List of Belarusians - Definition and Overview

List of Belarusians is the list of people related to Republic of Belarus in some way or another. It is not limited to persons of Belarussian 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.

Culture

Artists

• Marc Chagall
• Michel Kikoine
• Pinchus Kremegne
• Kazimir Malevich
• Napaleon Orda
• Mikhail Savitsky
• Chaim Soutine
• Sergey Voychenko
• Ossip Zadkine

Writers

• Ales Adamovich
• Maksim Bahdanovich
• Francishak Bahushevich
• Ryhor Baradulin
• Janka Bryl
• Vasil Bykau
• Kuzma Chorny
• Vincent Dunin-Marcinkewicz
• Nil Gilevich
• Uladzimir Karatkevich
• Jakub Kolas
• Kandrat Krapiva
• Janka Kupala
• Janka Maur
• Ivan Melezh
• Adam Mickiewicz
• Pimen Panchanka
• Sergiusz Piasecki
• Ryhor Reles
• Ivan Shamiakin
• Maksim Tank

Journalists

• Veronika Cherkasova

Business

• Louis B. Mayer
• David Sarnoff

State, revolution, military, politics

• Menachem Begin
• Anatoly Chubais
• Felix Dzerzhynsky
• Ignacy Hryniewiecki
• Kastus Kalinouski
• Vyacheslav Kebich
• Tadeusz Kosciuszko
• Anatoly Lebedko
• Alexander Lukashenko
• Valeria Novodvorskaya
• Zianon Pazniak
• Rogneda of Polotsk
• Stanislav Shushkevich(*)
• Sergey Sidorsky
• Ivonka Survilla

Religion

• Cyril of Turaw
• Euphrosyne of Polatsk
• Josaphat Kuncevyc

Science

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
• Yuri Bandazhevsky
• Symon Budny
• Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
• Vladimir Kovalyonok, cosmonaut
• Seymour Lubetzky
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam
• Francysk Skaryna
• Stanislav Shushkevich (*)
• Pavel Sukhoi
• Branislau Tarashkevich
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• Szygmunt Florenty von Wroblewski
• Oscar Zariski

Sports

• Svetlana Boguinskaya
• Ekaterina Karsten
• Olga Korbut
• Alexander Medved
• Max Mirnyi
• Yulia Nesterenko
• Uladzimir Parfianovich
• Vitaly Scherbo
• Natasha Zvereva

Notes

(*) - multiple entries, for people notable in several categories

See also

• Leaders of Belarus