Yusuf Balasagun

Yusuf Balasagun (also known as Yusuf Balasagunior Jusup Balasagun) was a 11th century Central Asian poet and philosopher. Together with the other great Kyrgyz philosopher Muhammad Kashgar, he is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the 11th Century. The ancient city Balasagun was renamed in his honor.

In 1070, he completed the Kutadgu Bilig, one of the first written literary monuments to the aesthetical thought of the Turkic people.