Vilnius University

Vilnius University is a public research university in Vilnius, Lithuania, the country's oldest and largest university and one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in Central and Eastern Europe.维尔纽斯大学是立陶宛首都维尔纽斯的一所公立研究型大学，为该国最古老、规模最大的大学，也是中东欧最古老的高等学府之一。

Founded in 1579 by Stephen Báthory, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and confirmed by a papal bull of Gregory XIII, it still bears its historic Latin name Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu.该校由波兰国王兼立陶宛大公斯特凡·巴托里于 1579 年创办，并经教宗额我略十三世的教谕确认，至今沿用其历史拉丁校名（Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu）。

It is placed 465th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, sits in the 801-1000 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ranks 928th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and stands in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with OpenAlex recording 44,300 works and 1,694,414 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 465，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 801 至 1000 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 928，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 401 至 500 区间；OpenAlex 统计其成果 44,300 项、累计被引 1,694,414 次。

History

• In 1569 the Lithuanian nobility asked the Jesuits to found a college of higher learning in Vilnius or Kaunas, and in 1570 Bishop Valerijonas Protasevičius bought buildings in the city centre to establish the Vilnius Jesuit College, whose library was created the same year with a gift of 2,500 books from Sigismund II Augustus.1569 年，立陶宛贵族请求耶稣会在维尔纽斯或考纳斯创办一所高等学府；1570 年，主教瓦莱里约纳斯·普罗塔塞维丘斯购下市中心的多座建筑，创办维尔纽斯耶稣会学院，其图书馆亦于同年建立，藏书始自齐格蒙特二世·奥古斯特捐赠的 2,500 册书籍。

• On 1 April 1579 King Stephen Báthory granted a charter to open the Vilnius Academy, and on 30 October Pope Gregory XIII issued a bull recognising Vilnius College as a university named Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu.1579 年 4 月 1 日，国王斯特凡·巴托里颁发特许状，准予开办维尔纽斯学院；同年 10 月 30 日，教宗额我略十三世颁布教谕，承认维尔纽斯学院升格为大学，定名（Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu）。

• The academy's first rector was Piotr Skarga, its original divisions were humanities, philosophy and theology, teaching was conducted in Latin, and by 1586 it enrolled about 700 students, roughly one third of them Lithuanians while others came from Germany, Poland, Sweden and Hungary.该学院首任院长为皮奥特·斯卡尔加，最初设人文学科、哲学与神学三个部门，以拉丁语授课；到 1586 年已招收约 700 名学生，其中约三分之一为立陶宛人，其余来自德意志、波兰、瑞典与匈牙利。

• In 1575 Duke Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł and Elżbieta Ogińska sponsored a printing house for the academy, and in 1595 it issued the Kathechismas of Mikalojus Daukša, the first surviving book in the Lithuanian language printed in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.1575 年，公爵米科瓦伊·克日什托夫·拉齐维乌与埃尔兹别塔·奥金斯卡资助学院设立印刷所；1595 年，该印刷所印行米卡洛尤斯·道克沙的《教理问答》，这是立陶宛大公国印行的首部存世立陶宛语书籍。

• For two centuries Vilnius University stood as the easternmost university in Europe, and in 1753 Tomasz Żebrowski founded at the university the first astronomical observatory in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the fourth professional facility of its kind in Europe.在两个世纪里，维尔纽斯大学一直是欧洲最东端的大学；1753 年，托马什·热布罗夫斯基在校内建立波兰立陶宛联邦第一座天文台，也是欧洲第四座此类专业设施。

• After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 the state took over the university, and the Commission of National Education, described as the world's first ministry of education, transformed it into a modern secular university and replaced Latin with Polish as the language of instruction.1773 年耶稣会解散后，国家接管该校，被誉为世界首个教育部的国民教育委员会将其改造为现代世俗大学，并把授课语言由拉丁语改为波兰语。

• In 1781 the institution was renamed the Principal School of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in Latin Schola Princeps Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae, and after the last partition of the Polish-Lithuanian state in 1795 it continued as the Vilnius Principal School, Schola Princeps Vilnensis.1781 年，该校更名为立陶宛大公国首席学校，拉丁文作（Schola Princeps Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae）；1795 年波兰立陶宛国家最后一次被瓜分后，它继续以维尔纽斯首席学校（Schola Princeps Vilnensis）之名办学。

