100 Notable alumni of
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
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Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University is 381st in the world, 74th in Asia, and 1st in Georgia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tina Kandelaki
- Occupations
- presenterfilm produceractorpublic figureradio personality
- Biography
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Tinatin Givievna Kandelaki, known professionally as Tina Kandelaki, is a Russian journalist, television presenter, producer, and a co-owner of the Apostol company.
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Bulat Okudzhava
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- lyricistpoetprose writerphilologistshort story writer
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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition.
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Vakhtang Kikabidze
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1955-1957
- Occupations
- film directoractorsingercomedianfilm actor
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Vakhtang Konstantines dze Kikabidze, also known as Buba (Georgian: ბუბა) was a Georgian actor, singer-screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who served in the Parliament of Georgia from 2020 until his death.
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Kakha Kaladze
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- athleteentrepreneurmayorofficialpolitician
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Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze is a Georgian politician and former footballer who has served as the Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A versatile player, he was capable of playing as both a centre-back and left-back, or even as a wide midfielder. He played for the Georgia national team from 1996 to 2011. He was voted Georgian Footballer of the Year in 2001–2003, 2006 and 2011 and was considered one of Georgia's most important players.
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Bidzina Ivanishvili
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- politicianbusiness oligarchentrepreneurbusinesspersoneconomist
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Bidzina Ivanishvili, also known as Boris Grigoryevich Ivanishvili, is a French-Georgian businessman, politician and billionaire oligarch. He is founder and the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party and has ruled Georgia de jure or de facto since 2012, after Georgian Dream secured victory in the 2012 Georgian parliamentary election. Since 2024, he has been sanctioned by the United States and several European Union countries "for undermining Georgian democracy and advancing the interests of the Russian Federation".
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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- literary criticwritertranslatorphilologistliterary historian
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Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in May 1991.
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Otar Kushanashvili
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- television presentercolumnistjournalistreportermusic critic
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Otar Shalvovich Kushanashvili is a Georgian and Russian music journalist and broadcaster who describes himself as "anti-publicist". He is known for his provocative and outrageous antics.
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Irakli Kobakhidze
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Irakli Kobakhidze is a Georgian politician who holds the position of the 16th prime minister of Georgia since 2024 and chairman of Georgian Dream since 2025, having previously served in this role from 2021 to 2024.
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Eka Zguladze
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- civil servantjournalistpoliticiantranslator
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Ekaterine "Eka" Zguladze is a Georgian and Ukrainian government official. She served as First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 17 December 2014 until 11 May 2016. She had also served as Georgia's First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 2006 to 2012 and Acting Minister of Internal Affairs in 2012.
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Irakli Garibashvili
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- civil servantbusinesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Irakli Garibashvili is a Georgian politician and former business executive who served as the 15th prime minister of Georgia between 2021 until his resignation in 2024, having previously served in this role as the 11th prime minister from 20 November 2013 until his resignation on 30 December 2015. Garibashvili is a member of the Georgian Dream party and served as the party's chairman. He entered politics with his long-time associate Bidzina Ivanishvili, in October 2012.
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Tamta
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- recording artistsinger
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Tamta Goduadze, known mononymously as Tamta, is a Georgian-born 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 and Cyprus, also becoming a mentor on X Factor Georgia in 2014, 2015 and 2018, and The X Factor Greece in 2016 and 2017.
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Giorgi Marghvilashvili
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- politicianphilosopher
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Giorgi Margvelashvili is a Georgian academic and politician who was the fourth president of Georgia, in office from 17 November 2013 to 16 December 2018.
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Nino Burjanadze
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1986
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nino Burjanadze is a Georgian politician and lawyer who served as Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia from November 2001 to June 2008. As the first woman, she served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, after Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to run in the early presidential election. She withdrew into opposition to Saakashvili as the leader of the Democratic Movement – United Georgia party in 2008. In 2013, she ran in the presidential election, competing against 22 candidates; she ended third with 10 percent of the vote.
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Giya Kancheli
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Gia Kancheli was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and resided in Belgium in later life.
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Nodar Dumbadze
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- short story writerwriterprose writereconomistscreenwriter
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Nodar Dumbadze was a Georgian writer.
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Giorgi Gakharia
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- officialpolitical scientistpolitician
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Giorgi Gakharia is a Georgian politician who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Georgia from 8 September 2019 until his resignation on 18 February 2021.
