Vakhtang ( ka, ვახტანგ) is a
masculine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
in
Georgian language. The name derives from an ancient
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
expression, "vahrka-tanū," meaning of which translates into "wolf-bodied." Some sources argue that the meaning of the name could possibly be a representation of wolf cult, widely practiced in ancient Georgia.
Shorter version of the name Vakho ( ka, ვახო) is an etymologically related variant of "Vakhtang," also commonly used in modern Georgian language.
Notable people
Royalty
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Vakhtang I of Iberia
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 ...
, Georgian king
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Vakhtang II of Georgia, Georgian king
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Vakhtang III of Georgia, Georgian king
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Vakhtang IV of Georgia
Vakhtang IV ( Georgian: ვახტანგ IV) (c. 1413 – December 1446), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a King of Georgia who reigned from 1433 to his death, associated to the throne of his father Alexander I from 1433 to the latter's ab ...
, Georgian king
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Vakhtang V of Kartli
Vakhtang V ( ka, ვახტანგ V), born Bakhuta Mukhranbatoni ( ka, ბახუტა მუხრანბატონი) (1618 – September 1675), was the King of Kartli (eastern Georgia) from 1658 until his death, who ruled as a vas ...
, Georgian king
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Vakhtang VI of Kartli
Vakhtang VI ( ka, ვახტანგ VI), also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and Ḥosaynqolī Khan ( fa, حسینقلی خان, translit=Hoseyn-Qoli Xān) (September 15, 1675 – March 26, 1737), was a Georgian ...
, Georgian king
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Vakhtang, son of David IV of Georgia, Georgian prince
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Vakhtang, Duke of Aragvi Vakhtang the Good ( ka, ვახტანგ კარგი) (1738 or 1742 – 1 February, 1756 or 1760) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the Bagrationi dynasty. He was the first child and the eldest son of Heraclius II, then-pr ...
, also known as "Vakhtang the Good"
Actors, artists, and poets
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Vakhtang Kikabidze, Georgian actor
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Vakhtang Orbeliani
Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani ( ka, ვახტანგ ორბელიანი) (April 5, 1812 – September 29, 1890) was a Georgia (country), Georgian Romanticist poet and soldier in the Imperial Russian service, of the noble House of Orbelian ...
, Georgian poet
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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, choreogra ...
, Georgian ballet dancer
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Vakhtang Mchedelov, Russian director
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Vakhtang Murvanidze
Vakhtang Murvanidze ( ka, ვახტანგ მურვანიძე; born 13 October 1979 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian former competitive figure skater. He is a multiple Georgian national champion and represented Georgia twice at the Olympic ...
, Georgian figure skater
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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 repu ...
, Georgian conductor
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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 ...
, Georgian composer and conductor
Athletes
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Vakhtang Iagorashvili
Vakhtang "Vaho" Iagorashvili (born April 5, 1964 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Soviet modern pentathlete, who has been a member of three different Olympic teams during his sporting career.
Iagorashvili emerged as the top favorite to win the men's in ...
, Georgian-Soviet pentathlete
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Vakhtang Blagidze
Vakhtang Blagidze ( ka, ვახტანგ ბლაგიძე ; born July 23, 1954) is a wrestler from Ozurgeti, Georgia. He was Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1980, competing for the Soviet Union. He won gold medal ...
, Georgian olympic gold medalist
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Vakhtang Pantskhava
Vakhtang Pantskhava (born 8 October 1989 in Tskhaltubo) is a Georgian football player. He previously played for Győri ETO FC
ETO FC Győr (''Egyetértés Torna Osztály Futball Club Győr''; ''Concordance Gymnastics Department Football Clu ...
, Georgian football player
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Vakhtang Khvadagiani
Vakhtang Khvadagiani (born 4 April 1972) is a retired Georgian footballer.
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1972 births
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
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, Georgian football player
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Vakhtang Koridze
Vakhtang Ionovich Koridze ( ka, ვახტანგ ქორიძე) (born 24 December 1949 in Batumi) is a retired Georgian and Soviet football player. He was an integral member of the FC Dinamo Tbilisi side that won the Soviet league cha ...
, Georgian football player
Military
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Vakhtang Kapanadze, Georgian brigadier general
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Vakhtang "Loti" Kobalia, Georgian colonel
Other
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Vakhtang Kolbaia
Vakhtang Kolbaia ( ka, ვახტანგ ყოლბაია; born 9 September 1952) is a Georgian politician. From 2013 to 2019, he was chairman of the government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, which sits in exile in the Georgian ...
, Abkhaz politician
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Baktangios
Baktangios ( el, Βακτάγγιος; died 743) was a Byzantine ''patrikios'' and one of the principal supporters of the usurping emperor Artabasdos ().
Baktangios was probably of Georgian descent, his name being a Hellenized form of " Vakhtang" ...
, Byzantine dignitary
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Vakhtang Lejava, academic
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Georgian masculine given names