Her mother was a pianist, trained at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Namajunas's father Arturas, who suffered from schizophrenia, left the family when Rose was still young and died of pneumonia in Germany in 2008, when Rose was 16. Namajunas regularly visits Lithuania and communicates in the Lithuanian language with her grandparents. Namajunas's grandfather Algimantas Andriukonis was a successful wrestler, and won national championships in Lithuania and competitions in the USSR. He was killed by Soviet KGB agents near his home in 1968. When the Soviets re-occupied Lithuania, Juozas was arrested by the NKVD and sent to a prison camp. Following the German declaration of war on the Soviet Union and the subsequent Soviet retreat from the Baltic states, Juozas left the Red Army and retired to civilian life.
After the Soviets occupied the country, Juozas was forced to enlist in the Red Army. During the Soviet invasion of Lithuania in 1939, he fought in the resistance. He enlisted in the Lithuanian military in 1933, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1936. She was named Rose ( Lithuanian: Rožė) in honor of her great-grandmother Rožė Gotšalkaitė Namajūnienė, whose husband Juozas was an Independent Lithuania military officer.
Namajunas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on ( )June 29, 1992, to Lithuanian parents who had moved to the United States in September 1991. As of November 14, 2022, she is #2 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings, and as of March 7, 2023, she is #5 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings. She is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she competes in the women's strawweight division and is the former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion. Rose Gertrude Namajunas (born June 29, 1992) is an American mixed martial artist. Minnesota Martial Arts Academy (2011–2012)īrown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Tony Basile
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