The youngest of eight children, Lithuanian American Richard Marvin “Dick” Butkus grew up in the Roseland area of Chicago’s south...
Ruta Lee (Ruta Mary Kilmonis) has had and still has an
illustrious stage, screen, and television career. This
Canadian born actress,...
John Constantine Unitas (Jonaitis) was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1933. Johnny Unitas, or “Johnny...
Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky on February 14, 1894, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in neighboring Waukeegan, Illinois....
Iveta Lukosiute was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and moved to the U.S. in 1997. She has been dancing since she...
Charles Bronson, born Charles Dennis Buchinsky (or Buchinskas) in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Mountain Coal region north of Johnstown....
Durbin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to an Irish-American father, William Durbin, and a Lithuanian-born mother, Ann Kutkin...
Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. His paternal grandparents,...
John Gielgud was born in South Kensington in London to Kate Terry and Frank Gielgud. Gielgud’s father, Franciszek Giełgud, born...
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was a Lithuanian-American archeologist, who had worked at Harvard and UCLA Universities. She was known for her...
Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of Jewish immigrants who lived in the Maxwell Street neighborhood....
Dr. Birute Galdikas is a scientist, conservationist, and educator. For four decades, Dr. Galdikas has studied and worked closely with...
Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis (July 26, 1954 – September 17, 1994) was born on July 26, 1954, in Brooklyn, NY, to...
Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer and Screenwriter. Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Lithuanian...
Heifetz was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania. His Father, Reuven Heifetz, was a local violin teacher and...
The Three Stooges, for decades, the most popular slapstick comedy team in America, all hail from Jewish-Lithuanian ancestry....
Lithuanian born, Zydrunas Ilgauskas is now a former professional basketball center who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat...
Ann Jillian was born Ann Jura Nauseda in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950. She was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents and...
Al Jolson was born as Asa Yoelson in what was then the village of Srednik, now known as Seredžius, in...
Anthony Kiedis, son of John Kiedis, known professionally as Blackie Dammett, and grandson of Antanas Kiedis (1878–1949) and grandmother Julija...