Minsk - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Andrei Arlovski, grew up and lived in Minsk before moving to the United States to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion
  • Victoria Azarenka, World No. 1 tennis player and 2012 Australian Open winner, born in Minsk moving to Arizona at 16
  • Red Auerbach, American basketball coach
  • Svetlana Boginskaya, gold medal winning gymnast at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, birthplace
  • Isaac Boleslavsky, chess Grandmaster
  • Masha Bruskina, World War II partisan
  • Dimitry Elyashkevich, producer and camera operator, birthplace
  • Avraham Even-Shoshan (1906–84), Israeli linguist and lexicographer
  • Boris Gelfand, chess Grandmaster
  • Moisei Ginzburg, constructivist architect
  • Marina Gordon, soprano, birthplace
  • Oleg Karavayev, wrestler and Olympic Champion
  • Boris Khaykin, conductor
  • Maryna Linchuk
  • Louis Burt Mayer, American film producer. One of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Isaak Mazel, chess master
  • Max Mirnyi, tennis player
  • Yulia Raskina, Individual Rhythmic Gymnast who won the All-Around Silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
  • Alexander Rybak, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 for Norway, born in Minsk in 1986, at that time part of the Soviet Union
  • Yuri Shulman, chess grandmaster
  • Vanda Skuratovich, Roman Catholic activist
  • Mark Slavin, Israeli Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and victim of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  • Anna Smashnova, tennis player
  • Rachel Wischnitzer, architect and art historian
  • Simcha Zorin, World War II partisan

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