List of Famous people born in Georgia
Levan Kobiashvili
Levan Kobiashvili is a Georgian former professional footballer and the current president of the Georgian Football Federation and a member of Parliament of Georgia.
Giorgio Gomelsky
Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky was a film maker, impresario, music manager, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Leyla Adamyan
Leyla Vladimirovna Adamyan is a Soviet and Russia an obstetrician-gynecologist, the doctor of medical sciences, teacher, professor.
Kakha Bendukidze
Kakha Bendukidze was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, regarded as the Man Who Remade Georgia, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.
Leila Abashidze
Leila Abashidze 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 of Labour, as well as of awards of European and Asian film festivals, and has her own honorary star in front of Rustaveli cinema on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia. During her career she was widely considered as the "Mary Pickford of the USSR". She is one of the most popular Georgian and Soviet actresses.
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.
Vano Yantbelidze
Ivane "Vano" Yantbelidze is a Soviet and Georgian film, television and stage actor.
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartani Petrosian was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasized safety above all else. Petrosian is credited with popularizing chess in Armenia.
Giorgi Marghvilashvili
Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician who was the fourth President of Georgia, in office from 17 November 2013 to 16 December 2018.
Saliha Naciye Hanım
Saliha Naciye Hanım was the Georgian fourteenth, and last wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.