List of Georgians

Pharnavaz I, King of Iberia from 302 to 237 BC
Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Iberia from 447/449–502/522
David the Builder (1073–1125), King of Georgia from 1089 to 1125
Tamar the Great (1160–1213), Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1207/1213
George V The Brilliant, King of Georgia from 1299 to 1302 and from 1314 to 1346
Heraclius II, King of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 to 1798
Noe Zhordania (1868-1953), revolutionary and chairman of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Soviet dictator from 1924 to 1953
Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939–1993), first President of the Republic of Georgia from 1991 to 1992
Eduard Shevardnadze (1927–2014), Foreign Minister of the USSR and second President of the Republic of Georgia from 1995 to 2003
Mikheil Saakashvili, third president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013
Qasim Barid I, a founder of the Bidar Sultanate, one of the five Deccan sultanates in early modern India.
Yusuf Adil Shah, a founder of the Bijapur Sultanate, one of the five Deccan sultanates in early modern India.

Parliamentarians

Mamuka Chikovani, Member of the United National Movement from 2016 to 2020

Throughout history, there were many notorious Georgian military figures and commanders serving in the Georgian, Turkish, Iranian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and other country's military forces from BC till today. There were around 100 high-ranking officers serving in the Polish army during World War II alone. Most prominent figures served in Russian, US and Persian armies.

(Incomplete list, see above categories for more)

Grigol Bakurianis-dze (11th century), general in the Byzantine service
Giorgi Saakadze (1570–1629), Georgian, Safavid and Ottoman military commander who won many battles against Muslim coalition forces and also battles for the Ottoman and Safavid Empire; notorious for annihilating an Iranian army at the Battle of Martqopi in 1625 almost without own losses
Allahverdi Khan (c. 1560 – June 3, 1613), Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin who rose to high office in the Safavid state
Imam-Quli Khan, Iranian military and political leader of Georgian origin who served as a governor of Fars, Lar and Bahrain for the shahs Abbas I and Safi
Daud Khan Undiladze, Iranian military commander and politician of Georgian origin; governor (beglarbeg) of Ganja and Karabakh 1625–1630
Rostom-Khan Saakadze (c. 1588 – 1 March 1643), Iranian Safavid military commander (sipah-salar) of Georgian origin
Prince Alexander of Imereti (1674–1711), Georgian prince and commander of the artillery of the Russian Empire under Peter I
Yusef Khan-e Gorji, Iranian military leader of Georgian origin
Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), one of the most prominent generals in Russian military history and most respected opponent of Napoleon; the Soviet counterattack against German forces in World War II was named after him, Operation Bagration
Alexandre Bagrationi (1770–1844), Georgian prince and resistance fighter
Roman Bagration (1778–1834), prominent general of the Imperial Russian army, distinguished commander in the Russo-Persian Wars and Napoleonic Wars
Ivane Bagration of Mukhrani (1812–1895), major general of the Russian Empire; revolutionizer of the wine industry
Ivane Amilakhvari (1829–1905), general of the Russian Empire and distinguished commander during the Crimean War and Russo-Turkish War
Alexander Imeretinsky (1837–1900), Georgian-Russian prince; lieutenant general and hero of the Russo-Turkish War; became governor-general of Warsaw in 1897
Ivane Kazbegi (1860–1943), major general of the Russian Empire, then major general of the Polish Army and strategist at the Polish Academy of Defence
Kote Abkhazi (1867–1923), general of the Russian Empire and Georgian resistance fighter
Zakaria Bakradze (1870–1938), brigadier general of the Polish army
Giorgi Mazniashvili (1872–1937), general in Russian and Georgian service; defeated three enemy armies invading Georgia
Giorgi Kvinitadze (1874–1970), Russian general and later commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the Red Army invasion of Georgia
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), leader of the Soviet Union
Leo Kereselidze (1878–1942)
Alexandre Chkheidze (1878–1940), general of the Polish army
Valiko Jugheli (1887–1924), Georgian general and resistance fighter
Kaikhosro (Kakutsa) Cholokashvili (1888–1930), Georgian resistance fighter
Konstantin Mikeladze (1895–1935), commander in the Iranian army
Grigor Mikeladze (1898–1955), first lieutenant in the Iranian army
Shalva Maglakelidze (1893–1976), Georgian general and later in charge of the German Georgian Legion of (1941–1945)
Pore Mosulishvili (1916–1944), Soviet soldier and partisan in the Italian resistance movement
Valerian Tevzadze (1894–1987), colonel of the Polish army and resistance fighter in World War II, later against the Soviet rule until his death in 1987
Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953), marshal of the Soviet Union and main ideologist and architect, as well as chief of the Soviet secret police, NKVD
Konstantin Leselidze (1903–1944), colonel general of the Soviet Union, commander of the Caucasus front and hero of the Soviet Union
Dimitri Amilakhvari (1906–1942), colonel of the French Foreign Legion, fighting on almost every important spot during the war, hero of France and iconic figure of the French resistance during World War II
Vladimir Janjgava (1907–1982), lieutenant general and hero of the Soviet Union
Alexi Inauri (1908–1993), colonel general and hero of the Soviet Union
Vasilij Shalvovich Kvachantiradze (1907–1950), Soviet sniper who scored 215-500 kills, hero of the Soviet Union
Yaroslav Iosseliani (1912–1978), submarine commander, hero of the Soviet Union
Archil Gelovani (1915–1978), marshal of the engineer troops
Jerzy Tumaniszwili (1916–2010), counter admiral of the Polish navy
Noe Adamia (1914–1942), Soviet sniper, hero of the Soviet Union
Meliton Kantaria (1920–1993), sergeant of the Red Army who raised the Soviet victory banner over the Reichstag in Berlin, April 30, 1945
Geno Adamia (1936–1993), Georgian major general and garrison commander of Sukhumi; executed with the entire garrison and extermination of the city's population by Abkhazian militia during the Sukhumi massacre
John Shalikashvili (Poland, 1936–2011), general of the United States, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe; partially solved Kurdish conflict on the Iraqi-Turkish border, saving around 500.000 Kurdish people being displaced; developed the Joint Vision 10 plan, a template which combined all elements of the United States armed forces to one efficient network of the different combat components

