People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Mammad Amin Rasulzade Məhəmməd Əmin Rəsulzadə Musavat leader who headed the Azerbaijani National Council that declared the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918
- Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Elchibey Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Elçibəy The pan-Turkist dissident who became Azerbaijan's first democratically elected president