Žilinskas
Appearance
Žilinskas | |
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Lithuanian surname | |
m.: | Žilinskas |
f.: (unmarried) | Žilinskaitė |
f.: (married) | Žilinskienė |
Origin | Lithuanized Slavic surname derived from the city Žilina |
Related names | Żieliński, Żyliński, Жилинскiй |
Žilinskas is the masculine form of a Lithuanian family name. Its feminine forms are: Žilinskienė (married woman or widow) and Žilinskaitė (unmarried woman). It is a Lithuanized form of the Polish-language surname Żyliński. Another Lithuanization is Žilinskis. "Žilinskaitė" may be transliterated via Russian language as Zhilinskayte.
Notable people with this surname include:
- Egidijus Žilinskas (born 1986), Lithuanian judoka
- Andrius Oleka-Žilinskas (1893–1948), Lithuanian actor, former director of Kaunas State Drama Theatre
- Annette Zilinskas (born 1962), American musician
- Jurga Žilinskienė MBE, (born 1976), British Lithuanian entrepreneur
- Nelė Žilinskienė (born 1969), Lithuanian high jumper
- Rokas Žilinskas (1972–2017), Lithuanian journalist and politician
- Victoria Zhilinskayte (born 1989), Russian handball player
- Vytautė Žilinskaitė (born 1930), Lithuanian writer
- Yana Zhilinskayte (born 1989), Russian handball player