėnas
Stasys Girėnas (born Stasys Girskis; October 4, 1893 in Vytogala, Lithuania - July 17, 1933 in Pszczelnik near Soldin, Germany) was a Lithuanian-American pilot. Born in Vytogala, in the Raseiniai District, he emigrated to the USA in 1910. As a young man he worked in printing house. He joined the United States Army in 1917, during World War I, where he was trained to become a mechanic.
- Frank Lubin
Frank John Lubin (Lithuanian: Pranas Lubinas; 1910 January 7 - 1999 July 8) was an American basketball player. Lubin was born in East side of Los Angeles, California to a family of Lithuanian immigrants. He studied at the UCLA then played in AAU tournaments for about 30 years. In 1997 he entered the UCLA Hall of Fame. Lubin became an Olympic champion with the US team in 1936 in Berlin, and a European champion with the Lithuanian team in 1939 in Kaunas.
- Vitas Gerulaitis
Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis was a professional tennis player from the United States. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the Australian Open in 1977.
- Louis Vezelis
Louis Vezelis, OFM (born 1930) is a Franciscan bishop and a Traditional Catholic.
- John C. Reilly
John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
- Ann Jillian
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress born to Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant parents. Jillian has been acting since 1961 when she played "Little Bo Peep" in the Disney film, "Babes In Toyland". She appeared in the Rosalind Russell- Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of "Gypsy". She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom "Hazel", …
- Joanne Akalaitis
JoAnne Akalaitis is a Lithuanian-American theatre director and a writer and the winner of five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York. In addition to the American Repertory Theater - where she directed Endgame and The Balcony - she has staged works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Schiller, Beckett, Genet, Williams, Philip Glass, Janáček, …
- Feliksas Vaitkus
Felix Waitkus (Feliksas Vaitkus) - was Lithuanian-American pilot, sixth pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. His parents came from Lithuania in 1904, and settled in the Bridgeport, Chicago, where he was born three years later. He enlisted in the army in 1928, and after graduating from advanced pilot’s training school, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Corps.
- Steve Cohen
Stephen Ira "Steve" Cohen (born May 24, 1949) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Tennessee's ninth district. Prior to his election to the House in November 2006, Cohen was a Tennessee State Senator from Memphis. He is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman.
- Genie Francis
Genie Francis (born Eugenie Ann Francis on May 26, 1962 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA) is an extremely popular and beloved actress best known as Laura Spencer on the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital", whom she played from 1976 to 2006 at various times. Her father, Ivor Francis, a Canadian actor of English descent, died in 1986 from the effects of multiple strokes. Her mother, Rosemary Daley, is a former actress/model of Lithuanian descent.
- Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, M.D. was the original developer of the defibrillator and is an internationally known peace activist. Born in Lithuania, he emigrated at age 13 with his parents to the US, initially to Maine shortly before the outbreak of World War II, and subsequently studied to become a specialist in cardiology.
- Darius Kasparaitis
Darius Kasparaitis is an ethnic Lithuanian-Russian professional ice hockey defenceman, also known by the nickname "Kaspar". He has Russian citizenship and plays for the Russian national hockey team.
- Dorothy Kazel
Dorothy Kazel was an American Roman Catholic Ursuline nun and missionary to El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, she was raped and murdered, along with fellow missionaries Ita Ford, Jean Donovan and Maura Clarke, by members of the Military of El Salvador.
- Vyt Bakaitis
Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City. His main collection of poetry is City Country (1991). His magazine, Thirst, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithuanian poetry, particularly the anthology Breathing Free and the work of Jonas Mekas, are significant. He was married to the late artist Sharon Gilbert.
- Alvin Karpis
Alvin Karpis (August 10, 1907-August 26, 1979, born Alvin Karpowicz), nickname "Creepy" , was a noted criminal in the United States known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "Public Enemy" to be taken, a capture which elevated J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to national prominence. His stay at Alcatraz, a little over 25 years, was longer than any other inmate interned there.
- Lane Bryant
Lena Himmelstein Bryant Malsin (1879? - September 26, 1951) was an American clothing designer and retailer who founded the plus-size clothing chain Lane Bryant.
- Paul Marcinkus
Paul Casimir Marcinkus (January 15, 1922 Cicero, Illinois - February 20, 2006 Sun City, Arizona) was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is best known for his controversial term as President of the Vatican Bank between 1971 and 1989.