Notable People
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, physicist, 2000 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics
- S. Ansky, playwright, The Dybbuk.
- Marc Chagall, artist
- El Lissitzky, artist
- Yehuda Pen, artist
- Joseph Günzburg
- Leon Kobrin, playwright
- Marcelo Koc (1918–2006), composer
- Immanuel Velikovsky, psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and author
- Kazimierz Siemienowicz, engineer, pioneer of rocketry
- Simeon Strunsky (born 1879), author in New York City
- Joseph Solman (born 1909), American painter
- Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (born 1730), Hasidic Rebbe
- Isser Harel (1912-2003), Israel intelligence chief
- Tanya Dziahileva (born 1991), model
- Leonid Afremov, artist
- Lazar Lagin, writer
- Sergei Kornilenko, footballer
- Max Danish (1881-1964), labor journalist, editor "Justice" (ILGWU)
- Valery Gaydenko, artist, guitarist
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