Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz, better known as Władysław Syrokomla, was a Polish–Lithuanian poet, writer and translator of the Romantic era.

Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič was a Polish-Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school th