List of Belarusian Jews
Presented below are lists of notable Belarusians of Jewish descent, Jewish people born on the territory of present-day Belarus or of full or partial Belarusian Jewish origin. == Scientists == Zhores Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2000), born in Viciebsk (Jewish mother) Yakov Zel'dovich, physicist Lev Vygotsky, psychologist Seymour Lubetzky, cataloging theorist Semyon Kosberg, Soviet aircraft and rocket engineer, born in Słucak Lera Boroditsky, Cognitive psychologist Noam Chomsky, linguist Paul Krugman, economist Paul B. Sigler, biochemist, parents from Minsk === Mathematicians === Naum Akhiezer, mathematician, born in Čerykaŭ Issai Schur, German-Israeli mathematician, born in Mahiloŭ Oscar Zariski, Belarusian mathematician == Politicians == === United States === Leonard Adleman, Computer Scientist David Dubinsky, labor leader, born in Bieraście Joseph Schlossberg, labor activist Baruch Charney Vladeck, journalist, labor leader and politician === Canada === David Lewis (Losz), ex-leader of the NDP === International === Alexander Parvus, international revolutionary, born in Bierazino === Israel === Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister, Nobel Prize winner (1994) Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, inventor of synthetic acetone, born in Motal Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister, Nobel Prize winner (1978), born in Brest Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli prime minister (1984–85 1988–90), born in Ruzhany Zerach Warhaftig, born in Vaukavysk Berl Katznelson, One of the intellectual founders of the Labor movement in Israel Kadish Luz, Israeli speaker of the Knesset, born in Bobruysk Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister, Nobel Prize winner (1994) === Russian Empire and the USSR and Russia === Hesya Helfman, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya Valeriya Novodvorskaya, liberal Russian politician, Soviet dissident Iosif Bleikhman, anarchist revolutionary === Belarus === Viktor Sheiman, adviser to President Alexander Lukashenko, influential Belarusian politician (of partial Jewish descent) Mikola Abramchyk, president of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (of partial Jewish descent) == Writers == Isaac Dov Berkowitz, Israeli writer Źmitrok Biadula, Belarusian poet Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher Leon Kobrin Lazar Lagin Ayn Rand, father born in Brest-Litovsk David Pinski, American and Israeli writer, born in Mahiliou Ryhor Reles Mendele Mocher Sforim, writer Carlos Sherman, Belarusian-Uruguayan writer and translator (Jewish father) Immanuel Velikovsky, cosmology writer Celia Dropkin, American poet (Yiddish) Samuel Ornitz, American novelist and screenwriter == Journalists == Larry King, of Belarusian-Jewish parents Eugene Lyons Andrew Patner, of Belarusian-Jewish grandparents == Historians == Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar Avraham Harkavi, historian S. Ansky, a scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs, born in Chashniki == Composers and musicians == Modest Altschuler, cellist, orchestral conductor and composer Irving Berlin, American composer Arkadi Duchin, Israeli singer-songwriter and musical producer Mark Fradkin, Soviet composer == Artists == Léon Bakst, painter and scene- and costume designer Marc Chagall, painter Ossip Zadkine, sculptor (Jewish father) Michel Kikoine, painter Naum Gabo, sculptor Antoine Pevsner, sculptor Pinchus Kremegne, painter Chaïm Soutine, painter Mark Rothko, painter El Lissitzky, painter ('greater' Belarus) == Businesspeople == Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencers Louis B. Mayer, co-founder MGM Ralph Lauren, fashion designer, son of Belarusian-Jewish emigrants Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform Brassieres, born in Minsk David Sarnoff, head of RCA Ruslan Kogan Gary Vaynerchuk Sheryl Sandberg, technology executive, her maternal ancestors came from Vidzy Jared Kushner, real estate developer, his paternal grandparents came from Navahrudak Michael Bloomberg (founder of Bloomberg L.P.), whose maternal grandfather was an immigrant from what is present-day Belarus.