Saken Seifullin (1894-1938)- writer, one of the founders of modern Kazakh literature, poet, screenwriter, prominent statesman.
Abu Sarsenbayev (1905-1995) - poet, journalist, people’s writer of Kazakhstan, veteran of the Great Patriotic War.
Zhayik Bekturov (1912-1998) – writer, translator, journalist, member of the SSR and Kazakhstan Writers’ Union, member of the geographical society.
Sain Muratbekov (1936-2007)– writer, journalist, Mukhtar Auezov Prize laureate, State Prize laureate, Tarlan independent prize laureate.
Myrzabek Rysbekov (1958) – Rector of the South Kazakhstan Medical Academy.
Gulssara Arystankulova (1971) – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to France.
