List of Famous people born in Georgia
Irakli Tsereteli
Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician and a leading spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia and later Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) during the era of the Russian Revolutions.
Tamta
Tamta Goduadze, known as simply Tamta, is a Georgian-Greek singer. She first achieved popularity in Greece in 2004 for her participation in Super Idol Greece, in which she placed second. She went on to release several charting albums and singles in Greece. Tamta became a mentor on X Factor Georgia in 2014, and The X Factor Greece in 2016.
Petre Mshveniyeradze
Petre Kako Mshvenieradze was a Soviet water polo player of Georgian descent who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Giorgi Mamardashvili
Giorgi Mamardashvili is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Valencia, on loan from Dinamo Tbilisi. He also represents the Georgia national team.
Nadir Salifov
Nadir Salifov, nicknamed Heart, was a top Azerbaijan crime boss, notorious gangster and convicted criminal believed to be one of the richest of the criminal fraternity.
Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani
Leonida Georgievna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia was the consort of Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, a pretender to the Russian throne. She was an active and outspoken advocate of the claims advanced by Vladimir and their daughter, Maria Vladimirovna, to be accepted as the legitimate Heads of the Romanov dynasty and de jure sovereigns of the Russian Empire.
Samvel Gasparov
Samvel Vladimirovich Gasparov was a Russian film director and short story writer. He worked for some time at the Odessa Film Studio. He was buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery.
Gleb Bokii
Gleb Ivanovich Bokii was a Ukrainian Communist political activist, revolutionary, and paranormal investigator in the Russian Empire. Following the October Revolution of 1917, Bokii became a leading member of the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, and later of the OGPU and NKVD.
Sophiko Shevardnadze
Sophie (Sophiko) Paatovna Shevardnadze is a Georgian/Russian journalist, presenter, author and producer. She is the creator and executive producer of the show Simply Complicated on the platform Yandex.Efir, Russia's equivalent of Google. She is the host of SophieCo Visionaries, and between 2006 and 2015 she was a presenter on the radio station Echo of Moscow.
Vladimir Ionessian
Vladimir Mihajlovich Ionesyan (August 27, 1937 – January 31, 1964) was a Soviet spree killer whose crimes received great public resonance. His nickname was "Mosgaz," as Ionesyan broke into apartments pretending to be an employee of that company.