FAMOUS LATVIANS
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We are always on the look out for more famous Latvians, and if you know of any more, please e-mail them to us.
Charles Bronson
Gun toting Hollywood Star of "The Magnificent Seven", "Death Wish" and many others.
Originally born as a Buchinski, but later americanised to Charles Bronson, to Latvian/Lithuanian parents in Pennsylvania.

 

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ballet dancer from Riga. Famously defected from the USSR in 1974 during the Kirov's tour of Canada. Nowadays Mikhail Baryshnikov is equally as well known as Carrie's love interest in "Sex and the City"
Crocodile Dundee

Arvids Blumenthal was the real life inspiration and prototype for the Paul Hogan's Crocodile Dundee character.

Born in Dundaga in western Latvia, before moving to Australia.

 

Goldfinger
As arch enemy of James Bond and the British Secret Service, Auric Goldfinger, also had a respectable day job as a gold merchant from Riga.

(o.k. so he's fictional!)
Fred Savage

As Kevin, Fred Savage was the child star of "The Wonder Years", a US sitcom showing the trials and tribulations of a young lad growing up in the 60's.

Not done much since