For a small country Lithuania still has quite a list of famous people which goes from Great Vytautas, the King to current times -  Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania or Arvydas Sabonis, basketballer.To mention just few: Mikalojus Konstantinas Chiurlionis - a painter and composer was born in 1875, in Dzookija. He studied in Warsaw, in Leipzig. He learned playing piano, painting. He often visited foreign countries, meets a lot of famous people.Chiurlionis left many musical creations. He wrote chorale songs, sonatas, symphonies, creations for the piano and the organ. Chiurlionis was the man, who started writing Lithuanian symphonic music. His symphonic poems "Sea" and "Forest" are well known and liked all over the world, Chiurlionis created more than 300 pictures. The most of them are widely known. He created cycles of paintings "Funeral symphony" "Zodiac" " Fairy-tale". The most beautiful painting by Chiurlionis is "Kings." Another two man famous not only in Lithuania, I think are Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas. Both they were born in Lithuania, but migrated to The USA. They are famous, that they flied non-stop from America to Europe in June of 1933. Darius and Girenas bought aeroplane in USA. It was the most popular type of aeroplanes. Some changes were made in plane and the rebuild aeroplane was called Lituanica. Joseph Weber, Physicist: 'father" of gravity wave detection experiments at The University of Maryla Jonas Pleksys, USSR submarine captain whose ordeal was made famous in "Hunt for Red October" Mykolas Norkunas, Founder of the Knights of Lithuania Monica Lewinsky David Frank-Kameniecki Victor Brenner (Baranauskas), Designed Lincoln penny Sara Lee, Father founded current corporate giant Alexander Bruce Bialskis, 1st FBI director (1912-1919) Birute Galdikas: Orangutan specialist/write Sister Mary Veronica Klimkevicius, First woman Army nurse Civil War (1861)