Antanas Račas (August 28, 1940 – February 9, 2014) was a Lithuanian politician.^[1][2] In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.^[2]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Lithuanian. (October 2009) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Lithuanian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Lithuanian Wikipedia article at [[:lt:Antanas Račas]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|lt|Antanas Račas}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Račas graduated from Sakiai District Kiduliai secondary school. In 1962–1967, studied Germanic languages in Vilnius University where he received a degree in philology. He later worked in various schools. In 1976, was fired from Kelme District Saukenai secondary school for "relations with anti-Soviets and clerics".

Until 1990 Račas worked in Kelme Secondary school No. 2 as a teacher of the German language. Participated in the activity of Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania), was Chairman of the Sajudis Council in Kelme District. After the events of January 1991, the Committee of Foreign Affairs established Lithuanian Information Bureau in Huttenfeld (Germany), Anatanas Račas was Head of the bureau until 18 November 1991. Račas was also the founder of Lithuanian Samaritan Community.

In 1990–1992, Račas was elected to the Supreme Council-Reconstituent Seimas. As a member of the then Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats was a Member of the Seimas since 25 November 1996.