This is a list of notable

Georgians The Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and indigenous Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia and the South Caucasus. Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, G ...

Leaders and politicians

* Pharnavaz I,

King of Iberia This is a list of kings and queens regnant of the kingdoms of Georgia (country), Georgia before Georgia within the Russian Empire, Russian annexation in 1801–1810. For more comprehensive lists, and family trees, of Georgian monarchs and ruler ...

from 302 to 237 BC *

Vakhtang I Gorgasali Vakhtang I Gorgasali ( ka, ვახტანგ I გორგასალი, tr; or 443 – 502 or 522), of the Chosroid dynasty, was a king of Iberia, natively known as Kartli (eastern Georgia) in the second half of the 5th and first quarter o ...

from 447/449–502/522 *

David the Builder David IV, also known as David the Builder ( ka, დავით აღმაშენებელი, ') (1073–1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king of United Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125. Popularly considered to be ...

(1073–1125),

King of Georgia This is a list of kings and queens regnant of the kingdoms of Georgia before Russian annexation in 1801–1810. For more comprehensive lists, and family trees, of Georgian monarchs and rulers see Lists of Georgian monarchs. Kings of Iberia ...

from 1089 to 1125 *

Tamar the Great Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr, lit. "King Tamar") ( 1160 – 18 January 1213) reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age. A member of the Bagrationi dynasty ...

(1160–1213),

Queen of Georgia This is a list of kings and queens regnant of the kingdoms of Georgia before Russian annexation in 1801–1810. For more comprehensive lists, and family trees, of Georgian monarchs and rulers see Lists of Georgian monarchs. Kings of Iberia ...

from 1184 to 1207/1213 *

George V The Brilliant George V the Brilliant ( ka, გიორგი V ბრწყინვალე, ''Giorgi V Brtskinvale''; also translated as the ''Illustrious'', or ''Magnificent''; 1286/1289–1346) was King of Georgia from 1299 to 1302 and again from 1314 un ...

from 1299 to 1302 and from 1314 to 1346 * Heraclius II, King of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 to 1798 *

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

(1878-1953),

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

dictator from 1922 to 1952 *

Zviad Gamsakhurdia Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia ( ka, ზვიად გამსახურდია, tr; russian: Звиа́д Константи́нович Гамсаху́рдия, Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya; 31 March 1939 – 31 December 1 ...

(1939–1993), first President of Republic of Georgia from 1991 to 1992 *

Eduard Shevardnadze Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე}, romanized: ; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for ...

(1927–2014), Foreign Minister of USSR and second President of Republic of Georgia from 1995 to 2003 *

Mikheil Saakashvili Mikheil Saakashvili ( ka, მიხეილ სააკაშვილი ; uk, Міхеіл Саакашвілі ; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.

, third president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013

Parliamentarians

Mamuka Chikovani Mamuka Chikovani (born 20 August 1976) is a Georgian politician who is a United National Movement (UNM) Member of the Parliament of Georgia. He has been a member of parliament since 2016 and is a graduate from the faculty of law at Georgian Te ...

, Member of the United National Movement from 2016 to 2020

Military figures

Throughout history, there were many notorious Georgian military figures and commanders serving in the Georgian, Turkish, Iranian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and other country's military forces from BC till today. There were around 100 high-ranking officers serving in the Polish army during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

alone. Most prominent figures served in Russian, US and Persian armies. (Incomplete list, see above categories for more) *

Grigol Bakurianis-dze Gregory Pakourianos ( ka, გრიგოლ ბაკურიანის-ძე, ''Grigol Bakurianis-dze''; el, Γρηγόριος Πακουριανός, ''Gregorios Pakourianos''; hy, Գրիգոր Բակուրյան, ''Grigor Bakurian''; b ...

(11th century), general in the Byzantine service *

Giorgi Saakadze Giorgi Saakadze the Grand Mouravi ( ka, გიორგი სააკაძე) (c. 1570 – October 3, 1629) was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important but contradictory role in the politics of the early 17th-cent ...

(1570–1629), Georgian, Safavid and Ottoman military commander who won many battles against Muslim coalition forces and also battles for the Ottoman and Safavid Empire; notorious for annihilating an Iranian army at the

Battle of Martqopi The Battle of Martqopi ( ka, მარტყოფის ბრძოლა) was a 1625 military confrontation between the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli and Safavid Iran. The Georgians, led by general Giorgi Saakadze, annihilated an Iranian detachm ...

in 1625 almost without own losses *

Allahverdi Khan Allahverdi Khan ( fa, اللّه وردی خان, ka, ალავერდი-ხანი) (c. 1560 – June 3, 1613) was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin who, initially a '' gholām'' ("military slave"), rose to high offic ...

(c. 1560 – June 3, 1613),

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

general and statesman of

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

origin who rose to high office in the Safavid state * Imam-Quli Khan, Iranian military and political leader of

origin who served as a governor of Fars, Lar and

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

for the

shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

s Abbas I and Safi *

Daud Khan Undiladze Daud-Khan or Dāvūd b. Allāhverdī (Persian: داوود خان, ka, დაუდ-ხანი) was a Safavid Iranian military commander and politician of Georgian origin who served as governor (''beglarbeg'') of Ganja and Karabakh from 1627 to 1 ...

, Iranian military commander and politician of

origin; governor (

beglarbeg ''Beylerbey'' ( ota, بكلربكی, beylerbeyi, lit=bey of beys, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuk ...

) of

Ganja Ganja (, ; ) is one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana. Its usage in English dates to before 1689. Etymology ''Ganja'' is borrowed from Hindi/Urdu ( hi, गांजा, links=no, ur, , links=no, IPA: �aːɲd� ...

and

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...

1625–1630 * Rostom-Khan Saakadze (c. 1588 – 1 March 1643),

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

military commander (''

sipah-salar ''Ispahsālār'' ( fa, اسپهسالار) or ''sipahsālār'' (; "army commander"), in Arabic rendered as ''isfahsalār'' () or ''iṣbahsalār'' (), was a title used in much of the Islamic world during the 10th–15th centuries, to denote the se ...

'') of Georgian origin *

Prince Alexander of Imereti A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

(1674–1711), Georgian prince and commander of the artillery of the Russian Empire under Peter I *

Yusef Khan-e Gorji Yusef Khan-e Gorji (also spelled Yūsof; fa, یوسف خان گرجی; died 1824) was a Qajar dynasty, Qajar Iranian military leader and official of Georgians, Georgian origin. Born in Tbilisi, An influential figure, he founded the Iranian city ...

, Iranian military leader of

origin *

Pyotr Bagration Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Georgian general and prince serving in the Russian Empire, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. Bagration, a member of the Bagrationi dynasty, was born in Tbilisi. His ...

(1765–1812), one of the most prominent generals in Russian military history and most respected opponent of

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

; the Soviet counterattack against German forces in

was named after him,

Operation Bagration Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп� ...

Alexandre Bagrationi Prince Alexander of Georgia ( ka, ალექსანდრე ბატონიშვილი, ''aleksandre batonishvili'') (1770–1844) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the Bagrationi family, who headed several insurrectio ...

(1770–1844), Georgian prince and resistance fighter *

Roman Bagration Prince Roman (Revaz) Ivanovich Bagration (russian: Роман (Реваз) Иванович Багратион, ka, რომან (რევაზ) ბაგრატიონი ''Roman (Revaz) Bagrat'ioni'') (1778 – 1834) was a Georgian nob ...

(1778–1834), prominent general of the Imperial Russian army, distinguished commander in the

Russo-Persian Wars The Russo-Persian Wars or Russo-Iranian Wars were a series of conflicts between 1651 and 1828, concerning Iran, Persia (Iran) and the Russian Empire. Russia and Persia fought these wars over disputed governance of territories and countries in th ...

and

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani }, ''Ivan Konstantinovich Bagration-Mukhransky'') (February 7, 1812 – March 11, 1895) was a Georgian nobleman of the House of Mukhrani, and general in the Imperial Russian service. He was one of the biggest Georgian landowners of that time and a m ...

(1812–1895), major general of the Russian Empire; revolutionizer of the wine industry *

Ivane Amilakhvari Ivane Amilakhori ( ka, ივანე ამილახვარი, russian: Иван Гивич �горовичАмилахвари �милахори 26 January 1829 – 27 August 1905) was a Georgia (country), Georgian nobleman and a ...

(1829–1905), general of the Russian Empire and distinguished commander during the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

and

Russo-Turkish War The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histor ...

Alexander Imeretinsky Alexander Konstantinovich Bagration-Imeretinsky ( ka, ალექსანდრე კონსტანტინეს ძე ბაგრატიონ-იმერეტინსკი (''Aleksandre Konstantines dze Bagration-Imeretinski' ...

(1837–1900), Georgian-Russian prince; lieutenant general and hero of the

; became governor-general of Warsaw in 1897 *

Ivane Kazbegi Ivane Kazbegi ( ka, ივანე ყაზბეგი; pl, Jan wanKazbek; russian: Иван Николаевич Казбек, ) (June 11, 1860 — December 2, 1943) was a Georgian soldier, who served, successively, in the Imperial Russian, G ...

(1860–1943), major general of the Russian Empire, then major general of the Polish Army and strategist at the Polish Academy of Defence *

Kote Abkhazi Prince Konstantine (Kote) Abkhazi ( ka, კონსტანტინე (კოტე) აფხაზი) (November 17, 1867—May 20, 1923), was a Georgian military officer, politician and public figure. During the Imperial Russian rule, he wa ...

(1867–1923), general of the Russian Empire and Georgian resistance fighter *

Zakaria Bakradze Zakaria (Shakro) Bakradze ( ka, ზაქარია (შაქრო) ბაქრაძე, pl, Zachariasz Bakradze) (22 October 1868, in Tbilisi – 3 December 1938) was a Georgia (country), Georgian military officer who served as a general i ...

(1870–1938), brigadier general of the Polish army *

Giorgi Mazniashvili Giorgi Mazniashvili ( ka, გიორგი მაზნიაშვილი) (6 April 1870 – 16 December 1937) was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). During ...

(1872–1937), general in Russian and Georgian service; defeated three enemy armies invading Georgia *

Giorgi Kvinitadze Giorgi Kvinitadze ( ka, გიორგი კვინიტაძე; russian: Георгий Иванович Квинитадзе, ''Georgy Ivanovich Kvinitadze''; his real surname was House of Chikovani, Chikovani, ჩიქოვანი) ...

(1874–1970), Russian general and later commander-in-chief of the

Democratic Republic of Georgia The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა ') was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to ...

during the

Red Army invasion of Georgia The Red Army invasion of Georgia (15 February17 March 1921), also known as the Soviet–Georgian War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia,Debo, R. (1992). ''Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921'', pp. 182, 361� ...

(1878–1953), leader of the Soviet Union *

Leo Kereselidze Leo Kereselidze ( ka, ლეო კერესელიძე) (1885 – 1944) was a Georgia (country), Georgian military figure, politician and journalist involved in the Georgian national movement against the Russian Empire, Russian and later So ...

(1878–1942) *

Alexandre Chkheidze Alexandre Chkheidze, also known under his Polish name of Aleksander Czcheidze (1878–1940), was a Polish-Georgian military officer. He served with the rank of Colonel in the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the short pe ...

(1878–1940), general of the Polish army *

Valiko Jugheli Vladimir “Valiko” Jugheli ( ka, ვალიკო ჯუღელი) (January 1, 1887 - 30 August 1924 ) was a Georgian politician and military commander. He was involved in the Marxist movement in Georgia (then part of the Russian Empire) ...

(1887–1924), Georgian general and resistance fighter * Kaikhosro (Kakutsa) Cholokashvili (1888–1930), Georgian resistance fighter *

Konstantin Mikeladze Prince Konstantin (Kostia) Mikeladze (1895–1935) was born in Tbilisi, Georgia into the Mikeladze Georgian noble family, known from at least the 14th century, then part of Imperial Russia. Konstantin's family belonged to the aristocratic and sophi ...

(1895–1935), commander in the

ian army *

Grigor Mikeladze Prince ( knyaz) Grigor Mikeladze (1898–1955) was born in Tbilisi, Georgia into a Georgian noble family, who are known from at least the 14th century, which was then a part of Imperial Russia. Grigori Mikeladze’s family belonged to the ari ...

(1898–1955), first lieutenant in the Iranian army *

Shalva Maglakelidze Shalva Maglakelidze (also spelled as "Maghlakelidze"; ; 1893–1976) was a Georgian jurist, politician and military commander. A high-ranking official in briefly independent Georgia (1918–1921), he was one of the leaders of anti-Soviet moveme ...

(1893–1976), Georgian general and later in charge of the German Georgian Legion of (1941–1945) *

Pore Mosulishvili Pore Mosulishvili (; ka, ფორე მოსულიშვილი; russian: Христофор Николаевич Мосулишвили, italic=yes, ''Khristophor Nikolaievich Mosulishvili''; it, Pore Mossulishvili; July 20, 1916 – De ...

(1916–1944),

soldier and partisan in the

Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance movement (the ''Resistenza italiana'' and ''la Resistenza'') is an umbrella term for the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social ...

* Valerian Tevzadze (1894–1987), colonel of the

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

army and resistance fighter in World War II, later against the Soviet rule until his death in 1987 *

Lavrentiy Beria Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik ...

(1899–1953), marshal of the Soviet Union and main ideologist and architect, as well as chief of the Soviet secret police,

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

Konstantin Leselidze Konstantin Nikolaevich Leselidze (russian: Константин Николаевич Леселидзе, ka, კონსტანტინე ლესელიძე, Konstantine Leselidze) (October 15, 1903 – February 21, 1944), was a Co ...

(1903–1944),

colonel general Colonel general is a three- or four-star military rank used in some armies. It is particularly associated with Germany, where historically general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, and was a ra ...

of the Soviet Union, commander of the Caucasus front and hero of the Soviet Union *

Dimitri Amilakhvari Prince Dimitri Zedginidze-Amilakhvari, more commonly known as Dimitri Amilakhvari ( ka, დიმიტრი ამილახვარი, french: Dimitri Amilakvari) (31 October 1906 – 24 October 1942) was a French military officer of ...

