List of Famous people born in Georgia
Leila Meskhi
Leila Meskhi is a retired Georgian professional tennis player.
Yuri Khatchaturov
Yuri Khachaturov is a former Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia.
Iakob Kajaia
Iakob Kajaia is a Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 130 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Sergey Semenov. He is a European bronze medallist (2018).
Giorgi Demetradze
Georgi Demetradze is a retired Georgian international footballer. He played as a striker.
Svetlana Kasyan
Svetlana Davidovna Kasyan is a Russian operatic soprano.
Vakhtang Balavadze
Vakhtang Balavadze was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won the world title in 1954 and 1957, and was a runner-up in 1959. Domestically Balavadze won the Soviet title in 1952–55 and 1957, placing second in 1956 and 1959. He retired from competition following the 1960 Olympics to become a wrestling coach and referee. Balavadze died on July 25, 2018 at the age of 90.
Tornike Shengelia
Tornike "Toko" Shengelia is a Georgian professional basketball player for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League and the Euroleague. A 2.06 m tall power forward, he earned an All-EuroLeague First Team selection in 2018.
Bagrat of Georgia
Bagrat was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the last years of the Georgian monarchy, after whose abolition by the Russian Empire in 1801 he entered the imperial civil service. He was known in Russia as the tsarevich Bagrat Georgievich Gruzinsky. He is the author of works in the history of Georgia, veterinary medicine and economics.
Vakhtang V of Kartli
Vakhtang V, born Bakhuta Mukhranbatoni, was the King of Kartli from 1658 until his death, who ruled as a vassal wali for the Persian shah. He is also known under the name of Shah Nawaz, which he assumed on being obliged outwardly to conform to Islam.
Prince Ioane of Georgia
Ioane was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.