List of people from Belarus
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This is a list of people related to Republic of Belarus in some way or another. It is not limited to persons of Belarusian ethnicity; you may find Russians, Jews, Vikings, etc., in this list. Over the time the Belarusian land was under different rule, 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] Culture
[edit] Composers
- Irving Berlin
- Vladimir Dukelsky
- Napoleon Orda
- Ignatiy Hreptovich
- Michail Elsky
- Evgeny Tikotsky
- Michal Kleofas Oginsky
[edit] Artists
- Marc Chagall
- Naum Gabo, sculptor
- Michel Kikoine
- Pinchus Kremegne
- Kazimir Malevich
- Napaleon Orda
- Mikhail Savitsky
- Chaim Soutine
- Sergey Voychenko
- Ossip Zadkine
- Kirk Douglas
[edit] Writers
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Ales Adamovich
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Guillaume Apollinaire -Belarusian mother
- Isaac Asimov
- Uladzimier Arlou
- Maksim Bahdanovich
- Francishak Bahushevich
- Pauliuk Bahrym
- Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ
- Ryhor Baradulin
- Janka Bryl
- Vasil Bykau
- Jan Czaczot
- Kuzma Chorny
- Vincent Dunin-Marcinkewicz
- Nil Gilevich
- Nickolai Goussovsky
- Uladzimir Karatkevich
- Jakub Kolas
- Kandrat Krapiva
- Janka Kupala
- Janka Maur
- Ivan Melezh
- Adam Naruszewicz
- Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
- Pimen Panchanka
- Ryhor Reles
- Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature
- Ivan Shamiakin
- Maksim Tank
[edit] Singers
- Uladzimir Muliavin
- Natalia Podolskaya
- Polina Smolova
[edit] Business
[edit] State, revolution, military, politics
- Menachem Begin
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Catherine Breshkovsky
- Faddei Bulgarin
- Chiang Fang-liang
- Anatoly Chubais
- David Dubinsky
- Andrei Gromyko
- Isser Harel, head of the Israeli Mossad
- Ignacy Hryniewiecki
- Kastuś Kalinoǔski
- Vyacheslav Kebich
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko
- Alexander Lukashenko
- Alexander Milinkevich
- Valeria Novodvorskaya
- Alexander Parvus
- Zianon Pazniak
- Shimon Peres
- Rogneda of Polotsk
- Yitzhak Shamir
- Stanislav Shushkevich
- Lev Sapieha
- Sergey Sidorsky
- Ivonka Survilla
- Vincuk Viačorka
- Chaim Weizmann
[edit] Religion
- Cyril of Turaŭ
- Euphrosyne of Polatsk
- Jazafat Kuncevič
- Meletiy Smotritski
[edit] Science
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
- Yuri Bandazhevsky
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Symon Budny
- Morris Raphael Cohen, Jewish philosopher
- Ignacy Domeyko (Ignat Dameika)
- Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
- Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg
- Berl Katznelson
- Vladimir Kovalyonok, cosmonaut
- Valery Fabrikant, mechanical engineer, mass murderer
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Salomon Maimon, Jewish philosopher
- Leonid Mandelstam, Jewish physicist
- Theodor Narbut
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam
- Francysk Skaryna
- Pavel Sukhoi
- Branislau Tarashkevich
- Vasyl Tsyapinski
- Ephstaphy Tyshkevich
- Immanuel Velikovsky
- Lev Vygotsky
- Szygmunt Florenty von Wroblewski
- Oscar Zariski
[edit] Journalist
[edit] Sports
- Andrei Arlovski, Former UFC Heavyweight Champion and MMA fighter
- Anzhela Atroshchenko
- Victoria Azarenka
- Benjamin Blumenfeld, chess player
- Svetlana Boguinskaya
- Boris Gelfand, chess player
- Mikhail Grabovsky, ice hockey player
- Wayne Gretzky
- Sergei Gurenko
- Aliaksandr Hleb
- Dawid Janowski, chess player
- Ekaterina Karsten
- Olga Korbut
- Abraham Kupchik, chess player
- Vitali Kutuzov
- Dmitri Markov
- Alexander Medved
- Max Mirnyi
- Yulia Nesterenko
- Uladzimir Parfianovich
- Lev Polugaevsky, chess player
- Vitaly Scherbo
- Maria Sharapova
- Ilya Smirin, chess player
- Ivan Tikhon
- Ina Žukava
- Natasha Zvereva
