WRamiz Abbasli – Azerbaijani author, translator of fiction.
WChingiz Akif oğlu Abdullayev is an Azerbaijani writer, Secretary of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers.
WElchin Ilyas oglu Afandiyev is an Azerbaijani writer, professor and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2018.
WIlyas Mahammad oglu Afandiyev was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer, member of Azerbaijan Union of Writers (1940), Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1960), laureate of the State Prize of Azerbaijan (1972) and People’s Writer of Azerbaijan (1979).
WSuleyman Sani Akhundov, was an Azerbaijani playwright, journalist, author, and teacher. He chose the name Sani to avoid confusion with his namesake, Mirza Fatali Akhundov.
WMirza Fatali Akhundov, also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh, was a celebrated Iranian Azerbaijani author, playwright, ultra-nationalist, philosopher, and founder of Azerbaijani modern literary criticism, "who acquired fame primarily as the writer of European-inspired plays in the Azeri Turkic language". Akhundzade singlehandedly opened a new stage of development of Azerbaijani literature. He was also the founder of materialism and atheism movement in the Republic of Azerbaijan and one of forerunners of modern Iranian nationalism. He wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and Russian.
WSakina Mirza Heybat qizi Akhundzadeh was an Azerbaijani playwright. She was the first known female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature.
WAkram Najaf oglu Naibov, better known by his pen name Akram Aylisli, is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist and former member of parliament. His works have been translated from his native Azerbaijani into a number of languages in the former Soviet Union and around the world. He was decorated by the President of Azerbaijan with the prestigious "Istiglal" (2002) and "Shokhrat" orders. In 2013, after the publication of Aylisli's Stone Dreams novella, which depicted the pogroms carried out by Azerbaijanis against the Armenians in Sumgait and Baku and presented Armenians in sympathetic light, President Aliyev signed a presidential decree that stripped Aylisli of the title of "People's Writer" and the presidential pension. His books were burnt by Azerbaijani intelligentsia and compatriots in his hometown, his son and wife were fired from their jobs and a "bounty" of some $13,000 was promised for cutting the writer's ear off. In March 2014, a formal request was made by various public figures throughout the world to nominate Aylisli for the Nobel Peace Prize.
WMirza Jabbar Asgar oglu Asgarzadeh famously known as Jabbar Baghtcheban was an Iranian inventor of Iranian Azerbaijani ethnicity. He is well known as someone who established the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz. He was also the inventor of Persian language cued speech. He was the father of the late Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban.
WSamin Baghtcheban was an Iranian composer, author and translator.
WSamad Behrangi was an Iranian teacher, social critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish. Influenced by predominantly leftist ideologies that were common among the intelligentsia of his era, which made him popular among the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, his books typically portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and encouraged the individual to change his/ her circumstances by her own initiatives.
WGholamhossein Bigdeli,(Persian: غلامحسین بیگدلی) was born on 15 March 1919 in Dorakhloo (Zanjan).
WPirouz Dilanchi is an Iranian-Azerbaijani separatist leader.
WAbdurrahim bey Asad bey oglu Hagverdiyev was an Azerbaijani playwright, writer and cultural figure, stage director, politician, public figure, one of the 5 thirst Azeri Deputats of First Duma of Russia Empire, Deputat of Georgian Parliament, Creator Theatrical Writers Society in Azerbaijan, one of the redactors jornal “Molla Nasreddin”, Ambassador Azerbaijan in Dagestan and Armenia.
WMehdi Ali oglu Huseynov – famed under the pseudonym Mehdi Huseyn – was an Azerbaijani and Soviet writer and critic, laureate of the State Stalin Prize of the third degree (1950) and member of the All-Union Communist Party since 1941.
WAli bey Huseyn oğlu Huseynzade was an Azerbaijani writer, thinker, philosopher, artist, doctor, and the creator of the modern Flag of Azerbaijan.
WRustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibragimbekov is a Soviet, Azerbaijani screenwriter, dramatist and producer, well known beyond his home Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Union. He is the chair of the Cinematographers' Union of Azerbaijan and director of the Ibrus Theatre.
