Notable Belarusian Jews
see List of Belarusian Jews
- Marc Chagall, painter
- Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-1983), Nobel Prize (1978)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Israeli linguist, father of modern Hebrew language
- Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel, syntetic acetone
- Shimon Peres, Belarusian-born Israeli PM, Nobel Prize (1994)
- Irving Berlin, American composer
- Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencers
- Louis B. Mayer, co-founder MGM
- Rabbi Louis Abrahamson, religious leader
Naum Akhiezer, Belarusian mathematician,
- S. Ansky
- Isaac Dov Berkowitz, writer
- Asael Bielski
- Tuvia Bielski
- Zus Bielski
- Aron Bielski
- Bella Chagall, the wife of Chagall
- Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
- David Dubinsky, labor leader
- Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian
- Nahum Eitingon
- Naum Gabo, sculptor
- Boris Gelfand, chess player
- Gesya Gelfman
- Eugene Lyons
- Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
- Ossip Zadkine, sculptor (Jewish father)
- Lazar Gulkowitsch
- Avraham Harkavi, historian
- Michel Kikoine, painter
- Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg
- Pinchus Kremegne, painter
- Moyshe Kulbak
- Seymour Lubetzky, cataloging theorist
- Mark Nemenman
- Alexander Parvus
- David Pinski, writer
- Zvi Yosef Resnick, Rosh yeshivah (Dean of a rabbinical academy)
- Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform
- Yitzhak Salkinsohn
- David Sarnoff, head of RCA
- Feodor Schapiro, Belarusian nuclear physicist
- Issai Schur, Belarusian-born German Israeli mathematician
- Mendele Mocher Sforim, writer
- Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli PM (1983-1984; 1986-1992)
- Carlos Sherman, writer, translator (Jewish father)
- Chaim Soutine, painter
- Immanuel Velikovsky, cosmology writer
- Joseph Soloveitchik
- Lev Vygotsky, psychologist
- Oscar Zariski, Belarus-born mathematician
- Morris B. Zale, founder of Zale Corporation
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