List of Famous people born in Minsk, Belarus

Paula Ben-Gurion was the wife of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

Natallia Tsylinskaya is an international cyclist, specialising in track sprinting. A dominant force in particular in the 500m time trial between 2000 and 2006, Tsylinskaya is an eight time World Champion, and an Olympic bronze medalist.

Mikalay Mikalayevich Branfilaw is a Belarusian football coach and former player.

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.

Anastasiya Igorevna Cherniavskaya is a Belarusian badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Baku and 2019 Minsk European Games.

Sergei Vladimirovich Borovsky is a football coach and former player.

Polina Smolova is a pop singer and the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song Mum, with which she took part in the Eurovision semi-final.

Angelica Anatolievna Yalinskaya, better known as Angelica Agurbash, is a Belarusian singer and former model best known internationally for representing Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.

Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov was a Russian statesman and diplomat, who laid foundations for the fortunes of the Vorontsov family.