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).
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[edit] Business
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- 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
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
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