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Vladislav Ardzinba
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- historianHittitologistlinguistpolitician
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Vladislav Ardzinba was an Abkhaz historian and politician who served as the first de facto president of Abkhazia. Ardzinba led Abkhazia to de facto independence in the 1992–1993 War with Georgia, but its de jure independence from Georgia remained internationally unrecognised during Ardzinba's two terms as President from 1994 to 2005. His government orchestrated ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in Abkhazia in 1993.
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Aslan Abashidze
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- politicianofficial
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Aslan Abashidze is the former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia. He served in this capacity from 18 August 1991 to 5 May 2004. He resigned under the pressure of the central Georgian government and mass opposition rallies during the 2004 Adjara crisis, and has since lived in Moscow, Russia. On 22 January 2007, the Batumi city court found him guilty of misuse of office and embezzlement of GEL 98.2 million in state funds, and sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment in absentia. He also faces a charge of murder of his former deputy, Nodar Imnadze, in 1991.
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Kakha Bendukidze
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- biologistentrepreneureconomistofficialpolitician
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Kakha Bendukidze was a Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.
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Giorgi Kvirikashvili
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- physicianeconomistofficialpolitician
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Giorgi Kvirikashvili is a Georgian politician who was Prime Minister of Georgia from 30 December 2015 to 13 June 2018. Prior to that he was Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development from 25 October 2012 until 1 September 2015, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1 September 2015 until 30 December 2015, and Deputy Prime Minister from 26 July 2013 until 30 December 2015. Kvirikashvili has led initiatives to advance Euro-Atlantic and European integration and highlight Georgia as an attractive location for foreign investment.
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Zurab Zhvania
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- biologistofficialpolitician
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Zurab Zhvania was a Georgian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Georgia and Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia.
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Sergo Zakariadze
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- drama teacheractorfilm actorpolitician
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Sergo Zakariadze was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1958.
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Mamuka Bakhtadze
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- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Mamuka Bakhtadze is a Georgian politician who served as the country's prime minister from 20 June 2018 until 2 September 2019. Bakhtadze announced his official statement about resignation via Facebook post. He had previously served as minister of finance (2017–2018) and, prior to that, executive director of the Georgian Railway company (2013–2017).
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Giorgi Leonidze
- Years
- 1899-1966 (aged 67)
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- public figurepoetlinguistwriter
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Giorgi Leonidze was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar.
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Khatia Dekanoidze
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- diplomatofficialpolitician
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Khatia Dekanoidze is a Georgian politician who served as Minister of Education and Science in 2012 and as a Member of Parliament from 2020 to 2024, as well as a former Ukrainian official, serving as Chief of the National Police of Ukraine in 2015–2016.
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David Zhvania
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- politician
- Biography
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Davyd Vazhayevych Zhvania was a Ukrainian politician who served as the Emergency Minister of Ukraine and as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian's national parliament) from 2002 to 2010 for the pro-European Our Ukraine Bloc and from 2012 to 2014 for the pro-Russian Party of Regions.
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Levan Tediashvili
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- lawyerathleteamateur wrestlerpolitician
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Levan Tediashvili was a Soviet and Georgian wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling in 1972 and 1976. He remained undefeated between 1971 and 1976. Besides freestyle wrestling, he was also a Soviet and world champion in sambo.
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Yekaterina Mtsituridze
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- film criticjournalisttelevision presenterfilm producer
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Yekaterina Akakievna Mtsituridze is a Russian television presenter, film critic and film expert of Georgian origin.
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Irakli Okruashvili
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- officiallawyerpolitician
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Irakli Okruashvili is a Georgian politician who had served on various high-ranking posts in the Government of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili, including being the Minister of Defense from December 2004 until being dismissed in November 2006.
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Guram Dochanashvili
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- archaeologistnovelistwriter
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Guram Dochanashvili was a Georgian prose writer and historian by profession, who was popular for his short stories since the 1960s.
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Nika Gvaramia
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- lawyerbroadcasting executivepolitician
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Nika Gvaramia is a Georgian lawyer, media entrepreneur, public figure, who had held posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Education and Science. He was the Director General of Rustavi 2 and Mtavari Arkhi and he was founder of Mtavari Arkhi, an opposition television network. On March 11, he co-founded the political party Ahali (which translates to "new" in Georgian) and alliance Coalition for Change alongside other opposition figure Nika Melia. In the 2024 Georgian parliamentary election, the alliance finished on 2nd place, becoming the leading opposition grouping.
