FAMOUS LITHUANIANS

There are a few household names in here, although admittedly, some of them are a generation removed...

Gun toting Hollywood Star - think "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape" & "Death Wish".
Originally born as a Buchinski, but later americanised Charles Bronson was born in Pennsylvania to Latvian /Lithuanian parents..

American owner of Man Utd. for a mere $1.5 billion of debt.

Malcolm Glazer's Lithuanian father deserted the Red Army and fled to the States..

Famous cheesecake maker and founder of the US corporate giant. Company was founded by Sara Lee's Lithuanian father, Charlie Lubin,who named the company after his beautiful daughter.

Soviet submarine captain, Ronas Plesys, made famous in Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October.
Based on a real incident when the Storozhovoy frigate attempted to defect from Latvia to Sweden in 1975.

Monica Lewinsky, America's most famous intern!
Now back to the books and currently studying at the London School of Economics.

Larger than life comedian, poet punk and regular on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks".
Phill Jupitus' great grandparents left Lithuania in 1917. Their surname was later anglicised to "Jupitus" by an immigration official.

Juozas Montvila was the Lithuanian priest who comforted the doomed passengers as the ship went down.  As a priest, he was offered a place on one of the liferafts, but gave it up to a father of a large family.

Brian Epstein is famous around the world as the man who created and managed the Beatles. 

His grandfather emigrated from Lithuania.

The World's most famous Pole, Pope John Paul II, actually had a Lithuanian mother:  for many centuries Poland & Lithuania had been part of a Commonwealth, so it was in effect the same country

World's most famous singing minstrel.

Al Jolson was Born in Srednik in 1885 and ran away to the States when he was 10.

Late Canadian actor and all round funnyman. Think "Uncle Buck", "Home Alone", "Splash".
John Candy's mother was Lithuanian