List of Famous people born in Panevėžys County, Lithuania

Modesta Vžesniauskaitė

First Name Modesta
Born on October 17, 1983 (age 40)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Modesta Vžesniauskaitė is a female road racing cyclist from Lithuania, who represented her nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the women's road race, and completed the run in twenty-seventh place, with a time of 3:33:17.

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Joseph Harmatz

First Name Joseph
Last Name Harmatz
Born on January 23, 1925
Died on September 22, 2016 (aged 91)

Joseph Harmatz was a Lithuanian-born Jew who fought as a partisan fighter during World War II. After the war, he joined Nakam and plotted acts of revenge that were aimed at killing Nazis to avenge Jewish deaths during the Holocaust. After emigrating to Israel, he headed World ORT, a Jewish non-profit organization that promotes education and training in communities around the world.

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Antanas Impulevičius

First Name Antanas
Born on January 28, 1907
Died on December 4, 1970 (aged 63)

Antanas Impulevičius-Impulėnas was an officer of the Lithuanian Army, reaching the rank of major in 1937, and later a Nazi collaborator. After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he was arrested by NKVD. He was freed during the Uprising of June 1941. Impulevičius joined the Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft and commanded the 12th Police Battalion. His unit was sent to Belarus where it participated in mass executions of the Jews, particularly in Minsk and Kletsk. He also joined the short-lived Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. In 1944, he moved to Germany, in 1949 he relocated to the United States. In 1962, Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR sentenced him to death in absentia. After the trial, United States dismissed Soviet request to extradite him.

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Janusz Radziwiłł

First Name Janusz
Last Name Radziwiłł
Born on December 12, 1612
Died on December 31, 1655 (aged 43)

Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, also known as Janusz the Second or Janusz the Younger was a noble and magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Throughout his life he occupied a number of posts in the state administration, including that of Court Chamberlain of Lithuania, Field Hetman of Lithuania and Grand Hetman of Lithuania. He was also a voivode of Vilna Voivodeship, as well as a starost of Samogitia, Kamieniec, Kazimierz and Sejwy. He was a protector of the Protestant religion in Lithuania and sponsor of many Protestant schools and churches.

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Joe Slovo

First Name Joe
Last Name Slovo
Born on May 23, 1926
Died on January 6, 1995 (aged 68)

Joe Slovo was a South African politician, and an opponent of the apartheid system. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

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Jolanta Polikevičiūtė

First Name Jolanta
Born on September 25, 1970 (age 53)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Jolanta Polikevičiūtė is a retired female road racing cyclist from Lithuania, who competed in three Summer Olympics for her native country: 1996, 2004 and 2008. She is the twin sister of Rasa Polikevičiūtė, who also had a professional career in women's cycling.

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Rasa Polikevičiūtė

First Name Rasa
Born on September 25, 1970 (age 53)

Rasa Polikevičiūtė is a Lithuanian cycle racer. One of her Lithuanian cycling contemporaries is her identical twin, Jolanta Polikevičiūtė.

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Loreta Graužinienė

Loreta Šniokaitė
First Name Loreta
Last Name Graužinienė
Born on January 10, 1963 (age 61)

Loreta Graužinienė is a Lithuanian politician, former Speaker of the Seimas and former leader of the Lithuanian Labour party.

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Laima Zilporytė

First Name Laima
Born on April 5, 1967 (age 56)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Laima Zilporytė is a retired female cyclist, who trained at Dynamo sports society in Panevėžys and represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the bronze medal in the women's individual road race, after being defeated in the sprint by the Netherlands' Monique Knol and West Germany's Jutta Niehaus.

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Algirdas Brazauskas

First Name Algirdas
Born on September 22, 1932
Died on June 26, 2010 (aged 77)

Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the second President of a newly independent post-Soviet Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006.

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