(1906–1942), colonel of the French Foreign Legion, fighting on almost every important spot during the war, hero of France and iconic figure of the French resistance during

* Vladimir Janjgava (1907–1982),

lieutenant general Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

and hero of the Soviet Union *

Alexi Inauri Aleksi Inauri ( ka, ალექსი ინაური; russian: Алексей Николаевич Инаури, ''Aleksey Nikolayevich Inauri'') (May 12, 1908 – June 23, 1993) was a Soviet and Georgian commander who headed the Georgian KGB ...

(1908–1993),

and hero of the Soviet Union *

Vasilij Shalvovich Kvachantiradze Vasily Shalvovich Kvachantiradze ( ka, ვასილ შალვას ძე კვაჭანტირაძე, rus, Василий Шалвович Квачантирадзе; 2 (15) January 1907 – 9 February 1950) was a top Soviet sn ...

(1907–1950), Soviet sniper who scored 215-500 kills, hero of the Soviet Union * Yaroslav Iosseliani (1912–1978), submarine commander, hero of the Soviet Union *

Archil Gelovani Prince Archil Viktorovich Gelovani ( ka, არჩილ გელოვანი, russian: Арчил Викторович Геловани; – 19 August 1978) was a Soviet officer and later Marshal of the engineer troops, responsible for logi ...

(1915–1978), marshal of the engineer troops *

Jerzy Tumaniszwili Jerzy Tumaniszwili ( ka, გიორგი თუმანიშვილი, Giorgi Tumanishvili) (June 21, 1916 – December 9, 2010) was a Polish naval commander of a Georgian aristocratic descent. A World War II veteran and later an émigré t ...

(1916–2010), counter admiral of the Polish navy *

Noe Adamia Noah Petrovich Adamia ( ka, ნოე ადამია, Noe Adamia, russian: Ной Петрович Адамия; 21 December 1917 – 3 July 1942) was a Georgian Soviet sniper of the Soviet Maritime Forces during World War II and Hero of the ...

(1914–1942), Soviet sniper, hero of the Soviet Union *

Meliton Kantaria Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya ( ka, მელიტონ ქანთარია, russian: Мелитон Варламович Кантария; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993) was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credite ...

(1920–1993), sergeant of the Red Army who raised the Soviet victory banner over the Reichstag in Berlin, April 30, 1945 *

Geno Adamia Geno Adamia ( ka, გენო ადამია; 8 March 1936 – 28 September 1993) was a Georgian military commander who was killed during the war in Abkhazia, Georgia. A native of Senaki, he engaged, immediately after the outbreak of the ho ...

(1936–1993), Georgian major general and garrison commander of

Sukhumi Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of ...

; executed with the entire garrison and extermination of the city's population by Abkhazian militia during the

Sukhumi massacre The Sukhumi massacre took place on September 27, 1993, during and after the fall of Sukhumi into separatist hands in the course of the War in Abkhazia. It was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkha ...

John Shalikashvili John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

(Poland, 1936–2011), general of the United States, chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, that advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the ...

and supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe; partially solved Kurdish conflict on the Iraqi-Turkish border, saving around 500.000 Kurdish people being displaced; developed the Joint Vision 10 plan, a template which combined all elements of the United States armed forces to one efficient network of the different combat components

Religious leaders

Saint Nino Saint Nino ( ka, წმინდა ნინო, tr; hy, Սուրբ Նունե, Surb Nune; el, Αγία Νίνα, Agía Nína; sometimes ''St. Nune'' or ''St. Ninny'') ''Equal to the Apostles and the Enlightener of Georgia'' (c. 296 – c. 33 ...

(c. 296 – c. 338 or 340), a woman from

Cappadocia Cappadocia or Capadocia (; tr, Kapadokya), is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It largely is in the provinces Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, Kırşehir, Sivas and Niğde. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revo ...

, heavily involved in the

Christianization of Iberia The Christianization of Iberia ( ka, ქართლის გაქრისტიანება, tr) refers to the spread of Christianity in the early 4th century by the sermon of Saint Nino in an ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli, known ...

Thirteen Assyrian Fathers The Thirteen Assyrian Fathers ( ka, ათცამმეტი ასურელი მამანი, tr) were, according to Georgian church tradition, a group of monastic missionaries who arrived from Mesopotamia to Georgia to strengthen Chri ...

, among them

Abibos of Nekresi Abibus of Nekressi ( ka, აბიბოს ნეკრესელი, tr) (fl. 6th century) was one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles of Georgia and the bishop of Nekresi who arrived in Georgia under the leadership of St. Ioane of Zedazeni (J ...

Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

missionaries, said to have arrived from

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

in the 6th century. *

Gregory of Khandzta Gregory of Khandzta (Georgian: გრიგოლ ხანძთელი, ''Grigol Khandzteli''; 759 – 5 October 861) was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure and a founder and leader of numerous monastic communities in Tao-Klarjeti, a historical ...

(759–861), a prominent ecclesiastic figure, active in

Tao-Klarjeti Tao-Klarjeti may refer to: *Tao-Klarjeti Tao-Klarjeti may refer to: * Tao-Klarjeti, part of Georgian historical region of Upper Kartli * Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti, AD 888 to 1008 {{set index article Kingdom of Iberia Historical regions of Ge ...

George of Chqondidi George of Chqondidi ( ka, გიორგი ჭყონდიდელი, ''Giorgi Chqondideli'') (died c. 1118) was a Georgian churchman and court minister best known as a tutor and the closest adviser of King David IV of Georgia (r. 1089–1 ...

(died c. 1118), a churchman and court minister, advisor to

David IV of Georgia David IV, also known as David the Builder ( ka, დავით აღმაშენებელი, ') (1073–1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king of United Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125. Popularly considered to be ...

* Arsen of Iqalto (died c. 1127), a prominent churchman and scholar * Antim Iverianul (Antimoz Iverieli) (1650–1716), Metropolitan of

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

Nikoloz Cholokashvili Nikoloz Cholokashvili (Nicholas Irubakidze-Cholokashvili) ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ჩოლოყაშვილი; ნიკოლოზ ირუბაქიძე-ჩოლოყაშვილი), known in Europe as Niceforo Irbachi, (15 ...

(Niceforo Irbachi) (1585–1658), Orthodox priest *

Eudemus I of Georgia Eudemus I Diasamidze ( ka, ევდემოზ I დიასამიძე, ''Evdemoz I Diasamidze''; died 1642) was a Georgian churchman serving as Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642. His demise was occasioned b ...

(died 1642), churchman serving as

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia '' Catholicos-Patriarch'' has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I (1010–1033). In the 15th century the Georgian Orthodox Church was divided into t ...

from 1632 until his death in 1642. *

Anton II of Georgia Anton II the Great Martyr ( ka, ანტონ II), born Prince Royal Teimuraz (), (8 January 1762 or 1763 – 21 December 1827) was a member of the Georgian royal family and churchman. A son of Heraclius II, the penultimate King of Kartli and ...

(1762 or 1763–1827), member of the

Bagrationi Dynasty The Bagrationi dynasty (; ) is a royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, being among the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. In modern usage, the name of the dynasty is sometim ...

and

from (1788 to 1811) * Dositheus of Tbilisi (died 1795), Archbishop of Tbilisi and a martyr *

Peter Kharischirashvili Peter Kharischirashvili (in Georgian: პეტრე ხარისჭირაშვილი / ხარისჭარაშვილი, born in 1804 or 1805 in Akhaltsikhe, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire – 7 October 1890 in Constanti ...

(1804/05–1890), Catholic monk *

Shio Batmanishvili Shio Batmanishvili (in Georgian: შიო ბათმანიშვილი, born in 1885 in Akhaltsikhe, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire – November 1, 1937, Sandarmokh, Karelia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) was a Geo ...

(1885–1937), Catholic priest and martyr *

Michel Tamarati Michel Tamarati, born Mikhail Tamarashvili ( ka, მიხეილ თამარაშვილი), (September 1858 – September 16, 1911) was a Georgian Roman Catholic priest and historian, known for his oft-cited French-language history of ...

(1858–1911), Catholic priest *

Ambrosius Ambrosius or Ambrosios (a Latin adjective derived from the Ancient Greek word ἀμβρόσιος, ''ambrosios'' "divine, immortal") may refer to: Given name: *Ambrosius Alexandrinus, a Latinization of the name of Ambrose of Alexandria (before 212 ...

(1861–1927),

from 1921 to 1927 *

Grigol Peradze Saint Grigol Peradze ( ka, გრიგოლ ფერაძე; 13 September 1899 – 6 December 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period. Li ...

(1899–1942), Archimandrite, historian (

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) *

Elie Melia Fr. Elie Melia ( ka, ილია მელია, french: Élie Mélia) (20 February 1915 – 15 March 1988) was a Georgian Orthodox priest in France and church historian. Born in Kutaisi, he fled the Soviet regime to Western Europe with his bro ...

(1915–1988), Orthodox priest and church historian *

Gabriel In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Gabriel (); Greek: grc, Γαβριήλ, translit=Gabriḗl, label=none; Latin: ''Gabriel''; Coptic: cop, Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, translit=Gabriêl, label=none; Amharic: am, ገብር� ...

(1929–1995), Orthodox monk, venerated as Saint Gabriel, Confessor and Fool for Christ *

Ilia II Ilia may refer to: Science and medicine *''Apatura ilia'' or lesser purple emperor, a butterfly *Ilium (bone) (plural: "ilia"), pelvic bone People * Ilia (name), numerous **Ilia II Ilia may refer to: Science and medicine *''Apatura ilia'' or ...

(born 1932),

since 1977

Scholars

Medieval

Peter the Iberian Peter the Iberian ( ka, პეტრე იბერი, tr) (c. 417-491) was a Georgian royal prince, theologian and philosopher who was a prominent figure in early Christianity and one of the founders of Christian Neoplatonism. Some have claimed ...

(c. 417 – 491), theologian and philosopher, one of the founders of Christian

Neoplatonism Neoplatonism is a strand of Platonism, Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and Hellenistic religion, religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a chain of ...

Martviri Sabatsmindeli Martviri the Iberian or Sabatsmindeli ( ka, მარტჳრი ქართველი; საბაწმინდელი) was a Georgian calligrapher, monk and writer of the 6th century. Martviri was a priest of Mar Saba and foreman of Sai ...

6th century, monk, calligrapher and writer at

Mar Saba The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba ( syr, ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, ar, دير مار سابا; he, מנזר מר סבא; el, Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμέ� ...

; foreman of

Sabbas the Sanctified SabasPatrich (1995). (439–532), in Church parlance Saint Sabas or Sabbas the Sanctified ( el, Σάββας ο Ηγιασμένος), was a Cappadocian Greek monk, priest and saint, who was born in Cappadocia and lived mainly in Palaestina Prima. ...

Basili Sabatsmindeli Basili Sabatsmindeli ( ka, ბასილი საბაწმინდელი) was a Georgian calligrapher, monk and writer of the 8th century.ლოლაშვილი, ქსე, ტომი 2, გვერდი 221, თბილის� ...

8th century, monk, calligrapher and writer at

* Makari of Leteti 9th century, calligrapher and scholar at

Mikaeli Mikaeli ( ka, მიქაელი) was a Georgian calligrapher of the 9th century.ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტომი 7, გვერდი 24, თბილისი, 1984 ''Georgian Sovie ...

9th century, calligrapher; known for

Adysh Gospels The Adishi Gospels (Adishi Four Gospels) ( ka, ადიშის ოთხთავი) is an important early medieval Gospel Book from Georgia. The oldest dated extant manuscript of the Georgian version of the Gospels, it was created by Mika ...

Euthymius the Athonite Euthymius the Athonite ( ka, ექვთიმე ათონელი ''Ekvtime Atoneli''; 955–1024) was a Georgian monk, philosopher and scholar, who is venerated as a saint. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is May 13. Euthymius was a ...

(c. 955–1024), monk, philosopher and scholar * Gabrieli 10th century, calligrapher *

Mikael Modrekili Michael Modrekili ( ka, მიქაელ მოდრეკილი, tr; ; d. 970) was a Georgian calligrapher, writer and scholar of the 10th century. He was also an anthologist, an expert in the liturgy, musicologist and a poet. Life Modrekili ...

10th century, calligrapher, poet, writer and scholar; best known for

Iadgari of Mikael Modrekili {{Short description, 10th century Georgian manuscript Iadgari of Mikael Modrekili ( ka, მიქაელ მოდრეკილის იადგარი) is a Georgian manuscript of the 10th century, containing a special hymnographic collect ...

* Ioane Berai 10th century, calligrapher *

John Zosimus John Zosimus, also known as Ioane-Zosime ( ka, იოანე-ზოსიმე; died c. 990) was a 10th-century Georgian Christian monk, religious writer, and calligrapher. He is known for his liturgical compilations and for composing several h ...

10th century, monk, religious writer, and calligrapher; best known for his hymn "Praise and Exaltation of the Georgian Language." *

Gabriel Patarai Gabriel Patarai ( ka, გაბრიელ პატარაი) was a Georgian calligrapher of the 10th century. He created his works at the Parkhali monastery of Tao-Klarjeti.

10th century, calligrapher *

George the Hagiorite George the Hagiorite ( ka, გიორგი მთაწმინდელი) (1009 – 27 June 1065) was a Georgian monk, calligrapher, religious writer, theologian, and translator, who spearheaded the activities of Georgian monastic communiti ...

(1009–1065), monk, calligrapher and scholar at the

Iviron Monastery The Monastery of Iviron ( ka, ქართველთა მონასტერი, tr; el, Μονή Ιβήρων, Monḗ Ivirōn) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece. History The monas ...

Ioane Mesvete Ioane Mesvete ( ka, იოანე მესვეტე) was a Georgian calligrapher who lived during the 11th century.მარტვილის ტაძარი, ძველი ქართული ხუროთმოძღვრებ� ...

11th century, calligrapher *

Mikael Mtserali Mikael Mtserali ( ka, მიქაელ მწერალი) was a Georgian calligrapher of the 11th century.Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume 7, p. 25, Tbilisi, 1984 He rewrote the Gospel in 1054. His calligraphy was created in brown ink on ...

