Editing Liepāja (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Woldemar Kernig]] (1840–1917), Russian and German [[neurologist]];
* [[Reuven Dov Dessler]] (1863–1935), [[rabbi]];
* [[Miķelis Valters]] (1874–1968), politician, first Latvian Minister of Interior;
* [[Lina Stern]] (1878–1968), [[biochemist]];
* [[Yanka Maur]] (1883–1971), [[Belarusians|Belarusian]] writer;
* [[Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler]] (1892–1953), rabbi;
* [[Augusts Annuss]] (1893–1984), painter;
* [[Eduard Tisse]] (1897–1961), cameraman;
* [[Leon Josephson]] (1898–1966), American lawyer and Soviet spy;
* [[Jacob Klein (philosopher)|Jacob Klein]] (1899–1978), Russian-American Jewish philosopher;
* [[Herberts Cukurs]] (1900–1965), aviator and Nazi collaborator;
* [[Valdemārs Baumanis]] (1905–1992), basketball coach;
* [[Balys Dvarionas]] (1905–1972), [[Lithuanians|Lithuanian]] composer;
* [[Stanisław Jaśkiewicz]] (1907–1980), [[Polish people|Polish]] actor;
* [[Mirdza Ķempe]] (1907–1974), poet;
* [[Arvīds Jansons]] (1914–1984), conductor, father of [[Mariss Jansons]];
* [[Tālivaldis Ķeniņš]] (1919–2008), composer;<ref>[http://www.lmic.lv/core.php?pageId=722&id=3699& Tālivaldis Ķeniņš] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042033/http://www.lmic.lv/core.php?pageId=722&id=3699& |date=2016-03-05 }}, [http://www.lmic.lv/ Latvijas Mūzikas informācijas centrs].</ref>
* [[Morris Halle]] (1923–2018), [[Latvian-American]] Jewish [[linguist]];
* [[Zvi Harry Hurwitz]] (1924–2008), South African [[journalist]], [[Israelis|Israeli]] [[diplomat]] and [[adviser]] to two prime ministers
* [[Ernesto Foldats]] (1925–2003), biologist;
* [[George D. Schwab]] (born 1931), American political scientist, editor, Holocaust survivor, and academic;
* [[Kirovs Lipmans]] (born 1940), businessman;
* [[Teofils Biķis]] (1950–2000), pianist;
* [[Zigmars Liepiņš]] (born 1952), composer:
* [[Jānis Vanags]] (born 1958), Archbishop of Riga in the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia]];
* [[Laila Pakalniņa]] (born 1962), film director;
* [[Igo (singer)|Igo]] (born 1962), singer and composer;
* [[Mārtiņš Freimanis]] (born 1977—2011), musician and actor;
* [[Konstantin Konstantinovs]] (1978–2018), Latvian-Russian powerlifter;
* [[Māris Verpakovskis]] (born 1979), football player;
* [[Romāns Miloslavskis]] (born 1983), swimmer and politician;
*[[Mareks Mejeris]] (born 1991), basketball player for [[Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.|Hapoel Jerusalem]] of the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]];
* [[Anastasija Sevastova]] (1990), tennis player;
* [[Kristaps Porziņģis]] (1995), basketball player;
* [[Rūdolfs Balcers]] (1997), ice hockey player
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