List of Famous people born in Georgia

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin is a Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a crew member of Expedition 24 / 25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, and he landed in November 2010, also with the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. He served as Soyuz commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as flight engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS Commander for Expedition 37. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander.

David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili is one of the founders of the largest Russian companies – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages. In 2001 - 2010 he held the position of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company. In 2010 David Yakobashvili together with shareholders sold the biggest Russian food producer Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) to US PepsiCo. For his 10.5% stake in the company Yakobashvili received more than US$600m.

Tornike Kipiani is a Georgian singer. He won the first season of X Factor Georgia in 2014. He was selected to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 after winning Georgian Idol. He was to perform in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the song "Take Me as I Am", however the contest has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, he represented Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "You", but he failed to qualify to the grand final.

Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev is a Russian political writer. He is the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge, first published in English in 1972.

Joannis Avramidis was a contemporary Greek-Austrian sculptor. He was born in Batumi, Soviet Union to a family of Pontic Greeks.

Niyazi Zulfigar oglu Tagizade Hajibeyov (1912–1984) was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani conductor, and composer of the renowned symphonic mugam "Rast".

Irma Sokhadze, Georgian ირმა სოხაძე, is a Georgian singer and pianist who performed and toured as an eight-year-old, becoming a child star with "An Orange Song" which was specially written for her. In addition to pop songs, she has specialized in both jazz and classical music and has composed songs to her own lyrics. For 25 years, Sokhadze hosted Georgian television programmes on music, including TV marathons to provide financial support for needy children and their families. In 2014, she appeared in her own special concert in Tbilisi, celebrating a career spanning 50 years.

Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire. He is widely considered to have been one of the key figures in Russian politics at the end of 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. He was made a count following his service to the government in negotiations over the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

Archil Arveladze is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a striker for various sides in Europe.

Anna Dogonadze is a German trampoline gymnast of Georgian origin who won a gold medal in the event of trampolining at the 2004 Summer Olympics.