List of Famous people born in Azerbaijan
Arkady Andreasyan
Arkady Georgievich Andreasyan was a Soviet Armenian football player and manager. He played as midfielder for Ararat Yerevan in most of his club career and for the Soviet Union national football team. He was a member of the Ararat Yerevan team that won the Soviet Top League in 1973 and the Soviet Cup in 1973 and 1975 and a member of the Soviet Olympic football team that won bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Andreasyan was awarded the Master of Sport of the USSR title in 1971, the Honoured Coach of the Armenian SSR title in 1982 and the Order For Merit to the Fatherland of Armenia in 2011. He was the manager of Ararat Yerevan.
Eldar Azizov
Eldar Azizov Aziz oglu is the head of the Baku City Executive Power since November 15, 2018.
Isa Gambar
Isa Yunis oglu Qambar, also known as Isa Gambar or Isa Qambar, is a prominent Azerbaijani politician and leader of the Equality Party (Müsavat), one of opposition block in Azerbaijan.
Elmar Gasimov
Elmar Gasimov is an Azerbaijani judoka, who competes in the -100 kg division. He has competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a silver medal in 2016. He has also won a bronze at the 2017 World Championships, and a silver (2014) and two bronze medals at European level.
Bahram Bagirzade
Bahram Bagirzade is an entertainer, TV host, actor, comedian and film director.
Artem Dalakian
Artem Dalakian is a Ukrainian professional boxer of Armenian descent who has held the WBA flyweight title since 2018. As of June 2020, he is ranked as the world's fourth best active flyweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and eighth by BoxRec.
Roya
Royala Yagub qizi Najafova, known as Röya Ayxan or simply Röya, is an Azerbaijani pop singer. She is known for her liberal artistic style.
Emin Amrullayev
Emin Eldar oglu Amrullayev, is the current Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Director of the Institute of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of the Education Programs Development Department at the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan.
Enver Mamedov
Enver Nazim oglu Mammadov, is a former Soviet diplomat and a mass media manager. During his career, spent mostly in Russia and the West, he was primarily known under the Russianized form of his name, Enver Nazimovich Mamedov, or just Enver Mamedov.
Ilgar Mammadov
Ilgar Mammadov is an opposition politician in Azerbaijan, and one of the leaders of the Republican Alternative Party. Mammadov was considered a likely candidate for the Presidential elections in October 2013, but was arrested in February 2013, prior to the race, in a move that was widely seen as politically motivated.