List of Famous people born in Georgia
Zaza Urushadze
Zaza Urushadze was a Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Nariman Narimanov
Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oglu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.
Zaza Enden
Zaza Enden (born Zaza Eladze on May 28, 1976 in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union is a professional wrestler and a Turkish professional basketball player of Georgian descent. He is 2.06 m tall and weighs 116 kg. His well-known nickname is "Tatu". Zaza Enden plays at the power forward position. He came to Turkey in 1992, firstly to Trabzon, afterwards he had his Turkish citizenship.
Heraclius I of Kakheti
Heraclius I or Nazar Alī Khān (1642–1709), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a Georgian monarch who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli (1688–1703) under the protection of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.
Ketevan Magalashvili
Ketevan Konstantines asuli Magalashvili was a Georgian painter and art conservator.
Kote Makharadze
Kote (Constantine) Makharadze (1926-2002) was a Georgian actor and sports commentator.
Alexander Svanidze
Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze was a Georgian Old Bolshevik and historian. He was a personal friend of Joseph Stalin and a brother of Stalin’s first wife Kato. Nevertheless, Stalin had him arrested during a purge in 1937. He was shot in prison in 1941.
Victoria Ravva
Victoria Ravva is a Georgian volleyball player with French citizenship. She spent the most of her career in RC Cannes.
Davit Zirakashvili
Davit Zirakashvili is a Georgian rugby union player who plays in the top French professional rugby league, the Top 14, for Clermont. He plays as a tighthead prop. He is seen as one of Georgia's finest ever rugby players and was voted Georgian sportsman of the year in 2010.
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Elisabeth Leonskaja is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.