Well known and/or successful Rasseiniai son's and daughters and other well known people who once called Rasseiniai home.

Science and Buisiness

Joseph Zubin       

Born:  October 1900 in Raseiniai   

Died: December 1990    

Zubin was an authority on schizophrenia who is commemorated by the Joseph Zubin Awards.    

Zubin moved to the USA in 1908 and grew up in Baltimore. He  was President of both the American Psychopathological Association (1951-2) and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (1971-2) and received numerous awards for his work   

Alexander Sachs     

Born: August 1893 in Raseiniai  

Died:  June 1973  

Sachs moved to the U.S. in 1904 to join his brother, Joseph A. Sachs, who was instrumental in his further education.  Sachs later became a banker and economist. In October 1939 he delivered the Einstein–Szilárd letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, suggesting that nuclear-fission research ought to be pursued, with a view to possibly constructing nuclear weapons, should they prove feasible, in view of the likelihood that Nazi Germany would do so. This led to the initiation of the United States' Manhattan Project.  

In 1915 returned to education as a graduate student in social sciences, philosophy and jurisprudence at Harvard College. In later life he was on the faculty at Princeton University.  

Between 1918 and 1921 he was an aide to Justice Louis Brandeis and the Zionist Organization of America on international problems of the Middle East and the World War I peace conference.  

Marx and Harry Bashew  

Born:  1876 and 1878 

Died:  1949 and 1947 

From a family of 6 children born to Tsemakh Moses Shabashevich and Rachel Leah London, the two brothers emigrated to South Africa where they founded Bashew Bros. the leading soft drink manufacturer of their time in Cape Town.  Their other siblings emigrated to the USA.