List of Famous people born in Georgia
Baadur Tsuladze
Baadur Tsuladze was a Georgian actor, film director, writer and broadcaster. Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1979).
Yekaterina Mtsituridze
Yekaterina Akakievna Mtsituridze is a Russian television presenter, film critic and film expert of Georgian origin.
Gagamaru Masaru
Gagamaru Masaru 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 division in November 2009 and makuuchi in July 2010. Originally from Kise stable, he briefly competed for the Kitanoumi stable before moving back to the Kise stable after it was re-established. His highest rank was komusubi. He won two special prizes for Fighting Spirit and was runner-up in one top division tournament. After missing nearly all of 2020 through injury and falling greatly in rank, he announced his retirement during the November 2020 tournament.
Dzhano Ananidze
Jano Ananidze is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Nino Burjanadze
Nino Burjanadze is a Georgian politician and lawyer who served as Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia from November 2001 to June 2008. As the first woman she has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections. She withdrew into opposition to Saakashvili as the leader of the Democratic Movement-United Georgia party in 2008. In October 2013, she ran in the presidential election, competing against 22 candidates. She ended third with 10 percent of the vote.
Zurab Tsereteli
Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli is a Soviet/Russian painter, sculptor and architect known for large-scale and at times controversial monuments. Tsereteli has served as the President of the Russian Academy of Arts since 1997.
Otari Kvantrishvili
Otari Kvantrishvili was a Georgian mafia boss and one of Moscow's leading organised crime figures during the early 1990s.
Tornike Okriashvili
Tornike Okriashvili is a Georgian professional footballer. He plays as an attacking midfielder for Cypriot First Division club Anorthosis Famagusta.
Aleksey Brusilov
Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov was a Russian general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov Offensive, which was his greatest achievement. The innovative and relatively successful tactics used were later copied by the Germans. Born into the aristocracy to a father who was also a general, Brusilov trained as a cavalry officer, but by 1914 he realized that cavalry was obsolete in the new style of warfare because of its vulnerability to machine gun and artillery. Historians portray him as the only First World War Russian general capable of winning major battles. However, his heavy casualties seriously weakened the Russian army, which was unable to replace its losses.
Grigol Vashadze
Grigol Vashadze is a Georgian politician, diplomat and a former member of the Cabinet of Georgia in the capacity of the Minister for Culture, Heritage Preservation and Sport (2008) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2008–2012).