11th century, calligrapher * Arsen Ninotsmindeli 11th century, bishop, scholar, translator and calligrapher at the

Leonti Mroveli Leonti Mroveli ( ka, ლეონტი მროველი) was the 11th-century Georgian chronicler, presumably an ecclesiastic. ''Mroveli'' is not his last name, but the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi, whose bishop he probably was.Rayfiel ...

11th century, chronicler, contributor to

The Georgian Chronicles ''The Georgian Chronicles'' is a conventional English name for the principal compendium of medieval Georgian historical texts, natively known as ''Kartlis Tskhovreba'' ( ka, ქართლის ცხოვრება), literally "Life of Kar ...

Juansher Juansheriani Juansher Juansheriani ( ka, ჯუანშერ ჯუანშერიანი) (fl. c. 790–800Toumanoff, Cyril (1963). ''Studies in Christian Caucasian History'', pp. 24, 25, 254. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. or 11th century) ...

11th century, historian, contributor to

Sumbat Davitis Dze Sumbat Davitis Dze ( ka, სუმბატ დავითის ძე), or Sumbat, son of David, in modern English transliteration, was the 11th-century Georgian chronicler who described in his ''The Life and Tale of the Bagratids'' the history ...

11th century, chronicler, contributor to

Ephrem Mtsire Ephrem Mtsire or Ephraim the Lesser ( ka, ეფრემ მცირე) (died c. 1101/3) was a Georgian monk at Antioch, theologian and translator of patristic literature from Greek. Information as to Ephrem’s life is scarce. Early in life ...

11-12th century, monk, theologian and translator *

Ioane Petritsi Ioane Petritsi ( ka, იოანე პეტრიწი) also referred as John Petritsi was a Georgian Neoplatonist philosopher of the 11th-12th century, active in the Byzantine Empire and Kingdom of Georgia, best known for his translations of ...

11-12th century,

Neoplatonist Neoplatonism is a strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a chain of thinkers. But there are some ide ...

philosopher and translator *

Tbeli Abuserisdze Tbeli Abuserisdze ( ka, ტბელი აბუსერისძე) (c. 1190 – 1240) was a medieval Georgian scholar and religious writer. His merits A son of Ivane Abuserisdze, ''eristavt-eristavi'' ("archduke") of Khikhata ( Upper A ...

(c. 1190 – 1240), scholard and religious writer *

Giorgi Dodisi Giorgi Dodisi ( ka, გიორგი დოდისი) was a Georgian calligrapher of the 12th century. Giorgi created calligraphical works in Georgian-built Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.Monastery of the Cross The Monastery of the Cross ( ar, دير الصليب, ''Dayr al-Salīb''; he, מנזר המצלבה; ka, ჯვრის მონასტერი, ''jvris monast'eri'') is an Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox monastery near the Nay ...

Nikrai Nikrai ( ka, ნიკრაი) was a Georgian calligrapher of the 12-13th century. He rewrote ''The Ladder of Divine Ascent'' of John Climacus which was translated in the 11th century by Euthymius of Athos from Greek into Georgian. He wrote in Ge ...

12-13th century, calligrapher *

Avgaroz Bandaisdze Avgaroz Bandaisdze ( ka, ავგაროზ ბანდაისძე) was a Georgian calligrapher and painter of the 14th century. He was in service of Dukes of Ksani. His most important work is "''History of the Eristavs''". He had a son, ...

14th century, calligrapher and painter *

Parsadan Gorgijanidze P'arsadan Gorgijanidze ( ka, ფარსადან გორგიჯანიძე; or Giorgijanidze, გიორგიჯანიძე) (1626 – ) was a Georgian factotum and historian in the service of the Safavids. Early in his career h ...

(1626 – c. 1696), historian and factotum *

Vakhushti Bagrationi Vakhushti ( ka, ვახუშტი, tr) (1696–1757) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili''), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, ''Description of the Kingdom of Georgia'' and the ''Geo ...

(1696–1757), historian and geographer *

Mamuka Tavakalashvili Mamuka Tavakalashvili or Tavakarashvili ( ka, მამუკა თავაქალაშვილი) was a Georgian poet, painter and famous calligrapher of the 17th century at the court of the King of Imereti. He was captured in Principalit ...

17th century, calligrapher, painter and poet *

David the Rector Davit Aleksidze-Meskhishvili ( ka, დავით ალექსის ძე მესხიშვილი), "the Rector" (დავით რექტორი; 1745–1824), was a Georgian pedagogue, calligrapher, and rector of the Telavi se ...

(1745–1824), pedagogue and calligrapher *

Teimuraz Bagrationi Teimuraz Bagrationi ( ka, თეიმურაზ ბაგრატიონი) otherwise known as Tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich (russian: царевич Теймураз Георгиевич) (April 23, 1782 – October 25, 1846) was a Georgi ...

(1782–1846), historian and philologist

Modern

Platon Ioseliani Platon Ioseliani ( ka, პლატონ იოსელიანი) (November 15, 1810 – November 15, 1875) was a Georgian historian and civil servant in the Imperial Russian The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the ...

(1810–1875), historian and civil servant *

David Chubinashvili David Chubinashvili ( ka, დავით ჩუბინაშვილი; September 26, 1814 – June 5, 1891), otherwise known as David Yesseevich Chubinov (or Tchoubinoff, russian: link=no, Давид Йессеевич Чубинов) by the ...

(1814–1891), lexicographer, linguist, scholar of old Georgian literature. *

Mikhail Sabinin Mikhail Pavlovich Sabinin (russian: Михаил Павлович Сабинин, ka, მიხეილ პავლეს ძე საბინინი, monk Gobron, ka, გობრონ; 1845–1900) was a Russia, Russo-Georgia (country) ...

(1845–1900), monk and historian *

Nikolai Marr Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (, ''Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr''; , ''Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari''; — 20 December 1934) was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking o ...

(1864–1934), historian and linguist; known for the pseudo-scientific

Japhetic theory In linguistics, the Japhetic theory of Soviet Union, Soviet linguist Nicholas Marr, Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864–1934) postulated that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area are related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East. ...

Kita Chkhenkeli Kita "Petre" Chkhenkeli ( ka, კიტა "პეტრე" ჩხენკელი; Tschenkéli in western literature) (8 November 1895 – 22 October 1963) was a Georgian linguist and lexicographer based in Germany and Switzerland. He is best kn ...

(1865–1963), linguist and lexicographer *

Nikoloz Muskhelishvili Nikoloz (Niko) Muskhelishvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ (ნიკო) მუსხელიშვილი ; – 15 July 1976) was a renowned Soviet Georgian mathematician, physicist and engineer who was one of the founders and first President ...

(1891–1976), mathematician, physicist and engineer * Michael Gregor (1888–1953), aircraft engineer * Ilia Abuladze (1901–1968), philologist *

Georgy Beriev Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev (Beriashvili) (russian: Георгий Михайлович Бериев ''Georgij Michajlovič Beriev''; Georgian: გიორგი მიხეილის ძე ბერიაშვილი ''Giorgi Mikheilis D ...

(1903–1979), Soviet

major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

, engineer, founder of the

Beriev Aircraft Company The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (russian: Таганрогский авиационный научно-технический комплекс им. Г. М. Бериева, , Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific Technical Complex), formerly Beriev ...

Wachtang Djobadze Wachtang Djobadze ( ka, ვახტანგ ჯობაძე) (March 8, 1917 – February 10, 2007) was a Georgian art historian and Professor at the California State University, Los Angeles. During the Soviet Union, he lived as an émigré in ...

(1917–2007), professor and art historian *

Malkhaz Abdushelishvili Malkhaz Abdushelishvili (February 28, 1926 – February 23, 1998) was a famous Soviet Union, Soviet and Georgia (country), Georgian scientist, one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of Anthropology, Academician of the Georgian Academy ...

(1926–1998), anthropologist *

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (; born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929) is a French political historian of Georgians in France, Georgian origin, specializing in History of Russia, Russian history. Since 1999, she has served as the Perpetual Sec ...

(born 1927), political historian, Perpetual Secretary of the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

David Devdariani David Devdariani () (November 17, 1927 – June 13, 2006) was a Professor of Jurisprudence and Head of Law Faculty at Georgian Technical University. He was the son of the famous Georgian revolutionary Gaioz Devdariani who was executed during the ...

(1927–2006), professor of

Jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning a ...

Georges Charachidzé Georges Charachidzé (Giorgi Sharashidze; ka, გიორგი შარაშიძე) (February 11, 1930 – February 20, 2010) was a French-Georgian scholar of the Caucasian cultures. His most important works focused on the history of ...

(1930–2010), scholar of Caucasian Studies *

Gaston Bouatchidzé Gaston Bouatchidzé ( ka, გასტონ ბუაჩიძე; 21 October 1935 – 13 July 2022) was a Georgian-French writer and translator. Bouatchidzé was born in Tbilisi of a French mother and Georgian father who had lived in France f ...

(born 1935), professor, translator and writer *

Giuli Alasania 220px, Giuli Alasania (2006) Giuli Givievna Alasania ( ka, გიული გივის ასული ალასანია, , born 11 November 1946 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian historian and public figure. Her publications include 130 pap ...

(born 1946), historian *

Andria Apakidze Andria Apakidze ( ka, ანდრია აფაქიძე) (September 3, 1914 – November 25, 2005), Doctor of History and professor, was a Georgian archaeologist and historian specializing in the studies of ancient Georgia, and the author of ...

(1914–2005), archaeologist *

Tornike Gordadze Tornike Gordadze ( ka, თორნიკე გორდაძე, french: Thorniké Gordadze) (born November 10, 1975) is a former Georgian minister and French political scientist. He was Georgia's State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration fr ...

(born 1975), political scientist *

Manana Kochladze Manana Kochladze (born c. 1972) is a Georgian biologist and environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004 for her environmental campaigns, in particular regarding oil pipelines through vulnerable areas. Originally tra ...

(born 1972), biologist and environmentalist * François Zourabichvili (1965–2006), philosopher *

Zurab Avalishvili Zurab Avalishvili ( ka, ზურაბ ავალიშვილი; 1876 – May 21, 1944) was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). He was also known as Zurab Davidovich A ...

(1876–1944), international law and history *

Dimitri Bakradze Dimitri Bakradze ( ka, დიმიტრი ბაქრაძე) (26 October 1826 – 10 February 1890) was a Georgian scholar who authored several influential works in the history, archaeology and ethnography of Georgia and the Caucasus. He w ...

(1826–1890), historian *

Ivan Beritashvili Ivane Beritashvili ( ka, ივანე ბერიტაშვილი; January 10, 1885 – December 29, 1974), was one of the great Georgian physiologists, one of the founders of the modern biobehavioral science. He was a founder and directo ...

(1884–1974), physiologist *

Levan Chilashvili Levan Chilashvili () (August 17, 1930 – April 26, 2004) was a Georgian archaeologist and historian, an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor. In 19 ...

(1930–2004), archaeologist *

Alexander Nikuradse Alexander Nikuradse (Aleksandre Nikuradze; ka, ალექსანდრე ნიკურაძე), also known by his pseudonym Al. Sanders, (November 10, 1900 – June 13, 1981) was a Georgian-German physicist and Nazi political scientist. ...

(1900–1981), physicist and

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

political scientist *

Johann Nikuradse Johann Nikuradse ( ka, ივანე ნიკურაძე, ''Ivane Nikuradze'') (November 20, 1894 – July 18, 1979) was a Georgia-born German engineer and physicist. His brother, Alexander Nikuradse, was also a Germany-based physicist and g ...

(1894–1979), engineer and physicist *

Michael Achmeteli Michael Achmeteli ( ka, მიხეილ ახმეტელი, ''Mikheil Akhmeteli'') (1895–1963) was a Georgian émigré scholar, an expert on Soviet agriculture and sometime chief of Wannsee Institut, the SS-controlled research institute ...

(1895–1963), agronomist, sometime chief of the

Wannsee Institut Wannsee Institut, a research institute in Nazi Germany, focused on studies of the politics and economics of the Soviet Union. The Wannsee Institut was founded as a private foundation in Wannsee, southwest of Berlin, and was incorporated by Reinhard ...

* Juansher Chkareuli (born 1940), physicist *

Giorgi Chubinashvili Giorgi Chubinashvili ( ka, გიორგი ჩუბინაშვილი; November 21, 1885 – January 14, 1973) was a Georgian art historian. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia he studied psychology at the universities of Leipzig and Hall ...

(1885–1973), art historian *

Gia Dvali Georgi (Gia) Dvali (Georgian: გიორგი (გია) დვალი; born May 30, 1964) is a Georgian theoretical physicist and science communicator in Georgia. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian Universit ...

(born 1964), physicist *

Solomon Dodashvili Solomon Dodashvili ( ka, სოლომონ დოდაშვილი), also known as Solomon Ivanovich Dodaev-Mogarsky (russian: Соломон Иванович Додаев-Могарский) (May 17, 1805 – August 20, 1836), was a Ge ...

(1805–1836), philosopher *

Revaz Dogonadze Revaz Dogonadze (November 21, 1931 – May 13, 1985) was a notable Georgian scientist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) (1982), Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Full Doctor) (1966), Professor (1972) ...

(1931–1985), physicist *

Revaz Gabashvili Revaz Gabashvili ( ka, რევაზ გაბაშვილი; November 6, 1882 – 1969) was a Georgian politician and writer involved in the independence movement and revolutionary journalism in the early 20th century. Gabashvili was born of ...

(1878–1959), historian *

Tamaz Gamkrelidze Tamaz (Thomas) Valerianis dze Gamkrelidze (Georgian: თამაზ ვალერიანის ძე გამყრელიძე, 23 October 1929 – 10 February 2021) was a Georgian linguist, orientalist public benefactor and Hittitol ...

(born 1928), linguist, President of the Academy of Sciences *

Vladimir Gigauri Vladimir Spiridonovich Gigauri (b. 10 April 1934 in Tbilisi - d. 04 Feb 2006 in Moscow) was a renowned Georgian-born Soviet scientist in the fields of medicine, biomedical engineering, military, and space. Professor V. Gigauri is best known for ...

(1934–2006), scientist *

Olga Guramishvili-Nikoladze Olga Guramishvili-Nikoladze ( ka, ოლღა გურამიშვილი-ნიკოლაძე, 29 July 1855 – 24 May 1940) was a Georgian biologist and educator. One of the first women to study abroad, she earned a degree in pedag ...

