Actors and actresses

• Ignat Buynitsky
• Vladislav Golubok
• Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky is a major Belarusian actor. He was born in Odessa 0n 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. He has been working in the Minsk Drama Theatre since 1957 . Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978 . He is the...
  
  
• Gleb Glebov
• Aleksandr Ilyinsky
• Edward Radzukevich

Artists

• Vitold Belynitskiy-Birulya, painter
• Lev Gumilevskiy, sculptor
• Andrei Bembel, sculptor
• Aleksei Glebov, sculptor
• Vladimir Korol, architect
• Sergei Selikhanov, sculptor
• Natalya Zaloznaya, painter
• Yury Darashkevich, painter
• Valentin Vankovich, painter
• Nikolay Kupava, painter, graphic artist
• Alexei Kuzmich, painter
• Roman Semashkevich, painter
• Nikolay Seleshchuk, painter
• Mikhail Savitsky, painter
• Ivan Akhremchik, painter
• Maria Shevtsova, painter
• Gavriala Vashchenko, painter
• Vera Gavrilyuk, weaver
• Aleksandr Kishchenko, painter

Filmmakers

• Yury Tarich
• Viktor Turov
• Igor Dobrolyubov
• Valdimir and Elena Petkevich
• Mikhail Ptashuk
• Victor Dashuk

Musicians

• Nikolai Aladov
• Evgeny Tikotsky
• Anatoly Bogatyrev
• Iosif Zhinovich
• Andrei Mdivani
• Grigory Shirma
• Juri Semenako
• Viktor Dubrovski
• Ignaty Hreptovich
• Michail Elsky
• Evgeny Glebov
• Dmitry Smolsky
  Dmitry Smolsky
  Dmitry Smolsky or Dmitry Smolski is a Belarusian composer. He was born in Minsk, Belarus, and began his study of music at the Moscow Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Belarusian State Conservatory, graduating in 1960...
  
  
• Victor Smolski
  Victor Smolski
  Victor Dmitrievich Smolski is a Belarusian musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is a constant member of the German heavy metal band Rage.-Biography:...
  
  
• Igor Luchenok
  Igor Luchenok
  Igor Luchenok is a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of Belarus , chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers....
  
  
• Vladimir Dorokhin
• Nikolai Litvin
• Evgeny Poplavsky
• Sergey Beltukov
• Vladimit Kondrusevich
• Viktor Copytsko
• Vladimir Dukelsky
• Alexander Rybak
  Alexander Rybak
  Alexander Igoryevich Rybak or in Belarusian Alyaksandr Igaravich Rybak , born 13 May 1986 in Byelorussian SSR is a Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist, writer, and actor...
  
  

Philosophers, humanists, and theologians

• Symon Budny
  Symon Budny
  Symon Budny was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, hebraist, Bible translator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian.-Christology:...
  
  
• Vasil' Ciapinski
• Nikolay Goussovsky
• Euphrosyne of Polotsk
• Spiridon Sobol
  Spiridon Sobol
  Spiridon Sobol ), was a printer, educator and writer. Based by him in 1630 under Orsha the printing house became the center of the Belarus Cyrillic publishing...
  
  
• Francysk Skaryna
• Meletiy Smotritski
• Vasyl Tsyapinski
• Kirill Turovsky
• George Konissky
• Alexander S. Potupa
  Alexander S. Potupa
  Potupa Alexander Sergeevich was a Belarusian philosopher, writer, scientist and human rights activist.‎-Biography:Alexander Sergeevich Potupa was born in Sevastopol, Russia on March 21, 1945, eventually moving to Yeysk, where he went to school. He also became a chess master...
  
  

Scientists

• Vladimir Platonov
  Vladimir Platonov
  - Academic career :In 1961 Platonov graduated with highest distinction from Belarus State University. Two years later he received his Ph.D. from Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Platonov received his Doctor of Science degree from the Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1967. Since 1972 he has been an...
  
