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unusual facts about Latvian people



Aleksandrs Viļumanis

Aleksandrs Viļumanis (30 August 1942, Preiļi, Reichskommissariat Ostland) is a Latvian conductor.

Boļeslavs Maikovskis

Boļeslavs Maikovskis (21 January 1904 – 19 April 1996) was a Latvian Nazi collaborator who served as chief of police for the second precinct of Rēzekne while the Germans occupied Latvia in World War II.

Marcelo Tulbovitz

Marcelo Tulbovitz Dembovich was born August 12, 1961 in Montevideo, Uruguay to parents of Latvian and Polish ancestry.

Margarita Starkevičiūtė

Born in Siberia, Russia where her parents, both teachers, were residing in exile together with hundreds of other Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.

Neringa municipality

Already in 1569 a "confusion of languages" was noticed: German, Lithuanian, Latvian-Curonian (Nehrungs-Kurisch) and Prussian.

Richard Baumhammers

Richard Baumhammers was born in Pittsburgh to Andrejs and Inese Baumhammers, both Lutheran Latvian immigrants who fled the Soviet occupation of their homeland.

Rihards Zariņš

Rihards Zariņš (also Richards Zarriņš or Richard Sarrinsch in German speaking countries; Kocēni, June 27, 1869 – Riga, April 21, 1939) was a prominent Latvian graphic artist.


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Brūno Kalniņš

Kalniņš returned to Latvia in 1940 following the Soviet occupation, initially serving as a political officer of the "Latvian People's Army" in the run-up to the armed forces' full incorporation into the Red Army.