Rakhmetulla Salmenov was born on 1 January 1900 in Karkaralinskiy uyezd, Semipalatinsk oblast, Russian Empire [now Karkaraly rayon, Karaganda oblast, Kazakhstan]. He was an actor, known for Amangeldy (1939), Pesnya zovet (1961) and My iz Semirech'ya (1959). He died on 5 January 1970 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan].