WNoah Petrovich Adamia was a Soviet sniper of the Soviet Maritime Forces during World War II and Hero of the Soviet Union.
WPrince Ivane Andronikashvili, also known as Knyaz Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov was a Georgian nobleman and general in the Imperial Russian service.
WIoane was a Georgian prince (batonishvili), writer and encyclopaedist.
WNiko Bagrationi (1868–1933) was a Georgian nobleman who fought as a volunteer officer in the Boer army during the Second Boer War. He was also known in Georgia as Niko the Boer.
WPrince Alexander Chavchavadze was a Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism", he was a pre-eminent Georgian aristocrat and a talented general in the Imperial Russian service.
WAlexandre Chkheidze, also known under his Polish name of Aleksander Czcheidze (1878–1940), was a Polish-Georgian military officer. He served with the rank of Colonel in the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Georgia during the short period of its independence following World War I. Following the Bolshevik occupation of his country, Chkheidze migrated to Poland, where he received further training in the Higher War School.
WKaikhosro "Kakutsa" Cholokashvili was a Georgian military officer and a commander of an anti-Soviet guerrilla movement in Georgia. He is regarded as a national hero in Georgia.
WDavid Soslan was a prince from Alania and second husband of Queen Tamar, whom he married in c. 1189. He is chiefly known for his military exploits during Georgia's wars against its Muslim neighbors.
WIrakli Dzneladze is a Georgian Brigadier General (2019) and the Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from December 4, 2012, to November 22, 2013.
WJaba Ioseliani was a Georgian politician, writer, thief-in-law and leader of the paramilitary and criminal Mkhedrioni organisation.
WVladimir “Valiko” Jugheli was a Georgian politician and military commander.
WMeliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest.
WVakhtang Kapanadze is a Georgian major general who was Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from November 22, 2013 to November 22, 2016. He held the same command from August 2004 to February 2005. Prior he was in charge of the Georgian peacekeeping battalion deployed in South Ossetia before the war broke out.
WDavit Kezerashvili is an investor, entrepreneur and statesman, who was the Minister of Defense of Georgia.
WGiorgi "Gogi" Khimshiashvili was a Georgian military officer prominent in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). He was executed by the Soviet authorities on charges of being part of an underground anti-Soviet organization.
WFull Professor of Georgian Technical University Henri Kuprashvili is a Georgian Doctor of Political Sciences, First Class State Councillor who is most notable for breaking a Guinness record for swimming the Dardanelles, with his hands and feet bound in a traditional Georgian style of swimming, also known as Colchian. Kuprashvili has been awarded the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali and George Byron Golden Medal.
WEmzar Kvitsiani is a former Georgian military commander and warlord active in Abkhazia's Kodori valley, which he ran de facto through his militia from 1992 until being ousted by the Georgian government forces in 2006. He fled to Russia, but, in 2014, he was arrested on his return to Georgia, initially sentenced to 16 years in jail, and then released under a plea bargain in early 2015. He is now one of the leaders of the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia.
WShalva Maglakelidze (1893–1976) was a Georgian jurist, politician and military commander. A high-ranking official in briefly independent Georgia (1918–1921), he was one of the leaders of anti-Soviet movement of Georgian émigrés in Europe. During World War II Maglakelidze was a commander in the Wehrmacht's Georgische Legion. Abducted from West Germany by the Soviet security agents, he was allowed to reside, under police supervision, in his native Georgia where he practiced law and died in Tbilisi.
WElguja Viktorovich Medzmariashvili., Georgian scientist and military figure, Doctor of Military Science, Doctor of Technical Science, Professor, Major-General, academician of National Science Academy of Georgia. E. Medzmariashvili is General Constructor of the first Georgian space object launched into orbit on July 23, 1999 and, shifted to an independent orbit on July 28 after its deploying and testings. He established and developed the scientific, academic and applied areas in the fields of space technology and military engineering. He is a companion of the highest military state award – Vakhtang Gorgassali I degree order.
WLevan Nikoleishvili is a retired Georgian colonel who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from February 2005 to November 2006. He then served as a deputy defense minister until his resignation in August 2007.
WIlia Odishelidze ; Russian: Илья Зурабович Одишелидзе, Ilya Zurabovich Odishelidze) was a Georgian military leader who had also served as a general of the Imperial Russian army.
WGiorgi Saakadze the Grand Mouravi was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important but contradictory role in the politics of the early 17th-century Georgia. He was also known as Grand Mouravi in Georgia, Mūrāv-Beg in Persia and Māūrāv-Hūn or Māġrāv-Bek in the Ottoman Empire for having served as a mouravi of Tbilisi.
WTarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani or Omar al-Shishani, was a Georgian Chechen jihadist who served as a commander for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and was previously as a sergeant in the Georgian Army.
WLevan Tediashvili is a former Soviet (Georgian) wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling in 1972 and 1976. He remained undefeated between 1971 and 1976. Besides freestyle wrestling, he was also a Soviet and world champion in sambo.
WValerian Tevzadze was a Georgian military officer of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and later Poland, member of the Polish underground resistance movement during the occupation of Poland.
WThe Three Hundred Aragvians is the name by which the Georgian historiography refers to a detachment of the highlanders from the Aragvi valley who fought the last stand at the battle of Krtsanisi, defending Tbilisi against the invading Qajar army in 1795. The Georgian Orthodox Church had the 300 Aragvians and those who fought and died in the battle canonized as martyrs in 2008.
WTornike Eristavi also known as John Tornikios was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos in the modern-day northeastern Greece.