• In 1803 Tsar Alexander I granted a new statute that renamed it the Imperial University of Vilnius and gave it authority over every educational institution in the Vilna Educational District, with Adam Jerzy Czartoryski as curator and Jan Śniadecki as rector.1803 年，沙皇亚历山大一世颁授新章程，将该校更名为维尔纽斯帝国大学，并授权其管辖维尔纽斯教育区内的全部教育机构，亚当·耶日·恰尔托雷斯基任督学、扬·希尼亚德茨基任校长。

• By 1823 the university was one of the largest in Europe, its student body exceeding that of Oxford, but after its students joined the November Uprising of 1830 to 1831, Tsar Nicholas I ordered the university closed on 1 May 1832.到 1823 年，该校已是欧洲规模最大的大学之一，学生人数超过牛津；但在学生参与 1830 年至 1831 年的十一月起义后，沙皇尼古拉一世下令于 1832 年 5 月 1 日关闭该校。

• Its medical faculty was turned into the separate Medical and Surgical Academy and its theological faculty into the Roman Catholic Academy, both of which were later closed too, while the Polish and Lithuanian languages were banned in education.其医学院被改建为独立的医学与外科学院，神学院则改建为罗马天主教神学院，二者后来亦被关闭，波兰语与立陶宛语在教育中遭禁用。

• After the 1905 revolution the Polish intelligentsia created the Society of Friends of Science in Wilno on 22 October 1906, and during the German occupation of the First World War it organised Higher Scientific Courses in an attempt to revive university teaching.1905 年革命后，波兰知识界于 1906 年 10 月 22 日创设维尔诺科学之友协会；第一次世界大战德国占领期间，该协会又组织高等科学课程，试图复兴大学教学。

• In 1918 the State Council of Lithuania adopted a statute for Vilnius University, and after Polish forces took the city the university was reopened in August 1919 and renamed Stefan Batory University.1918 年，立陶宛国务会议通过维尔纽斯大学章程；波兰军队占领该城后，大学于 1919 年 8 月重新开办，并更名为斯特凡·巴托里大学。

• Lithuanian scholars who had retreated to Kaunas founded the University of Lithuania on 16 February 1922, and this institution was renamed Vytautas Magnus University in 1930.退往考纳斯的立陶宛学者于 1922 年 2 月 16 日创办立陶宛大学，该校于 1930 年更名为维陶塔斯·马格努斯大学。

• Among the students of Stefan Batory University in the interwar years was the future Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, and its library grew to hold some 600,000 volumes.两次大战之间的斯特凡·巴托里大学学生中，有后来的诺贝尔奖得主切斯瓦夫·米沃什；该校图书馆藏书增至约 600,000 册。

• After Soviet forces invaded Poland in September 1939, Vilnius was transferred to Lithuania in October and the university was closed on 15 December 1939, with its roughly 3,000 students dismissed and 600 of them ending up in a refugee camp.1939 年 9 月苏联入侵波兰后，维尔纽斯于同年 10 月被移交立陶宛，大学于 1939 年 12 月 15 日关闭，约 3,000 名学生被遣散，其中 600 人进入难民营。

• A new Lithuanian-language university named Vilniaus universitetas was created in its place with staff drawn from Kaunas, while Polish professors and students continued to teach and study underground until 1944.一所名为（Vilniaus universitetas）的新立陶宛语大学在原址建立，师资来自考纳斯；与此同时，波兰教授与学生转入地下，坚持授课与求学直至 1944 年。

• During the German occupation from 1941 to 1944 the university operated for Lithuanian students under professor Mykolas Biržiška, and after the second Soviet occupation in 1944 it was restored and renamed Vilnius State University.1941 年至 1944 年德国占领期间，大学在米科拉斯·比尔日什卡教授主持下为立陶宛学生办学；1944 年第二次苏联占领后，大学得以恢复并更名为维尔纽斯国立大学。

• In 1955 it was renamed the Vilnius Order of the Red Banner of Labour State University of Vincas Kapsukas, and its Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, the forerunner of today's Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, was established in 1965.1955 年，该校更名为维尔纽斯劳动红旗勋章国立温卡斯·卡普苏卡斯大学；1965 年，今数学与信息学院的前身数学与力学学院成立。

• In 1966 Vilnius University became the first academic institution in the world to successfully fire a laser based on an American physicist's invention, an achievement that helped build Lithuania's laser industry.1966 年，维尔纽斯大学成为全球首个成功照射出基于美国物理学家发明的激光的学术机构，这一成果助推立陶宛建立起激光产业。

