Jelgava bypass. Sports The city's main football team, FK Jelgava, plays in the Latvian Higher League and has won the Latvian Football Cup four times. Notable people Aleksejs Auziņš (1910–1997) – footballer, coach, ice hockey player Johann Heinrich Baumann (1753-1832) - painter August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907) – linguist, folklorist, ethnographer Peter von Biron (1724-1800), Duke of Courland Vilnis Edvīns Bresis (1938-2017), politician Jan Krzysztof Damel (1780-1840), painter Andrejs Dūda (born 1981), swimmer Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist, paleontologist and physician Johannes Engelmann (1832-1912), jurist Ieva Gaile (born 1997), figure skater Kristīne Gaile (born 1997), figure skater Kaspars Gerhards (born 1969), politician Johannes von Guenther (1886–1973), writer Joseph Hirshhorn (1899–1981), entrepreneur, financier and art collector Olga Jakušina (born 1997), ice dancer Elise von Jung-Stilling (1829-1904), painter Edijs Jurēvics (born 1989), rocksinger and guitarist Renārs Kaupers (1974), Latvian singer Friedrich Kettler (1569-1642), Duke of Courland Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650-1698), Duke of Courland Ferdinand Kettler (1655-1737), Duke of Courland Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692-1711), Duke of Courland Maria Amalia of Courland (1653-1711), Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel Wilhelm Kettler (1574-1640), Duke of Courland Adolph Theodor Kupffer (1799-1865), chemist, and physicist Dzintars Lācis (1940-1992), cyclist Natalia Laschenova (1973) Olympic team gold medalist (gymnastics) Max Lazerson (1887-1951), politician Friedrich Ludwig Lindner (1772-1845), German writer, journalist and physician Jānis Lūsis (1939–2020), Latvian (and Soviet) athlete — javelin thrower Paul von Medem (1800-1854), diplomat Friedrich von der Pahlen (1780-1863), diplomat and administrator. Elza Radziņa (1917–2005), Latvian actress Johann Friedrich von Recke (1764-1846), senior public official in the Baltic Germans Duchy of Courland. Einars Repše (1961), Latvian politician Friedrich von Rüdiger (1783-1856), Baltic German military officer in service of the Russian Empire and a general of the Imperial Russian Army. Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan (1782-1845), Duchess of Sagan Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan (1781-1839), Duchess of Sagan Vitālijs Samoļins (born 1990), chess player Igors Šaplavskis (born 1968), boxer Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1759–1763) Paul Schiemann (1876–1944), journalist, editor and politician Carl Schmidt (1822-1894), chemist Artūrs Skrastiņš (1974), stage and film actor Gatis Sprukts (born 1996), ice hockey player Mamert Stankiewicz (1889–1939), the captain of the Polish merchant marine Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (1891–1970), illustrator Eduard Totleben (1818–1884), Russian military engineer Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809-1889), botanist Gunars Upatnieks (born 1983), musician Inese Vaidere (born 1952), politician Johann Walter-Kurau (1869-1932), painter Kaspars Znotiņš (1975), stage and film actor Twin towns – sister cities Jelgava