54.6872° N, 25.2800° E

VILNIUS

Most Famous People Born in Vilnius, Lithuania

Notable people

881

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1953

Most distinctive

Rabbi 13.2×

For four hundred years Vilnius was the Jerusalem of the North, seat of the Vilna Gaon and one of the densest Talmudic cities on earth. The Rabbi bench runs at better than thirteen times the baseline — the ghost of that lost yeshiva world — while a Basket cluster and a Chess count not far behind reflect the postwar reinvention around the Žalgiris sports complex, a Baltic capital of six hundred thousand punching far above its weight on both hardwood and board.