List of Famous people born in Shamakhi District, Azerbaijan

Imadaddin Nasimi

First Name Imadaddin
Born on November 30, 1368
Died on January 1, 1417 (aged 48)

Alī Imādud-Dīn Nasīmī, often known as Nesimi, was a 14th-century Azerbaijani or Turkmen Ḥurūfī poet. Known mostly by his pen name of Nasimi, he wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and sometimes Arabic, being the composer of one divan in Azerbaijani, one in Persian, and a number of poems in Arabic. He is considered one of the greatest Turkic mystical poets of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and one of the most prominent early divan masters in Turkic literary history. According to the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam Nasimi "is considered to be the true founder" of Turkic classical ʿarūḍ poetry.

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Ziba Ganiyeva

First Name Ziba
Born on August 20, 1923
Died on November 30, 2009 (aged 86)

Ziba Pasha qizi Ganiyeva was sniper in the Red Army during World War II credited with 21 kills. After the war she became a philologist.

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Mirza Alakbar Sabir

First Name Mirza
Last Name Sabir
Born on May 30, 1862
Died on July 12, 1911 (aged 49)

Mirza Alakbar Sabir, born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new attitude to classical traditions, rejecting well-trodden ways in poetry.

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Shirvanshah Manuchehr III

First Name Shirvanshah
Born on January 1, 1098
Died on January 1, 1160 (aged 62)

Shirvanshah Manuchehr III The Great was the nineteenth independent Shah of Shirvan.

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Seyid Azim Shirvani

First Name Seyid
Born on July 9, 1835
Died on May 20, 1888 (aged 52)

Seyid Azim Shirvani was an Azerbaijani poet and enlightener. He got his first religious education in Iraq. After returning to motherland he refused his spiritual dignity and opened a private school. Seyid Azim Shirvani continued Fuzûlî’s traditions in his love-lyrical poems. In his satirical poems and fables Seyid Azim Shirvani ridiculed priesthood, opposed backwardness and ignorance, called to enlightenment and culture. Contemporary poets consider him their teacher.

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Shirvanshah Farrukhzad I

First Name Shirvanshah
Died on January 1, 1204

Farrukhzad I was the 24th ruler of Shirvanshahs. He was fourth son of Shirvanshah Manuchehr III, younger brother of previous shahs - Shirvanshah Afridun II, Akhsitan I, Shirvanshah Shahanshah, uncle of Shirvanshah Fariburz II and father of Shirvanshah Gushtasb I and Prince Rashid ibn Farrukhzad.

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Zivar bay Ahmadbayov

First Name Zivar
Born on January 1, 1873
Died on February 16, 1925 (aged 52)

Zivar bay Garay bay oglu Ahmadbayov - the first Azerbaijani architect with higher education.

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İbrahim Gülşeni

First Name İbrahim
Last Name Gülşeni
Born on January 1, 1423
Died on January 1, 1534 (aged 111)
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Aliheydar Garayev

First Name Aliheydar
Born on June 20, 1896
Died on April 24, 1938 (aged 41)

Aliheydar Garayev Agakerim oglu also spelled as Aliheydar Qarayev, was an Azerbaijani Menshevik-turned-Bolshevik revolutionary, People's Commissar of Justice of Azerbaijan SSR, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan during Soviet period.

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