People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Antanas Smetona Antanas Smetona Lithuania's first president who led the declaration of independence, later leader of the 1926 coup
- Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Lithuanian writer who led the “People’s Government” of 1940 and resigned after Molotov told him the Baltic states would join the USSR
- Augustinas Voldemaras Augustinas Voldemaras Lithuania's first prime minister, later leader of the far-right Iron Wolf
- Vincentas Borisevičius Vincentas Borisevičius Catholic bishop of Telšiai in Lithuania, executed in 1946 on charges that included supporting the partisans
- Antanas Merkys Antanas Merkys Last prime minister of independent Lithuania, who accepted the Soviet ultimatum of 1940, took the presidency and handed power to Paleckis
- Kazys Škirpa Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian officer and envoy in Berlin who founded the Lithuanian Activist Front behind the June Uprising of 1941
- Adolfas Ramanauskas Adolfas Ramanauskas Partisan commander “Vanagas” who led the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters from 1952, the last commander to be captured
- Algirdas Brazauskas Algirdas Brazauskas The communist who split his party from Moscow and became independent Lithuania's first president
- Vytautas Landsbergis Vytautas Landsbergis The musicologist who led the first nation out of the Soviet Union
- Romualdas Ozolas Romualdas Ozolas The Sąjūdis philosopher who launched the 2-million-signature campaign demanding Red Army withdrawal
- Kazimiera Danutė Prunskienė Kazimira Danutė Prunskienė She tried to negotiate independence through pragmatism; her resignation removed the last obstacle to the military option
- Albertas Šimėnas Albertas Šimėnas Economist-statesman of restored independence, Lithuania's shortest-serving premier
- Ainius Lasas Ainius Lašas Lithuanian political scientist of Baltic politics and international relations