List of Famous people born in Gomel Region, Belarus

Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka is a Belarusian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors, Rietumu Banka–Riga, Tinkoff Credit Systems, Movistar Team and Team Ineos squads.

Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura is a Russian astrophysicist. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. As a well-known specialist in the theory of accretion disks, as well as X-ray binaries, together with Rashid Sunyaev, he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretion.

Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky was a Prime Minister of Belarus from 11 July 2004 to 28 December 2010. He was appointed Acting Prime Minister on July 11, 2004 to replace the dismissed Gennady Novitsky, and was confirmed as permanent Prime Minister on December 19, 2004.

Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou is a Belarusian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, Fassa Bortolo, Acqua & Sapone, Barloworld, HTC–Highroad, Team Sky, Team Dimension Data and Bahrain–Merida squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin.

Mikhail Nikiforovich Vergeyenko is a Belarusian association football manager and former goalkeeper who managed the Belarus national football team between 1992 and 1994 and from 1998 to 1999. Vergeyenko also played for Dinamo Minsk between 1 July 1968 and 30 June 1983.