(1855–1940), educator *

Guranda Gvaladze Guranda Gvaladze (In Georgian გურანდა ღვალაძე, June 23, 1932 – January 24, 2020) was a notable Georgian botanist, one of the founders of Plant Embryology in Georgia, Academician of the Abkhazian Regional Academy of ...

(1932-2020), botanist *

Pavle Ingorokva Pavle Ingorokva ( ka, პავლე ინგოროყვა; January 1, 1893 in Poti – November 20, 1983 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian historian, philologist, and public benefactor. He graduated from the University of St. Petersburg (19 ...

(1893–1990), historian and philologist *

Nikoloz Janashia Nikoloz (Lasha) Janashia ( Georgian: ნიკოლოზ (ლაშა) ჯანაშია) (November 18, 1931 in Tbilisi – September 7, 1982 in Tbilisi) was a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor, PhD in History (1962), associate ...

(1931–1982), historian *

Simon Janashia Simon Janashia ( ka, სიმონ ჯანაშია; July 13, 1900 – November 5, 1947) was a Georgian historian and public figure. He was a professor of history and one of the founding members of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Janash ...

(1900–1947), historian *

Ivane Javakhishvili Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; 23 April 1876 – 18 November 1940) was a Georgian historian and linguist whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history ...

(1876–1940), historian *

Joseph Jordania Joseph Jordania (Georgian იოსებ ჟორდანია, born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is ...

(born 1954), ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist (Australia) *

Sargis Kakabadze Sargis N. Kakabadze (October 7, 1886 – April 2, 1967) was a Georgian historian and philologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. He was born in 1886, in a small village Kukhi (Imereti region of Western Georgia). In 1910 he graduated ...

(1886–1967), historian *

Alexander Kartveli Alexander Kartveli, born Aleksandre Kartvelishvili, ( ka, ალექსანდრე ქართველიშვილი) (September 9, 1896 – July 20, 1974) was a Georgian aeronautical engineer and an aviation pioneer in the United ...

(1896–1974), aircraft engineer (United States) * Giorgi Kartvelishvili (1827–1901), public figure, benefactor *

Simon Kaukhchishvili Simon Kaukhchishvili ( ka, სიმონ ყაუხჩიშვილი) (October 1, 1895 in Kutaisi – May 11, 1981 in Tbilisi) was a Georgia (country), Georgian historian and philologist known for his critical editions of old Georgian chron ...

(1895–1981), historian and philologist *

Valentin Kontridze Valentine Solomonovich Kontridze (Georgian კონტრიძე) Sobol (Russian Соболь) (b. Georgia (country), Georgia, USSR, 12 January 1933; d. Israel, 25 October 2002) was a Georgian Jewish scientist, ophthalmologist, and eye microsu ...

(1933-2002), ophthalmologist and eye microsurgeon *

David Lordkipanidze David Otaris dze Lordkipanidze ( Georgian: დავით ლორთქიფანიძე) (born 5 August 1964, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor (2004), Dr.Sc. (2002), Corresponding Member of the Georgian ...

(born 1963), anthropologist * Givi Maisuradze (born 1934), geologist *

Merab Mamardashvili Merab Mamardashvili ( ka, მერაბ მამარდაშვილი, russian: Мера́б Константи́нович Мамардашви́ли; September 15, 1930 – November 25, 1990) was a Georgian philosopher. Biography He w ...

(1930–1990), philosopher *

Guram Mchedlidze Guram I. Mchedlidze ( Georgian: გურამ ი. მჭედლიძე) (September 27, 1931, Tbilisi – 2009, Tbilisi) was a Georgian Palaeobiologist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS), Doctor of Biol ...

(born 1931), biologist *

Giorgi Melikishvili Giorgi Melikishvili ( ka, გიორგი მელიქიშვილი; russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Меликишви́ли; December 30, 1918 – March 27, 2002) was a Georgian historian known for his fundamental ...

(1918–2002), historian *

Roin Metreveli Roin Metreveli ( ka, როინ მეტრეველი) is a Georgian academician and historian. He was the first elected rector of the Tbilisi State University, after Petre Melikishvili and Ivane Javakhishvili. Metreveli served as a sec ...

(born 1939), historian *

Alexander Nadiradze Aleksandr Davidovich Nadiradze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ნადირაძე, russian: Александр Давидович Надирадзе 20 August 1914 – 3 September 1987) was a Soviet engineer of Georgian ethnicity who ...

(1914–1987), missile engineer (USSR) *

Shalva Nutsubidze Shalva Nutsubidze ( ka, შალვა ნუცუბიძე; December 14, 1888 – January 6, 1969) was a Georgian philosopher, cultural historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, public figure, one of the founders of scientific ...

(1888–1969), philosopher *

Akaki Shanidze Akaki Shanidze ( ka, აკაკი შანიძე) (Born: 26 February 1887 in Nogha, Samtredia, Georgia – Died 29 March 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Georgian linguist and philologist. He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State Uni ...

(1887–1987), linguist and philologist *

Ekvtime Takaishvili Ekvtime Takaishvili (also spelled Taqaishvili) () (January 5, 1862 – February 21, 1953) was a Georgian historian, archaeologist and public benefactor. Born in the village of Likhauri in the western Georgian province of Guria to a local nobleman ...

(1863–1953), historian and archaeologist * Giorgi Tsereteli (1904–1973), linguist *

Grigol Tsereteli Grigol Tsereteli ( ka, გრიგოლ წერეთელი; March 12, 1870 – 1938) was a distinguished Georgian scientist, one of the founders of Papyrology, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Classical Philology, Doctor of ...

(1870–1938), philologist *

Mikheil Tsereteli Prince Mikheil "Mikhako" G. Tsereteli also known as Michael von Zereteli ( ka, მიხეილ "მიხაკო" წერეთელი) (December 23, 1878 – March 2, 1965) was a Georgian prince, historian, philologist, sociologist ...

(1878–1965), sumerologist *

Vasil Tsereteli Vasil Tsereteli ( ka, ვასილ წერეთელი) (1862–1937) was a distinguished Russian Empire medical doctor, journalist, politician and public benefactor. He was born in the village of Tskhrukveti, in the Chiatura district ...

(1862–1937), physician and public benefactor *

Dimitri Uznadze Dimitri Uznadze ( ka, დიმიტრი უზნაძე; December 2, 1886 – October 9, 1950, Tbilisi) was a Georgian psychologist and professor of psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) and of the Georgian Academy of ...

(1886–1950), psychologist and philosopher * Ilia Vekua (1907–1977), mathematician

Cultural figures

Actors

Leila Abashidze Leila Abashidze ( ka, ლეილა აბაშიძე; August 1, 1929 – April 8, 2018) was a Georgian actress, director and writer. She was Meritorious Artist of Georgia, People's Artist of Georgia, a recipient of Order of the Red Banner ...

Veriko Anjaparidze Veriko (Vera) Ivlianovna Anjaparidze ( ka, ვერიკო ანჯაფარიძე, in Kutaisi – 1987 in Tbilisi) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actress. Life and career Andjaparidze studied at the Aidarov Drama Studio ...

Medea Chakhava Medea Chakhava ( ka, მედეა ჩახავა) (May 15, 1921 – September 7, 2009) was a Georgian theater and film actress. Career Chakhava was born on May 15, 1921, in Martvili, Georgia. Her father, Vasil Chakhava, was a renowned Ge ...

Sofiko Chiaureli Sophia Chiaureli ( ka, სოფიკო ჭიაურელი; 21 May 1937 – 2 March 2008), professionally known as Sofiko Chiaureli, was a Soviet Georgian actress. Thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, she played a sign ...

Ramaz Chkhikvadze Ramaz Chkhikvadze (; 28 February 1928 – 17 October 2011) was a Georgian film and theater actor. First appearing in the 1954 film ''The Dragonfly'' (), he starred in over 60 films during his career. He won the award for Best Actor at the 8th M ...

* Mariam Garikhuli (1883–1960) *

Kakhi Kavsadze Kakhi Kavsadze ( ''K’akhi K’avsadze''; June 5, 1935 – April 27, 2021) was a Georgian and Soviet film, television and stage actor. Early life He was born in Tbilisi. After his birth, his parents moved to Tkibuli. His father David Kavsadze ...

Vakhtang Kikabidze Vakhtang Kikabidze ( ka, ვახტანგ კიკაბიძე; born on July 19, 1938), also known as Buba ( ka, ბუბა) is a Georgian (formerly Soviet) singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who has served i ...

Zurab Kipshidze Zurab Kipshidze ( ka, ზურაბ ყიფშიძე; 10 Aug 1953) is a Georgian film and theatre actor. He appeared in 58 films between 1966 and 2009. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. Fil ...

Otar Koberidze Otar Leontyevich Koberidze ( ka, ოთარ კობერიძე; 17 December 1924 – 9 March 2015) was a Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. Biography Koberidze was born in Tiflis, Georgian SSR (now Tbilisi, Georgia), where he g ...

Avtandil Makharadze Avtandil Ivanovich Makharadze ( ka, ავთანდილ მახარაძე; born 16 July 1943) is a Georgian actor. He was born in Batumi. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at Shota Rust ...

* Kote Makharadze * Giorgi Nakashidze *

Merab Ninidze Merab Ninidze ( ka, მერაბ ნინიძე; born 3 November 1965) is a Georgian actor. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for the roles of Walter Redlich in ''Nowhere in Africa'' and Oleg Penkovsky in '' The Courier''. ...

* Fexi Ama * Guram Sagaradze *

Karlo Sakandelidze Karlo Sakandelidze ( ka, კარლო საკანდელიძე; April 1, 1928 – October 29, 2010) was a Georgian film and theatre actor. Sakandelidze was born in Bzvani, Georgia. He was an actor with the Rustaveli Theatre. Sakande ...

Nato Vachnadze Natalia "Nato" Vachnadze ( ka, ნატო ვაჩნაძე), born Natalia Andronikashvili ( ka, ნატო ანდრონიკაშვილი), (14 June 1904 – 14 June 1953) was a Georgian and Soviet film actress. She started h ...

Bukhuti Zakariadze Bukhuti Zakariadze (Georgian: ''ბუხუტი ზაქარიაძე'', Russified: ''Бухути Александрович Закариадзе'' ''Bukhuti Alexandrovich Zaqariadze 1 July 1913– 12 February 1988) was a Soviet actor an ...

Sergo Zakariadze Sergo Zakariadze ( ka, სერგო ზაქარიაძე ; – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1958). Zakariadze was born in Baku in 1909. He won several pri ...

Architects

Simon Kldiashvili Simon Kldiashvili ( ka, სიმონ კლდიაშვილი; 2 February 1865 – 26 May 1920) was a Georgian architect best known for his eclectic projects in Tbilisi, including a college building which, in 1918, became the Tbilisi Sta ...

Victor Djorbenadze Victor Djorbenadze ( ka, ვიქტორ ჯორბენაძე) (1925–1999) was a Georgian architect, best known for the Wedding Palace in Tbilisi. Early life and education Djorbenadze, known as widely as "Butsa" to his friends ...

Vazha Orbeladze Vazha Orbeladze ( ka, ვაჟა ორბელაძე; born 3 February 1941) is a Georgian architect. Orbeladze's best-known works are the Wedding Palace (Palace of Rituals) in Tbilisi and McDonald's restaurant in Tbilisi and Piazza Square ...

Shota Kavlashvili Shota Kavlashvili ( ka, შოთა ყავლაშვილი; 28 January 1926 – December 1995) was a Georgian architect and historic preservationist, best known for his work in Tbilisi during the postwar Soviet period. Career Kavlashv ...

Giuli Gegelia Professor Giuli Gegelia ( ka, გიული გეგელია) (born 20 July 1942) is a Georgian architect, Professor of Architecture at the Georgian Technical University, since 1998, and member of the Executive Board of the Union of Georgia ...

George Chakhava George Chakhava ( ka, გიორგი ჩახავა, 1923–2007) was a Georgian architect, best known for the Bank of Georgia headquarters in Tbilisi, which he co-designed with Zurab Jalaghania. George Chakhava was born in Tbilisi in 19 ...

Giorgi Khmaladze Giorgi Khmaladze is a Georgian architect graduated in Architecture from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and a Master of Architecture by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2012. Career Giorgi Khmaladze heads Giorgi Khmaladz Architect ...

Artists

Iago Dekanozishvili Iago Dekanozishvili (born in 1951 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian artist, a graduate of the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts A winner of numerous International competitions from Paris to Moscow, Mr. Dekanozishvili's art is placed in several museums ...

Georgi Aleksi-Meskhishvili Georgi "Gogi" Aleksi-Meskhishvili ( ka, გოგი ალექსი-მესხიშვილი) (born March 2, 1941) is a Georgian set designer and artist. He is the great-grandson of the prominent Georgian actor Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili an ...

Irakli Gamrekeli Irakli Gamrekeli( ka, ირაკლი გამრეკელი; 5 May 1894 – 10 May 1943) was a Georgian set designer and one of the founders of Georgian avant-garde stage design. Gamrekeli was born in Gori. His talent was discovered dur ...

Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi ( ka, ვალერიან სიდამონ-ერისთავი; 2 July 1889 – 9 June 1943) was a Georgian Modernist artist and set designer. Born in the town of Kvareli into a noble family, Valerian Sidam ...

Dimitri Tavadze Dimitri Tavadze ( ka, დიმიტრი თავაძე; February 6, 1911 – March 6, 1990) was a Georgians, Georgian artist and scenographer. Biography Tavadze was born on February 6, 1911, in the village of Tkhilagani, Kutais Governo ...

Simon Virsaladze Simon (Soliko) Virsaladze ( ka, სოლომონ(სოლიკო) ვირსალაძე) (13 January 1909 – 7 February 1989) was a Georgian and one of the Soviet Union's leading designers of ballet, film and opera. He also worked ...

* Mirian Shvelidze

Ballet dancers

Nino Ananiashvili Nina Ananiashvili (born: ''Nino Ananiashvili'', ka, ნინო ანანიაშვილი; born March 19, 1963) is a Georgian ballerina and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. She has been described by the '' Daily Teleg ...

