Notable Residents
- Gotthard Kettler (1517–1587), last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia
- Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), rabbi
- the Rogatchover Gaon (1858–1936), rabbi
- Abraham Isaac Kook (1864–1935), rabbi, thinker, diplomat, mediator, scholar
- Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879–1953), composer and conductor
- Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888–1957), writer, politician, co-founder of the Freeland League
- Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), actor and director
- Oskar Strok (1892–1976), composer
- Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936), writer
- Stanisław Swianiewicz (1899–1997), economist and historian
- Mark Rothko (1903–1970), abstract expressionist painter
- Władysław Raginis (1908–1939), officer
- Movsas Feigins (or Movša Feigins)(1908–1950), chess master
- Isser Harel (born Isser Halperin) (c.1912–2003)
- Grigory Nemtsov (1948–2010), Latvian journalist, businessman and politician
- Uljana Semjonova (born 1952), basketball player
- Vitas (born 1979), singer, songwriter, composer, actor and fashion designer
- Artjoms Rudņevs (born 1988), footballer
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