List of Famous people born in Minsk Region, Belarus

Yahor Zubovich

First Name Yahor
Born on June 1, 1989 (age 36)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Yahor Vyachaslavavich Zubovich is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays for Neman Grodno.

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Al Hoffman

First Name Al
Last Name Hoffman
Born on September 25, 1902
Died on July 21, 1960 (aged 57)

Al Hoffman was an American song composer. He was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number-one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today. He was posthumously made a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. The popularity of Hoffman's song, "Mairzy Doats", co-written with Jerry Livingston and Milton Drake, was such that newspapers and magazines wrote about the craze. Time magazine titled one article "Our Mairzy Dotage". The New York Times simply wrote the headline, "That Song".

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Girsch Feldman

First Name Girsch
Born on January 1, 1863
Died on November 30, 1937 (aged 74)
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Gavriil Tikhov

First Name Gavriil
Born on April 19, 1875
Died on January 25, 1960 (aged 84)

Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. After undertaking an expedition to Alma-Ata Observatory to observe a solar eclipse, he remained and became one of the founders of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

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Chaim Berlin

First Name Chaim
Died on September 24, 1912

Chaim Berlin was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889. He was the eldest son of the Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin.

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Uladzimir Ceslier

First Name Uladzimir
Born on April 30, 1951 (age 74)
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Andrei Khripach

First Name Andrei
Last Name Khripach
Born on May 28, 1972 (age 53)

Andrei Mihailavich Khripach is a Belarusian professional football coach and former player.

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Aliaksandr Herasimenka

First Name Aliaksandr
Born on January 15, 1946
Died on August 2, 2017 (aged 71)

Alexander Gerasimenko was a Belarusian politician and diplomat. He served as the Mayor of Minsk, the nation's capital, from 1991 until 1995.. Gerasimenko was later appointed chairman of the Council of the Elders. Additionally, Gerasimenko served as the Ambassador of Belarus to Bulgaria and Greece (1995–2000), as well as Latvia.

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Anastasia Vinnikova

First Name Anastasia
Last Name Vinnikova
Born on April 15, 1991 (age 35)

Anastasia Vinnikova, born 15 April 1991 is a singer from Belarus. She represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "I Love Belarus", but failed to qualify to the final.

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Yosef Dov Soloveitchik

First Name Yosef
Last Name Soloveitchik
Born on January 1, 1820
Died on May 1, 1892 (aged 72)

Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was the author of Beis Halevi, by which name he is better known among Talmudic scholars. He was the great-grandson of Chaim Volozhin.

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