Shota ( ka, შოთა) is a Georgian masculine given name that may refer to
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Shota Abkhazava
Shota Abkhazava (russian: Шота Абхазава, born 12 August 1971) is a Georgian-Russian racing driver, race car designer, businessman, and owner of three race tracks in Russia, Georgia and Latvia.
Racing
In 1993 Abkhazava graduated fro ...
(born 1971), Georgian racing driver, race cars designer and businessman
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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 T ...
(born 1973), Georgian association football player
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Shota Bibilov
Shota Gennadyevich Bibilov (russian: Шота Геннадьевич Бибилов; born 6 August 1990) is a Russian former professional footballer of Ossetian descent.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the Russian First Divisio ...
(born 1990), Russian association football player
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Shota Chochishvili
Shota Samsonovich Chochishvili ( ka, შოთა ჩოჩიშვილი, russian: Шота Самсонович Чочишвили; 10 July 1950 – 27 August 2009) was a Georgian professional wrestler and judoka.
Judo career
Between 197 ...
(1950–2009), Georgian judoka
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Shota Chomakhidze
Shota Chomakhidze (born 17 November 1978) is a retired footballer.
Club career
Born in Samtredia, Chomakhidze began playing football for FC Samtredia. He joined Georgian first division side FC Dinamo Tbilisi in 1999, and won the Georgian champ ...
(born 1978), Georgian association football player
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Shota Grigalashvili
Shota Grigalashvili ( ka, შოთა გრიგალაშვილი; born 21 June 1986) is a Georgian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the older brother of Elgujja, also footballer.
Career Club
In 2007, Grigalashvili ...
(born 1986), Georgian association football player
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Shota Iatashvili (born 1966), Georgian writer, translator, and art critic
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Shota Khabareli
Shota Khabareli ( ka, შოთა ხაბარელი; born 26 December 1958) is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the half-middleweight class.
Khabareli was ...
(born 1958), Georgian judoka
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Shota Khinchagashvili
Shota Yuriyevich Khinchagashvili ( ka, შოთა ხინჩაგაშვილი; born 9 January 1951 in Dusheti) is a retired Georgian football player.
Honours
* Soviet Top League winner: 1978.
* Soviet Cup winner: 1976, 1979.
* UEFA Cup ...
(born 1951), Russian association football player
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Shota Kveliashvili
Shota Kveliashvili (1 January 1938 – 25 April 2004) was a Georgian sports shooter. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially know ...
(1938–2004), Georgian Olympic shooter
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Shota Kviraia Shota Kviraia ( ka, შოთა კვირაია) (June 5, 1952 – January 10, 2011) was a Georgian security and police official and lieutenant-general of the state security service. A former KGB officer, he was an influential member of Edua ...
(1952–2011), Georgian security and police official
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Shota Laperadze
Shota Laperadze (1929-1995) was a Georgian film producer who produced twenty films between 1959 and 1995. From 1959 to 1991 he worked as a film producer at Georgian Film Studio. Later, from 1991 to 1995, Laperadze was a head of the film unions - ...
(1930–1995), Georgian film producer
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Shota Lomidze
Shota Lomidze (20 January 1936 – 23 October 1993) was a Georgian wrestler who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially know ...
(1936–1993), Georgian wrestler
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Shota and Margarita Metreveli
Shota Metreveli (October 25, 1913 – April 5, 1983) ( ka, შოთა მეტრეველი) and Margarita Metreveli (June 22, 1913 – July 22, 1984) ( ka, მარგარიტა მეტრეველი) were artists from ...
(1913-1983/84), Georgian artists
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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 ...
(1172–1216), Georgian poet of the 12th century
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Shota Shamatava
Shota Nikolaevich Shamatava (russian: Шота Николаевич Шаматава; 17 July 1936 – 28 October 2013) was an Abkhaz politician who served in the People's Assembly of Abkhazia from 1996 to 2002. A member of the second convocatio ...
, Abkhazian politician
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Shota Voskanyan (born 1960), Armenian artist
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Georgian masculine given names