List of Kumyk people
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This is a partial list of notable Kumyk people.
- Murad al-Daghistani — pioneering Iraqi photographer, achieved international recognition for the quality of his photographs which recorded scenes of every-day life and people
- Nasreddin Murat-Khan — Pakistani architect and civil engineer. He is remembered most for designing the national monument, the Minar-e-Pakistan
- Adil-Gerey Daidbekov - Kumyk noble (ozden), engineer and a public figure from Temirkhan-Shura, designed roads and bridges for Daghestan and North-Ossetia.
Politicians
- Ahmed-Saib bey Kaplan — one of the prominent members of Young Turks movement, dissident of Sultan Abdülhamid II and his absolute rule and one of the writers and historians of the Late Ottoman Empire[1][2]
- Haidar Bammate — politician, one of the ideologists and Foreign Minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, who officially proclaimed its independence on 11 May 1918, author of "Visages de l'Islam", Afghanistan's diplomatic appointee in Switzerland.
- Rashid Khan Kaplanov — politician, one of the founders and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, then Minister of Education and Religious Affairs in the fifth and fourth cabinets of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov — de facto founder of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, its first First Secretary
- Roza Eldarova — the first woman to hold the highest political office in Dagestan, elected chairwoman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in March 1962
Religious figures
- Shaykh Jemaleddin Gazikumuki - Imam Shamil's guide (murshid) and father-in-law.[3]
Scholars and writers
- Najmuddin Bammate — prominent French-Afghan writer, linguist, and Islamic scholar
- İzzet Kantemir — prominent Turkish writer, translator, public figure[4][5][6] and medical professor[7]
- Fahrettin Kırzıoğlu — Turkish historian and writer
Scientists
- Murad Kaplanov — radio communication engineer, Chief Constructor of Molniya communication satellite systems, which was developed in Sergei Korolev's design centre