Mustafa Shokay (1889-1941) – statesman, public activist, member of Alash movement, journalist, representative of the Kazakh intellectual community of the XX century.

Khamza Yessenzhanov (1908-1974) – writer, laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan.

Fariza Ongarssynova (1939-2014) – people’s poet of Kazakhstan, laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan.

Makhambet Dosmukhambetov (1960) – statesman and political figure of Kazakhstan.

Daniyar Kadirov (1975) – Vice Minister of Information and Social Development of Kazakhstan.