Gediminas Vagnorius (born 10 June 1957) is a Lithuanian politician and signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. He served as the Prime Minister of Lithuania, heading the government between 1991 and 1992, and again from 1996 until 1999.

After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, its temporary currency, the Lithuanian talonas, was popularly known as vagnorkė or vagnorėlis after Vagnorius' name.

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Preceded byAlbertas Šimėnas Prime Minister of Lithuania 13 January 1991 – 21 July 1992 Succeeded byAleksandras Abišala Preceded byLaurynas Mindaugas Stankevičius Prime Minister of Lithuania 15 February 1996 – 4 May 1999 Succeeded byIrena Degutienė (acting)


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