WSvetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
WFrantsishak Alyakhnovich was a Belarusian writer, journalist of Szlachta origins.
WBohdan Andrusyshyn, also known under his stage name Danchyk, is a Belarusian journalist and former singer.
WHemda Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish journalist and author, and the wife of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
WHienadz Buraukin was a Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat.
WKlawdziy Stsyapanavich Duzh-Dushewski was a Belarusian civil engineer, architect, diplomat and journalist. He is believed to be the creator of the Flag of Belarus in 1917.
WTadeusz Gawin is a Belarusian Polish journalist and activist. He is co-founder and first President of the Union of Poles in Belarus from 1990 to 2000, now Honorary President of the UPB and activist of the democratic opposition in Belarus.
WWincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, also known as Vincent Kanstancin Kalinoŭski or Kastuś Kalinoŭski, Konstanty Kalinowski (Polish) and Konstantinas Kalinauskas (Lithuanian), was a 19th-century Belarusian writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary. He was one of the leaders of the Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian national revival and the leader of the January Uprising in lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
WUładzisłau Kazłouski was a Belarusian publicist, publisher, poet, critic journalist, activist and communist politician.
WYa'akov Klivnov was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists from 1949 until 1955, and again from 1955 until 1957.
WKandrat Krapiva was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic. He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in 1971. From 1950 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR. He was a writer for the magazine, "Połymia".
WAnton Ivanavich Luckiewich was a Belarusian publisher, journalist, literary critic, historian and politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Belarus in 1918.
WAleh Lukashevich, , is a Belarusian journalist, television presenter, director, photographer.
WEvgeny Morozov is an American writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.
WSiarhei Navumchyk is a Belarusian journalist and politician.
WAlexander Otroschenkov is a Belarusian political activist and journalist. In 2011 he was sentenced to four years in prison after he covered a protest rally as a journalist. He was listed by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience.
WEvgeny Perlin is a Belarusian journalist and television presenter. On 26 October 2018, it was announced that Perlin would host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018, alongside singers Helena Meraai and Zinaida Kupriyanovich, in Minsk. On 13 August, 2020 he announced his resignation from the Belarusian state television (BTRC) amid the ongoing protests in the country.
WAndrzej Poczobut is a Belarusian and Polish journalist and activist of the Polish minority in Belarus. He lives in Hrodna, Belarus.
WNatalya Radina is a Belarusian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the independent news site Charter 97, which publishes many articles critical of the rule of Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko.
WPaval Sieviaryniec is a Belarusian Journalist and Christian democratic politician and youth leader and one of the founders of the Young Front.
WMaksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.
WJazep Varonka was the first Chairman of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian Democratic Republic from 21 February to May 1918.
WAnatol' Volny was a Belarusian artist, poet, writer and journalist. During the Great Purge, he became a victim of the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.
WVozhyk is a Belarusian humour magazine offering satire, cartoons, caricature and humorous essays to its readership. Vozhyk stands for "hedgehog" in Belarusian.