Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, he composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", …

Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts) was a Belarusian-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.

David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891-December 12, 1971) was the Pioneer of American Television and founder of the [National Broadcasting Corporation], NBC. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities shortly after its founding in 1919 to his retirement in 1970. Known as "The General", he ruled over an ever-growing radio and electronics empire to include both RCA and NBC that became one of the largest companies in the world.

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily on movies and television, who arose to fame as Karl Malden's young partner, Insp. Steve Keller in the popular 1970s crime drama, "The Streets of San Francisco".

Louis Burt Mayer (born Eliezer Meir 1882 - October 29, 1957) was an early film producer, most famous for his stewardship and co-founding of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years.

Morris Raphael Cohen was a Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen. Cohen was born in Minsk, Belarus (then Russian empire), but moved with his family to New York, at the age of 12. He was educated at the City College of New York (ccNY) and Harvard University, where he studied under Josiah Royce, William James, …

Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 - July 8, 1985) was an American economist at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development".

David Dubinsky (David Dubnievski) (February 22, 1892 - September 17, 1982) was an American labor leader. He served as president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between 1932 and 1966, took part in the creation of the CIO and was one of the founders of the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York.

Immanuel Velikovsky (June 10, 1895 (NS) - November 17, 1979) is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on prehistory, in particular, the US bestseller "Worlds in Collision", published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series "Babylon 5" and its spin-off "Crusade". Straczynski wrote 91 out of the 110 "Babylon 5" episodes, …

Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski (Belarusian: "Мікалай Судзілоўскі", also known as Nicholas Russel, December 15 1850 - April 30, 1930 was a Belarusian revolutionary and scientist. Sudilovskij was born in Mahiliou to a noble family. He studied at St.Petersburg and Kiev universities where he began to get involved in political activity. In 1873-1874, Sudziloŭski was one of the organisers of the "Kiev commune", …

Bernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk (modern Belarus), in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the newly popularised cigarettes by hand. He invented a cigarette-making machine which he brought to England and sold for £160,000.

Yosef Tunkel (1881-August 9, 1949) was a Jewish-Belarusian-American writer of poetry and humorous prose in Yiddish commonly know by the pen name Der tunkeler or 'The dark one' in Yiddish. Born into the family of a poor teacher in Babruysk (in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire), Tunkel was a sickly child whose drawing ability promoted charitable members of the community to send him to art school in Kiev.

Shepard Broad was born on July 8, 1906 in Pinsk, Belarus as Szmuel Bobrowice. He was married to Ruth K. Broad. His life ended on November 6, 2001 at the age of ninety-five.

Leon Kobrin (1873^;1-1946) was a playwright in Yiddish theater, writer of short stories and novels, and a translator. As a playwright he is generally seen as a disciple of Jacob Gordin, but his mature work was more character-driven, more open and realistic in its presentation of human sexual desire, and less polemical than Gordin's.

Simeon Strunsky, A.B. (July 23, 1879-February 5, 1948) was an American essayist, born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (present day Belarus). He graduated from Columbia University in 1900. He was a department editor of the New International Encyclopedia from 1900 to 1906, editorial writer on the New York "Evening Post" from 1906 to 1913, and subsequently was literary editor of that paper until 1920. His columns also appeared in "Atlantic Monthly", "Bookman", …

Natalia Mishkutenok (or "Natalja Mishkutienok", Russian: Наталья Евгеньевна Мишкутёнок, born July 14, 1970 in Minsk, Belarus) was a Russian pairs figure skating champion. She competed for the Soviet Union, Russia, and the Unified Team. She trained in St. Petersburg with renowned Russian pairs coach Tamara Moskvina. She skated with partner Artur Dmitriev from 1987 to 1994; together, …

Jan Zaprudnik (Belarusian: "Янка Запруднік", real name Siarhiej Vilčycki, born 1926, Mir) is an American historian and publicist of Belarusian descent. He is also one of the leaders of the Belarusian community in the United States and an honoured member of the Belarusian PEN-centre.