List of Famous people born in Georgia

Robert Shavlakadze was a Georgian high jumper. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first and fifth place, respectively. He also won a bronze medal at the 1962 European Championships.

Archil, of Bagrationi dynasty, king of Imereti in western Georgia and of Kakheti in eastern Georgia (1664–75). After a series of unsuccessful attempts to establish himself on the throne of Imereti, Archil retired to Russia where he spearheaded the cultural life of a local Georgian community. He was also a lyric poet.

Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin was a Soviet Georgian physicist known for his theoretical and experimental advances in combustion and gas dynamics, for his work on the first Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and for his role as the first scientific director of the Soviet nuclear weapons development centre in the Urals at Chelyabinsk-70 and deputy scientific director of the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Varlam Liparteliani is a Georgian judoka. He has won silver at Olympic and World level.

Abdulla Shaig, born Abdulla Mustafa oglu Talibzadeh, was an Azerbaijani writer.

Liana Isakadze is a Georgian violinist.

Vakhtang I Gorgasali, of the Chosroid dynasty, was a king of Iberia, natively known as Kartli in the second half of the 5th and first quarter of the 6th century.

Boris Paichadze was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The largest stadium in Georgia, the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tbilisi, is named after him. In 2001, he was voted the best Georgian football player of the 20th century.

George XI, known as Gurgin Khan in Iran, was a Georgian monarch who ruled the Kingdom of Kartli as a Safavid Persian subject from 1676 to 1688 and again from 1703 to 1709. He is best known for his struggle against the Safavids which dominated his weakened kingdom and later as a Safavid commander-in-chief in what is now Afghanistan. Being an Eastern Orthodox Christian, he converted to Shia Islam prior to his appointment as governor of Kandahar.