Vācietis (feminine: Vāciete) is a Latvian ethnonymic surname literally meaning "German person".[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Jukums Vācietis (1873–1938), Latvian Soviet military commander
- Mārtiņš Vācietis (1873-1945), general of the Latvian Armed Forces, Minister of War of Latvia
- Ojārs Vācietis (1933—1983), Latvian writer
See also
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edit- ^ Laimute Balode, Laura Grīviņa, THE CHANGE OF SURNAMES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN LATVIA IN THE 1920S AND 1930S, In: Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages, 2022, pp. 21-40
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