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Otar Chiladze
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- playwrightopinion journalistpoetscreenwritertranslator
- Biography
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Otar Chiladze was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sumerian and Hellenic mythology with the predicaments of a modern Georgian intellectual.
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Davit Kezerashvili
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- politician
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Davit Kezerashvili is a Jewish-Georgian Israeli investor, entrepreneur and former Minister of Defense of Georgia under Mikheil Saakashvili's presidency from November 2006 to December 2008. Kezerashvili currently resides in the United Kingdom and is sentenced to imprisonment in Georgia for corruption charges that he has argued are politically motivated.
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Guram Adzhoyev
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- association football playerassociation football coach
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Guram Zakharovich Adzhoyev is a retired Soviet professional footballer. He is the president of FC Arsenal Tula.
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Princess Ana Bagration-Gruzinsky
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- royalty
- Biography
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Princess Ana Bagration-Gruzinsky is a royal princess and senior heir of the Gruzinsky branch of the Bagrationi dynasty, which is one of the two branches that claim the right to the crown of Georgia. The other claimant is her former husband David Bagration of Mukhrani, with whom she had a son Giorgi, who is their common heir apparent.
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Stepan Pachikov
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- computer scientistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Stepan Alexandrovich Pachikov is the co-founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies that contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies.
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Tea Tsulukiani
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1992-1997
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- officiallawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thea Tsulukiani is a Georgian politician who is currently Member of Parliament for the ruling Georgian Dream and is chair of the Tsulukiani Commission, investigating the alleged crimes of the previous government of United National Movement in 2003-2012. Previously she served as Minister of Justice (2012-2020), Minister of Culture, Sport and Youth (2021-2024) and Deputy Prime Minister (2021-2024).
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Lado Gurgenidze
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- politician
- Biography
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Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze is a Georgian career banker, business executive, and former politician, who was the sixth Prime Minister of Georgia, from 22 November 2007 to 1 November 2008.
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Giuli Alasania
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Giuli Alasania is a Georgian historian and public figure. Her publications include 130 papers and 10 monographs. She is the mother of the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Grigol Peradze
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- historianreligious leadertheologianOrthodox theologian
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Grigol Peradze was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period.
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Lana Gogoberidze
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- filmmakerscreenwritertranslatorpoliticianfilm director
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Lana Gogoberidze is a Georgian film director, as well as a former diplomat and member of parliament.
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Giga Bokeria
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- historianjournalistofficialpolitician
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Giorgi Bokeria (Georgian: გიორგი (გიგა) ბოკერია, born 20 April 1972 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian politician and was the secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia from November 2010 to November 2013.
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Irakli Alasania
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- diplomatofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Irakli Alasania is a Georgian politician, soldier and former diplomat who served as the Minister of Defense of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He was Georgia's Ambassador to the United Nations from September 11, 2006, until December 4, 2008. His previous assignments include Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia(-in-exile) and the President of Georgia's aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks. Soon after his resignation, Alasania withdrew into opposition to the Mikheil Saakashvili administration, setting up the Our Georgia – Free Democrats party in July 2009. In 2012 Alasania was appointed Minister of Defense, a position he held until 2014.
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Nika Gilauri
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- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Nikoloz "Nika" Gilauri is a Georgian politician who was 8th Prime Minister of Georgia from 6 February 2009 to 30 June 2012. He had served as Minister for Energy from 2004 to 2007, as Minister of Finance from 2007 to 2009, and as First Vice Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Georgia from 2008 to 2009.
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Aka Morchiladze
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- historiannovelistwriter
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Aka Morchiladze is the pen name of Giorgi Akhvlediani (გიორგი ახვლედიანი) (born 10 November 1966), a Georgian writer and literary historian who authored some of the best-selling prose of post-Soviet Georgian literary fiction. Morchiladze's work shows reorientation of the early 21st-century Georgian literature towards the Western influences.
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Zaza Gogava
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Zaza Gogava is a Georgian Major General. He served as a Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Georgia from November 2006 to November 2008 and the chief of Border Police from November 2008 to July 2012.
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Nana Jorjadze
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- film directordirectoractorpedagoguefilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian film director, screenwriter and actress. Her work has received several accolades, including an Academy Award nomination.
