List of Famous people born in Guria, Georgia

Eduard Shevardnadze

First Name Eduard
Last Name Shevardnadze
Born on January 25, 1928
Died on July 7, 2014 (aged 86)
Born in Georgia, Guria

Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution.

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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

First Name Vladimir
Died on April 25, 1943
Born in Georgia, Guria

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

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Boris Paichadze

First Name Boris
Last Name Paichadze
Died on October 9, 1990 (aged 20)
Born in Georgia, Guria
Height 170 cm | 5'7

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.

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Noe Zhordania

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First Name Noe
Last Name Zhordania
Born on January 2, 1868
Died on January 11, 1953 (aged 85)
Born in Georgia, Guria

Noe Zhordania was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the socialist revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from July 24, 1918 until March 18, 1921, when the Bolshevik Russian Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile to France. There Zhordania led the government-in-exile until his death in 1953.

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Nikoloz Berdzenishvili

First Name Nikoloz
Born on December 27, 1894
Died on July 16, 1965 (aged 70)
Born in Georgia, Guria

Nikoloz Berdzenishvili (1895–1965) was a Georgian historian who served as a Vice President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1951 to 1957 and chaired the Department of History at Tbilisi State University from 1946 to 1956.

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Manuchar Kvirkvelia

First Name Manuchar
Born on October 12, 1978 (age 45)
Born in Georgia, Guria
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Manuchar Kvirkvelia is a Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler who competes in the 74 kg class. Kvirkvelia was born in Ozurgeti and lives in Tbilisi. After winning the world championship in 2003 (66 kg) and the European championship in 2007 (74 kg), he won the gold medal in the 74 kg competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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Simon Janashia

First Name Simon
Last Name Janashia
Born on July 26, 1900
Died on November 5, 1947 (aged 47)
Born in Georgia, Guria

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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