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Shamil
North Caucasian imam and warrior (1797-1871)
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
Salawat Yulayev
Russian Bashkir rebel during Pugachev's Rebellion (1773-1775)
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Azerbaijani composer (1885–1948)
Ğabdulla Tuqay
Tatar poet
Mahammad Amin Rasulzade
Azerbaijani politician (1884–1955)
Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Azerbaijani poet
Mukhtar Auezov
Kazakh writer
Mohammed Alim Khan
The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara (1911–1920)
Jambyl Jabayev
Kazakh traditional folksinger (1846-1945)
Rashid Behbudov
Soviet Azerbaijani singer and actor (1915-1989)
Shoqan Walikhanov
Kazakhstani ethnographer (1835–1865)
Zeki Velidi Togan
Turkish historian and Turkologist (1890–1970)
Khurshidbanu Natavan
Azerbaijani poet
Dinmukhamed Konayev
Soviet politician (1912-1993)
Fatali Khan Khoyski
Azerbaijani politician and jurist (1875-1920)
Hadji Murad
Avar leader (1795-1852)
Yusuf Akçura
Turkish historian and writer (1876–1935)
Mirzo Tursunzoda
Tajikistani poet (1911–1977)
Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev
Kazakhstani musician (1823–1896)
Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Azerbaijani writer and scholar
Halima Nosirova
Soviet opera singer, music educator and actor (1913-2003)
Alimardan bey Topchubashov
Azerbaijani politician (1862-1934)
Älihan Bökeihan
Kazakh statesman, politician, publicist, teacher, writer and environmental scientist who was a founder and led the Alash party (1866–1937)
Rashid Nezhmetdinov
Soviet chess player
Ahmet Baitursynuly
Kazakh intellectual (1872-1937)
Bekir Çoban-zade
Crimean Tatar intellectual (1893–1937)
Kurmanjan Datka
Kyrgyzstani diplomat (1811-1907)
Samad bey Mehmandarov
Azerbaijani general (1856–1931)
Osman Nuri-Asan oğlu Aqçoqraqlı
Crimean Tatar writer, journalist, historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, and teacher
Berdy Kerbabayev
Turkmenistani writer (1894–1974)
Baurzhan Momyshuly
Soviet officer and writer (1910–1982)
Elihan Tore Saghuny
President of the Second East Turkestan Republic
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
Russian and Azerbaijani general
Choʻlpon
Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov (, 1893 – 4 October 1938), most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán in English), was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare's plays into the Uzbek language.
Sakina Akhundzadeh
Azerbaijani playwright
Muslim Magomayev
Azerbaijani composer and conductor (1885–1937)
Bobojon Ghafurov
Tajikistani historian (1908–1977)
Ğayaz İsxaqi
Tatar writer and politician (1878–1954)
Abderrashid Ibrahim
Tatar journalist and writer (1857-1944)
Fatixa Ğäyetevä
Tatar philanthropist and educator, founder of the first women's gymnasium in Kazan
Haji Zeynal Abdin Taghiyev
Azerbaijani businessman (1823-1924)
Adavie Efendiyeva
Crimean Tatar embroiderer and master weaver (1879–1974)
Majit Gafuri
Tatar poet (1880–1934)
Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
2nd Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1881–1920)
Jakub Szynkiewicz
Polish Imam (1884-1966)
Ibrahim Altynsarin
Kazakh writer (1841-1889)
Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski
Russian general (1863–1919)
Huseyn Arablinski
Azerbaijani actor (1881–1919)
Matvey Sulkevich
Russian-Azerbaijani general
Furqat
Zokirjon Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli () (1859–1909), better known by his pen name Furqat, was an Uzbek author, poet, and political activist. He had a major influence on the development of modern Uzbek literature. He wrote one of the earliest pamphlets and satirical articles in Uzbek.
Mammad Hasan Hajinski
Azerbaijan politician (1875–1931)
Abdulla Qahhor
Uzbek author (1907-1968)
Magzhan Zhumabayev
Kazakhstani writer (1893–1938)
Mustafa Shokay
Kazakhstani politician (1890–1941)
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek
Russian orientalist, historian and philologist
Sadri Maksudi Arsal
Tatar and Turkish statesman, Turkish law historian (1878-1957)
Zohra Akchurina
Tatar journalist (1862–1903)
Muhammad Khudayar Khan
Khan of Kokand four times
Kanysh Satpayev
Soviet geologist (1899-1964)