List of Famous people born in Belarus
Igor Chernevich
Valery Panov
Valery Matveevich Panov is an Israeli dancer and choreographer. Born and raised in the Soviet Union, he trained in Leningrad and performed with the Kirov from 1964 to 1972. He and his second wife Galina, who was a ballerina at the Kirov, came to international attention in 1972 when they applied for exit visas to emigrate to Israel, which they were given in 1974. Panov worked with the Berlin Opera Ballet, as well as companies in other western European and North American countries, during the late 1970s and 1980s. He formed the Ashdod Art Centre in Israel, in 1993, and five years later founded the Panov Ballet Theatre, also in Ashdod.
Vladimir Kovalyonok
Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok is a retired Soviet cosmonaut.
Mikalai Ladutska
Igor Rodobolsky
Dana Borisova
Elena Kazantseva
Elena Kazantseva is a Belarusian poet and singer-songwriter who writes in the Russian language. She recorded five music albums with songs on her own poetry and published two books of her poems, "Night City" (1992) and "Concerto " (2002). She sings and plays the guitar and the piano. In 1988, she won Second All-Union festival of song in Tallinn.
Inna Afanasieva
Ihar Marzaliuk
Alesya
Alesya (Алеся) (born Вольга Анатолеўна Ярмоленка) is a Belarusian singer who is a member of the band Syabry.