text: Juozas Olekas
  
  Juozas Olekas (born October 30, 1955) is a Lithuanian surgeon and politician, a former Minister of National Defence, from 2006 to 2008. In 1990 and from 2003 to 2004 he also served as the Health Minister. In 2019 he was elected to the European Parliament.
  
  Olekas studied at Kaunas Institute of Medicine from 1974 to 1976, and at Vilnius University from 1976 to 1980.
  
  Between 1994 and 1997 he was a chief physician at the Vilnius University hospital.
  
  Olekas is married to Aurelija Olekienė, they have two daughters.
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   Biography at the Ministry of National Defence
   Biography at the Lithuanian government website 
  
  Category:1955 births
  Category:Health ministers of Lithuania
  Category:Lithuanian surgeons
  Category:Living people
  Category:Ministers of Defence of Lithuania
  Category:Vilnius University alumni
  Category:Members of the Seimas
  Category:21st-century Lithuanian politicians
  Category:MEPs for Lithuania 2019–2024
  Category:Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class