List of Famous people born in Białystok, Poland

Izabella Scorupco is a Polish-Swedish actress, singer and model. She is best known for having played Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is also remembered for her cover of the Shirley & Company song "Shame, Shame, Shame" which was released in 1992 and became a European hit.

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet politician.

Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof was a Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and the creator of the international language Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language in the world.

Rosa Raisa was a Polish-born and Italian-trained Russian-Jewish dramatic operatic soprano who became a naturalized American. She possessed a voice of remarkable power and was the creator of the title role of Puccini's last opera, Turandot, at La Scala, Milan.

Mischa Spoliansky was a Russian-born composer who lived for many years in Britain.

Dziga Vertov was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.

Leo Wiener (1862–1939) was an American historian, linguist, author and translator.