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. Religious leaders Rabbis Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, yeshiva dean of Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) Shlomo Harkavy, spiritual dean of Grodno Yeshiva Yosef Yozel Horowitz, founder and dean of Novardok Yeshiva Yisrael Meir Kagan, author, yeshiva dean, and spiritual leader of world-Jewry Boruch Ber Leibowitz, yeshiva dean of Kaminetz Yeshiva Isser Zalman Meltzer, rabbi and yeshiva in Slutsk and Jerusalem Yisroel Yaakov Lubchansky, spiritual dean of Baranovich Yeshiva Aaron of Pinsk, rabbi in Pinsk Pesach Pruskin, rabbi and yeshiva dean in Kobrin David Rappoport, yeshiva dean of Baranovich Yeshiva Shimon Shkop, yeshiva dean of the Grodno Yeshiva Chaim Soloveitchik, rabbi in Brest Joseph Soloveitchik, rabbi and yeshiva dean in Boston and New York Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, rabbi in Brest Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi), rabbi in Slutsk and Brest Chaim Leib Tiktinsky, yeshiva dean of Mir Yeshiva Naftoli Trop, yeshiva dean of Radin Yeshiva Chaim Volozhin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Yitzchak Volozhin, yeshiva dean of Volozhin Yeshiva Elchonon Wasserman, yeshiva dean of Baranovich Yeshiva Shabsi Yogel, yeshiva dean in Slonim and Jerusalem Hasidic rebbes Chaim Chaykl Levin, rebbe of Amdur Aharon Perlow (I), rebbe of Karlin Aharon Perlow (II), rebbe of Karlin Aharon Perlow of Koidanov, rebbe of Koidanov Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, rebbe of Chabad Elijah Horowitz-Winograd, scion of Nikolsburg dynasty; rabbi in Lida Sportspeople Elena Altshul, draughts player Boris Gelfand, chess player Yuri Foreman, boxer Victor Mikhalevski, chess player Anna Smashnova, tennis player Alexandra Zaretsky/Roman Zaretsky, Israeli figure skaters Military people Nahum Eitingon, Soviet spy and NKVD officer Tuvia Bielski and Asael Bielski, leaders of a Jewish partisan group (the Bielski partisans) in the World War II Yefim Fomin, Political Commissar of 86th Regiment, 6th Rifle Division of the Red Army. Executed without delay by Nazis after being identified