Editing Grodno (section)

==Notable people==
; Born in the town
* [[David of Grodno]] (died 1326), one of the famous military commander of [[Gediminas]], [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]
* [[January Suchodolski]] (1797–1875), Polish painter and Army officer
* [[Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski|Zygmunt Wróblewski]] (1845–1888), Polish physicist and chemist
* [[Moisey Ostrogorsky]] (1854–1921), political scientist, co-founder of [[political sociology]]
* [[Bronisław Bohaterewicz]] (1870–1940), Polish General, murdered in the [[Katyn Massacre]]
* [[Juliusz Rómmel]] (1881–1967), Polish military officer, General of the [[Polish Army]]
* [[Karol Rómmel]] (1888–1967), Polish military officer and sportsman
* [[Leib Naidus]] (1890–1918), Yiddish poet
* [[Walter Gretzky|Anton Gretzky]] (1892-1973), Polish-born grandfather of [[ice hockey]] player [[Wayne Gretzky]]
* [[Helena Antipoff]] (1892-1974), Russian-born Brazilian psychologist. 
* [[Anne Azgapetian]] (born 1888), nurse during World War I, fundraiser for Armenian relief causes
* [[Aleksei Antonov]] (1896–1962), [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief of the General Staff]] of the Soviet Army from February 1945
* [[David Rubinoff]] (1897–1986), American violinist
* [[Meyer Lansky]] (born Maier Suchowljansky; 1902–1983), American central figure in the Jewish Mafia and highly influential figure in the Italian Mafia
* [[Haim-Moshe Shapira]] (1902–1970), Israeli [[Health Minister of Israel|Minister of Health]], [[Immigrant Absorption Minister of Israel|Minister of Immigration]], [[Interior Minister of Israel|Minister of Internal Affairs]], [[Religious Services Minister of Israel|Minister of Religions]], [[Welfare and Social Services Minister of Israel|Minister of Welfare]], and [[Health Minister of Israel|Minister of Health]], and a signatory of [[Declaration of Independence (Israel)|Israel's declaration of independence]]
* [[Herman Yablokoff]] (1903–1981), Jewish American actor, singer, composer, poet, playwright, director and producer
* [[Henryk Hlebowicz]] (1904–1941), Polish Diocesan Priest (Blessed)
* [[Chaim Dov Rabinowitz]] (1909–2001), [[Hebrew]] rabbi noted for his commentary on the [[Hebrew Bible]]
* [[Zelik Epstein]] (1914–2009), prominent Orthodox Rabbi and head of a yeshiva
* [[Eitan Livni]] (1919–1991), Israeli politician, [[Irgun]] activist and father of [[Tzipi Livni]]
* [[Kanstantsin Lukashyk]] (born 1975), shooter who became the youngest gold medalist in shooting during the 1992 Olympics
* [[Paul Baran]] (born Pesach Baran; 1926–2011), American Internet pioneer and technology entrepreneur
*{{Interlanguage link multi|Wiktor Woroszylski|pl}} (1927–1996), Polish poet and author
* [[Jerzy Maksymiuk]] (born 1936), Polish musician and director
* [[Victor Aladjev]] (born 1942), Estonian mathematician and cybernetician, creator of the scientific school on the theory of homogeneous structures
* [[Alaksandar Milinkievič]] (born 1947), Belarusian politician, candidate in the 2006 presidential elections
* [[Olga Korbut]] (born 1955), gymnast and four-time gold medallist at 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games
* [[Valery Levaneuski]] (born 1963), entrepreneur, politician and former [[political prisoner]]
* [[Valery Tsepkalo]] (born 1965), diplomat and executive, founder of [[Belarus High Technologies Park|Belarus Hi-Tech Park]].
* [[Alexander Butko]] (born 1986), Olympic volleyball player
* [[Andrey Ashyhmin]] (born 1974), footballer
* [[Pavel Savitski]] (born 1994), footballer
* [[Sergey Grinevich]] (born 1960) Belarusian painter.
* [[Dzianis Ivashyn]] (born 1979), Belarusian journalist and political prisoner<ref>{{cite web |title=DZIANIS IVASHYN journalist |url=https://prisoners.spring96.org/en/person/dzianis-ivashyn |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[Danil Kopach]] (born 2000), Belarusian footballer
* [[Aleksandr Skorobogatov]] (born 1963), writer

[[File:Dom Elizy Orzeszkowej.jpg|thumb|Museum of writer [[Eliza Orzeszkowa]] at her former home]]
; Active in Grodno
* [[Vytautas|Vytautas the Great]] (1350–1430), [[List of rulers of Lithuania|Grand Duke of Lithuania]], commander of the forces of the Grand Duchy in the [[Battle of Grunwald]]
* [[Grigory Bogdanovich Volovich]], (1535–1577), mayor of Grodno 1558 to 1566
* [[Antoni Tyzenhaus]] (1733–1785), [[starost]] of Grodno, founder of numerous factories in the area
* [[Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert]] (1741–1814), French medic, botanist and biologist
* [[Benjamin Ashkenazi]] (1824–1894), communal worker and philanthropist
* [[L. L. Zamenhof]] (1859–1917), Polish physician, creator of [[Esperanto]]
* [[Pyotr Stolypin]] (1862–1911) in 1903 as a governor
* [[Maksim Bahdanovič]] (1891–1917), a Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic.
* [[Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński]] (1890–1939), Polish general, commander of the military region, murdered nearby by the Soviets
* Jan Kochanowski, a Polish creator of the local ZOO, murdered by the Nazis
* [[Paweł Jasienica]] (1909–1970), a Polish historian and author, started his career as a history teacher in Grodno in the 1920s and 1930s
* [[Vasil’ Bykaw]] (1924–2003), a Belarusian author
* [[Solomon Perel]] (1925–2023), a German Jew who survived World War II by masquerading as an ethnic German. He spent two years at a [[Komsomol]]-run orphanage in Grodno, before [[Operation Barbarossa]]
* [[Czesław Niemen]] (1939–2004), Polish musician, composer and one of the pioneers of [[progressive rock]] studied at a local music school
* [[Andżelika Borys]] (born 1973), former leader of Grodno-based [[Union of Poles in Belarus]]
; Died in Grodno
* [[Casimir IV Jagiellon]] (1427–1492), [[List of Polish monarchs|King of Poland]] and [[List of rulers of Lithuania|Grand Duke of Lithuania]]
* [[Saint Casimir]] (1458–1484), Roman Catholic saint and the [[patron saint]] of [[Lithuania]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Česnulis|first=Vytautas|date=27 September 2014|title=Kun. F. Nevieros kūrybinio palikimo papildymas|url=http://www.llks.lt/pdf/VORUTA/2014/Voruta-2014%2009%2027.pdf|journal=Voruta|language=lt|volume=13|issue=803}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Báthory]] (1533–1586), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
* [[Alexander Süsskind of Grodno]] (died 1794), Kabbalist
* [[Nachum Kaplan]] (1811–1879), preacher and philanthropist
* [[Eliza Orzeszkowa]] (1841–1910), Polish writer, born nearby and active in Grodno