George Balanchine George Balanchine (; Various sources: * * * * born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; ka, გიორგი მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე; January 22, 1904 (O. S. January 9) – April 30, 1983) was ...

(1904–1983), US choreographer; founder of school of American ballet *

Vakhtang Chabukiani Vakhtang Mikheilis dze Chabukiani (Russian: Вахта́нг Миха́йлович Чабукиа́ни, ka, ვახტანგ ჭაბუკიანი) (March 12, 1910 – April 6, 1992) was a Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer, choreograp ...

Irma Nioradze Irma Nioradze in 2011 Irma Nioradze ( ka, ირმა ნიორაძე, russian: Ирма Ниорадзе; born June 15, 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia), is a Georgian ballerina and Principal Dancer of the Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet. Biography Ir ...

Nikolai Tsiskaridze Nikolay Maximovich Tsiskaridze PAR (russian: Николай Максимович Цискаридзе; ka, ნიკოლოზ ცისკარიძე, ''Nik'oloz Cisk'aridze'') is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of ...

Composers

Dimitri Arakishvili, composer from Georgia (Europe)

Rostom Aramovic Alagian Rostam or Rustam or Rostom ( fa, رستم) is a name referring to the Persian mythical hero Rostam who was immortalized by the poet Ferdowsi in the ''Shahnameh'' (''Book of Kings''). It has been commonly used as a male Persian given name, and may ...

Dimitri Arakishvili Dimitri Arakishvili ( ka, დიმიტრი არაყიშვილი) (11 February 1873 – 13 August 1953) was a Soviet and Georgian composer and ethnomusicologist considered one of the founding fathers of modern Georgian music. He was ...

Andria Balanchivadze Andria Balanchivadze ( ka, ანდრია მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე, ''Andria Melit'onis dze Balanchivadze'', russian: Андре́й Мелито́нович Баланчива́дзе, Andrei Meliton ...

Meliton Balanchivadze Meliton Balanchivadze ( ka, მელიტონ ბალანჩივაძე; 24 December 1862 – 21 December 1937) was a Georgian opera singer, composer and a celebrated member of Georgia's cultural scene, both under the Russian Empire ...

Alexandre Basilaia Alexander Basilaia () (March 11, 1942 – October 3, 2009) was a Georgian composer and songwriter of popular music and film scores. He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1 ...

Ioseb Bardanashvili Ioseb Bardanashvili ( ka, იოსებ (სოსო) ბარდანაშვილი; he, יוסף ברדנשווילי; born 23 November 1948 in Batumi, Georgia) is an Israeli and Georgian composer. His works span classical to contemp ...

Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...

Otar Gordeli Otar Gordeli (18 November 1928 – 6 December 1994) was a composer in the country of Georgia. Gordeli was born in Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capita ...

* Maka Maya Virsaladze *

Vakhtang Kakhidze Vakhtang (Vato) Kakhidze ( ka, ვახტანგ (ვატო) კახიძე; russian: Вахтанг Кахидзе; born 23 March 1959 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian composer and conductor. He is the son of conductor Jansug Kakhidze. He g ...

Giya Kancheli Gia Kancheli ( ka, გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in B ...

(1935–2019) *

Bidzina Kvernadze Bidzina Kvernadze ( ka, ბიძინა კვერნაძე), (29 July 1928, Sighnaghi, Georgia, – 8 July 2010, Tbilisi), was a famous Georgian composer.Mikheil Kobakhidze Mikheil Kobakhidze ( ka, მიხეილ კობახიძე; 5 April 1939 – 13 October 2019) was a Georgian screenwriter, film director, actor and composer. He was born in Tbilisi. A Retrospective of his work was held at the 1996 V ...

Ioseb Kechakmadze Ioseb Kechakmadze ( ka, იოსებ კეჭაყმაძე March 27, 1939 – March 24, 2013) was a Georgian composer. Early life and education Kechakmadze was born in Ozurgeti in the family of Ilia Kechakmadze and Elene Oragvelidze. H ...

Mindia Khitarishvili Mindia Khitarishvili ( ka, მინდია ხითარიშვილი; Batumi, born January 1, 1973) is an Israeli and Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Ge ...

Aleksandre Machavariani Aleksandre "Aleksi" Machavariani ( ka, ალექსი მაჭავარიანი) (23 September 1913 – 30 December 1995) was a Georgian composer and conductor. Aleksi Machavariani was born in Gori, Georgia. He graduated from the T ...

Vakhtang Machavariani Vakhtang Machavariani (Matchavariani) ( ka, ვახტანგ მაჭავარიანი) is a Georgian, Russian and Soviet composer and conductor. He is the son of composer Aleksi Machavariani. Throughout his career, Vakhtang Machavar ...

Nikoloz Memanishvili Nikoloz Rachveli ( ka, ნიკოლოზ რაჭველი; born 15 May 1979) is a Georgian conductor, composer and cultural manager. He composes and arranges for theatre and film, using themes from Georgian and non-Georgian composers. Mem ...

Konstantin Meladze Konstantin Shotayevich Meladze (russian: Константин Шотаевич Меладзе, ka, კონსტანტინე მელაძე) (born 11 May 1963 in Batumi) is a Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer. He is the older b ...

Vano Muradeli Vano Muradeli ( ka, ვანო მურადელი; russian: Вано Ильич Мурадели; in Gori – 14 August 1970, in Tomsk), was a Soviet Georgian composer. He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) t ...

Zurab Nadarejshvili Zurab Nadareishvili ( ka, ზურაბ ნადარეიშვილი; born 4 January 1957) is a Georgian people, Georgian composer and academic. Biography Nadareishvili was born in Poti, Georgia, where he went to primary and music ...

Koka Nikoladze Koka Nikoladze (born 30 September 1989, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian composer and sound artist based in Europe. He studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Musikhochschule Stuttgart and Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied composition with Zurab ...

Zakaria Paliashvili Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili ( ka, ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი, ''Zakaria Paliaşvili''), also known as Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili (russian: Захарий Петрович Палиашви́ли, ''Zacharij Petrovi� ...

Otar Taktakishvili Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili ( ka, ოთარ თაქთაქიშვილი; russian: Отар Васильевич Тактакишвили; 27 July 1924 – 21 February 1989) was a prominent Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, an ...

Sulkhan Tsintsadze Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze ( ka, სულხან ცინცაძე), (August 23, 1925 in Gori, Transcaucasian SSR, Soviet Union – September 15, 1991 in Tbilisi, Georgia) was one of Georgia's foremost composers. Education Tsin ...

Victor Dolidze (composer) Victor Isidores dze Dolidze (ვიქტორ ისიდორეს ძე დოლიძე, 30 July 1890 – 24 May 1933) was a Georgian classical composer. Practically unknown in the West, in his home country Dolidze is best remembere ...

Natela Svanidze Natela Svanidze ( ka, ნათელა დამიანეს ასული სვანიძე, '; russian: Натела Дамиановна Сванидзе, '; 4 September 1926 – 17 November 2017) was a Georgian composer. Biography ...

* Givi Gachechiladze

Conductors

Jemal Gokieli Jemal Gokieli ( ka, ჯემალ გოკიელი; July 4, 1920 – April 14, 1991) was a Georgian conductor. Biography Jemal (Djemal) Gokieli was born on 4 July 1920 in Kutaisi, Western Georgia into the family of a prominent Georgian ...

Vakhtang Jordania Vakhtang Jordania ( ka, ვახტანგ ჟორდანია; born 9 December 1943, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union – 4 October 2005, Broadway, Virginia, United States) was a Georgian conductor. Biography Born in the Soviet repub ...

Jansug Kakhidze Jansug Ivanes dze Kakhidze ( ka, ჯანსუღ კახიძე; 26 May 1935 — 7 March 2002) was a Georgian musician, composer, singer and conductor nicknamed "the Georgian Karajan". Kakhidze was music director of the Georgian State S ...

Evgeni Mikeladze 220px, Evgeni Mikeladze Evgeni Mikeladze ( ka, ევგენი მიქელაძე) (July 27, 1903 – 1937) was a leading Georgian orchestra conductor of the 1930s, executed during the Joseph Stalin's Great Purges. Born in Baku, Azerba ...

Designers

Keto Mikeladze Princess Ketevan "Ketto" Mikeladze ( ka, ქეთევან "ქეთო" მიქელაძე) (1905–1965) was born in Tbilisi, Russian Empire into a Georgian noble family of Mikeladze, known from at least the 14th century, then part of ...

Irene Galitzine Princess Irene Galitzine ( ka, ირინა გალიცინი; russian: Ирен Голицына; 22 July 1916 – 20 October 2006) was a Russian-Georgian fashion designer whose best known creation was the palazzo pyjama. Early life ...

Irakli Nasidze Irakli Nasidze ( ka, ირაკლი ნასიძე; born 1973, Tbilisi) is a Georgian artist. All around artist, he moved from pure graphic art towards fashion and haute couture, genuine field of expression for him. Childhood and early y ...

Aka Nanitashvili Aka Nanitashvili ( ka, აკა ნანიტაშვილი) is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi.

Tatuna Nikolaishvili Alieta Tatuna Nikolaishvili ( ka, ალიეტა ტატუნა ნიკოლაიშვილი) is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi. Tatuna graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts The Tbilisi State Academy of Art ...

Lako Bukia Lako Bukia ( ka, ლაკო ბუკია), born as Lali Bukia is a Georgians, Georgian fashion designer. She studied at London College of Fashion. Her collections are produced in the United Kingdom and has Georgia (country), Georgia-based stu ...

David Koma David Komakhidze ( ka, დავით კომახიძე) known as David Koma (stylized as DΛVID KOMΛ) is a Georgian fashion designer based in London, England. Celebrities, including Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Cara Delevingne, Kendal ...

Ria Keburia Ria Keburia ( ka, რია ქებურია) born Lia Keburia is a Georgian fashion designer based in Paris. Keburia studied at American University of Paris and Institut français de la mode. She established her brand in 2012. Keburia is mos ...

Ekaterine Abuladze Ekaterine Abuladze, known as Eka ( ka, ეკატერინე აბულაძე, tr) (born 13 October 1964) is a Georgia (country), Georgian painter. Born in Tbilisi, Abuladze studied at that city's Academy of Arts, matriculating in 1983 ...

Anouki (designer) Anouki Areshidze ( ka, ანუკი; stylized as ANOUKI; born Ana Areshidze, ka, ანა არეშიძე; 1 July 1989) is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi. Areshidze studied at Istituto Marangoni and Accademia del Lusso in ...

Avtandil (designer) Avtandil (stylized as AVTANDIL) ( ka, ავთანდილი) born Avtandil Tskvitinidze is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi.Teona Gardapkhadze Teona Gardapkhadze ( ka, თეო გარდაფხაძე) known as TEYÓ is a Georgian fashion designer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Early life and education Teona was born in 1983. She graduated an Architecture department of Tbilisi ...

Irina Shabayeva Irina Shabayeva (russian: Ирина Шабаева, ka, ირინა შაბაევა) is the winner of the sixth season of ''Project Runway'' along with her model, Kalyn Hemphill. Personal life Shabayeva is originally from Georgia ...

Demna Gvasalia Demna Gvasalia ( ka, დემნა გვასალია ; born 25 March 1981), known as Demna ( ) is a Georgian fashion designer, currently the creative director of Balenciaga and the co-founder of Vetements. Early life and education Dem ...

Folk musicians

Ensemble Erisioni Erisioni ( ka, ერისიონი) is a Georgian ensemble which performs national dances and songs of Georgia (country), Georgia. Erisioni won global recognition thanks to the cooperation on the project "''Georgian Legend"'' with the Unite ...

Ensemble Georgika The Ensemble Georgika was formed in Tbilisi in 1989. The thirteen members of Ensemble Georgika, likely the first group of their kind to exist without government funding or support, grew up among a variety of Georgian folk music and ritual dances. ...

Ensemble Rustavi The Rustavi Ensemble, or the Georgian State Academic Ensemble, is a Georgian folk music ensemble that was created in 1968 by Anzor Erkomaishvili, a singer and folklorist from a distinguished Georgian musical lineage that goes back seven genera ...

Hamlet Gonashvili Hamlet Dimitris dze Gonashvili ( ka, ჰამლეტ დიმიტრის ძე გონაშვილი, (b. 20 June 1928 – d. 25 July 1985), sometimes referred to as "the voice of Georgia", was a Georgian singer (baritone), influe ...

Sukhishvili National Ballet The Georgian National Ballet ( ka, ქართული ეროვნული ბალეტი, tr) is the first professional state dance company in Georgia. Founded by husband and wife Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili in 1945, it was ...

Filmmakers

* Vasil Amashukeli *

Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, russian: Михаил Константинович Калатозов; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a So ...

Dodo Abashidze David "Dodo" Abashidze ( ka, დავით ��ოდოაბაშიძე; russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Абаши́дзе; 1 May 1924 – 26 January 1990) was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined ...

Tengiz Abuladze Tengiz Abuladze ( ka, თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors. ...

Temur Babluani Temur Babluani ( ka, თემურ ბაბლუანი) (born 20 March 1948) is a Georgian film director, script writer, and actor. Bebluani was born in the mountainous Svanetian village of Chaguri in the Georgian SSR. He graduated from ...

Mikheil Chiaureli Mikheil Chiaureli ( ka, მიხეილ ჭიაურელი, russian: Михаил Эдишерович Чиаурели, 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 ...

Goderdzi Chokheli Goderdzi Chokheli ( ka, გოდერძი ჩოხელი) (2 October 1954 – 16 November 2007) was a Georgian novelist, scriptwriter, and film director. Goderdzi Chokheli was born on 2 October 1954 in the village Chokhi of Dusheti regi ...

Georgi Daneliya Georgiy Nikolayevich Daneliya ( ka, გიორგი ნიკოლოზის ძე დანელია; russian: Георгий Николаевич Данелия; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya ( ka, გ� ...

Sergi Gvarjaladze Sergi Gvarjaladze ( ka, სერგი გვარჯალაძე; born November 13, 1967) is a Georgian TV and radio presenter, film director, producer and musician whose career in the Georgian media spans 20 years. He has been involved in ...

