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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Vaynerchuk | Gary Vaynerchuk | 1975 | n/a | Belarusian | entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Vaynerchuk |
| Tuvia Bielski | Tuvia Bielski | 1906 | 1987 | Belarusian | Jewish militant who was leader of the Bielski group, a group of Jewish partisans who set up refugee camps for Jews fleeing the Holocaust during World War II. Their camp was situated in the Naliboki forest, which was part of Poland between World War I and World War II, and which is now in western Belarus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvia_Bielski |
| Chaïm Soutine | Chaïm Soutine | 1893 | 1943 | Belarusian | painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaïm_Soutine |
| Ossip Zadkine | Ossip Zadkine | 1888 | 1967 | Belarusian | naturalized artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Zadkine |
| Masha Bruskina | Maria "Masha" Bruskina | 1924 | 1941 | Belarusian | Jewish nurse and a member of the Minsk Resistance during World War II. While volunteering as a nurse, she cared for Soviet forces, and assisted them in escaping | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Bruskina |
| Boris Nayfeld | Boris 'Biba' Nayfeld | null | null | Belarusian | former/Russian mob boss and heroin trafficker, who operated out of Brighton Beach, New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nayfeld |
| Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz | Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz | 1878 | 1953 | Belarusian | born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrohom_Yeshaya_Karelitz |
| Max Eitingon | Max Eitingon | 1881 | 1943 | Belarusian | medical doctor and psychoanalyst, instrumental in establishing the institutional parameters of psychoanalytic education and training | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Eitingon |
| Diana Vaisman | Diana Vaisman | 1998 | n/a | Belarusian | sprinter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Vaisman |
| Yury Shulman | Yuri Shulman | 1975 | n/a | Belarusian | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Shulman |
| Alec Mazo | Alec Mazo | 1978 | n/a | Belarusian | producer and former professional dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Mazo |
| Iryna Khalip | Iryna Khalip (or Irina Khalip; , ) | 1967 | n/a | Belarusian | journalist, reporter and editor in the Minsk bureau of Novaya Gazeta, known for her criticism of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iryna_Khalip |
| Ida Mett | Ida Mett | 1901 | 1973 | Belarusian | anarchist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Mett |
| Bella Rosenfeld | Bella Rosenfeld Chagall | 1895 | 1944 | Belarusian | Jewish writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Rosenfeld |
| Herman Yablokoff | Herman Yablokoff | 1903 | 1981 | Belarusian | Jewish actor, singer, composer, poet, playwright, director and producer who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Yablokoff |
| Mikola Abramchyk | Mikola Abramchyk | 1903 | 1970 | Belarusian | journalist and emigre politician of Ottoman Armenian Jewish descent and president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile during 1943–1970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikola_Abramchyk |
| Charles Jaffe | Charles Jaffé (Jaffe) | 1879 | 1941 | Belarusian | chess master and chess writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jaffe |
| Kadia Molodowsky | Kadia Molodowsky | 1894 | 1975 | Belarusian | Jewish-born American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadia_Molodowsky |
| Ida Rosenthal | Ida Rosenthal | 1886 | 1973 | Belarusian | dressmaker and businesswoman who co-founded Maidenform | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rosenthal |
| Mai Dantsig | Mai Volfovich Dantsig | 1930 | 2017 | Belarusian | artist active during the Soviet era and independence of Belarus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Dantsig |
| Berta Singerman | Berta Singerman Begun | 1901 | 1998 | Belarusian | singer and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Singerman |
| Roman Rubinshteyn | Roman Rubinshteyn | 1996 | n/a | Belarusian | professional basketball player for Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Rubinshteyn |
| William Auerbach-Levy | William Auerbach-Levy | 1889 | 1964 | Belarusian | born American artist of Jewish origin known for his paintings, etchings and caricatures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Auerbach-Levy |
| Zvi Hirsch Masliansky | Zvi Hirsch Masliansky | 1856 | 1943 | Belarusian | Jewish-American rabbi, lecturer, and Zionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Hirsch_Masliansky |
| Moyshe Kulbak | Moyshe Kulbak | 1896 | 1937 | Belarusian | Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyshe_Kulbak |
| Isaak Mazel | Isaak Yakovlevich Mazel | 1911 | 1945 | Belarusian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Mazel |
