
Sakina Mirza Heybat qizi Akhundzadeh was an Azerbaijani playwright. She was the first known female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature.

Adil Asadov - is an Azerbaijani philosopher, currently head of the department at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and President of Association of Philosophical Enlightenment.
Salatyn Aziz qizi Asgarova is a National Hero of Azerbaijan. She was one of the Azerbaijani journalists killed in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff was a French writer of Azerbaijani descent who wrote under the penname of Banine.

Hasan Ali Khan Garadaghi or Hasanali khan Karadakhski, was an Azerbaijani philologist, writer, poet and teacher. He is mainly known for his contribution to "Vatan dili" which was the main textbook for Azerbaijani school children for almost 40 years, from 1882 to 1920.

Sevinj Nurugizi is a children's writer, a member of the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union since 2001 and a member of the Azerbaijan Journalists’ Union since 1999.

Yusif Samadoghlu was an Azerbaijani writer, People's Writer of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Elizabeth Tudor, is an Azerbaijani-Russian science fiction writer and lawyer of Jewish ancestry.

Yusif Bahlul oglu Yusifov was an Azerbaijani and soviet historian, linguist, toponymist, orientalist, turkologist and an outstanding authority on ancient languages, including Sumerian and Akkadian.