Kazys (shortened from
Kazimieras Kazimieras is a Lithuanian form of the masculine name Casimir. Its female form is Kazimiera. Its diminutive forms are Kazys and Kaziukas.
Notable people with this name include:
*Eugenijus Kazimieras Jovaiša (born 1940), Lithuanian painter
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) is a
Lithuanian masculine
given name
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and may refer to:
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Kazys Abromavičius (born 1928), Lithuanian painter
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Kazys Almenas
Kazys Almenas (11 April 1935 – 7 October 2017) was a Lithuanian physicist, writer, essayist, and publisher.
Biography
Kazys Almenas was born in Gruzdžiai, Šiauliai County, Lithuania. He attended the University of Nebraska and Northwestern U ...
(born 1935), Lithuanian physicist, writer, essayist, and publisher
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Kazys Binkis
Kazys Binkis (16 November 1893 – 27 April 1942) was a Lithuanian poet, journalist, and playwright.
Biography
Kazys Binkis was born on 16 November 1893 in the village of Gudeliai in Biržai District Municipality. He attended primary school at ...
(1893–1942), Lithuanian poet, journalist, and playwright
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Kazys Bizauskas
Kazys Bizauskas (14 February 1893,https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=35532&p_k=1&p_t=168619 Pāvilosta, Courland Governorate – 26 June 1941) was a Lithuanian statesman, diplomat, author, and one of the twenty signatories of the Act of ...
(born 1893), Lithuanian statesman, diplomat, author, and one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania
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Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta (6 January 1905, in Kūlokai, near Marijampolė – 9 March 1965, in Vilnius
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(1905–1965), Lithuanian writer and poet
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Kazys Bradūnas
Kazys Bradūnas (11 February 1917 – 9 February 2009) was a Lithuanian émigré poet and editor. He was born in Kiršai, in the Lithuania District of Ober Ost, a territory occupied by the German Empire.
He graduated from Vilnius University ...
(1917–2009), Lithuanian émigré poet and editor
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Kazys Grinius
Kazys Grinius (, 17 December 18664 June 1950) was the third President of Lithuania, and held that office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926. Previously, he had served as the fifth Prime Minister of Lithuania, from 19 June 1920 until his resignat ...
(1866–1950) third President of Lithuania, 1926 to 1926
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Kazys Ladiga
Kazys Ladiga (25 December 1893 in Iškonys near Biržai – 19 December 1941 in Irkutsk) was a Lithuanian general and one of the first volunteer officers of the Lithuanian army.
Upon graduating from the Military Academy in Vilnius, Ladiga served ...
(1893–1941), Lithuanian General
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Kazys Lozoraitis
Kazys Lozoraitis (23 July 1929 in Berlin – 13 August 2007 in Rome) was a prominent Lithuanian diplomat and cultural activist. He was the first ambassador of Lithuania to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Biography
Kaz ...
(1929–2007), prominent Lithuanian diplomat and cultural activist
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Kazys Petkevičius Kazys (shortened from Kazimieras) is a Lithuanian masculine given name and may refer to:
* Kazys Abromavičius (born 1928), Lithuanian painter
* Kazys Almenas (born 1935), Lithuanian physicist, writer, essayist, and publisher
*Kazys Binkis (1893 ...
(1926–2008), Lithuanian basketball player
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Kazys Šimonis
Kazys Šimonis (25 August 1887 – 5 July 1978) was a famous Lithuanian painter.
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Biography
Kazys Šimonis was born on August 25, 1887 in , near Kupiškis, northern Lithuania. He studied organ, was also interested in history and eth ...
(1887–1978), Lithuanian painter
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Kazys Škirpa
Kazys Škirpa (18 February 1895 – 18 August 1979) was a Lithuanian military officer and diplomat. He is best known as the founder of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and his involvement in the attempt to establish Lithuanian independen ...
(born 1895), Lithuanian military officer and diplomat
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Kazys Tallat-Kelpša
Kazys Tallat-Kelpša (28 October 1893 – 22 February 1968) was a Lithuanian brigadier general, lecturer of the War School of Kaunas and Higher Officers' Courses, Chief of Cavalry of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Personal life
Kelpša had sis ...
(1893–1968), Lithuanian military officer
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Kazys Varnelis (artist)
Kazys Varnelis (February 25, 1917 in Alsėdžiai – October 29, 2010 in Vilnius) was an abstract painter from Lithuania. He lived and worked in the United States of America for fifty years, between 1949 and 1998. His distinctive painting style d ...
(1917–2010), abstract painter from Lithuania
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Kazys Varnelis (historian)
Kazys Varnelis (born 1967) is an American historian and theorist of architecture, specialising in network culture. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation ...
(born 1967), historian and theorist of architecture and network culture
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Lithuanian masculine given names