The following is a list of notable people from Kaunas, Lithuania. * Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania * Aharon Amir, Israeli Hebrew poet, translator, and writer * 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