• On 12 June 1990 the Supreme Council of Lithuania approved a new Statute of Vilnius University restoring its autonomy, confirmed by the 1991 Law on Science and Studies, and its studies were reorganised into bachelor's, master's and doctoral cycles.1990 年 6 月 12 日，立陶宛最高委员会批准新的维尔纽斯大学章程，恢复其自治地位，并于 1991 年《科学与研究法》中获确认；其学业亦重组为学士、硕士、博士三级。

• Vilnius University joined the Coimbra Group of European universities in 2016 and became a founding member of the ARQUS European University Alliance, while in 2021 Šiauliai University was merged into it as the Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy.维尔纽斯大学于 2016 年加入欧洲大学科英布拉集团，并成为阿尔库斯欧洲大学联盟的创始成员；2021 年，希奥利艾大学并入该校，成为维尔纽斯大学希奥利艾学院。

Academics

• Vilnius University is organised into fifteen academic faculties, one of them in Kaunas and one in Šiauliai, and offers more than 200 study programmes across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine and technology.维尔纽斯大学下设十五个学院，其中一个在考纳斯、一个在希奥利艾，开设 200 多个学习项目，涵盖人文、社会科学、自然科学、医学与技术等领域。

• Its faculties include the Business School, Chemistry and Geosciences, Communication, Economics and Business Administration, History, Law, Mathematics and Informatics, Medicine, Philology, Philosophy and Physics.其学院包括商学院、化学与地球科学学院、传播学院、经济与工商管理学院、历史学院、法学院、数学与信息学院、医学院、语文学院、哲学院与物理学院。

• The Faculty of Philology, among its oldest, teaches Lithuanian, English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, Latin and Ancient Greek together with Scandinavian and Baltic languages.历史最悠久的学院之一语文学院，开设立陶宛语、英语、西班牙语、法语、俄语、德语、意大利语、波兰语、拉丁语与古希腊语，以及斯堪的纳维亚与波罗的语族语言。

• The Faculty of Physics maintains teaching and research in photonics, laser physics, optics, nuclear and quantum physics and theoretical physics and astrophysics, and operates a laser research centre.物理学院在光子学、激光物理、光学、核物理与量子物理，以及理论物理与天体物理领域开展教学与研究，并设有激光研究中心。

• The Life Sciences Centre, opened in 2016 with new laboratories, concentrates work in biotechnology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neurobiology and biophysics and hosts zoological and herbarium collections.生命科学中心于 2016 年启用，配备新实验室，集中于生物技术、生物化学、遗传学、分子生物学、神经生物学与生物物理研究，并设有动物学与植物标本收藏。

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, established in 1965 and renamed in 1978 and 1999, reported 2,252 students and 220 academic staff in 2024.数学与信息学院成立于 1965 年，并于 1978 年与 1999 年两度更名，2024 年有 2,252 名学生与 220 名学术人员。

• As of 1 October 2025 the university enrolled 26,553 students, including 15,001 in bachelor's studies, 3,431 in integrated studies, 4,648 in master's studies and 864 in doctoral studies.截至 2025 年 10 月 1 日，该校在读学生 26,553 人，其中本科 15,001 人、本硕连读 3,431 人、硕士 4,648 人、博士 864 人。

• As of December 2025 Vilnius University employed 5,971 people, among them 2,636 academic staff, 960 research staff and 2,375 non-academic staff.截至 2025 年 12 月，维尔纽斯大学共有 5,971 名职员，其中学术人员 2,636 人、研究人员 960 人、非学术人员 2,375 人。

• Foreign students numbered 3,424, of whom 2,859 studied full time, and international students may choose from about 70 study programmes taught in English in medicine, odontology, business and management, economics, mathematics and informatics, philology, law and communications.外国学生为 3,424 人，其中 2,859 人全日制就读；国际学生可选修约 70 个以英语授课的项目，涵盖医学、口腔医学、商业与管理、经济学、数学与信息学、语文、法律与传播等领域。

• More than one third of all doctoral theses defended in Lithuania are produced at Vilnius University, which publishes over 3,000 research articles and carries out more than 400 research projects each year.立陶宛全国通过答辩的博士论文中，逾三分之一出自维尔纽斯大学；该校每年发表 3,000 多篇研究论文，实施 400 多个研究项目。

• Its research teams number over 160 and the university offers over 450 customisable research and development services in fields such as life sciences, photonics, information technology and psychology.该校拥有 160 多个研究团队，并在生命科学、光子学、信息技术与心理学等领域提供 450 多项可定制的研究与开发服务。

