- Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili (born December 21, 1967) is a Georgian politician and the current President of Georgia. He succeeded, on January 25, 2004, Nino Burjanadze, who acted as a president after President Eduard Shevardnadze stepped down in Georgia's 2003 bloodless Rose Revolution, led by Saakashvili and his major political allies, Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania. Some non-Georgian sources spell his name via the Russian as Mikhail.
- Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Amvrosevich Shevardnadze, Russian: served as the President of Georgia from 1995 until he resigned on 23 November 2003 in the Rose Revolution. Prior to his presidency, he served under Mikhail Gorbachev as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1990. Shevardnadze's political skills earned him the nickname "Tetri Melia" ("White Fox"), while his former American negotiating partners, …
- Badri Patarkatsishvili
Badri Patarkatsishvili is a Georgian businessman who started out his political career and made his important future contacts in the communist youth organisation, the Komsomol. He is the chairman of the Georgian Olympic Committee and the sports team Dinamo Tbilisi. He has been closely associated with Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky since the very beginning of the 1990s. In 1992, he became a deputy Director General of LogoVAZ. In 1994, as he had moved to Moscow, …
- Nino Burjanadze
Nino Burjanadze (born on July 16, 1964 in Kutaisi, Georgia) was the interim President of Georgia from November 23, 2003 to January 25, 2004. She is a jurist and politician. (Her surname is also occasionally transliterated in English as "Burdzhanadze" or "Burdjanadze") She is currently serving as the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia. Burjanadze's father is Anzor Burjanadze.
- Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, …
- Irakli Okruashvili
Irakli Okhruashvili (born in 1973 in Tskhinvali, Georgia) has served as the Deputy Minister of Justice, Prosecutor General, Minister of Internal Affairs, Defense Minister, and most recently was appointed as the Minister for Economic Development before his resignation after one week from the appointment. Irakli Okruashvili graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of International Law and Relations. After graduation Mr. Okruashvili worked as an attorney.
- Zurab Zhvania
Zurab Zhvania (Georgian: ზურაბ ჟვანია was a prominent Georgian politician and former Speaker of the Georgian Parliament. From November 25, 2003 to February 18, 2004 he was Minister without Portfolio. He was the Prime Minister of Georgia from February 18, 2004 until his death. Zhvania had a wife and three children, and in addition to his native Georgian, he spoke English, German, and Russian.
- Aslan Abashidze
Aslan Abashidze was the leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia from 1991 to May 5, 2004. Abashidze was born into a renowned Muslim Ajarian family. His grandfather Memed Abashidze was a famous writer and member of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Georgia between 1918-1921, but was shot on Stalin's orders in 1937. His father was sent to the Gulag for ten years but survived.
- Igor Ivanov
Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (b. September 23, 1945 in Moscow) became the Russian Foreign Minister in 1998, succeeding Yevgeny Primakov. He is the son of a Russian father and a Georgian mother. In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow State Linguistic University). He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1983. In 1991 he became the ambassador in Madrid.
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, (March 31, 1939 — December 31, 1993) was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
- Gela Bezhuashvili
Gela Bezhuashvili is a Georgian politician and the nation’s current Foreign Minister.
- Zurab Noghaideli
Zurab Noghaideli (born October 22 1964 in Kobuleti, Ajaria, Georgia, Soviet Union) is the Prime Minister of Georgia.
- Vano Merabishvili
Vano Merabishvili (born 15 April 1968 in Ude, Adigeni Region) is the Interior Minister of Georgia. He speaks English. He has a wife and a son. Merabishvili graduated from the Technical University of Georgia in 1992 with a degree from the Faculty of Mining. After his schooling he held several positions at the Technical University of Georgia before co-founding the Liberty Institute in 1996.
- Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, considered by scholars to be one of the greatest representatives of the literature of the Eastern European medieval world. He is author of the literary work "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" ("Vepkhistqaosani" in Georgian), the Georgian national epic poem.
- Shalva Natelashvili
Shalva Natelashvili is chairman and founder of Georgian Labour Party. He is married and has 2 children. Born in the northern mountain town of Dusheti, Shalva Natelashvili, graduated in law from Tbilisi State University and continued post-graduate study in the Diplomatic Academy of Foreign Ministry of the Soviet Union. After working in the General Prosecutor’s Office he became MP in 1992 and remained in the Parliament until 1999.
- Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer and musician, who was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. She is, as of 2006, the United Kingdom's biggest-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.
- Giorgi Baramidze
Giorgi Baramidze (born 1968) is a Georgian politician and current State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration. He was born in Tbilisi on January 5, 1968. He graduated from the Technical University of Georgia, Faculty of Chemical Technologies in 1992. Mr.
- Sozar Subari
Sozar Subari is a Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia. He was elected by the Parliament of Georgia for five years term in 2004. Member of Liberty Institute from 2000 to 2004, Subari also functioned as a journalist for Radio Liberty, and an editor of "Kavkasioni" newspaper.
- Irakli Alasania
Irakli Alasania (born December 21 1973, Batumi, Ajaria, Georgia) is a Georgian politician and the former Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia-in-exile and an envoy of the President of Georgia at the Georgian-Abkhaz talks. His father General Mamia Alasania was killed during the Sukhumi Massacre on September 27, 1993.
- Besiki
Besarion Gabashvili, commonly known by his penname Besiki was a Georgian poet, politician and diplomat, known as an author of exquisite love songs and heroic odes as well as for his political and amorous adventures.
