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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil Kane | Gil Kane | 1926 | 2000 | Latvian | comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Kane |
| Egils Levits | Egils Levits | 1955 | n/a | Latvian | politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who has served as the tenth President of Latvia since 8 July 2019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egils_Levits |
| Aron Nimzowitsch | Aron Nimzowitsch | 1886 | 1935 | Latvian | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch |
| Gidon Kremer | Gidon Kremer | 1947 | n/a | Latvian | classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidon_Kremer |
| Mariss Jansons | Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons | 1943 | 2019 | Latvian | conductor best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariss_Jansons |
| DJ Lethal | Leor Dimant | 1972 | n/a | Latvian | turntablist and producer and is best known as a member of the groups House of Pain and Limp Bizkit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Lethal |
| Tatjana Ždanoka | Tatjana Ždanoka | null | null | Latvian | politician and a Member of the European Parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatjana_Ždanoka |
| Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics | Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics | none | 1925 | Latvian | politician and diplomat who served as the first Foreign Minister of Latvia from its independence until 1924 and again from December of the same year until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigfrīds_Anna_Meierovics |
| Morris Halle | Morris Halle | 1923 | 2018 | Latvian | Jewish linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Halle |
| Max Raskin | Max Raskin | 1902 | 1984 | Latvian | immigrant, lawyer, and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Raskin |
| Mikhail Alexandrovich | Mikhail Davidovich Alexandrovich | 1914 | 2002 | Latvian | Jewish tenor, and cantor, internationally acclaimed as a fine performer of classical and popular repertoire in several languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Alexandrovich |
| Natasha Shneider | Natasha Shneider | 1956 | 2008 | Latvian | musician and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Shneider |
| Sara Braun | Sara Braun | 1862 | 1955 | Latvian | businesswoman who became one of the principal employers in Patagonia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Braun |
| Lipman Bers | Lipman "Lipa" Bers | 1914 | 1993 | Latvian | mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipman_Bers |
| David P. Boder | David Pablo Boder | 1886 | 1961 | Latvian | professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology who traveled in 1946 to Europe to record interviews with Holocaust survivors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Boder |
| Hyman Bloom | Hyman Bloom | 1913 | 2009 | Latvian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Bloom |
| Frida Michelson | Frida Michelson | 1906 | 1982 | Latvian | Jew and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Michelson |
| Lazar Bach | Lazar Bach | 1906 | 1941 | Latvian | communist activist, most notable for his time as chair of the Communist Party of South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Bach |
| Daniel Fridman | Daniel Fridman | 1976 | n/a | Latvian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Fridman |
| Hermanis Matisons | Hermanis Matisons | 1894 | 1932 | Latvian | chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermanis_Matisons |
| Movsas Feigins | Movsas Feigins or Movša Feigin | 1908 | 1950 | Latvian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movsas_Feigins |
| Alexander Koblencs | Alexander Koblencs | 1916 | 1993 | Latvian | chess master, trainer, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Koblencs |
| Oscar Rabin | Oscar Rabin | 1899 | 1958 | Latvian | bandleader and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Rabin |
| Leo Michelson | Leo Michelson | 1887 | 1978 | Latvian | artist considered part of the École de Paris, although his works span many periods and styles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Michelson |
| Eliezer Halfin | Eliezer Halfin | 1948 | 1972 | Latvian | wrestler with the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Halfin |
| Boris Tsilevitch | Boris Leonidovich Tsilevitch | 1956 | n/a | Latvian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Tsilevitch |
| Edward Anders | Edward Anders | 1926 | n/a | Latvian | chemist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Anders |
| Mordechai Nurock | Mordechai Nurock | 1879 | 1962 | Latvian | who served in both the parliaments of Latvia and Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Nurock |
| Ārons Bogoļubovs | Ārons Bogoļubovs | 1938 | n/a | Latvian | judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ārons_Bogoļubovs |
| Yakov Pliner | Yakov Gdalyevich Pliner | 1946 | n/a | Latvian | politician of Jewish origin and MP of the 7th, 8th and 9th convocations for the union For Human Rights in United Latvia (ForHRUL) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Pliner |
| Ruta Šaca-Marjaša | Ruta Šaca-MarjašaRuta Marjaša website, gramata21.lv; accessed 1 December 2016. | 1927 | 2016 | Latvian | Jewish lawyer, writer, poet, and politician, a former Deputy of the Latvian Parliament of 5th (1995) and 6th (1998) convocations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruta_Šaca-Marjaša |
| Iļja Vestermans | Iļja Vestermans | 1915 | 2005 | Latvian | football forward of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iļja_Vestermans |
| Alexander Mirsky | Alexander Tomasovich Mirsky | 1964 | n/a | Latvian | politician of Russian and Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mirsky |
| Sarah Feigin | Sarah Feigin | 1928 | 2011 | Latvian | music educator and composer who lived and worked in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Feigin |
| Shoshana Rudiakov | Shoshana Rudiakov | 1948 | 2012 | Latvian | pianist and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Rudiakov |
| Vladimir Linderman | Vladimir Ilyich Linderman | null | null | Latvian | publicist, political dissident of Jewish origin, and a member of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party since 1997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Linderman |
| Valērijs Kargins | Valērijs Mihailovičs Kargins | 1961 | n/a | Latvian | economist and banker was the president of Parex Banka, from 1998 to 2008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valērijs_Kargins |
| Max Lazerson | Maksis "Max" Lazerson | 1887 | n/a | Latvian | politician, jurist and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Lazerson |
| Marģers Vestermanis | Marģers Vestermanis | 1925 | n/a | Latvian | Holocaust survivor, historian, founder and former director of the museum "Jews in Latvia" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marģers_Vestermanis |
| Isidor Levin | Isidor Levin | 1919 | 2018 | Latvian | Jewish-born Soviet/Estonian folklorist, narrative researcher, theologian, and Professor Emeritus at the St. Petersburg Institute of Religion and Philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Levin |
| David Meyerowitz | David Meyerowitz | 1867 | 1943 | Latvian | composer active in the early Yiddish theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Meyerowitz |
| Paul Olberg | Paul Olberg | 1878 | 1960 | Latvian | journalist and a Menshevik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Olberg |
| Himelhoch's | Himelhoch's | null | null | Latvian | Jewish emigrant from Courland, part of the Russian Empire that is now Latvia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himelhoch's |
| Simon E. Jacobsohn | Simon E. Jacobsohn | 1839 | 1902 | Latvian | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_E._Jacobsohn |
| Joel Veinberg | Joel Veinberg | null | null | Latvian | orientalist and historian of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veinberg |
| Ruvins Vitenbergs | Ruvins Vitenbergs | 1868 | 1931 | Latvian | merchant and politician of a Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruvins_Vitenbergs |