| Sophia Getzowa | Sophia Getzowa | 1872 | n/a | Belarusian | pathologist and scientist in Mandatory Palestine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Getzowa |
| Joshua L. Goldberg | Joshua Louis Goldberg | 1896 | 1994 | Belarusian | rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_L._Goldberg |
| David Dallin | David J. Dallin | 1889 | 1962 | Belarusian | one-time Menshevik leader and later a writer and lecturer on Soviet affairs, who helped Victor Kravchenko defect in the 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dallin |
| Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein | Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein | null | null | Belarusian | Yiddish poet and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Shumiatcher-Hirschbein |
| Meer Akselrod | Meer Moiseevich Akselrod | 1902 | 1970 | Belarusian | painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meer_Akselrod |
| Benjamin Sonnenberg | Benjamin Sonnenberg | 1901 | 1978 | Belarusian | public relations consultant who represented celebrities and major corporations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Sonnenberg |
| Shepard Broad | Shepard Broad | 1906 | 2001 | Belarusian | banker, lawyer, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Broad |
| Marina Gordon | Marina Gordon | 1917 | 2013 | Belarusian | singer and coloratura soprano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Gordon |
| Konstantin Vygodchikov | Konstantin Vygodchikov | 1892 | 1941 | Belarusian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Vygodchikov |
| Harry Rogoff | Harry "Hillel" Rogoff | 1882 | 1971 | Belarusian | Jewish-American journalist, author, and editor of The Forward | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rogoff |
| Saul M. Ginsburg | Saul M. Ginsburg | 1866 | 1940 | Belarusian | Jewish author, editor, and historian of Russian Jewry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_M._Ginsburg |
| Mikhail Tseitlin | Mikhail Semyonovich Tseitlin | 1947 | n/a | Belarusian | chess Grandmaster, now resident in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tseitlin |
| Boris Zaborov | Boris Abramovich Zaborov | 1935 | 2021 | Belarusian | artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Zaborov |
| Léon Monosson | Léon Monosson | 1892 | 1943 | Belarusian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Monosson |
| Mark Mratchny | Mark Mratchny | 1892 | 1975 | Belarusian | Jewish writer, anarcho-syndicalist and a member of the Makhnovist movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mratchny |
| Rakhil Eidelson | Rakhil (Rachel) Eidelson | 1958 | n/a | Belarusian | chess Woman Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhil_Eidelson |
| Leon Gleckman | Leon Gleckman | 1894 | 1941 | Belarusian | Jewish immigrant to the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Gleckman |
| Sarah Reisen | Sarah Reisen | 1885 | 1975 | Belarusian | Yiddish poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Reisen |
| Abraham Liessin | Abraham Walt | 1872 | 1938 | Belarusian | Jewish-American socialist activist, Yiddish poet, and newspaper editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Liessin |
| Veniamin Blazhenny | Veniamin Mikhailovich Blazhenny , real surname Eisenstadt | 1921 | 1999 | Belarusian | Christian poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Blazhenny |
| Yakau Branshteyn | Yakau Anatolevich Branshteyn | 1897 | 1937 | Belarusian | literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakau_Branshteyn |
| Aaron ben Meir of Brest | Aaron ben Meir of Brest | null | null | Belarusian | rabbi; born about the beginning of the eighteenth century at Brest-Litovsk, Belarus; died there Nov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_ben_Meir_of_Brest |
| Yehuda Leib Krinsky | Yehuda Leib Krinsky | null | null | Belarusian | Jewish Hebrew scholar, theologian, businessman and philanthropist, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Leib_Krinsky |
| Joel Slonim | Joel Slonim | 1884 | 1944 | Belarusian | Jewish-American Yiddish journalist and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Slonim |
| Arkady Ruderman | Arkady Abramovich Ruderman | 1950 | 1992 | Belarusian | documentary filmmaker who was killed during the Civil war in Tajikistan in 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Ruderman |
| Elye Falkovitsh | Eliyahu "Elye" Falkovitsh | 1898 | 1979 | Belarusian | Jewish Yiddish linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elye_Falkovitsh |
| Maksim Matveevich Cherednyak | Maksim Matveevich Cherednyak | null | null | Belarusian | Jewish anarchist, a member of the Makhnovist movement and commander of the Yekaterinoslav infantry regiment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Matveevich_Cherednyak |
| Harry Kopp | Harry Kopp | 1880 | 1943 | Belarusian | Jewish-American lawyer and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kopp |