List of Famous people born in Gomel Region, Belarus

Ksenia Mikhailovna Sitnik, sometimes also transliterated as Kseniya Sitnik or Xenia Sitnik, is a Belarusian singer. She represented Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005, which she won with the self-penned song "My vmeste".

Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski was a Ruthenian Orthodox magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a prince, starost of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship. Ostrogski refused to help False Dmitriy I and supported Jan Zamoyski.

Alyaksandr Mikalaevich Kulchy is a Belarusian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of Dynamo-2 Moscow. He is the all-time most capped player for the Belarus national football team.

Valery Veniaminovich Gayevsky ; is a Russian politician who was the governor of Stavropol Krai in 2008-2012.

Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878–1944) was a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi in Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine. He was the father of the seventh and Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Moshe Menuhin (1893–1983) was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Jewish family. He was the great great grandson of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hassidism. When the family moved to Palestine, Moshe was sent to Orthodox Jewish schools, first to Yeshivas in Jerusalem, then to the Hebrew Gymnasia Herzlia in Jaffa - Tel Aviv.

Arkady Ivanovich Volsky was a Russian politician and businessman. He served as a senior aide to three Soviet General Secretaries, including Mikhail Gorbachev. He was founder and the first head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

Gennady Korotkevich is a Belarusian competitive programmer who has won major international competitions since the age of 11, as well as numerous national competitions. His top accomplishments include six consecutive gold medals in the International Olympiad in Informatics as well as the world championship in the 2013 and 2015 International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals. As of January 2021, Gennady is the highest-rated programmer at Codeforces, CodeChef, Topcoder, AtCoder and HackerRank.