List of Famous people born in Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mahammad Amin Akhund Haji Mulla Alekber oghlu Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani statesman, scholar, public figure and the head of the Azerbaijani National Council. His expression "Bir kərə yüksələn bayraq, bir daha enməz!" became the motto of the independence movement in Azerbaijan in the early 20th century.

Suleyman Rustam, is poet of the Soviet Azerbaijan, playwright and a public figure. He is the poet of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960), laureate of the Stalin State Prize of the second degree (1950), Hero of Socialist Labour (1976) and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1940.

Ahmed Agdamski also known by the stage name of Ahmed Bashir oglu Badalbeyli who was an Azerbaijani opera singer, mugam singer and actor.

Seyran Musheghi Ohanyan is an Armenian general and politician. He served as Defence Minister of Armenia from 14 April 2008 until 3 October 2016. A native of Nagorno-Karabakh, he participated in both the first and second Karabakh wars, and from 2000 to 2007 served as Defence Minister of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh.

Lieutenant Mehdi Huseynzade was an Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on 11 April 1957.

Shamsi Badal oglu Badalbeyli was an Azerbaijani theatre director and actor.

Ibrahim Khalil khan Javanshir (1732–1806) was an Azeri Turkic khan of the Karabakh Khanate from the Javanshir family, who succeeded his father Panah-Ali khan Javanshir as the ruler of the khanate.