WKanti Abdurakhmanov was a Chechen Master Sergeant in an artillery battery of the Red Army during World War II. For heroic deeds during the war he was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in May 1996.
WArthur Adamov was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.
WPrince Dimitri Zedginidze-Amilakhvari, more commonly known as Dimitri Amilakhvari was a French military officer and Lieutenant Colonel of the French Foreign Legion, of Georgian origin who played an influential role in the French Resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II, and became an iconic figure of the Free French Forces.
WDimitri Arakishvili was a Georgian composer and ethnomusicologist considered as one of the founding fathers of modern Georgian music. He was also known by his Russified name Dimitry Ignatyevich Arakchiev.
WNikolai Nikolaevich Baratov was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I and the Russian Civil War.
WGeorgy Ivanovich Khetagurov was an Ossetian army general of the Soviet Army and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
WArsen Kotsoyev is one of the founders of Ossetic prose, who had a large influence in the formation of the modern Ossetic language and its functional styles. He participated in all of the first Ossetic periodicals, and was one of the most notable Ossetian publicists.
WIsaak Khristoforovich Lalayants was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, Bolshevik and comrade-in-arms of Vladimir Lenin.
WPavel Gerasimovich Lisitsian, was a Soviet baritone opera singer who performed in the Bolshoi Opera, Moscow from 1940 until his retirement from stage in 1966.
WMuslim Mahammad oglu Magomayev was Azerbaijani composer and conductor. He is the grandfather and a namesake of Azerbaijani opera singer Muslim Magomayev.
WIssa Alexandrovich Pliyev was a Soviet military commander, Pliyev would rise to become the premier cavalry general of the Soviet Army. He became Army General (1962), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (1971).
WKantemir Aleksandrovich Tsalikov was an Ossetian Red Army major general who held division and corps command during World War II.
WYevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.
WMovlid Visaitov was a Chechen Red Army colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Visaitov was commander of 255th Separate Chechen–Ingush cavalry regiment during World War II.
WZelimkhan Kharachoevsky and better known simply as Zelimkhan was a Chechen outlaw who gained fame in the late Russian Empire due to his spectacular bank and train robberies as part of a violent struggle with the Russian authorities. Since the Russian Revolution he has been mythologized as a version of a Chechen Robin Hood, first by the Bolsheviks and later by Chechen nationalists. Today the name Zelimkhan is given to Chechen and Ingush children.