•
Mir Mohsun Navvab, artist and poet •
Khurshidbanu Natavan, poet •
Sadigjan, musician, inventor of the Azeri variety of
tar •
Gasim bey Zakir, poet •
Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov, scientist and politician •
Najaf bey Vazirov, playwright and journalist •
Bulbul, folk and opera singer •
Bulbuljan, folk singer •
Muratsan (1854–1908), Armenian writer and novelist. •
Leo (1860–1932), Armenian historian. •
Stepan Aghajanian (1863–1940), Armenian painter. •
Hambardzum Arakelian (1865–1918), Armenian journalist and public activist. •
Alexander Atabekian (1868–1933), prominent Armenian anarchist. •
Vartan Sarkisov (1875–1955), Soviet-Armenian architect. •
Freidun Aghalyan (1876–1944), Armenian architect. •
Tuman Tumanian (1879–1906), Armenian liberation movement leader. •
Abdurrahim Hagverdiyev, dramatist •
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli (1887-1943 in the GULAG, near Gorky, Russia), core author of the novel
Ali and Nino, published under the pseudonym
Kurban Said •
Karim bey Mehmandarov, doctor and social activist •
Khan Shushinski, folk singer •
Shamsi Badalbeyli, theatre director and actor •
Suleyman Sani Akhundov, Azerbaijani playwright, journalist, children's author, and teacher (3 October 1875,
Shusha – 29 March 1939,
Baku) •
Ahmad Agdamski, Azerbaijani opera singer, mugam singer and actor (5 January 1884,
Shusha – 1 April 1954
Agdash) •
Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People's Artist of the USSR (5 May 1919
Shusha – 19 September 1974
Baku) •
Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885–1948), founder of Azerbaijani composed music •
Jabbar Garyagdioglu, Azerbaijani folk singer (khananda) (31 March 1861
Shusha – 20 April 1944
Baku) •
Seyid Shushinski, Azerbaijani folk singer (khananda) (12 April 1889, Horadiz – 1 November 1965, Baku) •
Arsen Terteryan (1882–1953), Soviet-Armenian scientist. •
Artashes Babalian (1886–1959), a politician of the
First Republic of Armenia. •
Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan (1886–1937), Soviet-Armenian statesman. •
Hayk Gyulikekhvyan (1886–1951), Armenian literary critic. •
Ashot Hovhannisyan (1887–1972), Soviet-Armenian statesman and historian. •
Mikael Arutchian (1897–1961), Soviet-Armenian painter. •
Ivan Knunyants (1906–1990), Soviet-Armenian chemist. •
Gevork Kotiantz (1909–1996), Soviet-Armenian painter. •
Shamsi Badalbeyli (1911–1987), Soviet-Azerbaijani actor and theatre director. •
Nelson Stepanyan (1913–1944), Soviet-Armenian pilot and Lieutenant–Colonel of the Red Army. •
Gurgen Boryan (1915–1971), Soviet-Armenian poet and playwright. •
Seyran Ohanyan (born 1962), Armenian politician and military commander. •
Aram Manukian (1879–1919), Armenian revolutionary leader •
Feyzullah Mirza Qajar (1872–1920), prince of Iran's
Qajar dynasty. Major general in the Russian Empire and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, later military figure and politician in Iran. •
Latif Karimov, Azerbaijani carpet designer known for his contributions to a variety of artistic fields.(17 November 1906, Shusha – 1991, Baku) •
Avan Yuzbashi, (1670s–1735), Armenian military and political leader during
Davit Bek uprising (1720s) •
Molla Panah Vagif, Poet the minister of foreign affairs in the
Karabakh Khanate •
Ibrahim Khalil Khan (1732–1806), Azerbaijani khan of the
Karabakh Khanate. •
Mehdigulu Khan Vefa, lyrical poet of Azerbaijan, lieutenant colonel in the Russian Army, son of a famous Karabakh poet Khurshidbanu Natavan (1855
Shusha – 1900 1900
Tiflis) •
Mir Hasan Vazirov, Azerbaijani revolutionary and one of the
26 Baku Commissars == References ==