People
- Leonid Geishtor, Belarusian Olympic champion and world champion sprint canoer
- Andrei Gromyko, a Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988)
- Iryna Yatchanka, Belarusian Olympic medal winner
- Sergei Kurek – famous Belarussian bluesman. Shared stage with such worldknown bluesgiants Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Willson(Fabulous Thunderbirds), Sonny Landreth.
- Sergei Sidorsky, Prime Minister of Belarus from 2003 until December 2010
- Seryoga, rapper (often referred to as the Slavic Eminem)
- Igor Polotsky, famous watchmaker
- Kanstantsin Siutsou, professional road cyclist
- Mikhail Grabovski, professional ice hockey player, currently with the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Harry and Bryna Danielovich, the parents of Kirk Douglas emigrated from Gomel, although he was born in Amsterdam, New York
- Yuri Sharapov and Elena Sharapova, the parents of Maria Sharapova, left Gomel after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986
- Mikhas Brusovanik, pioneer of Belarusian Rock Music, leader of the band Accent and member of the band Otrazhenie
- Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960) Yiddish singer
- Yuri Foreman, the first Israeli boxing world champion
- Dimitry Fomkin, World famous stunt bike rider
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“Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)