Patriarch Antonius II of Georgia

Ilia II

Saint Nino (c. 296 – c. 338 or 340), a woman from Cappadocia, heavily involved in the Christianization of Iberia
Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, among them Abibos of Nekresi, Assyrian missionaries, said to have arrived from Mesopotamia in the 6th century.
Gregory of Khandzta (759–861), a prominent ecclesiastic figure, active in Tao-Klarjeti
George of Chqondidi (died c. 1118), a churchman and court minister, advisor to David IV of Georgia
Arsen of Iqalto (died c. 1127), a prominent churchman and scholar
Antim Iverianul (Antimoz Iverieli) (1650–1716), Metropolitan of Romania
Nikoloz Cholokashvili (Niceforo Irbachi) (1585–1658), Orthodox priest
Eudemus I of Georgia (died 1642), churchman serving as Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1632 until his death in 1642.
Anton II of Georgia (1762 or 1763–1827), member of the Bagrationi dynasty and Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from (1788 to 1811)
Dositheus of Tbilisi (died 1795), Archbishop of Tbilisi and a martyr
Peter Kharischirashvili (1804/05–1890), Catholic monk
Shio Batmanishvili (1885–1937), Catholic priest and martyr
Michel Tamarati (1858–1911), Catholic priest
Ambrosius (1861–1927), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1921 to 1927
Grigol Peradze (1899–1942), Archimandrite, historian (Poland)
Elie Melia (1915–1988), Orthodox priest and church historian
Gabriel (1929–1995), Orthodox monk, venerated as Saint Gabriel, Confessor and Fool for Christ
Ilia II (born 1932), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia since 1977

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