List of Latvians
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This is a list of prominent Latvians with Wikipedia articles. It includes:
- persons who were born in the historical territory of what is now Latvia, regardless of ethnicity, citizenship, or time period; and
- persons of Latvian descent regardless of their place of birth or citizenship.
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- Helmuts Balderis (1952) - ice hockey player, forward
- Jānis Balodis (1881–1965) - army officer and politician
- Jānis Balodis (1950) - Latvian/Australian playwright
- Kārlis Balodis (1864-1931) - notable economist, financist, statistician and demographist
- Krišjānis Barons (1835–1923) - "the father of Latvian folk songs", who compiled and edited the first publication of Latvian folk-song texts "Latvju Dainas" (1894–1915)
- Mihails Barišņikovs (1948) - ballet-dancer
- Kārlis Baumanis (1835–1905) - composer, author of the national anthem of the Republic of Latvia "Dievs, svētī Latviju!" (God bless Latvia!)
- Vizma Belševica (1931–2005) - author, candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature
- Eduards Berklavs (1914–2004) - politician, leader of Latvian national-communists
- Krišjānis Berķis (1884–1942) - general
- Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) - philosopher
- Eduard Berzin (1894–1938) - soldier in the Red Army, later Head of Dalstroy, the Kolyma forced-labour camps in North-Eastern Siberia
- Karlis Betinš (1867–1943) - chess player
- Andris Biedriņš (1986) - basketball player, Golden State Warriors
- Gunnar Birkerts (1925) - architect
- Miervaldis Birze (1921-2000) - writer
- Ernests Blanks (1894–1972) - Latvian publicist, writer, historian, the first to publicly advocate for Latvia's independence
- Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) - writer and playwright
- Himans Blūms (1913-2009) - painter
- Ārons Bogoļubovs (b. 1938) - Olympic medalist judoka
- Baiba Broka (1973) - actress
- Inguna Butane - fashion model.
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- Sandra Kalniete (1952) - politician, diplomat, former Latvia's EU commissioner
- Bruno Kalniņš (1899–1990) - Saeima member, Red Army General
- Imants Kalniņš (1941) - composer, politician
- Oskars Kalpaks (1882–1919) - colonel, first Commander of Latvian National Armed Forces
- Kaspars Kambala (1978) - basketball player
- Renārs Kaupers (1974) - musician
- Jēkabs Ketlers (1610–1682) - Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
- Gustavs Klucis (1895–1938) - painter and graphic designer
- Aleksandrs Koblencs (1916–1993) - chess player
- Ābrams Izāks Kūks (1864–1935) - chief rabbi, Jewish thinker, statesman, diplomat, mediator and a renowned scholar
- Aleksandrs Kovaļevskis (1840–1901) - zoologist
- Gidon Kremer (1947) - violinist and conductor
- Miķelis Krogzems (1850–1879) - poet, author and translator of German poets
- Juris Kronbergs (1946) - poet, writer, free-lance journalist, translator
- Atis Kronvalds (1837–1875) - teacher and journalist, reformed the Latvian language, organized the first Latvian Song and Dance Festival
- Dainis Kūla (1959) - athlete (Olympic gold medal in javelin)
- Alberts Kviesis (1881–1944) - president
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- Artis Pabriks (1966) - Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2007)
- Karlis Padegs (1911–1940) - Graphic artist, painter
- Marian Pahars (1976) - soccer player for Southampton FC, and part of Latvia's national team
- Raimonds Pauls (1936) - popular composer, widely known in Russia
- Lucia Peka (1912–1991) - Artist of the Latvian Diaspora
- Jekabs Peters (1886–1938) - revolutionary and Soviet Cheka leader
- Brita Petersone - American model
- Kaspars Petrovs (1978) - serial killer
- Vladimirs Petrovs (1907–1943) - chess player
- Oskars Perro (1918–2003)- Latvian soldier and writer
- Andris Piebalgs (1957) - politician, diplomat, European Commissioner for Energy
- Jānis Pliekšāns, (1865–1929) - distinguished Latvian writer, author of a number of poetry collections
- Juris Podnieks (1950–1992) - film director, producer
- Nicolai Poliakovs (1900–1974) - Coco the Clown
- Sandis Prūsis (1965) - athlete, bobsleigh
- Andrejs Pumpurs (1841–1901) - poet, author of Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis
- Jānis Pujāts (1930) - Roman Catholic cardinal
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See also