List of Georgians

Historical figures

Leaders and politicians

Military figures
See also: Georgians in Iran, Georgian emigration in Poland, Category:Generals from Georgia (country), and Category:Georgian generals in imperial Russian service

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 (ca. 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)
  • 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

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Main article: List of Georgian writers

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