• Vilnius University takes part in international research infrastructures including EMBL, Instruct-ERIC, the Extreme Light Infrastructure, CERN and the Biobank and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure, and develops a Semiconductor Technology Centre.维尔纽斯大学参与欧洲分子生物学实验室、结构生物学基础设施、极端光设施、欧洲核子研究组织以及生物样本库与生物分子资源研究基础设施等国际研究平台，并正在建设半导体技术中心。

• The EMBL Partnership Institute was established within the university's Life Sciences Centre under an agreement concluded in 2020 to develop genome editing research and its applications.根据 2020 年签订的一项协议，欧洲分子生物学实验室伙伴研究所在该校生命科学中心内成立，旨在发展基因组编辑研究及其应用。

• The Vilnius University Foundation, created on 6 April 2016, became the first university endowment in Lithuania and supports top-quality scientific research and study programmes that answer global demand.维尔纽斯大学基金会于 2016 年 4 月 6 日成立，成为立陶宛首个大学捐赠基金，用于支持高质量的科学研究与符合全球需求的学习项目。

• The university's Library, founded in 1570, is the oldest academic library in the Baltic region and holds more than five million documents for about 45,000 registered users, keeping its central reading rooms in authentic 16th century premises.该校图书馆创建于 1570 年，是波罗的海地区最古老的学术图书馆，藏书逾五百万件，注册用户约 45,000 人，其中心阅览室至今仍设于 16 世纪的原址建筑内。

• The university is also home to a botanical garden, a museum, a publishing house, a cultural centre, a health and sports centre and several teaching hospitals attached to the Faculty of Medicine.该校还设有植物园、博物馆、出版社、文化中心、健康与体育中心，以及附属于医学院的若干教学医院。

Campus

• Vilnius University is spread across the capital Vilnius, with its historic campus in the Old Town and modern faculties in the Saulėtekis district, plus one faculty in Kaunas and the Šiauliai Academy in the north.维尔纽斯大学分布于首都维尔纽斯各处，既有老城区的历史校区，也有萨乌莱特基斯区域的现代学院区，另在考纳斯设有一个学院，并在北部设有希奥利艾学院。

• The Old Town ensemble comprises about thirteen courtyards of varied size, among them the Library Courtyard, the Grand Courtyard with the Church of St Johns and the university Aula, the Sarbievijus Courtyard and the Observatory Courtyard.老城建筑群由约十三个大小不一的中庭组成，其中包括图书馆中庭、拥有圣约翰教堂与大学礼堂的大中庭、萨尔别维尤斯中庭以及天文台中庭。

• The Observatory Courtyard is the oldest part of the campus, dating to the late 16th century, and it carries the inscription Hinc itur ad astra, meaning from here one rises to the stars, long used as the university's motto.天文台中庭是校园中最古老的部分，可追溯至 16 世纪晚期，其上刻有（Hinc itur ad astra）一语，意为「由此升向星辰」，长期被用作该校校训。

• The historic Grand Courtyard holds the tallest belfry in Vilnius, portraits of the institution's founding figures and frescoes by the artist Petras Repšys.历史悠久的大中庭立有维尔纽斯最高的钟楼，悬挂着该校创建者的画像，并陈有艺术家佩特拉斯·列普希斯的壁画。

• The Saulėtekis campus, known as the Sunrise Valley, hosts the faculties of Economics, Physics, Communication and Law, the Business School and the Life Sciences Centre, together with the Scholarly Communication and Information Centre.萨乌莱特基斯校区又名「日出谷」，设有经济、物理、传播与法律四个学院、商学院与生命科学中心，以及学术传播与信息中心。

• On the Saulėtekis campus students live in five-storey and sixteen-storey dormitory complexes, while the M K Čiurlionis Street complex near the Faculty of Medicine houses medical and residency students.萨乌莱特基斯校区内设有五层与十六层学生宿舍群；医学院附近的米卡洛尤斯·丘尔廖尼斯街宿舍群则供医学生与住院医师居住。

• The Kaunas Faculty has occupied a 16th and 17th century building on Muitinės Street near the Aleksotas bridge in the Old Town for more than fifty-five years since 1964.考纳斯学院自 1964 年起，已逾五十五年在老城区米伊蒂内斯街、阿列克索塔斯桥畔的一座 16 至 17 世纪建筑内办学。

