# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonas-bistras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:26:29.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonas-bistras"
name: "Leonas Bistras"
slug: "leonas-bistras"
description: "Leonas Bistras was one of the most prominent Lithuanian politicians of the interwar period. A Christian Democrat, he was appointed as Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1925. Bistras also headed the ministries of education, defense, and foreign affairs in several different governments throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and twice served as the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas. After the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état and the subsequent fall of parliamentary democracy, Bistras led the Christian Democrats and, despite persecution, acted as an outspoken leader of the opposition to the authoritarian President Antanas Smetona."
tagline: "Lithuanian politician (1890-1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonas_Bistras.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1890-10-20"
deathDate: "1971-10-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.64
  momentum:             16.22950819672131
  historical:           8.338265333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%91%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Ляонас Бістрас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ليوناس بيستراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%91%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Ляонас Бістрас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonas_Bistras"
    title: "Leonas Bistras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Бистрас, Ляонас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump