Linguists from Belarus

Eliyahu "Elye" Falkovitsh (1898–1979) was a Belarusian-Jewish Yiddish linguist.

Jan (Janka) Stankievič (Ian Stankevich, Belarusian: Ян Станкевіч, Polish: Jan Stankiewicz; November 26, 1891 – August 16, 1976) was a Belarusian-American politician, linguist, historian and philosopher.

Lev Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба, Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба) (March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.

Yefim Fyodorovich Karskiy (Belarusian: Яўхім Фёдаравіч Карскі, Jaŭchim Fiodaravič Karski, Russian: Ефим Фёдорович Карский; Russian: Евфимий Феодорович Карский, older name form) (1 January 1861 (20 December 1860) – 29 April 1931) was a Belarusian-Russian linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer, founder of Belarusian linguistics, literary studies and paleography, a member of numerous scientific institutions, and author of more than 100 works on linguistics, ethnography, paleography and others.

Ivan Ivanavich Antanovich (Belarusian: Іва́н Іва́навіч Антано́віч, Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Антоно́вич born 3 April 1937) is a Belarusian sociologist, linguist, political scientist, philosopher, diplomat, and politician. He was a professor of sociology in 1973 and a doctorate for Doktor nauk in 1977. He is a founder of the Republican Party of Labour and Justice. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Belarus from 1997 to 1998. He speaks fluent Belarusian, Russian and English.

Aleh Anatolievich Trusaŭ (Belarusian: Алег Анатольевіч Трусаў, Russian: Олег Анатольевич Трусов, Oleg Anatoljewicz Trusow; born 7 August 1954 in Mstsislaw) is a Belarusian historian, archaeologist, politician, and social activist. He is one of the founders of the BPF Party and the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly, both of which are organizations and parties with a national and independence-oriented character. From 1990 to 1995, he was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic/Supreme Council of Belarus of the 12th convocation and a member of the BPF Party parliamentary opposition faction. He holds the academic title of Candidate of Sciences and is a historian specializing in Belarusian architecture. Since 1999, he has been the chairman of the Francišak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society.