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Alexander Kvitashvili
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- historianofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Alexander "Sandro" Merabovich Kvitashvili is a Georgian and Ukrainian health manager and government official. He is a former Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine appointed on 2 December 2014 and was granted Ukrainian citizenship the same day. On 14 April 2016 he was relieved of his post. Kvitashvili was Minister of Health of Georgia from 2008 to 2010 and rector of Tbilisi State University (TSU) from 2010 to 2013.
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Giorgi Vashadze
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Giorgi Vashadze is a Georgian politician and international policy expert who served as a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 2012 to 2016 and from 2020 to 2024. He is one of the leaders of Georgia's opposition, and is jailed in 2025 for not following the summons of the Tsulukiani Commission
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David Bakradze
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- diplomatengineerpolitician
- Biography
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David Bakradze is a Georgian politician and diplomat who served as the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia from 7 June 2008 to 21 October 2012.
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Shalva Natelashvili
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- politician
- Biography
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Shalva Natelashvili is a Georgian politician and a former prosecutor. He founded the Georgian Labour Party and has served as its chair since 1995. He is a president of the International Geopolitical Center.
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Archil Talakvadze
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- physicianofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Archil Talakvadze is a Georgian politician, who served as a Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia during 9th and 10th convocations since 25 June 2019. He was a leader of the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority from 2016 to 2019.
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David Turashvili
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- translatorscreenwriteruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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David "Dato" Turashvili is a Georgian fiction writer.
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Bachana Akhalaia
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Bachana "Bacho" Akhalaia is a Georgian politician who was Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia from July 4, 2012, to September 20, 2012. He had previously served as Head of Penitentiary Department of Ministry of Justice of Georgia (2005–2008) and Minister of Defense (August 27, 2009 – July 4, 2012).
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Grigol Abashidze
- Occupations
- prose writerwriterscience fiction writertranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Grigol Abashidze, or Grigory for short, was a Georgian poet known for works featuring Communist influences.
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Giorgi Ugulava
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- journalistofficialphilosopherpolitician
- Biography
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Giorgi "Gigi" Ugulava is a Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi (2005–2013). He was one of the former leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) party and former close ally of the former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. On 10 February 2020, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison. However, on May 15, President Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Ugulava.
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Rezo Cheishvili
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightphilologistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Revaz "Rezo" Cheishvili was a Georgian writer and scriptwriter.
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David Usupashvili
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- officiallawyerpolitician
- Biography
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David Usupashvili is a Georgian lawyer and politician who was the chairman of the Parliament of Georgia from 2012 to 2016. He served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia from June 27, 2005 to November 3, 2013. Nowadays, he is a chairman of the Political Council of Lelo for Georgia.
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Grigol Mgaloblishvili
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- diplomatofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Grigol Mgaloblishvili is a Georgian politician and diplomat who has been Georgia's Permanent Representative to NATO since 26 June 2009. He briefly served as the Prime Minister of Georgia from 1 November 2008 to 6 February 2009.
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Georgi Dvali
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Georgi Dvali (Georgian: გიორგი (გია) დვალი; born 30 May 1964) is a Georgian theoretical physicist. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, and holds a Silver Professorship Chair at the New York University. His research interests include String theory, Extra dimensions, Quantum gravity, and the Early universe.
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Tina Khidasheli
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Tinatin "Tina" Khidasheli is a Georgian jurist and politician. A Republican Party member and former civil society activist, she was appointed as Georgia's Minister of Defense on 1 May 2015, becoming the country's first ever female defense minister. She resigned on 1 August 2016, after her party decided to leave the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.
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Giorgi Kekelidze
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- philologisttelevision presenterlecturerwriterprose writer
- Biography
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Giorgi Kekelidze is a Georgian poet, essayist and the founder of the first Georgian digital library, lib.ge.
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Nino Abesadze
- Occupations
- politicianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Nino Abesadze is an Israeli politician and journalist who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2009 and 2013.
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Levan Gachechiladze
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- businesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Levan Gachechiladze was a Georgian politician and wine businessman who ran as the main opposition candidate in the 2008 Georgian presidential election.
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Zurab Adeishvili
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- lawyerofficialattorney generalpolitician
- Biography
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Zurab Adeishvili is a Georgian lawyer and politician, serving as the Minister of Justice of Georgia from November 2008 to October 2012.