- David Gamkrelidze
David Gamkrelidze or Davit Gamqrelidze, is a Georgian entrepreneur and politician, Leader of the New Rights Party of Georgia, Member of Parliament since 1999, Member of Committee on Defense and Security, Chairman of the Right Opposition Group in Parliament.
- Salome Zourabichvili
Salomé Zourabichvili is a Georgian politician and diplomat, former Foreign Minister of Georgia and a former diplomat in the French service. Zourabichvili was born in Paris on March 18, 1952, into a family of Georgian political emigrants. She attended some of the most prestigious French schools, such as the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)", and began a master's program at Columbia University in New York in the academic year of 1972-1973, …
- Giga Bokeria
Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria is a Georgian politician (United National Movement). Since 2005 he is Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). During 1989–1995 Bokeria was one of the leaders of student movement, in particular active member of Press Club of Tbilisi State University. Since 1992 he has been working as a journalist, in the newspaper "7 Dge" (7 Days), …
- Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze (born February 22, 1973 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian professional football player who currently plays for Levante UD in Spain. Before coming to Rangers, he played at Dinamo Tbilisi, Trabzonspor, and Ajax Amsterdam, and finished at least one season as the top goal scorer at all three. He also scored the 3000th goal in the SPL. When he led Trabzonspor in goals in 1995-96, he also led the Turkish Premier Super League, …
- Ilia Chavchavadze
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze (October 27, 1837 - August 30, 1907) was a prominent figure of new Georgian literature, world-renowned writer, famous public benefactor, jurist, poet, novelist, humanist, publisher, philosopher and leader of the Georgia's National-liberation movement in 1861-1907. Along with Akaki Tsereteli and Niko Nikoladze, Ilia is considered as one of the founding fathers of modern Georgia.
- Kakha Kaladze
Kakhaber (Kakha) Kaladze is a Georgian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for AC Milan of the Italian Serie A.
- Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze (November 17, 1891 – March 17, 1959) was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets. He survived Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, which claimed lives of many of his fellow writers, friends and relatives, but came under heavy pressure from the Soviet authorities. Those tragic years plunged him into depression and alcoholism.
- Bulat Okudzhava
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (also transliterated as "Boulat" "Okudjava"/"Okoudjava"/"Okoudzhava";, Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა) (May 9, 1924 - June 12, 1997) was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song" ("авторская песня", "avtorskaya pesnya"). He was of Georgian origin, born in Moscow and died in Paris. He was the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry.
- George Balanchine
George Balanchine was an American ballet choreographer of Georgian descent. Balanchine is one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, and one of the founders of American ballet. His work formed a bridge between classical and modern ballet.
- Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Prince Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (May 3, 1893 - July 17, 1975) was a Georgian classical writer of the 20th century and a famous public benefactor, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Ph.D. of the Berlin University, and Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia.
- Ghia Nodia
Ghia Nodia (born 1954) is a political scientist who currently serves as a chairman of the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development based in Tbilisi, Georgia and Professor of political science at the Ilia Chavchavadze State University.
- Paata Burchuladze
Paata Burchuladze (born on February 12, 1955) is a Georgian bass opera singer. Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory and began his operatic career at Tbilisi and Moscow, with subsequent appearances at Covent Garden (1984), Salzburg Festival under Herbert von Karajan (1987), Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Verona (Italy), Hamburg (Germany), etc.
- Kakha Bendukidze
Kakha Bendukidze ("Kakha Avtandilovich Bendukidze") (born April 20 1956 in Tbilissi) is a Georgian politician. Bendukidze graduated from the Department of Biology of Tbilisi State University in 1977 and from the Postgraduate School of the Moscow State University in 1980. In 1981-1985 he worked for the "Institute of Biology and Physiology of Microorganisms" in Puschino.
- Kote Abkhazi
Prince Kote Abkhazi (November 17, 1867-May 19, 1923), was a Georgian general, politician, and public figure. One of the leaders of anti-Soviet national-liberation movement in Georgia, he was arrested and executed by the Soviet security services.
- Givi Targamadze
Givi Targamadze (b. July 23, 1968) is is a Georgian politician (United National Movement). Chairman of Defense and Security Committee of Parliament of Georgia, one of the leaders of United National Movement. In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Giga Bokeria and David Zurabishvili, Targamadze co-founded Liberty Institute, Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking a job of coordinating journalistic investigation programs.
- Ivane Javakhishvili
Ivane Javakhishvili (April 11, 1876 - November 18, 1940) was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily infuenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926.
- Hamlet Gonashvili
Hamlet Gonashvili (died 1985) was a Georgian singer (tenor), infuential teacher and perfomer of traditional Georgian music. He is sometimes referred to as "the voice of Georgia". Gonshavili was born in eastern Georgia, and is considered the best interpreter of songs from the Kartli and Kakheti regions. He was a recipient of many national honors and prizes.
- Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli, born August 10 1935 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium. Kancheli is his country's most famous living composer and arguably its best-known cultural export. His music is very communicative and immediate and often has a spiritual quality, which leads some to compare him (not always helpfully) to composers such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. There are several instances of folk and religious inspiration in his music, …
- Niko Nikoladze
Niko Nikoladze (27 September, 1843, – 5 June, 1928) was a notable Georgian publicist, pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his involvement in various economic and social projects of that time. He was born in the village of Didi Jikhaishi, Imereti, western Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia).
- Vazha-Pshavela
Vazha-Pshavela (July 26, 1861-July 10, 1915) is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili, a classic of the new Georgian literature. He was born in a small village Chargali (Pshavi mountainous province in Eastern Georgia). He graduated from the Pedagogical Seminary in Gori and then during two years he was unattached student of the St. Petersburg University (Russia).