Notable people · Kyrgyzstan

• PersonKurmanjan DatkaThe "Queen of Alai" and "Queen of the South" (1811–1907), ruler of the Alai Kyrgyz from 1832 to 1876.Read more →

• PersonToktogul SatylganovThe greatest akyn of the Kyrgyz people, poet and komuz player (1864–1933).Read more →
• PersonYusuf Balasaguni11th-century Turkic poet and statesman, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, born in the Karakhanid capital Balasagun.Read more →
• PersonSayakbay KaralaevA great manaschy (1894–1971) whose version of the Manas trilogy runs to more than half a million lines.Read more →
• PersonKasym TynystanovLinguist, poet and statesman (1901–1938), creator of Latin-script Kyrgyz writing and a victim of repression.Read more →
• PersonAlykul OsmonovPoet (1915–1950) who helped carry Kyrgyz poetry from the oral tradition into modern written literature.Read more →
• PersonChinghiz AitmatovWorld-famous Kyrgyz writer (1928–2008) whose works have been translated into 174 languages.Read more →

• PersonToktogul SatylganovThe greatest akyn of the Kyrgyz people, poet and komuz player (1864–1933).Read more →
• PersonKaramoldo OrozovKomuz virtuoso and folk singer (1883–1960), a great master of Kyrgyz küü.Read more →
• PersonAtay OgonbaevComposer, folk singer and komuz virtuoso (1900–1949), founder of the Kyrgyz komuz ensemble.Read more →
• PersonAbdylas MaldybaevComposer, actor and operatic tenor (1906–1978), a founder of Kyrgyz opera whose portrait is on the 1-som note.Read more →
• PersonSalamat SadykovaFolk singer (b. 1956) known as "the Voice of Kyrgyzstan", a People's Artist of the Kyrgyz Republic.Read more →

• PersonBübüsara BeyshenalievaThe first great Kyrgyz ballerina (1926–1973), pictured on the 5-som note.Read more →
• PersonTolomush OkeevFilm director and screenwriter (1935–2001), a maker of the "Kyrgyz film miracle" and People's Artist of the USSR.Read more →
• PersonSuimenkul ChokmorovFilm actor and painter (1939–1992), People's Artist of the USSR, who appeared in Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala.Read more →

• PersonYusuf Balasaguni11th-century Turkic poet and statesman, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, born in the Karakhanid capital Balasagun.Read more →
• PersonMahmud al-Kashgari11th-century Turkic scholar, author of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the first dictionary of the Turkic languages; his father came from Barsgan on Issyk-Kul.Read more →
• PersonKasym TynystanovLinguist, poet and statesman (1901–1938), creator of Latin-script Kyrgyz writing and a victim of repression.Read more →

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• PersonAkzhol MakhmudovGreco-Roman wrestler (b. 1999), two-time world champion, Tokyo 2020 silver and Paris 2024 bronze medallist.Read more →
• PersonAisuluu TynybekovaFreestyle wrestler (b. 1993), three-time world champion, Tokyo 2020 silver and Paris 2024 bronze medallist.Read more →
• PersonMeerim ZhumanazarovaFreestyle wrestler (b. 1999), 2021 world champion, Tokyo 2020 bronze and Paris 2024 silver medallist.Read more →
• PersonValentina ShevchenkoBishkek-born mixed martial artist (b. 1988), two-time UFC champion and one of the greatest female fighters of all time.Read more →

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