Politicians, Governmental Figures and Activists
- Irakli Bagration-Mukhraneli, Georgian prince, exiled to Spain.
- Kakha Bendukidze, former Russian businessman, currently working in the administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
- Lavrenti Beria, head of the NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB), supervisor and one of the initiators of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Project
- Giga Bokeria, Georgian political leader
- Ilia Chavchavadze, writer, politician, public benefactor
- Gela Charkviani, politician, current Ambassador of Georgia in the UK
- Kakutsa Cholokashvili, national hero of Georgia
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia, former president of Georgia
- Alexander Griboedov, diplomat, playwright, composer
- Lev Kamenev, Bolshevik revolutionary
- Merab Kostava, National hero and anti-Soviet activist
- Aram Manukian, Armenian revolutionary, politician and general.
- Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, former head of NKGB
- Nariman Narimanov, Azerbaijani revolutionary, writer, politician
- Yevgeny Primakov, politician
- Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (Romanov) of Russia.
- Grand Duke George Mikhailovich (Romanov) of Russia, first cousin of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.
- Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich (Romanov) of Russia, son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia
- Mikheil Saakashvili, current president of Georgia
- Stepan Shahumyan, politician
- Eduard Shevardnadze, former president of Georgia and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin, leader of Soviet Union
- Ekvtime Takaishvili, politician and public benefactor
- Giorgi Targamadze, Georgia politician
- Alimardan Topchubashev, Azerbaijani politician
- Sergei Witte, important politician and policy-maker within the Russian Empire
- Noe Zhordania, Prime-Minister of independent Georgia in 1918-1921
- Zurab Zhvania, former prime minister of Georgia
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