The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Belarus
This page contains a list of the greatest Belarusian Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 1 of which were born in Belarus. This makes Belarus the birth place of the 39th most number of Journalists behind New Zealand and Iraq.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belarusian Journalists of all time. This list of famous Belarusian Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pavel Sheremet (1971 - 2016)
With an HPI of 38.12, Pavel Sheremet is the most famous Belarusian Journalist. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Шеремет, Belarusian: Павел Рыгоравіч Шарамет, 28 November 1971 – 20 July 2016) was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was imprisoned by the government of Belarus in 1997, sparking an international incident between Belarus and Russia. The New York Times has described him as "known for his crusading reports about political abuses in Belarus" and "a thorn in the side of Lukashenko's autocratic government". He was awarded the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award in 1999 and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 2002. Pavel Sheremet died in Kyiv on 20 July 2016 in a car explosion. The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office stated in July 2016 that the explosion was caused by a bomb and labelled the death of Sheremet a murder.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as journalists born between 1971 and 1971. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased journalists include Pavel Sheremet.
