Notable People
Notable people who are from or have resided in Batumi:
- Katie Melua, singer
- Mary, Princess Eristavi, Georgian princess and model
- Valery Meladze, singer
- Mindia Khitarishvili, composer
- Sopho Khalvashi, first Georgian entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, science fiction authors
- Josef Bardanashvili, composer
- Herbert Backe, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Forests in Nazi Germany
- William Horwood Stuart, British diplomat who was murdered there in 1906
- Fyodor Yurchikhin, astronaut
- Odysseas Dimitriadis (1908–2005) Greek-Soviet music conductor
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