Notable Residents
- Rutanya Alda, a Latvian-American actress
- Ernst von Bergmann, a Baltic German surgeon, beginner of aseptic surgery
- Sir Isaiah Berlin, a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
- Andris Biedriņš, a Latvian professional basketball player
- Gunnar Birkerts, a Latvian-American architect
- Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, an Israeli basketball player
- Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist
- Heinz Erhardt, a Baltic-German comedian, musician and entertainer
- Artur Fonvizin, a Soviet painter of watercolours
- Elīna Garanča, a Latvian operatic mezzo-soprano
- Laila Freivalds, former Swedish Minister for Justice, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister
- Philippe Halsman, an American portrait photographer
- Juris Hartmanis, a prominent Latvian-American computer scientist and computational theorist
- Nicolai Hartmann, a Baltic-German philosopher
- Miervaldis Jursevskis, a Latvian-Canadian chess master
- Lola Hoffmann, a physiologist, psychiatrist and guide to self-development and transformation
- Charles Kalme, an American International Master of chess and mathematician
- Mstislav Keldysh, a Soviet mathematician, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Gidon Kremer, a Latvian violinist and conductor
- Ivan Krylov, a Russian fabulist
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz, an Israeli public intellectual and polymath
- DJ Lethal, an American music producer
- Wilhelm Ostwald, a Baltic German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909
- Marian Pahars, a Latvian footballer
- Raimonds Pauls, a Latvian composer and piano player
- Kristjan Jaak Peterson, an Estonian poet
- Valentin Pikul, a Soviet historical novelist
- Tania Russof, an international porn star
- Mikhail Tal, a Soviet-Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion
- Juris Upatnieks, a Latvian-American physicist and inventor in the field of holography
- Friedrich Zander, a Baltic-German engineer, designer of the first Soviet liquid-fuelled rocket
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“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
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