• The university also maintains the Botanical Garden, relocated four times and since 1974 set in the grounds of Kairėnai Manor, the Vilnius University Museum opened on 1 April 2010 and its own publishing house.该校还维护屡次迁址的植物园，自 1974 年起落户凯雷奈庄园园区；维尔纽斯大学博物馆于 2010 年 4 月 1 日开馆，该校另有自己的出版社。

• The university's central administration and rector's office sit in the Old Town, while the modern Šiauliai Academy occupies the former Šiauliai University premises and runs bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies.该校中央行政与校长办公室设于老城区；现代希奥利艾学院则使用原希奥利艾大学的校舍，开设学士、硕士与博士三级课程。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Vilnius University is placed 465th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，维尔纽斯大学位列第 465。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 801-1000 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 928th.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 801 至 1000 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 928。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities the university stands in the 401-500 band, its strongest showing among the four major global tables used in this entry.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 401 至 500 区间，是本文所列四大全球榜单中名次最好的一项。

• In the 2025 QS World University Rankings, the edition cited in its own materials, Vilnius University ranked 439th among more than 1,500 institutions and 72nd among Northern European universities.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学排名中（该校自身材料引用的一版），维尔纽斯大学在 1,500 余所院校中位列第 439，并在北欧高校中位列第 72。

• In the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject it was placed 201-250 in Linguistics and 251-300 in Physics and Astronomy, and it ranked 18th in the QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia ranking.在 2020 年 QS 学科排名中，该校语言学处于 201 至 250 区间、物理与天文学处于 251 至 300 区间；在 QS 新兴欧洲与中亚排名中位列第 18。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 44,300 research works attracting 1,694,414 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 44,300 项研究成果，累计被引 1,694,414 次。

• Vilnius University has been a member of the Coimbra Group since 2016, belongs to the ARQUS European University Alliance since 2019 and is a signatory of the Magna Charta of European universities.维尔纽斯大学自 2016 年起为科英布拉集团成员，自 2019 年起加入阿尔库斯欧洲大学联盟，并是欧洲大学大宪章的签署方。

• It is also a member of the International Association of Universities, the European University Association, the Conference of Baltic University Rectors, the Utrecht Network and the UNICA Network.该校还是国际大学协会、欧洲大学协会、波罗的海大学校长会议、乌得勒支网络与 UNICA 网络的成员。

• Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, a pioneer of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing often called gene scissors, has been a candidate for the Nobel Prize and has won the Kavli Prize, the Warren Alpert Prize and the Novozymes Prize.被誉为「基因剪刀」的 CRISPR-Cas9 基因编辑技术先驱维尔吉尼尤斯·希克什尼斯教授，曾是诺贝尔奖候选人，并获卡夫利奖、沃伦·阿尔珀特奖与诺维信奖。

• Professor Saulius Klimašauskas became Lithuania's first European Research Council grant winner, while the university has established over 25 start-ups and holds patents registered with international offices in life sciences and technology.绍利乌斯·克利马绍斯卡斯教授成为立陶宛首位获得欧洲研究理事会资助者；该校已创办 25 家以上初创企业，并在生命科学与技术领域持有多项国际注册专利。

Student life

• Vilnius University has long used the Latin motto Hinc itur ad astra, meaning from here the way leads to the stars, drawn from the inscription on the wall of its historical observatory.维尔纽斯大学长期以拉丁校训（Hinc itur ad astra）自勉，意为「由此走向星辰」，语出该校历史天文台墙上的铭文。

• Student life is organised within each faculty, and the Vilnius University Students' Representation, the oldest and largest non-political student organisation in Lithuania, has units in every faculty and a central office in the Observatory Courtyard.学生生活以各学院为单位组织；维尔纽斯大学学生代表会是立陶宛历史最悠久、规模最大的非政治性学生组织，在各学院均设分支，并在天文台中庭设有中央办公室。

• The Students' Representation runs debate, photography, film and kendo clubs together with the Label-Free and Honestly programmes and involves more than 1,000 active members.该学生代表会旗下设有辩论、摄影、电影与剑道俱乐部，并推行「无所标签」与「诚实」等项目，活跃成员逾 1,000 人。

• The Erasmus Student Network chapter at the university promotes student mobility and helps international students integrate into campus life in Vilnius.该校的伊拉斯谟学生网络分支推动学生流动，并帮助国际学生融入维尔纽斯的校园生活。