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Arnold Chikobava
- Occupations
- public figurelinguistphilologist
- Biography
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Arnold Stephanes dze Chikobava was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known for his contributions to Caucasian studies and for being one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of language.
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Nana Ekvtimishvili
- Occupations
- writerfilmmakerfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Nana Ekvtimishvili is a Georgian writer and director.
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Eka Tkeshelashvili
- Occupations
- diplomatofficiallawyer
- Biography
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Ekaterine "Eka" Tkeshelashvili is a Georgian jurist and politician, formerly serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the National Security Council, and Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Nanuka Zhorzholiani
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Nanuka Zhorzholiani is a Georgian television host and journalist.
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Tornike Rizhvadze
- Occupations
- officiallawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Tornike Rijvadze is a Georgian politician and a former business executive.
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Besik Kharanauli
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Besik Kharanauli is a Georgian poet and writer.
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Vakhtang Balavadze
- Occupations
- athleteamateur wrestler
- Biography
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Vakhtang Balavadze was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won the world title in 1954 and 1957, and was a runner-up in 1959. Balavadze won the Soviet title in 1952–55 and 1957, placing second in 1956 and 1959. He retired from competition following the 1960 Summer Olympics to become a wrestling coach and referee.
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Maia Panjikidze
- Occupations
- diplomatofficial
- Biography
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Maia Panjikidze is a Georgian diplomat and politician. Formerly a teacher of German, she joined the Georgian diplomatic service in 1994 and was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Bidzina Ivanishvili on October 25, 2012. She resigned November 5, 2014 in protest of Irakli Alasania being relieved of his position as Minister of Defense.
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Jansugh Charkviani
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- poetpolitician
- Biography
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Jansug Charkviani was a Georgian poet. He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 2004.
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David Zakaliani
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- In 1992 studied international law
- Occupations
- diplomatofficialpolitician
- Biography
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David Zalkaliani is a Georgian politician and career diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Georgia to the United States from April 4, 2022 until November 30, 2024. From June 21, 2018 to April 4, 2022 he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. From January 21, 2021 to April 4, 2022 he was also Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia.
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Nino Maisuradze
- Occupations
- athletechess player
- Biography
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Nino Maisuradze is a Georgian and French chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2009. Maisuradze is a two-time French women's champion.
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Davit Narmania
- Occupations
- officialeconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Davit Narmania is a Chairperson at Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC) since 2019. He is a formar Georgian politician and the former Mayor of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, from 2014 to 2017. An economist with an academic background, he was Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He won the mayoral race in Tbilisi as the ruling Georgian Dream coalition candidate in July 2014.
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Badri Bitsadze
- Occupations
- officiallawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Badri Bitsadze is the former Chief of the Border Police of Georgia. He holds the rank of Lieutenant General, and previously held the posts of Chief Military Prosecutor, Deputy General Prosecutor, and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. He is married to the former Chairwoman of the Parliament of Georgia and twofold former interim President of Georgia, Nino Burjanadze.
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Maya Tskitishvili
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- politicianstatespersonjuristofficialeconomist
- Biography
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Maya Tskitishvili, is a Georgian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure from 2018 to 2021, in the cabinet Mamuka Bakhtadze and Giorgi Gakharia. She briefly served as acting prime minister of Georgia following the resignation of Gakharia.
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Karen Ter-Martirosian
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Karen Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist of Armenian descent. He is known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and the author of several hundred articles in his area.
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Tamaz Chiladze
- Occupations
- playwrightpoetwriter
- Biography
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Tamaz Chiladze was a Georgian writer, dramatist and poet. He was the elder brother of Georgian writer Otar Chiladze.
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Ana Matnadze
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Ana Matnadze is a Georgian-Spanish chess player. FIDE awarded her the titles Woman Grandmaster (WGM), in 2002, and International Master (IM), in 2006. Matnadze was European and world girls champion in her age category.
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Simon Janashia
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacher
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Simon Janashia was a Georgian historian and public figure. He was a professor of history and one of the founding members of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
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Miho Mosulishvili
- Occupations
- biographergeologisteditorshort story writerwriter
- Biography
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Mikheil "Miho" Mosulishvili is a Georgian writer and playwright.
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Kakha Kuchava
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Kakhaber Kuchava is a Georgian politician. Member of Parliament of Georgia since 2016. Speaker of Parliament of Georgia from 27 April 2021 to 24 December 2021.
