List of Famous people born in Belarus

Gennady Anatolyevich Tumilovich is a Belarusian football coach and a former player.

Olga Yuryevna Smorodskaya is a Russian sports executive. Since 4 August 2010, she worked as the president of FC Lokomotiv Moscow. She resigned as Lokomotiv president on 10 August 2016.

Olga Kovalkova also known as Volha Kavalkova is a Belarusian activist and a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council of Belarus that was formed by the presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to transition the political power in Belarus in the aftermath the 2020 Belarusian protests and the disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election.

Sergei Gaidukevich is a Belarusian politician. He was the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the 2001, 2006, and 2015 elections for the office of President of Belarus. He was defeated in all attempts, since incumbent Alexander Lukashenko received an overwhelming majority of votes each time. He served as chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, from 1995 until September 2019, when he was succeeded by his son, Oleg Gaidukevich. He was then granted the title of Honorary Chairman at the 20th Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party. Gaidukevich has higher military education and served as an officer in the armed forces. Later he was a government functionary associated with various military issues.

Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director known for his documentary as well as dramatic films.

Maksim Yuryevich Nedasekau is a Belarusian athlete specialising in the high jump. He was the bronze medallist at the 2020 Olympic Games. He also won the gold medals at the 2021 European Indoor Championships, 2019 European U23 Championships and 2017 European U20 Championships.

Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky is a vascular surgeon recognized as a pioneer of vascular surgery in Russia. His text, Clinical Angiology, is acknowledged as a definitive treatment of the discipline in Russia and CIS.

Mikhail Emmanuilovich (Mendelevich) Plisetski was a Soviet diplomat.

Dmitri Valeriyevich Pavlichenko is head of the Belarusian Special Rapid Reaction Unit (SOBR).

Francišak Valancinavič (Franak) Viačorka (Viachorka) is a journalist from Belarus, Vice President of the Digital Communication Network and consultant for U.S. Agency for Global Media.