8 Notable alumni of Gomel State University

Maryia Mamashuk is a Belarusian wrestler. Competing in the 63 kg division, she won silver medals at the 2014 European Championships and the 2016 Olympics. In 2016, she also won the European title in the 69 kg category.

Uladzimir Izotau is a Belarusian para swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke. At the 2016 Paralympic Games, he won the gold medal in the men's 100m breaststroke SB12 final. The games were commemorated on postage stamps all over the world. Izotau represented Belarus.

Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky is a Belarusian YouTuber, video blogger, opposition leader and pro-democracy activist. He is primarily known for his activism against the government of Belarus's long-serving president, Alexander Lukashenko. In May 2020, he announced his intention of running for the 2020 presidential election, but he was arrested two days after the announcement, and his wife Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya then ran...

Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski is a Belarusian human rights defender, pro-democracy activist, and writer. He is chair of the Viasna Human Rights Centre. He was held as a prisoner of conscience. An activist for Belarusian independence and democracy since the early 1980s, Bialiatski is a founding member of Viasna and the Belarusian Popular Front, serving as leader of the latter from...

Ivan Shamiakin was a Soviet Belarusian writer, perhaps one of the most prolific of the BSSR, writing in a socialist realist style.

Alla Petrovna Tsuper is a Ukrainian (until 2000) and Belarusian (since 2000) aerial skier.

Yuri Anatolyevich Rydkin is a Russian and Belarusian poet, media artist, a bot poetry (bot-non-fiction) researcher, musical performer.