  
• Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski
• Fiodar Fiodaraŭ
  Fiodar Fiodarau
  Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, , was a famous Belarusian physicist, whose scientific interests ranged from optics and spectroscopy to the theory of elementary particles.He was born in the village Turets in Karelichy Raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus...
  
  
• Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislau Stanislavavich Shushkevich is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From September 28, 1991 to January 26, 1994 he was the first leader and head of state of independent Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Alexander Bogdanov
  Alexander Bogdanov
  Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov –7 April 1928, Moscow) was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity....
  
  
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a Russian politician and has...
  
  
• Boris Kit
  Barys Kit
  Barys Kit is a Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and philosopher.-Biography:...
  
  
• Vasyl Tsyapinski
• Yury Bandazhevsky
• Theodor Narbut
• Alexander S. Potupa
  Alexander S. Potupa
  Potupa Alexander Sergeevich was a Belarusian philosopher, writer, scientist and human rights activist.‎-Biography:Alexander Sergeevich Potupa was born in Sevastopol, Russia on March 21, 1945, eventually moving to Yeysk, where he went to school. He also became a chess master...
  
  
• Katya Vaydylevich

Sportsmen and sportswomen

• Andrei Arlovski
  Andrei Arlovski
  Andrei Valeryevich Arlovski is a Belarusian kickboxer, mixed martial artist and a former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Vladimir
  Vladimir Artemev
  Vladimir Artemev is a retired Belarusian artistic gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Soviet national team from 1977 through 1987 and was the Soviet national all-around champion in 1982 and 1984. He was unable to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet...
  
   and Alexander Artemev
  Alexander Artemev
  Alexander Vladimirovich "Sasha" Artemev is an American artistic gymnast. He is the 2006 all-around U.S. National Champion, the 2007 and 2008 U.S. National Champion on the pommel horse and an individual bronze medalist at the 2006 World Championships. Artemev was a member of the bronze medal...
  
  
• Anzhela Atroshchenko
  Anzhela Atroshchenko
  Anzhela Atroshchenko-Kinet is a former Turkish athlete of Belarusian descent. She competed in the pentathlon and heptathlon category.-Biography:Atroshchenko started her career in athletics with pentathlon at the age of 14 years...
  
  
• Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
  
  
• Svetlana Boguinskaya
• Sergei Gurenko
  Sergei Gurenko
  Sergei Gurenko or Syarhey Hurenka is a retired Belarusian football player and currently works as Head Coach for FC Torpedo Zhodino.-Clubs:...
  
  
• Alexander Hleb
• Olga Korbut
  Olga Korbut
  Olga Valentinovna Korbut , also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team....
  
  
• Vitali Kutuzov
  Vitali Kutuzov
  Vitali Vladimirovich Kutuzov is a Belarusian football player, who plays the Belarusian national team.- Career :In 2001 he joined Italian side A.C. Milan from BATE Borisov, Belarus. During the half of the season he spent with the team he failed to establish himself in the first team, playing only...
  
  
• Dmitri Markov
  Dmitri Markov
  Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian and Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder.-Biography:...
  
  
• Vladimir Matyushenko
  Vladimir Matyushenko
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Matyushenko is a Belarusian mixed martial artist and the first and only International Fight League light heavyweight champion...
  
  
• Alexander Medved
  Alexander Medved
  Alexander Vasiliyevich Medved is a famous Soviet/Russian Belarussian wrestler. He is considered by most to be the best freestyle wrestler of all time. He was the first person ever to win three gold medals in freestyle wrestling. FILA recognizes Medved as The Greatest Wrestler of the 20th Century...
  
  
• Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000...
  
  
• Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
  
  
• Vitaly Scherbo
  Vitaly Scherbo
  Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo , born 13 January 1972 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, is a Belarusian and former Soviet artistic gymnast...
  
  
• Yulia Nestsiarenka

State, revolution, military

• Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk is the Slavic name for Ragnhild, whose father Ragnvald came from overseas and established himself at Polatsk in the mid-10th century....
  
