This is a comprehensive list of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers, arranged alphabetically.
Scientists and philosophers
- Ali Abbasov â physicist, specialized in the field of microelectronics
- Hasan Abdullayev â Lenin-prize winning physicist, specialized in the field of semiconductors research, President of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 1970-1983
- Zarifa Aliyeva â ophthalmologist, devised and introduced new methods for treatment of ocular diseases
- Ahliman Amiraslanov â oncologist, professor and rector of Azerbaijan Medical University
- Hamid Arasly â philologist, specialized in Azerbaijani literary studies, history and linguistics
- Adil Asadov â philosopher, specialized in aesthetics, philosophy of thinking, philosophy of politics
- Abbasgulu Bakikhanov â philosopher, historian and writer, founder of Azerbaijani scientific historiography
- Seyid Yahya Bakuvi â scientist and philosopher of the late medieval era in the fields of mathematics and astronomy
- Vagif Guliyev â mathematician, specializes in the fields lie groups and homogeneous spaces
- Zumrud Gulu-zade â philosopher, professor of philosophy at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
- Elshan Hajizadeh â economic scientist, specialized in the problems of economy and management of fuel and energy complex
- Ashraf Huseynov â mathematician, first to study the nonlinear Hilbert problem as applied to analytic functions, created the H<sub>ñ, ò, ó</sub> function space and proved some theorems for nonlinear singular integral equations with Cauchy kernel within that space
- Heydar Huseynov â philosopher, specialized in dialectical materialism
- Nadir Ibrahimov â astrophysicist, astronomer of the Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Ibragimov crater on Mars is named in his honor
- Hamlet Isakhanli â mathematician, science writer, founder of Khazar University
- Ishag Jafarzadeh â archeologist, a pioneer of archaeology and ethnography in Azerbaijan
- Ali Javan â physicist and inventor at MIT with main contributions in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy, co-inventor of the gas laser
- Alexander Kazembek â philologist, organizer of the Russian Oriental Studies
- George Kechaari â philologist, specialized in the Udi language
- Dzhangir Kerimov â philosopher, specializes in philosophical problems of legal science, social planning and administration, theory of state and law
- Kerim Kerimov â rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program, Hero of Socialist Labor
- Yusif Kerimov â electrical engineer and inventor
- Salahaddin Khalilov â philosopher, specializes in philosophy of science, science about science, philosophical comparativism, phenomenology, philosophical aspects of Eastern and Western Civilizations, philosophy of Abu Turkhan and cognitive theory
- Zahid Khalilov â mathematician and engineer, solved the boundary value problem for polyharmonic equations, proposed abstract generalizations of singular integral operators, founder of the Azerbaijani functional analysis school
- Firudin bey Kocharli â philologist, writer and literary critic
- Fuad Mamedov â social scientist, specializes in culturology, founder of Culturology in Azerbaijan, President of Cultural Association Simurgh
- Vasim Mammadaliyev â philosopher and theologian, specializes in oriental studies and Arabic philology
- Yusif Mammadaliyev â chemist, founder of petrochemical science in Azerbaijan
- Garib Mammadov â agronomist
- Yaqub Mammadov â physiologist, specializes in pathophysiology
- Zakir Mammadov â philosopher, specializes in Eastern philosophy, especially history of Azerbaijani philosophy
- Izzet Orujova â chemist, specialized in oil
- Mirali Qashqai â geologist in the fields of geomorphology and stratigraphy
- Arif Salimov â mathematician, known for research in differential geometry
- Farman Salmanov â geologist, first discovered oil fields in Siberia, Hero of Socialist Labor
- Movlazadeh Mahammad Hasan Shakavi â philosopher, theologian, alim, first Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus, first scholar who translated the Koran into the Azerbaijani language
- Zeynalabdin Shirvani â philosopher, poet, traveller and geographer of the pre-Tsarist era
- Hajibey Sultanov â astronomer
- Lotfi A. Zadeh â mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic
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