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Levan Izoria
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- officiallawyerpolitician
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Levan Izoria is a Georgian politician, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Lasha Bugadze
- Occupations
- television presenterradio personalitycaricaturistopinion journalistshort story writer
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Lasha Bugadze is a Georgian novelist and playwright. Among his noteworthy plays are Shocked Tatyana, which satirizes war heroism, and Soldier, Love, Bodyguard and... the President.
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Naira Gelashvili
- Occupations
- linguistpoetwriter
- Biography
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Naira Gelashvili is a Georgian fiction writer, philologist, Germanist, and civil society activist.
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David Lordkipanidze
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1980-1985
- Occupations
- anthropologistprehistorianarchaeologistpaleoanthropologist
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David Otaris dze Lordkipanidze is a Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor (2004), Dr.Sc. (2002), Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2009), and since 2004 the General Director of the Georgian National Museum (GNM). He is a son of the archaeologist Otar Lordkipanidze.
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Natela Turnava
- Occupations
- officialeconomistcivil servant
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Natela Turnava, usually referred to as Natia Turnava, is a Georgian politician. She was minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia from 18 April 2019 to 9 February 2022. As of October 2025, she is the Governor of the National Bank of Georgia.
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Joseph Jordania
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- musicologistfolkloristart historianmusician
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Joseph Jordania is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne and the Head of the Foreign Department of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatory. Jordania is known for his model of the origins of human choral singing in the wide context of human evolution and was one of founders of the International Research Centre for Traditional Polyphony in Georgia.
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Roin Metreveli
- Enrolled in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
- Studied in 1957-1962
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Roin Metreveli is a Georgian academician and historian. He was the first elected rector of the Tbilisi State University, after Petre Melikishvili and Ivane Javakhishvili. Metreveli served as a secretary of the Central Committee of the Georgian Communist Party during the Soviet Union, from 1960 to 1972, and subsequently as its first secretary. From 1972, he was a major editor of the Georgian Encyclopedia. He is the author of scientific publications and books about Georgian history and Caucasiology. For several years, he was a member of the Georgian Parliament. He was chairman of the board of rectors of all Georgian Universities.
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Tedo Japaridze
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- civil servantpoliticiandiplomatphilologistofficial
- Biography
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Tedo Japaridze is a Georgian politician and diplomat.
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Ivane Chkhartishvili
- Occupations
- economistofficialbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Ivane Chkhartishvili (Georgian: ვანო ჩხარტიშვილი) is a Georgian and is the 48th richest businessman in the region with an estimated wealth of around $100million. He is a former Minister of the Economy and Member of Parliament in Georgia.
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Aleksi Petriashvili
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Alex Petriashvili is a Georgian politician who served as the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration from 2012 until 2014. He was a Political Board Member of the Political Coalition "Georgian Dream" until October 2012.
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Akaki Asatiani
- Occupations
- politicianphilologist
- Biography
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Akaki Asatiani is a Georgian politician and a former Chairman of the Supreme Council of Georgia.
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Dimitri Kumsishvili
- Occupations
- economistphysicistofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Dimitri Kumsishvili is a Georgian politician who has served as the country's First Deputy Prime Minister from 27 November 2016 to 13 June 2018 and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development from 13 November 2017 to 13 June 2018.
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Bela Khotenashvili
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Bella Khotenashvili, known prior to 2023 as Bela Khotenashvili, is a Georgian chess grandmaster. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2012, 2015 and 2017.
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Tamar Beruchashvili
- Occupations
- diplomatofficialpolitician
- Biography
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Tamar Beruchashvili is a Georgian diplomat and politician who served as the Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 2016 and 2020, and previously was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position she held from 11 November 2014 until 1 September 2015. She had previously served as Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations from 1998 until 2000 and Minister of Euro-Atlantic Integration in 2004. She also worked as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003 and again from 2013 until her appointment as minister in 2014. Beruchashvili also worked as a professor at Tbilisi State University from 2000 until 2010. She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on 11 November 2014, and held that post until 1 September 2015, when she was replaced by Giorgi Kvirikashvili. Beruchashvili was later appointed the new Georgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020.
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Zurab Pataradze
- Occupations
- diplomatcivil servantpolitician
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Zurab Pataradze is a Georgian diplomat and government official who was Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara between 15 July 2016 and 21 July 2018.