  
• Alexander Lukashenko
  Alexander Lukashenko
  Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line...
  
  
• Alaksandar Milinkievič
  Alaksandar Milinkievic
  Aliaksandr Uładzimiravič Milinkevič is a Belarusian politician. He was nominated by the leading opposition parties in Belarus to run against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential election on 19 March 2006.-Biography:...
  
  
• Valeria Novodvorskaya
  Valeria Novodvorskaya
  Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya is a liberal Russian politician, Soviet dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party, and a member of the editorial board of The New Times...
  
  
• Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
  
  
• Vincuk Viačorka
  Vincuk Viacorka
  Vincuk Viačorka is a Belarusian linguist, politician and the former leader of the Belarusian National Front , a Belarusian opposition party.Vincuk Viačorka was born on July 7, 1961 in Brest in the family of a Soviet bureaucrat....
  
  
• Franak Viacorka
  Franak Viacorka
  Frančisak Valancinavič Viačorka is a Belarusian politician, youth leader. International Secretary for a Popular-Democratic Party "Belarusian Movement"...
  
  
• Zmitser Dashkevich
  Zmitser Dashkevich
  Zmitser Dashkevich ; born July 20, 1981 in Yelsk Raion, Homiel Voblast) is a Belarusian politician and one of the leaders of the unregistered youth opposition movement Malady Front....
  
  
• Chiang Fang-liang
  Chiang Fang-liang
  Faina Chiang Fang-liang was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
  
  
• Kastuś Kalinoǔski
• Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak is a Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Christian Conservative Party of the BPF...
  
  

Writers

See List of Belarusian writers

• Yanka Kupala
  Yanka Kupala
  Yanka Kupala — was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich , a Belarusian poet and writer. Kupala is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  
• Yakub Kolas
  Yakub Kolas
  Yakub Kolas , real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR , and member and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.In his works, Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry...
  
  
• Kondrat Krapiva
• Maxim Bogdanovich
• Mikhas Lynkov
• Vitaly Volsky
• Ales Adamovich
  Ales Adamovich
  Ales Adamovich was a Soviet writer and a critic, Professor and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Philosophy in philology, Doctorate in 1962 ; the people's deputy...
  
  
• Grigory Borodulin
• Mikalay Husowski
• Svetlana Aleksisevich
• Maxim Tank
  Maxim Tank
  Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator. People's Poet of Belarus, 1968. He was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1965-1971...
  
  
• Aleksei Dudarev
• Siarhey Balakhonau
  Siarhey Balakhonau
  Siarhey Balakhonau ; born April 24, 1977) is a Belarusian postmodern writer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Vasil Bykaŭ
• Vital Voranau
• Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
• Nil Gilevich
• Ivan Shamiakin
  Ivan Shamiakin
  Ivan Shamiakin — a Soviet Belarusian writer, he was perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the Soviet BSSR, writing in a socialist realist style....
  
  
• Yanka Maur
  Yanka Maur
  Yanka Maur , was a famous Belarusian writer. Yanka Maur was actually his pseudonym, while his real name was Ivan Mikhailavich Fiodarau . His son, Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, was a famous Belarusian physicist.He was born in Liepāja, Courland and grew up in the Belarusian village Lebianishki, which is now in...
  
  
• Uładzimir Karatkievič
• Hienadz Kliauko
  Hienadz Kliauko
  Hienadz Kliauko was a Soviet Belarusian poet and translator.- Biography :...
  
  
• Alexander S. Potupa
  Alexander S. Potupa
  Potupa Alexander Sergeevich was a Belarusian philosopher, writer, scientist and human rights activist.‎-Biography:Alexander Sergeevich Potupa was born in Sevastopol, Russia on March 21, 1945, eventually moving to Yeysk, where he went to school. He also became a chess master...
  
  

External links

• Famous Belarusians