Levan Gabriadze Levan "Leo" Gabriadze ( ka, ლევან რევაზის ძე გაბრიაძე, ''Levan Revazis dze Gabriadze''; russian: Лева́н Рева́зович Габриа́дзе, ''Levan Revazovich Gabriadze''; born 16 Novembe ...

(born 1969) *

Otar Ioseliani Otar Iosseliani ( ka, ოთარ იოსელიანი, born 2 February 1934) is a Georgian-born film director. He was born in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and graduated in 1952 ...

Marlen Khutsiev Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include ''I Am Twent ...

(Khutsishvili) *

Giorgi Shengelaia Giorgi Shengelaia ( ka, გიორგი შენგელაია; russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Шенгела́я; 11 May 1937 – 17 February 2020) was a Georgian and Soviet film director. He directed 14 films since 196 ...

Eldar Shengelaia Eldar Shengelaia ( ka, ელდარ შენგელაია; russian: Эльда́р Никола́евич Шенгела́я; born 26 January 1933) is a Georgian and Soviet film director and screenwriter who directed ten films between 1 ...

Dito Tsintsadze Dito Tsintsadze ( ka, დიტო ცინცაძე; born 2 March 1957) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He has directed thirteen films since 1988. His film '' Lost Killers'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the ...

Opera singers

Paata Burchuladze Paata Burchuladze ( ka, პაატა ბურჭულაძე) (born 12 February 1955) is a Georgian operatic bass and civil activist. After his debut in his native Tbilisi in 1976, he embarked on a 35-year-long musical career during which h ...

Lamara Chkonia Lamara Chkonia (27 December 1930 – 14 March 2024) was a Georgian soprano. As one of a number of opera singers who made contributions to the vocal culture of Georgia (country), Georgia and the former Soviet Union, Lamara was one of the few wome ...

Stella Grigorian Stella Grigorian ( ka, სტელლა გრიგორიან; born 1968) is a Georgian operatic mezzo-soprano who trained at the music academy in Tbilisi. On completing her studies at the Vienna Conservatory, she made her début at the ...

Tamar Iveri Tamar Iveri ( ka, თამარ ივერი; born Tamar Javakhishvili; 8 September 1971) is a Georgian opera soprano. She was born in Tbilisi, the daughter of the baritone Avtandil Javakhishvili who was also her teacher. Career Iveri made h ...

Makvala Kasrashvili Makvala Kasrashvili ( ka, მაყვალა ქასრაშვილი, russian: Маквала Филимоновна Касрашвили, ) is a Georgian opera singer ( soprano). Born 13 March 1942 (not 15 March 1948, as some sources ...

Nino Machaidze Nino Machaidze ( ka, ნინო მაჩაიძე; born 8 March 1983) is a Georgian operatic soprano. She performs in 19th-century Romantic repertoire, primarily in operas by Rossini and Verdi as well as French operas. Beginning her career ...

* Badri Maisuradze *

Natela Nicoli Natela Nicoli-Metzger (born 19 April 1961 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian opera singer. She sings in Georgian, Russian, German, Italian, French, English, and Spanish among other languages. Notes Natela Nicoli is a daughter of Lamara Chkonia Lamara C ...

Anita Rachvelishvili Anita Rachvelishvili ( ka, ანიტა რაჭველიშვილი, ra-tch—veli-shvili,

Zurab Sotkilava Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (russian: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, ka, ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR ...

Nino Surguladze Nino Surguladze ( ka, ნინო სურგულაძე; born 12 October 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian mezzo-soprano. Biography Born in Tbilisi, Surguladze studied singing with Guliko Kariauli at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. ...

Tsisana Tatishvili Tsisana Tatishvili ( ka, ცისანა ტატიშვილი; 1939–2017) was a Georgian operatic soprano and educator who performed at the Tbilisi Opera from 1963 to 2000. People's Artist of the USSR. She also sang at the Bolshoi Thea ...

Painters

Merab Abramishvili Merab Abramishvili ( ka, მერაბ აბრამიშვილი; 16 March 1957 – 22 June 2006) was a Georgian painter whose works were influenced by medieval arts and European neo-expressionism. Abramishvili was born in Tbilisi, the ...

Elene Akhvlediani Elene Akhvlediani () (April 5, 1898 in Telavi – December 30, 1975 in Tbilisi) was a 20th-century Georgian painter, graphic artist, and theater decorator. Akhvlediani is famous for her depictions of Georgian towns, for her illustrations for t ...

* David Alexidze * Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky *

Gia Bugadze Gia Bugadze ( ka, გია ბუღაძე) is a prolific contemporary Georgian artist. He was the Rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 2003 to 2012. Early life and education Gia (Giorgi) Bugadze was born on September 24, 1956, i ...

Gigo Gabashvili Giorgi "Gigo" Ivanes dze Gabashvili ( ka, გიორგი ��იგოივანეს ძე გაბაშვილი) (November 9, 1862 – October 28, 1936) was a Georgian painter and educator. One of the earliest Georgian representativ ...

Lado Gudiashvili Lado Gudiashvili ( ka, ლადო გუდიაშვილი; 30 March 1896 – 20 July 1980) was a Georgian artist of the 20th century. Gudiashvili was born into a family of a railroad employee. He studied in the Tbilisi school of sculp ...

* Hasan Helimishi *

Gia Gugushvili Gia Gugushvili (; born August 16, 1952) is a Georgian painter. Gia Gugushvili has produced nonfigurative as well as and minimalistic figurative compositions. His paintings are in museums and private collections all over the world. Gia Gugushvili ...

Dimitri Shevardnadze Dimitri Shevardnadze ( ka, დიმიტრი შევარდნაძე) (December 1, 1885 – 1937) was a Georgian painter, art collector and intellectual purged during Joseph Stalin's repressions. Life Born in Bakhvi, a small village i ...

Aliquli Jabbadar Aliquli Jabbadar (‘Alī-qolī Jabbadār) () was an Iranian artist, one of the first to have incorporated European influences in the traditional Safavid-era miniature painting. He is known for his scenes of the Safavid courtly life, especially ...

Mamuka Japharidze Mamuka Japharidze (born 1962) is an artist from the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. He is especially known for representing Georgia in the 48th Venice Biennale. He currently lives in Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some language ...

David Kakabadze Davit' Kakabadze ( ka, დავით კაკაბაძე) (August 20, 1889 – May 10, 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the fie ...

Shalva Kikodze Shalva Kikodze (; 1894–1921) was a Georgian expressionist painter, graphic artist and theatre decorator. Together with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze, he is considered a key figure in Georgian art of the early 20th century. Biography He ...

Sergo Kobuladze Sergo Kobuladze ( ka, სერგო ქობულაძე; February 7, 1909 – July 22, 1978) was a Soviet and Georgian painter and illustrator. He was a rector of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts ( ka, � ...

Apollon Kutateladze Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze (in Georgian: , in Khoni – in Tbilisi) was a Soviet and Georgian painter. Early life Apollon Kutateladze started to study in Poti, Georgia. He continued to study at the "Caucasian society of artist support" ...

Guram Kutateladze Guram (Khita) Kutateladze (Georgian: გურამ (ხიტა) ქუთათელაძე) (March 29, 1924 – November 29, 1979) was a 20th-century Georgian painter. Honoured Artist of Georgia, Rustaveli Prize. He studied at the Moscow S ...

Levan Mindiashvili Levan Mindiashvili is a Georgian born New York based visual artist primarily interested in exploring a complex relationship between communal and private spaces. His practice expands to sculpture, painting, installation and as the artist had put h ...

Petre Otskheli Petre Otskheli (; 25 November 1907 – 2 December 1937) was a Georgian modernist set and costume designer who designed in theatre in Georgia. Born in Kutaisi, Otskheli studied at the Kutaisi realschule and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in t ...

Irakli Parjiani Irakli Parjiani ( ka, ირაკლი ფარჯიანი) was a Georgian painter. He was born in the town of Mestia, Upper Svaneti, in Georgia's mountainous region. He studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1968-1974), at the Facu ...

Rusudan Petviashvili Rusudan Petviashvili ( ka, რუსუდან ფეტვიაშვილი; (born 25 January 1968), Tbilisi, Georgia) – Georgian artist, graphic artist. Creates paintings using unique technique: total image is performed in one-touch. P ...

Niko Pirosmani Niko Pirosmani ( ka, ნიკო ფიროსმანი ''Nik’o Pirosmani''), Mononymous person, simply referred to as Nikala (ნიკალა ''Nik’ala''; 1862–1918), was a Georgians, Georgian painter who posthumously rose to pro ...

Oleg Timchenko Oleg Timchenko is a Tbilisi-based contemporary painter and founder of the "10th Floor Group". He was born in Old Tbilisi and studied painting at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts. Background In 1917, shortly after the Russian Revolution, the ...

Radish Tordia Radish Tordia ( ka, რადიშ თორდია) (born 21 August 1936) is a Georgian painter of figurative art. He works in oil painting, with particular emphasis on colouristic features. His preferred subject is women, who he regards as ...

Georgy Konstantinovich Totibadze Georgy Konstantinovich Totibadze (; 29 October 1928 – ) was a Georgian painter. He was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts 1975-2010., Biography Youth and career Georgy Totibadze was born on 29 October 1928 in Tbilisi., He l ...

Avto Varazi Avto Varazi ( ka, ავთო ვარაზი) was a Georgian artist and painter. Avto Varazi occupies a special place in Georgian painting of the 20th century. The artist applied various painting systems and techniques with equal success. Re ...

Levan Songulashvili Levan Songulashvili ( ka, ლევან სონღულაშვილი; born August 17, 1991) is a Georgian-born New York-based visual artist; painter, draughtsman, installation and multimedia video artist. Biography Songulashvili was ...

Pianists

* Tengiz Amirejibi *

Eteri Andjaparidze Eteri Andjaparidze (born September 15, 1956) is a Georgian / American pianist and music professor. Early life Born on September 15, 1956, to a family of musicians in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Andjaparidze received her first piano lessons fr ...

Khatia Buniatishvili Khatia Buniatishvili ( ka, ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი, ; born 21 June 1987) is a Georgian concert pianist. Early life and education Born in 1987 in Batumi, Georgia, Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her ...

Marina Goglidze-Mdivani Marina Goglidze-Mdivani (Georgian: მარინა გოგლიძე-მდივანი; born October 6, 1936 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Canadian virtuoso pianist of Georgian descent. Biography Marina Goglidze-M ...

* Inga Kashakashvili *

Alexander Korsantia Alexander Korsantia (born 1965, Tbilisi) is a Georgian pianist. Alexander immigrated to Canada in 1992, settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. After living in Vancouver for a number of years, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. He won the 198 ...

Giorgi Latso Giorgi Latso (born Giorgi Latsabidze, ka, გიორგი ლაცაბიძე, ; 15 April 1978) is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. He is listed on the lis ...

Tamriko Siprashvili Tamriko Siprashvili (born January 2, 1963) is a Georgian pianist. She was born in Tbilisi the capital city of the Republic of Georgia. Training She began her piano studies at the age of three. At age five, she entered the Special Music Schoo ...

Irma Svanadze Irma Svanazde is a classical pianist originally from Georgia. She studied piano performance and teaching in Eastern Europe, France, Belgium and the United States. Irma maintains an active performance schedule in both the US and Europe. Early Year ...

Alexander Toradze Alexander Davidovich "Lexo" Toradze ( ka, ალექსანდრე თორაძე ''Aleksandre Toradze''; May 30, 1952 – May 11, 2022) was a Georgian-born American pianist, best known for his classical Russian repertoire, with a car ...

Eliso Virsaladze Eliso Virsaladze ( ka, ელისო ვირსალაძე; born September 14, 1942) is a Georgia (country), Georgian pianist. Biography She was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Her father Constantine Virsaladze was a prominent doctor an ...

Eleonora Eksanishvili Eleonora Grigor'yevna Eksanishvili (Yeksanishvili) (February 11, 1919 – January 5, 2003) was a Georgian people, Georgian pianist, music educator and composer. Her compositions include two children's operas, a concerto for piano and orchestra, and ...

* Tamara Atschba

Poets

Alexander Abasheli 250px, Alexander Abasheli Alexander Abasheli ( ka, ალექსანდრე აბაშელი) was a pen name of Isaac Chochia (ისააკ ჩოჩია) (August 15, 1884 – September 27, 1954), a Georgian poet and prose writer. ...

Irakli Abashidze Irakli Abashidze ( ka, ირაკლი აბაშიძე) (10 September 1909 – 14 January 1992) was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician. Abashidze was born in Khoni, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire. He graduated from Tbilis ...

Rati Amaglobeli Rati Amaglobeli ( ka, რატი ამაღლობელი; born 1977) is a Georgia (country), Georgian poet and translator. He studied Philology at the Tbilisi State University, until 2000, published his poems in anthologies and magazines ...

Lado Asatiani Vladimir (Lado) Asatiani ( ka, ვლადიმერ ��ადოასათიანი) (14 January 1917 – 23 June 1943) was a Georgian poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as suc ...

Nikoloz Baratashvili Prince Nikoloz "Tato" Baratashvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ "ტატო" ბარათაშვილი; 4 December 1817 – 21 October 1845) was a Georgian poet. He was one of the first Georgians to marry modern nationalism with European R ...

* Besiki *

Alexander Chavchavadze Prince Alexander Chavchavadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ჭავჭავაძე, russian: Александр Чавчавадзе; 1786 – November 6, 1846) was a Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the ...

Ilia Chavchavadze Prince Ilia Chavchavadze ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 8 November 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the ...

Valerian Gaprindashvili Valerian Gaprindashvili ( ka, ვალერიან გაფრინდაშვილი) (December 21, 1888 – January 31, 1941) was a Georgian poet and translator whose early, Symbolist, poetry was of much influence on development of Ge ...

David-Dephy Gogibedashvili David Dephy ( ka, დავით დეფი, born June 21, 1968), also known as David Dephy Gogibedashvili, is a Georgian / American poet, novelist, essayist, performer, multimedia artist, painter, the founder of Poetry Orchestra and the poet ...

Terenti Graneli Terenti Kvirkvelia ( ka, ტერენტი კვირკველია), well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli ( ka, ტერენტი გრანელი) (1897–1934) was a noted Georgian poet. Born in Tsalenjikha, he w ...

