Famous Persons from Proletarsk, , Tajikistan
- Aleksandr Morgunov - Born on June 4, 1995 - Association football player
- Arbi Chakaev - Born on October 13, 1990 - Boxer
- Kazbek Geteriev - Born on June 30, 1985 - Association football player
- Q106974919 - Born on April 15, 1976 - University teacher
- Vasyl Melnychuk - Born on February 18, 1957 - Association football referee
- Q100320862 - Born on April 1, 1950 - Member of the State Duma, and Politician
- Yevgeny Chernyshyov - Born on February 22, 1947 - Handball player - Merited Master of Sports of the USSR | Order of the Badge of Honour
- Q4293002 - Born on January 28, 1947 - Military officer (died: July 25, 1999)
- Anatolii Martynov - Born on August 28, 1946 - Military officer (died: July 25, 1999)
- Q51667590 - Born on April 2, 1930 - Teacher - Excellence of Public Education of the Russian Federation | Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Order of the Badge of Honour | Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Medal "Veteran of Labour" | People's Teacher of the USSR | Order of Lenin (died: November 26, 2012)
- Q20066024 - Born on May 27, 1925 - Actor - Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (died: January 1, 2005)
- Q12111049 - Born on November 12, 1924 - Composer - Honored Art Worker of Ukraine | Zhukov Medal | Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Order of the Red Banner of Labour (died: August 24, 2003)
- Q4133269 - Born on October 15, 1924 - Composer - Order of Lenin | Hero of the Soviet Union (died: September 22, 1968)
- Q4455626 - Born on May 8, 1923 - Composer - Order of Lenin | Hero of the Soviet Union (died: October 12, 1981)
- Konstantin Aksyonov - Born on August 18, 1918 - Typographer, Military officer, and Military personnel - Order of the Patriotic War 1st class | Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class | Gold Star medal | Order of the Red Banner | Hero of the Soviet Union | Order of Lenin (died: November 7, 1966)
- Petrony Gay Amatuni - Born on July 12, 1916 - Science fiction writer, Children's writer, and Writer (died: April 29, 1982)
- Nikolay Erugin - Born on April 14, 1907 - Mathematician, and University teacher - Order of the October Revolution | Order of the Red Banner of Labour | Hero of Socialist Labour | Order of Lenin | Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class | Order of the Patriotic War 1st class | Stalin Prize | Order of the Badge of Honour (died: February 12, 1990)
- Q29358979 - Born on November 1, 1902 - Military leader - Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class | Order of Suvorov, 2nd class | Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class | Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" | Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" | Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic" | Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" | Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" | Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg" | Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" | Order of Kutuzov | Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" | Virtuti Militari | Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" | Legion of Merit | Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" | Order of the Red Star | Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky | Order of the Red Banner | Order of Lenin (died: August 20, 1979)