Notable Figures in 1st Cavalry Army
- Semyon Budyonny
- Kliment Voroshilov
- Georgy Zhukov, Soviet military commander, famous for his role in World War II.
- Grigory Kulik, Soviet military commander
- Kirill Meretskov, Soviet military commander
- Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet military commander
- Andrei Grechko, Soviet military commander
- Semyon Krivoshein, Soviet military commander
- Isaac Babel, journalist and writer, who wrote the 1920 Diary and the book Red Cavalry based on his experiences
- Vadim Yakovlev, yesaul
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