Ioseb Grishashvili Ioseb Grishashvili ( ka, იოსებ გრიშაშვილი) was a pen name of Ioseb Mamulishvili (Georgian: ; born 12 April/24 April 1889 – died 3 August 1965) was a noted poet and historian from Georgia. A history museum in Tbilis ...

David Guramishvili Prince Davit Guramishvili ( ka, დავით გურამიშვილი) (1705 – 21 July 1792) was a Georgian poet of pre- Romantic Georgian literature. He is known for writing '' Davitiani'', an autobiographical book of poetry that re ...

Yetim Gurdji 350px, Statue of Yetim Gurdji in Old Tbilisi. Ietim Gurji ( ka, იეთიმ გურჯი, meaning "Georgian orphan" in Turkish and Azeri, real name: Ietim Ibrahim Dabghishvili ( ka, იეთიმ იბრაიმის ძე და� ...

Paolo Iashvili Paolo Iashvili ( ka, პაოლო იაშვილი; 29 June 1894 – 22 July 1937) was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement. Under the Soviet Union, his obligatory conformism and the loss of his friends at ...

Irakli Kakabadze Irakli Kakabadze is a Georgian writer, performance artist, peace and human rights activist. In 2009, he was awarded the Oxfam/Novib PEN Freedom of Expression Prize. Kakabadze's articles and stories have been published in Georgian, Russian, and Eng ...

Ana Kalandadze Ana Kalandadze ( ka, ანა კალანდაძე) (15 December 1924 – 11 March 2008) was a Georgian poet and one of the most influential female figures in modern Georgian literature. Kalandadze was born in the village Khidistavi near ...

Giorgi Leonidze Giorgi Leonidze ( ka, გიორგი ლეონიძე) (27 December 1899 – 9 August 1966) was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. Biography Leonidze was born in the village of Patardzeuli in the eastern Georgian p ...

Mukhran Machavariani Mukhran Machavariani ( ka, მუხრან მაჭავარიანი; April 12, 1929 – May 17, 2010) was a Georgian poet, a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia ( ka ...

David Magradze David "Dato" Magradze ( ka, დავით "დათო" მაღრაძე; born 28 June 1962) is a Georgian poet and politician. He is the author of lyrics of the current national anthem of Georgia, in use since 2004. Born to the family o ...

Kolau Nadiradze Kolau Nadiradze ( ka, კოლაუ ნადირაძე) (24 February 1895 – 28 October 1990) was a Georgia (country), Georgian poet and the last representative of Georgian Symbolism (arts), Symbolist school. Born in Kutaisi, Georgia (the ...

Niko Nikoladze Niko Nikoladze ( ka, ნიკო ნიკოლაძე) (27 September 1843 – 5 June 1928) was a Georgian writer, pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journali ...

Vazha-Pshavela Vazha-Pshavela ( ka, ვაჟა-ფშაველა), Mononymous person, simply referred to as Vazha ( ka, ვაჟა) (26 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgians, Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili ( ka, ლ ...

Shota Rustaveli Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...

Galaktion Tabidze Galaktion Tabidze ( ka, გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე), simply referred to as Galaktioni ( ka, გალაკტიონი),(November 17, 1892 – March 17, 1959), was a Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings pr ...

Titsian Tabidze Titsian Tabidze ( ka, ტიციან ტაბიძე, Mononymous person, simply referred to as Titsiani; ka, ტიციანი) (16 December 1937), was a Georgia (country), Georgian poet and one of the leaders of the Georgian Symbolism ...

Akaki Tsereteli Count Akaki Tsereteli ( ka, აკაკი წერეთელი) (1840–1915), often mononymously known as Akaki,Sometimes mistakenly rendered in Russian as Akakiy. Georgian spelling Akaki and Russian spelling Akakiy are both derived from th ...

Photographers

Alexander Roinashvili Alexander Roinashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე როინაშვილი; also known by his Russified name, Alexander Solomonovich Roinov, russian: Александр Соломонович Роинов) (1846 – 1898) was the fi ...

(1846–1898) *

Antoin Sevruguin Antoin Sevruguin ( fa, آنتوان سورگین; 1851–1933) was an Iranian photographer of Armenian-Georgian descent, in Persia during the reign of the Qajar dynasty (1785–1925). Early life Born into a Russian family of Armenian-Georgian orig ...

(1830–1933) * Guram Tikanadze (1832–1863) * Irakly Shanidze (born 1968) *

David Meskhi David Meskhi is a photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He was born in 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgia. After gaining a master's degree in Hydro ecology, Meskhi decided to change his profession entirely and turned to art. He received an Academic Degree i ...

(born 1979)

Sculptors

Iakob Nikoladze Iakob Nikoladze ( ka, იაკობ ნიკოლაძე; , 1876 – March 10, 1951) was a Georgian sculptor and artist. He was from the a Georgian noble (aznauri) family, Nikoladze. The Georgian National Museum, Iakob Nikoladze Hous ...

Irakli Ochiauri Irakli Ochiauri ( ka, ირაკლი ოჩიაური, russian: Иракли Очиаури; November 20, 1924 – December 4, 2015) was a Georgian painter and sculptor who was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize, the highest prize in ...

Zurab Tsereteli Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli ( ka, ზურაბ კონსტანტინეს ძე წერეთელი, russian: Зураб Константинович Церетели; born 4 January 1934) is a Georgian-Russian painter, sc ...

Elguja Amashukeli Elguja Amashukeli (Georgian: ელგუჯა დავითის ძე ამაშუკელი; 22 April 1928 – 10 March 2002) was a Georgian sculptor and painter. From 1981 to 1996 he was the chairman of the Georgian Association of ...

(1926–2002) * Merab Berdzenishvili (1929–2016) *

Goudji Goudji Goudji (born July 6, 1941) is a French sculptor and goldsmith, who was born in Georgia. Biography Goudji was born in Soviet Georgia and spent his youth in Batumi with his family. His father was a doctor and his mother was a Professor of na ...

(born 1941) also a

goldsmith A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), pl ...

Singers

Irakli Charkviani Irakli Charkviani ( ka, ირაკლი ჩარკვიანი; 19 November 1961 – 24 February 2006), sometimes known under his pseudonym Mepe (, "The King"), was a Georgian musician, poet and prose writer. Charkviani was known for his ...

Niaz Diasamidze Niaz Diasamidze ( ka, ნიაზ დიასამიძე; born 13 June 1973) is a Georgian musician, singer, songwriter, calligrapher and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of 33a. Niaz was born in Tbilisi, the cap ...

Nino Katamadze Nino Katamadze ( ka, ნინო ქათამაძე; born 21 August 1972) is a Georgian jazz singer and artist. Biography Nino Katamadze was born in Kobuleti, Adjara, Soviet Georgia in 1972. In 1990, she entered the vocal department of t ...

Irma Sokhadze Irma Sokhadze (ირმა სოხაძე, stylized ''Irma Soxadze'') is a Georgian singer and pianist. She performed and toured as an eight-year-old, becoming a child star with "An Orange Song" which was specially written for her. In addit ...

Katie Melua Ketevan Katie Melua (; ka, ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა, ; born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian and British singer and songwriter. She was born in Kutaisi and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of comp ...

Theatre producers

Kote Marjanishvili Konstantine "Kote" Marjanishvili ( ka, კონსტანტინე (კოტე) მარჯანიშვილი), also known by the Russified name Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mardzhanov (russian: Константи́н Алекса́н� ...

Sandro Akhmeteli Sandro Akhmeteli ( ka, სანდრო ახმეტელი; real name: Aleksandre Akhmetelashvili, ალექსანდრე ახმეტელაშვილი) (April 13, 1886 – June 27, 1937) was a Georgian theater director wh ...

Valerian Gunia Valerian "Valiko" Gunia ( ka, ვალერიან ��ალიკოგუნია; 21 January 1862 – 31 July 1938) was a Georgian dramatist, actor, director, critic, and translator. His contribution to the Georgian scene won him the title ...

Revaz Gabriadze Revaz "Rezo" Gabriadze ( ka, რევაზ ��ეზოგაბრიაძე; 29 June 1936 – 6 June 2021) was a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and sculptor. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and ...

(1935–2021) *

Robert Sturua Robert Sturua ( ka, რობერტ სტურუა; born 31 July 1938, Tbilisi) is a Georgian theater director, who gained international acclaim for his original interpretation of the works of Brecht, Shakespeare, and Chekhov. He was based ...

Andro Enukidze Andro Enukidze ( ka, ანდრო ენუქიძე) (born January 9, 1965) is a Georgian theater director. Biography Andro Enukidze was born January 9, 1965, in Tbilisi. He studied under Temur Chkheidze at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre ...

Vakhtang Mchedelov Vakhtang Levanovich Mchedelov (russian: Вахтанг Леванович Мчеделов, born Mchedlishvili, Мчедлишвили / ka, ვახტანგ მჭედლიშვილი; 6 August 1884 – 19 May 1924) was a Russian th ...

Mikheil Tumanishvili Mikheil Ivanovich Tumanishvili ( ka, მიხეილ თუმანიშვილი), born 6 february 1921, died 11 May 1996, was a Georgian theater director and teacher. He was a student of Georgy Tovstonogov at the Tbilisi State Theater ...

Manana Anasashvili Manana Anasashvili ( ka, მანანა ანასაშვილი; born 16 June 1952) is a Georgian film director, Theatre Director, Professor, Expert of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Head of International Relations at Georg ...

Synetic Theater Synetic Theater is a non-profit physical theater company located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It performs at the Crystal City Theatre in Arlington Virginia. Since its formation its productions have received numerous awards. His ...

(Founded and ran by Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili)

Writers

Kita Abashidze Prince Kita (Ivane) Abashidze ( ka, კიტა აბაშიძე) (16 January 1870 – 17 December 1917) was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician. Abashidze was born into a noble family in the province of Guria. Having gr ...

, literary critic *

Chabua Amirejibi Mzechabuk "Chabua" Amirejibi, (often written as "Amiredjibi", ka, მზეჭაბუკ "ჭაბუა" ამირეჯიბი; 18 November 1921 – 12 December 2013) was a Georgian novelist and Soviet-era dissident notable for his mag ...

(1917–1942), poet *

(1837–1907), poet and writer *

Otar Chiladze Otar Chiladze ( ka, ოთარ ჭილაძე; March 20, 1933 — October 1, 2009) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sum ...

Tamaz Chiladze Tamaz Chiladze ( ka, თამაზ ჭილაძე; 5 March 1931 – 28 September 2018) was a Georgian writer, dramatist and poet. He was the elder brother of Georgian writer Otar Chiladze. Biography Chiladze was born to the family of an ...

Daniel Chonkadze Daniel Chonkadze ( ka, დანიელ ჭონქაძე) (1830 – June 16, 1860) was a Georgian novelist primarily known for his resonant novella ''Suramis tsikhe'' (" Surami Fortress"). Chonkadze was born to a peasant family near Dushe ...

Nino Dadeshkeliani Nino Dadeshkeliani (June 17, 1890 – 1931), a Georgian author, was the daughter of General Prince Alexander Dadeshkeliani and Princess Eristavi. Her father, an inspector of State Forests, was assassinated in 1909. During World War I, Dadeshkelian ...

(1890–1931), writer, politician *

Shalva Dadiani Shalva Dadiani ( ka, შალვა დადიანი; May 21, 1874 – March 15, 1959) was a Georgian novelist, playwright, and actor. Born in Zestaponi, western Georgia (then Kutais Governorate of Russian Empire), into the family of a writ ...

* Guram Dochanashvili *

Nodar Dumbadze Nodar Dumbadze ( ka, ნოდარ დუმბაძე, July 14, 1928 – September 4, 1984) was a popular Georgian writer. Biography Born in Guria, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Tbilisi State University in 1950. His first p ...

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia Konstantine Gamsakhurdia ( ka, კონსტანტინე გამსახურდია) (May 3, 1893 – July 17, 1975) was a Georgian writer and public figure. Educated and first published in Germany, he married Western European inf ...

Iakob Gogebashvili Iakob Gogebashvili ( ka, იაკობ გოგებაშვილი) (October 15, 1840 – June 1, 1912) was a Georgian educator, children’s writer and journalist, considered to be the founder of the scientific pedagogy in Georgia. Through ...

* Levan Gotua *

Mikheil Javakhishvili Mikheil Javakhishvili ( ka, მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი; birth surname: Adamashvili ადამაშვილი) (20 November 1880 – 30 September 1937) was a Georgian and Soviet novelist who is regarded as one of the ...

Aleksandre Kazbegi Alexander Kazbegi ( ka, ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი, ) (1848–1893) was a Georgia (country), Georgian writer, famous for his 1883 novel ''The Patricide''. Early life Kazbegi was born in Stepantsminda the great grands ...

Babilina Khositashvili Babilina Khositashvili (1884–1973) was a Georgian poet, feminist and labour rights activist. After a short spell in a monastery, she moved to Tbilisi where, unable to afford higher education, she studied in the library. She found employment in a ...

(1884–1973), poet, feminist *

Leo Kiacheli Leo Kiacheli ( ka, ლეო ქიაჩელი) (born Leon Shengelaia; February 19, 1884 – December 19, 1963) was a Soviet and Georgian writer. He is noted for the novels '' Gvadi Bigva'', ''Tavadis Kali Maya'' (''Princess Maya''), ''Almasgi ...

David Kldiashvili David Kldiashvili ( ka, დავით კლდიაშვილი, ''Davit' Kldiašvili'') (August 29, 1862 – April 24, 1931) was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry a ...

(born 1929), poet *

Ekaterine Melikishvili Ekaterine (Keke) Melikishvili, married name Meskhi, (1854–1928) was a Georgian writer, translator and feminist. Brought up in a well-to-do home in Tbilisi, after matriculating from a Swiss high school, she became one of the first Georgian women ...

(1854–1928), translator, feminist *

Kato Mikeladze Ekaterine "Kato" Mikeladze (1878–1942) was a Georgians, Georgian journalist and feminist who from 1916 fought for women's rights. In order to encourage women to become politically active, she established The Inter-Partial League of Women backed ...

