Slavoljub Eduard Penkala was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.
Sandra Kalniete is a Latvian politician,author,diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture,Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009,she has served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People's Party.
Ursula Plassnik is an Austrian diplomat and politician. She was Foreign Minister of Austria between October 2004 and December 2008. She has served as the Austrian ambassador to Switzerland from 2016 to 2021.
Mark Regev is an Israeli diplomat and civil servant who is currently a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. In September 2021,Regev started a weekly column in the Jerusalem Post. In June 2020,he became the Prime Minister's Senior Advisor for Foreign Affairs and International Communications in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. He previously was the International Spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office from 2007 to 2015. Regev was also Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020.
Charles W. 'Chuck' Larson Jr. is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the US to the Republic of Latvia Prior to his appointment,Ambassador Larson was the Iowa State Senator from the 19th District from 2003–2007,was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1993-2001,and is a former chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa. He was succeeded in the Iowa Senate by Democrat Rob Hogg.
Bernardo Salviati was an Italian condottiero and Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Don Guido Colonna,dei principi di Paliano,noble of Rome,patrician of Naples and Venice was an Italian aristocrat,diplomat and European Commissioner.
Anatols Dinbergs was one of the preeminent career diplomats of Latvia. He entered service in Latvia's Foreign Ministry in 1932. Dinbergs remained abroad when the Soviet Union occupied Latvia,serving in the Latvian Legation in Washington,D.C.,after World War II ended. Dinbergs assumed the highest diplomatic post,that of chargéd'affaires,in 1970 and represented Latvia's sovereign interests in exile until Latvia reestablished its independence in 1991. As head of the Latvian diplomatic service abroad,Dinbergs was appointed Latvia's first ambassador to the United Nations and subsequently Latvia's first ambassador to the United States. After retirement,he served as Counselor to the Latvian Embassy in Washington,D.C.,until his death in 1993.
Curtis Warren Kamman is a former career diplomat.
Imants Viesturs Lieģis is a prominent Latvian diplomat and politician. Since 2016 he serves as Latvia's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France,as well as non-resident ambassador to Algeria,Morocco and Monaco.
Māris Riekstiņš is a Latvian politician and diplomat and a former Foreign Minister of Latvia. He is the current Ambassador of Latvia to the Russian Federation.
Rogelio Pfirter is an Argentine diplomat who served as Argentina's ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the Holy See. He was the Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 2002 to 2010.
Keith Shannon is a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to Latvia from 2017 to 2021 and British Ambassador to Moldova from 2009 to 2013.
Paul Brummell is a British diplomat and travel writer.
Ahmed Javed is a retired Indian police officer and civil servant who was the 39th Commissioner of Police,Mumbai,India. He was succeeded by Dattatray Padsalgikar. He is former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Javed is the second former Mumbai police commissioner to get a diplomatic posting after J. F. Ribeiro who served as Indian ambassador to Romania between 1989–1993.
MārtiņšNukša was a Latvian diplomat and architect. He worked as an architect in Riga during the heyday of Art Nouveau architecture and from 1920 as a diplomat representing Latvia. He was arrested by Soviet authorities after the occupation of Latvia and executed in 1942.
Judith Gail "Judy" Garber is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Cyprus. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to Latvia and as the acting Assistant Secretary for Oceans,Environment and Science at the Department of State.
Mirosław Mieczysław Pękala was a former Polish international footballer who played as a midfielder. His playing career lasted 11 years during which time he played for Śląsk Wrocław and Lechia Gdańsk.
Alongi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Foreign relations exist between Australia and Latvia. Australia first recognised Latvia on 22 September 1921 and was among the first countries to re-recognise Latvia's independence on 27 August 1991. Both countries re-established diplomatic relations on 21 November 1991. Australia is represented in Latvia through its embassy in Stockholm,Sweden and an honorary consulate in Riga. Latvia has had an embassy in Canberra since October 2021,and also has honorary consulates in Sydney,Brisbane,Adelaide,Melbourne and Perth.
