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Dick Butkus

Dick Butkus

The youngest of eight children, Lithuanian American Richard Marvin “Dick” Butkus grew up in the Roseland area of Chicago’s south...

Ruta Lee

Ruta Lee

Ruta Lee (Ruta Mary Kilmonis) has had and still has an illustrious stage, screen, and television career. This Canadian born actress,...

Johnny Unitas

Johnny Unitas

John Constantine Unitas (Jonaitis) was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1933. Johnny Unitas, or “Johnny...

Jack Benny

Jack Benny

Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky on February 14, 1894, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in neighboring Waukeegan, Illinois....

Iveta Lukosiute

Iveta Lukosiute

  Iveta Lukosiute was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and moved to the U.S. in 1997. She has been dancing since she...

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson, born Charles Dennis Buchinsky (or Buchinskas) in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Mountain Coal region north of Johnstown....

Sen. Dick Durbin

Sen. Dick Durbin

Durbin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to an Irish-American father, William Durbin, and a Lithuanian-born mother, Ann Kutkin...

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Robert Allen Zimmerman was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. His paternal grandparents,...

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

John Gielgud was born in South Kensington in London to Kate Terry and Frank Gielgud. Gielgud’s father, Franciszek Giełgud, born...

Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was a Lithuanian-American archeologist, who had worked at Harvard and UCLA Universities. She was known for her...

Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of Jewish immigrants who lived in the Maxwell Street neighborhood....

Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas

Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas

Dr. Birute Galdikas is a scientist, conservationist, and educator. For four decades, Dr. Galdikas has studied and worked closely with...

Vytas Gerulaitis

Vytas Gerulaitis

Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis (July 26, 1954 – September 17, 1994) was born on July 26, 1954, in Brooklyn, NY, to...

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis is an American film director, producer and Screenwriter. Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Lithuanian...

 Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

Heifetz was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania. His Father, Reuven Heifetz, was a local violin teacher and...

THE 3 STOOGES

THE 3 STOOGES

The Three Stooges, for decades, the most popular slapstick comedy team in America, all hail from Jewish-Lithuanian ancestry....

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Lithuanian born, Zydrunas Ilgauskas is now a former professional basketball center who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat...

Ann Jillian

Ann Jillian

Ann Jillian was born Ann Jura Nauseda in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1950. She was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents and...

Al Jolson

Al Jolson

Al Jolson was born as Asa Yoelson in what was then the village of Srednik, now known as Seredžius, in...

Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis, son of John Kiedis, known professionally as Blackie Dammett, and grandson of Antanas Kiedis (1878–1949) and grandmother Julija...

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Jack Benny

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Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky on February 14, 1894, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in neighboring Waukeegan, Illinois. He was the son of Meyer Kubelsky and Emma Sachs Kubelsky. Meyer was a Jewish saloon owner, later to become a haberdasher, who had emigrated to America from Poland. Emma had emigrated from Lithuania. Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny played the role of the comic penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly.

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