List of people from Belarus

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This is a list of people connected to the Republic of Belarus. It is not limited to persons of Belarusian ethnicity; Russians, Jews, Poles, Vikings, etc., may be found in this list. Over time the Belarusian land has had many rulers, and often its culture was suppressed. Therefore many Belarusian nationals are known to the world as Poles or Russians. See also List of Belarusians (ethnic group).

Culture

Irving Berlin

• Louis B. Mayer
• Solomon Mikhoels
• Hanna Rovina, (1893-1980), Israeli actress

Composers

• Irving Berlin
• Vladimir Dukelsky
• Napoleon Orda
• Michał Kleofas Ogiński

Artists

Marc Chagall

• Marc Chagall
• Kirk Douglas
• Petr Elfimov
• Naum Gabo, sculptor
• Michel Kikoine
• Dmitry Koldun
• Pinchus Kremegne
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Mikhail Savitsky
• Chaim Soutine
• Sergey Voychenko
• Ossip Zadkine

Writers

Isaac Asimov

Yakub Kolas

• Ales Adamovich
• Svetlana Alexievich
• Guillaume Apollinaire -Belarusian mother
• Isaac Asimov
• Maksim Bahdanovich
• Francishak Bahushevich
• Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ
• Janka Bryl
• Vasil Bykau
• Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
• Avraham Even-Shoshan (1906–84), Israeli linguist and lexicographer
• Nicolai Hussoviani
• Uladzimir Karatkevich
• Hienadz Kliauko
• Yakub Kolas
• Janka Kupala
• Janka Maur
• Ivan Melezh
• Sergiusz Piasecki
• Alexander S. Potupa
• Ryhor Reles
• Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature
• Ivan Shamiakin
• Maksim Tank

Business

• Leonard and Phil Chess
• Michael Marks
• Louis B. Mayer
• Alexander S. Potupa
• David Sarnoff
• Ralph Lauren, his family immigrated from Pinsk, Belarus

State, revolution, military, politics

Menachem Begin

Yitzhak Shamir

• Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
• Catherine Breshkovsky
• Stanislau Bulak-Balachovitch
• Faddei Bulgarin
• Chiang Fang-liang
• Anatoly Chubais
• David Dubinsky
• Andrei Gromyko
• Isser Harel, head of the Israeli Mossad
• Vyacheslav Kebich
• Alexander Lukashenko
• Alaksandar Milinkievič
• Valeria Novodvorskaya
• Alexander Parvus
• Dmitri Pavlichenko
• Zyanon Paznyak
• Shimon Peres, Prime Minister and President of Israel
• Rogneda of Polotsk
• Alexander S. Potupa
• Yitzhak Shamir
• Stanislav Shushkevich
• Lev Sapieha
• Zalman Shazar, President of Israel
• Sergey Sidorsky
• Ivonka Survilla
• Franak Viacorka
• Vincuk Viačorka
• Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel

Religion

Cyril of Turaŭ

• Cyril of Turaŭ
• Euphrosyne of Polatsk
• Jazafat Kuncevič

Science

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
• Yury Bandazhevsky
• Alexander Bogdanov
• Symon Budny
• Morris Raphael Cohen, Jewish philosopher
• Valery Fabrikant, mechanical engineer, mass murderer
• Berl Katznelson
• Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
• Elena Korosteleva, political scientist
• Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg
• Vladimir Kovalyonok, cosmonaut
• Seymour Lubetzky
• Salomon Maimon, Jewish philosopher
• Spiridon Sobol, printer, educator and writer
• Leonid Mandelstam, Jewish physicist
• Theodor Narbut
• Mark Nemenman, Jewish computer scientist
• Alexandre Okinczyc, doctor
• Alexander S. Potupa
• Francysk Skaryna
• Pavel Sukhoi
• Branislau Tarashkevich
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• Lev Vygotsky
• Oscar Zariski

Journalist

• Veronika Cherkasova
• Ihar Hermianchuk

Sports

• Andrei Aramnau
• Andrei Arlovski, former UFC Heavyweight Champion and MMA fighter
• Vladimir and Alexander Artemev, father and son gymnasts
• Anzhela Atroshchenko
• Victoria Azarenka
• Benjamin Blumenfeld, chess player
• Svetlana Boguinskaya
• Yuri Foreman, middleweight and World Boxing Association super welterweight boxing champion
• Leonid Geishtor, sprint canoer, Olympic champion Canadian pairs 1,000-meter
• Boris Gelfand, chess player
• Mikhail Grabovski, ice hockey player
• Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player
• Sergei Gurenko
• Alexander Hleb
• Alexey Ignashov, K1 Superstar
• Maria Leontyavna Itkina, runner
• Ekaterina Karsten
• Olga Korbut
• Andrei Kostitsyn, ice hockey player
• Sergei Kostitsyn, ice hockey player
• Abraham Kupchik, chess player
• Vitali Kutuzov
• Dmitri Markov
• Vladimir Matyushenko, MMA fighter
• Alexander Medved
• Artem Milevsky
• Max Mirnyi, tennis player
• Georgi Mondzolevski, Olympic and world champion volleyball player
• Yulia Nesterenko
• Uladzimir Parfianovich
• Lev Polugaevsky, chess player
• Yulia Raskina, Olympic silver in rhythmic gymnastics
• Andrei Rybakou
• Ruslan Salei, ice hockey player
• Vitaly Scherbo
• Maria Sharapova, tennis player
• Valery Shary, Olympic champion weightlifter (light-heavyweight)
• Ilya Smirin, chess player
• Ivan Tikhon
• Alexey Yanushevsky, professional gamer (Cypher)
• Alexandra Zaretski, ice dancer, Olympian
• Roman Zaretski, ice dancer, Olympian
• Ina Žukava
• Natasha Zvereva, tennis player

Models

• Janice Dickinson – American supermodel of Belarusian and Polish descent.
• Maryna Linchuk – Belarusian model of Russian descent. Born in Minsk, Belarus
• Tanya Dziahileva – Belarusian model of Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian descent.

See also

• Leaders of Belarus