(1878–1942), journalist and feminist *

Aka Morchiladze Aka Morchiladze ( ka, აკა მორჩილაძე) is the pen name of Giorgi Akhvlediani (გიორგი ახვლედიანი) (born 10 November 1966), a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best- ...

George Papashvily George Papashvily ( ka, გიორგი პაპაშვილი; August 23, 1898 – March 29, 1978) was a Georgian-American writer and sculptor. He was one of the most famous Georgian (emigrants) artists of the 20th century. Life George Pa ...

(Luka Razikashvili) (1862–1915), poet and writer *

Guram Rcheulishvili Guram Rcheulishvili (Georgian: გურამ რჩეულიშვილი; July 4, 1934 in Tbilisi, Georgia ― August 23, 1960 in Gagra, Georgia) was a Georgian writer. Biography Guram Rcheulishvili was born on July 4, 1934 in Tbilisi. ...

Grigol Robakidze Grigol Robakidze () (October 28, 1880, Sviri (West Georgia (country), Georgia) – November 19, 1962, Geneva) was a Georgia (country), Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities ...

(12th century), poet *

(1891–1953), poet *

David Turashvili David "Dato" Turashvili ( ka, დავით (დათო) ტურაშვილი) (born May 10, 1966 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian fiction writer. Biography In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the ...

Lasha Bughadze Lasha Bugadze (born January 1, 1977) is a Georgian novelist and playwright. Among his noteworthy plays are ''Shocked Tatyana'', which satirizes war heroism, and ''Soldier, Love, Bodyguard and ... the President''. Biography Lasha Bugadze, born ...

Sportspeople

Shota Arveladze Shota Arveladze ( ka, შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club Hull City. Arveladze played at Dinamo Tb ...

(born 1973), former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

er *

Giorgi Asanidze Giorgi Asanidze ( ka, გიორგი ასანიძე; born 30 August 1975 in Sachkhere) is a former Georgian weightlifter, Olympic Champion, World Champion, and three time European Champion who competed in the 85 kg and 77 kg ...

(born 1975), Olympic and world champion weightlifter and politician *

Zurab Azmaiparashvili Zurab Azmaiparashvili ( ka, ზურაბ აზმაიფარაშვილი; born 16 March 1960) is a chess grandmaster from Georgia. His peak Elo rating was 2702, achieved in July 2003. Career Azmaiparashvili became a Grandmaster in ...

(born 1960), chess grandmaster *

Nikoloz Basilashvili Nikoloz Basilashvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი, tr, ; born 23 February 1992) is a Georgian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 on 27 May 2019. In July 2018, ...

(born 1992), tennis player, winner of 5 ATP titles and former nº 16 in the ATP rankings *

Maia Chiburdanidze Maia Chiburdanidze ( ka, მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 20 ...

(born 1961), Women's World Champion in chess (1978–1991) *

Natela Dzalamidze Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze (russian: Натела Георгиевна Дзаламидзе, , ; born 27 February 1993) is a Russian-born Georgian tennis player. On 16 November 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 ...

(born 1993), tennis player *

Roman Dzindzichashvili Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili ( ka, რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced ''jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee''; born May 5, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player. He was awarded th ...

(born 1944), US Chess Champion (1983 and 1989) *

Kokkai Futoshi Kokkai Futoshi (born March 10, 1981 as Levan Tsaguria, ka, ლევან ცაგურია) is a former professional sumo wrestler from Georgia (country), Georgia. He began his career in May 2001. He is the first Caucasus, Caucasian ''riki ...

(Levan Tsaguria) (born 1981),

sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...

wrestler *

Mani Mon Mani may refer to: Geography * Maní, Casanare, a town and municipality in Casanare Department, Colombia * Mani, Chad, a town and sub-prefecture in Chad * Mani, Evros, a village in northeastern Greece * Mani, Karnataka, a village in Dakshi ...

(Mani Mon) (born 2001),

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player, winner of 27 ATP titles and former middleweight

UFC The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Zuffa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA ...

Champion *

Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a former Soviet Union, Soviet and Georgia (country), Georgian chess player, and the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster (ch ...

(born 1941), Women's World Champion in chess (1962–1978) *

Kakhi Kakhiashvili Kakhi Kakhiashvili ( ka, კახი კახიაშვილი, el, Ακάκιος "Κάχι" Κακιασβίλης; born 13 July 1969 in Tskhinvali, Georgian SSR, USSR) is a Georgian-Greek weightlifter, one of only five weightlifters to ...

(born 1969), Olympic and world champion weightlifter *

Kakhaber Kaladze Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze ( ka, კახაბერ (კახა) კალაძე, ; born 27 February 1978) is a Georgian politician and former footballer who serves as the Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A versatile player, he was c ...

(born 1978), footballer,

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

and Georgia national team *

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ( ka, ხვიჩა კვარაცხელია, tr; born 12 February 2001) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A club Napoli and the Georgia national team. Club career Early car ...

(born 2001), footballer,

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

and Georgia national team *

Temuri Ketsbaia Temuri Ketsbaia ( ka, თემურ ქეცბაია; born 18 March 1968) is a Georgian former professional football player and current manager. He is the current manager of the Cyprus national team. Club career After beginning his pro ...

(born 1968), former footballer, notably for

Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...

and Georgia national team *

Mikhail Khergiani Mikhail Vissarionovich Khergiani (, , born Chumlian Minan Khergiani, 20 March 19324 July 1969) was a Georgian mountaineer. He was a seven-time national champion climber who earned the nickname the "Tiger of the Cliffs" for his ability to rapidly a ...

(1932–1969), champion mountaineer *

Georgi Kinkladze Georgi Kinkladze ( ka, გიორგი ქინქლაძე, ; born 6 July 1973), also spelled Georgiou, or Giorgi, or shortened to Gio, is a Georgian former footballer who played as a playmaking midfielder. Born in the Georgian capital ...

(born 1973), former footballer *

Gagamaru Masaru ), lead=yes is a Georgian former professional sumo wrestler from Tbilisi. The third Georgian national after Kokkai and Tochinoshin to make the top ''makuuchi'' division, he made his professional debut in November 2005, reaching the ''jūryō'' di ...

(Teimuraz Jugheli) (born 1987), sumo wrestler * (1911–1937), tennis player *

Mevlud Meladze Mevlud Meladze ( ka, მევლუდ მელაძე) (born 5 September 1972) is Georgia's best known motorsports promoter and road safety activist, the founder and vice-president of the Georgian Automobile Sport Federation, a n ...

(born 1972),

Formula Alfa Formula Alfa (also called Formula Alfa Boxer) is a junior racing Formula racing, formula for Open wheel car, single seater cars. It is intended to function as the young kart racing graduate's first experience of car racing. In Georgia Formula Alfa ...

champion *

Oganez Mkhitaryan Oganez Armenakovich Mkhitaryan (russian: Оганез Арменакович Мхитарян; born 26 August 1962) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. Playing career He spent one season in the Soviet Top League with ...

(born 1962), football coach and former player *

Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze (born 2 October 1972) is a three-time European champion archer, who competes internationally for Turkey. She is from the Republic of Georgia. She is coached by Vladimir Lekveshivili and is a member of Antalya ...

(born 1972), champion archer *

Zaza Pachulia Zaza Pachulia ( ka, ზაზა ფაჩულია; born Zaur Pachulia; February 10, 1984) is a Georgian professional basketball executive and former player who is a basketball operations consultant for the Golden State Warriors of the Nati ...

(born 1984),

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...

basketball player *

Roman Rurua Roman Vladimirovich Rurua ( ka, რომან რურუა, born 25 November 1942) is a retired featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and won a silver and a go ...

(born 1942), wrestler *

Tornike Shengelia Tornike "Toko" Shengelia ( ka, თორნიკე შენგელია; born October 5, 1991) is a Georgian professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna. At a height of 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall, he plays at the power forward positi ...

(born 1991), basketball player *

Lasha Talakhadze Lasha Talakhadze ( ka, ლაშა ტალახაძე; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg), the clean and jerk (267 kg) and the total (49 ...

(born 1993), Olympic and world champion weightlifter *

Gocha Tsitsiashvili Gocha Tsitsiashvili ( he, גוצ'ה ציציאשווילי, ka, გოჩა ციციაშვილი; born November 7, 1973, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a retired amateur Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's light heavy ...

(born 1973), Israeli Olympic wrestler *

Nikoloz Tskitishvili Nikoloz Tskitishvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ცქიტიშვილი; born April 14, 1983) is a Georgian former professional basketball player. He is a 7'0" forward-center, who was selected fifth overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 2 ...

(born 1983), NBA basketball player *

Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi ; ) is a Georgian professional sumo wrestler from Mtskheta. He is a member of the Kasugano stable and made his professional debut in March 2006. He reached the top ''makuuchi'' division just two years later in May 2008. After a long hiatus due t ...

(Levan Gorgadze) (born 1987), sumo wrestler *

Dimitri Yachvili Dimitri Yachvili Markarian (born 19 September 1980, in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze) is a French former rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Biarritz and France. He played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scori ...

(born 1980),

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

former

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

footballer * Valerian Zirakadze (born 1978), former footballer *

Levan Saginashvili Levan Saginashvili (born September 15, 1988), nicknamed Georgian Hulk, is a Georgian professional arm-wrestler. He is considered to be the strongest arm wrestler of the modern era and likely of all time. Levan has won the World Arm-wrestling C ...

(born 1988), arm-wrestler *

Giga Chikadze Giga Chikadze (Georgian: გიგა ჭიკაძე, born 25 August 1988) is a Georgian mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. He currently competes in the Featherweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Chikadze for ...

(born 1988),

mixed martial artist Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorp ...

and former

kickboxer Kickboxing is a combat sport focused on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, general ...

Businesspeople

Georgian-Russian businessman and actor Sila Zandukeli-Sandunov

Sila Zandukeli-Sandunov Sila Nikolaevich Sandunov (russian: Сила Николаевич Сандунов), born Silovan Nikolozis dze Zandukeli ( ka, სილოვან ზანდუკელი), (born 1756— Died 1820) was a businessman and actor of Georgian or ...

(1756–1820), founder of the eponymous Sandunóvskie Baths *

David Sarajishvili David Zakharyevich Sarajishvili ( ka, დავით ზაქარიას ძე სარაჯიშვილი; (born October 28, 1848, Tiflis, Russian Empire — June 20, 1911, Tiflis, Russian Empire) — Georgian scientist, entrepreneur ...

(1848–1911), entrepreneur, philanthropist and scientist. Founder of

Kizlyar Brandy Factory Kizlyar Brandy Factory is a Russian producer of alcoholic beverages, located in Kizlyar, Dagestan. It is one of the five largest Russian brandy producers. History Russian Empire Viticulture and winemaking have been the main sectors of th ...

George Coby George Coby (born Grigol Kobakhidze; Georgian: გრიგოლ კობახიძე; 1883 – October 30, 1967) was a Georgian-American businessman, inventor, and chemist. He is believed to be the first Georgian millionaire. Two of his most ...

(1883–1967) *

Alex d'Arbeloff Alexander Vladimir d'Arbeloff (December 21, 1927 – July 8, 2008) was the Georgian-American co-founder of Teradyne, a multibillion-dollar Boston, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE). Early life He was born to a ...

(1927–2008), co-founder of

Teradyne Teradyne, Inc. is an American automatic test equipment (ATE) designer and manufacturer based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Teradyne's high-profile customers include Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and IBM. His ...

Sandro Shatirishvili(Project B0ss) Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, often a diminutive of Alessandro or Alexander. It is also a surname. Sandro may refer to: Given name or nickname Sports * Sandro (footballer, born 1973), Brazi ...

, (born 1999) founder and

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

ARIA PAINTINGS In music, an aria (Italian: ; plural: ''arie'' , or ''arias'' in common usage, diminutive form arietta , plural ariette, or in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompanimen ...

and Creator of

TBC BANK , logo = TBC Bank logo.svg , logo_size = 100 , image = TBC Bank building.jpg , image_size = 250 , image_caption = TBC headquarters at Marjanishvili avenue, Tbilisi , type = Joint Stock Company , traded_as = , industry ...

Kakha Bendukidze Kakha Bendukidze ( ka, კახა ბენდუქიძე; 20 April 1956 – 13 November 2014) was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural ...

(1956–2014), statesman, businessman and philanthropist *

Levan Gachechiladze Levan Gachechiladze ( ka, ლევან გაჩეჩილაძე) (born 20 July 1964) is a Georgian politician and businessman who ran as the main opposition candidate in the 5 January 2008 Georgian presidential election. Life and family ...

(born 1964), founder of Georgian Wine Company, 2008 Georgian presidential candidate *

Tamir Sapir Tamir Sapir (born Temur Sepiashvili, ka, თემურ სეფიაშვილი; 1946/1947 – September 26, 2014) was a Georgia (country), Georgian-born, Georgian-American businessman, real estate developer and investor. He was the foun ...

(1946/1947 – 2014), * David Gamkrelidze (born 1964), founder of Aldagi Insurance Company;Former Member of Parliament * Luka Chkhaidze, (born 2002) founder and

of Cement Saburtalo * Boris Ivanishvili, Bidzina (Boris) Ivanishvili (born 1956), politician, billionaire, businessman and philanthropist; Prime Minister of Georgia from October 2012 to November 2013. * Badri Patarkatsishvili (1956–2008), business oligarch; richest Georgian businessman; 2008 Georgian presidential candidate * Mamuka Khazaradze (born 1966), businessman and politician, founder of TBC Bank * David Nikuradze (born 1975), journalist * George Arison, (born 1977) founder and

of Shift (business), Shift

Other known Georgians

* Razhden Arsenidze (1880–1965), jurist, journalist, and politician * Sopho Khalvashi (born 1986), songstress * Nino Kipiani (1877–1920s), lawyer * Zviad Kvachantiradze (born 1965), former Secretary General of TRACECA, ambassador * Mdivani, The Mdivani family, ''aznauri'', or minor nobility * Vasily Sopromadze (born 1963), property developer in Russia

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Dictionary of Georgian National Biography
{{Georgia (country) topics Lists of people from Georgia (country), * Lists of people by ethnicity, Georgians

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