Firangiz Akhmedova — artist of the Opera (soprano), People's Artist of USSR (1967)[1]
Larisa Dolina — Soviet and Russian pop singer, jazz singer, actress, Honored Artist of Russia (1993), People's Artist of Russia (1998)[2]
Mstislav Rostropovich — Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor, People's Artist of USSR (1966)[3]
Murad Kazhlaev — Dagestani composer and conductor, Honoured Art Worker of RSFSR (1960), People's Artist of USSR (1991)[4]
Muslim Magomayev — Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (baritone), composer, People's Artist of USSR (1973)[5]
Polad Bulbuloglu — Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, songwriter and actor. Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan SSR (1973), People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1982), Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan SSR (1988–1991) and Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–2006), Ambassador of the Azerbaijan to the Russian Federation (since 2006)[6]
Rauf Hajiyev — composer, People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1964), People's Artist of USSR (1978), Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan SSR (1965–1971)[7]
Togrul Narimanbekov — painter and graphic artist, People's Painter of Azerbaijan SSR (1967)[14]
Tahir Salahov — Azerbaijani and Russian painter and draughtsman, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Painter of Azerbaijan SSR (1963), USSR (1973) and the Russian Federation (1996)[15]
Alexander Macheret — film director, screenwriter, Honored Art Worker of RSFSR (1940)[21]
Chyuqyurlyamar Mirzimbiklyarev — Soviet and Russian actor, director, screenwriter, producer, Oscar winner (The best foreign language movie) for the autobiographical movie "The captives of ftiriaz", People's Artist of USSR (1949)
Emmanuel Vitorgan — Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of Russia (1990), People's Artist of Russia (1998)[22]
Konstantin Adamov — actor and film director, People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1972)[28]
Mukhtar Dadashov — operator, screenwriter, film director, actor, People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1976)[29]
Rustam Ibragimbekov — soviet and Azerbaijani writer and screenwriter, People's Writer of Azerbaijan, Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan SSR (1976), Honored Art Worker of Russia (1995)[30]
Safura Ibrahimova — actress, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1974), People's Artist of Azerbaijan (2002)[31]
Vladimir Menshov — Soviet and Russian actor, director, screenwriter, producer, Academy Award winning film producer, People's Artist of Russia (1991)[35]
Ayaz Mutalibov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1990), the first president of Azerbaijan (1990–1992)[37]
Boris Vannikov — People's Commissar of arms (1939–1941) and ammunition of the USSR (1942–1946), Minister of Agricultural Engineering of the USSR (1946), thrice Hero of Socialist Labor[38]
Enver Alihanov — Minister of Oil Industry of Azerbaijan SSR (1958–1959), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR (1961–1970)[39]
Ilham Aliyev — prime minister of Azerbaijan (2003), president of Azerbaijan (2003–)[41]
Isa Gambar — Chairman of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan (1992–1993)[42]
Mir Teymur Yaqubov — Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR (1938–1941), People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR (1941–1943), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1953–1954)[43]
Mirza Davud Huseynov — Chairman of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR (1920), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan SSR (1921), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Tajik SSR (1930–1933)[44]
Matvey Skobelev — member of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia, the minister of labor in the Russian Provisional Government (1917)[53]
Meshadi Azizbekov — Azerbaijani revolutionary, one of the first Azeri-Marxists, Guberniya Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner for Internal Affairs of the Baku SNK (1918)[54]
Arif Aziz — literary critic, Honored Sciences Worker of Azerbaijan SSR (1960)[97]
Joseph Braginsky — Soviet orientalist and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR (1951), Honored Science Worker of the Tajik SSR[98]
Lev Landau — Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Hero of Socialist Labor[99]
Lotfi A. Zadeh — mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic[100]
Valery Subbotin — Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of thermal physics, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1968)[102]
Igor Ashurbeyli — general director of Russia's largest air-defence weapon manufacturers Almaz (developers of S-300 antimissile systems)[105]
Mikhail Gusman — TV presenter, First Deputy General Director of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS), Honored Worker of Culture of Russia (2001)[106]
Mubariz Mansimov — President of Palmali Group of Companies based in Istanbul, Turkey[107]
Kerim Kerimov — Azerbaijani-Soviet/Russian aerospace engineer and a renowned rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program[114]
Leyla Vakilova — ballerina and ballet instructor, People's Artist of USSR (1967)[115]
Inna Ryskal, volleyball player and twice Olympic champion
Dr.Konstantin Slavin, professor of neurosurgery and head of the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery section at University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
^Ислам: Энциклопедический словарь. Наука. 1991. pp. 263–264. ISBN5-02-016941-2. ХАЙДАРЙЙА (хайдарй)— общее название трех суфийских и шиитских групп, функционировавших в Иране и сопредельных странах в средние века и новое время... 2. Другое название — мирхайдари. Шиитское (имамиты) братство, появившееся в конце XIV — начале XV в. в Иране и широко распространившееся по всей стране. Основатель-эпоним — Султан Мир Хайдар Туни (ум. в Тебризе в 1427 г.), возводивший свое происхождение к имаму Мусе ал-Казиму. Он родился в Баку, много странствовал, проповедуя идеи имамитского шиизма, и осел в г. Тун (Хорасан).