• The Vilnius University Culture Centre includes twelve art groups such as the academic mixed choir Gaudeamus, the folk music group Jaunimėlis, the chamber orchestra, the girls' choir Virgo and the folk ensemble Ratilio.维尔纽斯大学文化中心拥有十二个艺术团体，包括学术混声合唱团「高德阿穆斯」、民乐团体「亚乌尼梅利斯」、室内乐团、女子合唱团「维尔戈」与民俗乐团「拉蒂利奥」。

• The Health and Sports Centre organises interfaculty competitions in eleven sports disciplines and trains high-performance athletes from gyms and stadiums on the Saulėtekis campus and at Čiurlionis Street.健康与体育中心组织十一个运动项目的院际赛事，并利用萨乌莱特基斯校区与丘尔廖尼斯街的体育馆和操场培养高水平运动员。

• The university pursues equal opportunities under its Diversity and Equality Strategy for 2020-2025, with particular emphasis on disability, gender equality, different cultures and social conditions.该校依据 2020 至 2025 年多元与平等战略推进机会平等，尤其关注身心障碍、性别平等、文化差异与社会处境等议题。

• The Botanical Garden was first laid out in the Collegium Medicum courtyard in 1781, and the university museum traces its origins to a museum of progressive scientific thought opened in the Church of St Johns in 1979.植物园最初于 1781 年在医学院中庭开辟；大学博物馆的渊源则可追溯至 1979 年在圣约翰教堂开办的进步科学思想博物馆。

Notable people

• Piotr Skarga, a Jesuit theologian and preacher, was the first rector of the Vilnius Academy after its foundation in 1579 and invited scholars from across Europe to teach there.耶稣会神学家兼布道者皮奥特·斯卡尔加，是 1579 年维尔纽斯学院创办后的首任院长，并延揽欧洲各地学者前来任教。

• Walerian Protasewicz, bishop of Vilnius, purchased the city centre buildings that founded the Jesuit college in 1570 and helped sponsor its early growth.维尔纽斯主教瓦莱里约纳斯·普罗塔塞维丘斯于 1570 年购下市中心建筑，创建耶稣会学院，并资助其早期发展。

• Simonas Daukantas, a leader of the Lithuanian national revival, was the first writer to compose a history of Lithuania in the Lithuanian language and was educated as a historian at the university.立陶宛民族复兴领袖西蒙纳斯·道坎塔斯，是首位以立陶宛语撰写立陶宛历史的作家，并在该校接受史学训练。

• Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, the two leading poets of modern Polish culture, both studied at or were shaped by the university in the early nineteenth century.现代波兰文化两大代表诗人亚当·密茨凯维奇与尤利乌什·斯沃瓦茨基，均于 19 世纪初在该校求学并受其熏陶。

• Czesław Miłosz, who studied at Stefan Batory University in the 1930s, won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.20 世纪 30 年代就读于斯特凡·巴托里大学的切斯瓦夫·米沃什，于 1980 年获得诺贝尔文学奖。

• Virginijus Šikšnys, head of the Department of Protein-DNA Interactions at the university's Institute of Biotechnology, is recognised worldwide for his contribution to CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing.维尔纽斯大学生物技术研究所蛋白质与 DNA 相互作用研究室主任维尔吉尼尤斯·希克什尼斯，因对 CRISPR-Cas9 基因编辑的贡献而享誉世界。

• Laser physicist Mangirdas Malinauskas works at the university's Laser Research Centre on four-dimensional printing technologies that produce objects able to change shape in response to light, heat or moisture.激光物理学家曼吉尔达斯·马利瑙斯卡斯在该校激光研究中心研究「四维打印」技术，可制造能随光、热或湿度改变形态的物体。

• Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, received an honorary doctorate from Vilnius University in 2020 after a discussion with students about the future of Europe.法兰西共和国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙于 2020 年与学生讨论欧洲未来后，获授维尔纽斯大学名誉博士学位。

• Tomas Venclova, the Lithuanian poet and Yale University professor, is a former student of the university who received an honorary doctorate from it in 2017.立陶宛诗人、耶鲁大学教授托马什·文茨洛瓦是该校校友，并于 2017 年获授该校名誉博士学位。

• Gérard Mourou, who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Robert Huber, Nobel laureate in chemistry, both became honorary doctors of Vilnius University in 2020 and 2011 respectively.共同获得 2018 年诺贝尔物理学奖的热拉尔·穆鲁，以及诺贝尔化学奖得主罗伯特·胡贝尔，分别于 2020 年与 2011 年成为维尔纽斯大学名誉博士。