WColonel General Safar Akhundbala oglu Abiyev was the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan from 1995 to 2013. He was considered one of the longest serving defense ministers in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
WAlbert Agarunovich Agarunov was a National Hero of Azerbaijan. Starshina of the Azerbaijani Army who died during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. He was among the last Azerbaijanis to defend their stronghold at Shusha, which was occupied by Armenian forces on May 9, 1992.
WAvraamy Bogdanovich Aslanbegov or Aslanbekov, was a vice-admiral and military writer of Azerbaijani origin of the Russian Empire.
WMohammad Hosayn Âyrom was a senior military leader of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran during the reign of king Reza Shah. He was the nephew of General Teymur Xân Âyromlu and a first cousin of Queen Tâj ol-Moluk Âyromlu. Only some members of the Ayrums family spelled their surname "Âyromlu" with the added suffix "-lu".
WAdil Guseyn oglu Guliyev was an Azerbaijani Soviet Air Force colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Guliyev served as a fighter pilot during World War II, claiming twenty victories. Postwar, he remained in the Soviet Air Force and retired with the rank of colonel. Guliyev became a director of Baku Airport.
WJalil Mammadali oghlu Javadov was a Soviet Azerbaijani commander, counter admiral (1968), first admiral of Azerbaijan and Turkic-muslim world of the USSR, chairman of Republic Committee of Army, Aviation, Volunteer Assistance Society of Azerbaijan SSR (1954-1971), member of the 5th convocation (1959-1963) of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR.
WDemokrat Vladimirovich Leonov was a Soviet Border Troops colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who was killed in action during the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict.
WEldar Mahmudov Ahmad oglu is an Azerbaijani politician formerly serving as the Minister of National Security of Azerbaijan Republic.
WGafur Nasir oglu Mammadov was an Azerbaijani Soviet Navy Matros and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Mammadov was posthumously awarded the title on 31 March 1943 for reportedly shielding his commander from fire with his body.
WMusa Khiramanovich Manarov is a former cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space.
WZuleykha Seyidmammadova was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat.
WRza Talibov is an Azerbaijani retired colonel of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Chief of the Citizenship Issues Head Department of the State Migration Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan, III rank State Migration Service Counselor, Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Associate professor at the BSU, honorary doctor of Batumi State University.