WMirza Ibrahimov, Azerbaijani writer, playwright, state and public figure.
WHamlet Abdulla oglu Isayev is an Azerbaijani mathematician, businessman, graphoman, living founder of Khazar University who served as founding president from April 1991 to September 2010. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, Khazar University ; founder of integrated primary, secondary and high schools ; and founder of a publishing house as well as a translator of poetry, lecturer, and editor.
WJafar Gafar oglu Jabbarli, was an Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter.
WHuseyn Javid ,was born Huseyn Abdulla oglu Rasizadeh, was a prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century. He was one of the founders of progressive romanticism movement in the contemporary Azerbaijani literature. He was exiled during the Stalin purges in the USSR.
WMirza Karim oglu Mikayilov, known as Mirza Khazar, was an eminent Azerbaijani author, political analyst, anchorman, radio journalist, publisher, and translator. Mirza Khazar was a Mountain Jew. He also was known as Mirza Michaeli. Mirza Khazar died on January 31, 2020 in Germany.
WJalil Huseyngulu oglu Mammadguluzadeh, also spelled as Jalil Mohammad Qolizadeh, was an Azerbaijani satirist and writer. He was the founder of Molla Nasraddin, a satirical magazine that would greatly influence the genre in the Middle East and Central Asia.
WNaser Manzuri is an Iranian novelist and linguist, born in 1953 in Mianeh.
WSevda Mikayilova is an Azerbaijani philologist and poet.
WNariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.
WAli Nazem – was an Azerbaijani poet, writer and literary critic of Azerbaijani literature.
WMammad Said Ordubadi was Azerbaijani writer, poet, playwright and journalist.
WHidayat Khudush oglu Orujov is a notable writer and an Azerbaijani politician became the Chairman of State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic in 2006 and is currently serving as the Azerbaijani ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
WMir Anvar Pashayev, known by his literary pen-name Mir Jalal, was an Azerbaijani writer and literary critic. He was the grandfather of Azerbaijan's current First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva.
WMammad Amin Akhmud Haji Mulla Alakbar oglu 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 20th century.
WSuleyman 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.
WRasul Rza, , was an Azerbaijani writer, Hero of Socialist Labour (1980), People's Poet of Azerbaijan, Laureate of Soviet State Award and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. He was the husband of Azerbaijani writer Nigar Rafibeyli and the father of writer Anar Rzayev.
WAnar Rasul oghlu Rzayev, known as Anar, is Azerbaijani writer, dramatist, film director, and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. Anar is primarily a novelist and short-story writer although in the past, he has also authored screenplays and directed films as well as acted in a film.
WGanjali Sabahi was an Iranian writer of Azerbaijani literature. He was one of the contemporary writers of Azerbaijan, that was written in Azerbaijani language.
WGholām-Hossein Sā'edi MD was a prolific Iranian writer. He published over forty books, representing his talents in the fiction genres of drama, the novel, the screenplay, and the short story in addition to the non-fiction genres of cultural criticism, travel literature and ethnography. Many consider the screenplay for Gav, Dariush Mehrjui's 1969 film, to be Sa'edi's magnum opus as it ushered in the New Wave Iranian cinema. After the 1979 revolution and his subsequent exile, he maintained an important figure in the scene of Persian literature despite the Iranian diaspora of which he unwillingly became a part. Till his death in Paris, due to depression and related alcoholism, he remained one of the most prominent and prolific of Iranian writers and intellectuals internationally.
WAbbas Sahhat, born Abbasgulu Aliabbas oglu Mehdizadeh, was an Azerbaijani poet and dramatist.
WAli-Asghar Sherdost is an Iranian writer, diplomat and politician.
WElizabeth Tudor, is an Azerbaijani-Russian science fiction writer and lawyer of Jewish ancestry.
WNajaf bey Fatali oglu Vazirov was an Azerbaijani playwright and journalist.
WHasan bey Zardabi, born Hasan bey Salim bey oglu Malikov, was an Azerbaijani journalist and intellectual, founder of the first Azeri-language newspaper Akinchi in 1875.