People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Najmuddin Gotsinsky Нажмудин Гоцинский Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925
- Andrievs Niedra Andrievs Niedra Pastor and writer who headed Latvia's pro-German government of 1919
- Avgustyn Voloshyn Августин Волошин Greek Catholic priest who became president of Carpatho-Ukraine when it declared independence in March 1939
- Jusztinián Serédi Serédi Jusztinián Benedictine cardinal who led the Hungarian Catholic Church as Archbishop of Esztergom and Prince Primate in 1927–1945
- Noman Çelebicihan Номан Челебиджихан First head of the Crimean People’s Republic, the first elected mufti of Crimea and the poet of the Crimean Tatar anthem
- József Mindszenty Mindszenty József Archbishop of Esztergom and cardinal sentenced to life in a 1949 show trial, who sheltered in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956