SPORT

Zaza Pachulia, Basketball  - 2 times NBA champion, 13 years in NBA regular season

Mamuka Gorgodze , Rugby - Former captain of national team, currently playing in Toulon, one of the best rugby players in the world. In 2015 he was named as the best legionary of theFrench Top 14

Tochinoshin, Levan Gorgadze, Sumo - First Winner of the Imperator cup from Georgia, and third from Europe. In 2018 he was promoted to Ozeki, which is the second prestigious title after Yokozuna

Lasha Talakhadze, Wrestling - the Legend of world weightlifting and Georgian sport, Olympic champion, 3 times world champion, 2 times European champion, 12 world record holder and he is just 25 years old

Kakhaber Kaladze, Football – As of today he holds the position of Major of Tbilisi and at the same time is the most successful footballer from Georgia. He played 9 season in Milan, won Champions League 2 times and Seria A once

Geno Petriashvili, Wrestling – Georgian heavyweight freestyle wrestler. 2 times World Champion.

Nikoloz Basilashvili, Tennis – Professional tennis player. No. 21 in Men's Tennis ATP Rankings and the first Georgian player ever to win an ATP tournament

MUSIC & ART

Tamar Iveri, Soprano - She has performed at the world’s most prominent opera houses: Simon Boccanegra (Deutsche Opera in Berlin), La Bohème (Staatsoper in Vienna), Simone Boccanegra and Don Giovanni (Covent Garden). She was awarded the M. Abashidze National Prize in Georgia and received the Eberhard Waechter Medaille for her portrayal of Tatyana at the Vienna State Opera. She was nominated for ‘Best Female Performer’ in the prestigious Helpmann Awards for her performance as Amelia in the Australian Opera.

Nino Surguladze, mezzo-soprano - In many countries she is already recognized as one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of the modern generation. In spring 2016, for the role of Fenena in Verdi’s Nabucco that she performed at the Arena di Verona, Surguladze was awarded the winning prize for best mezzo-soprano.

Khatia Buniatishvili Pianist - she was invited to collaborate with Coldplay, the British band to create their album “A Head Full of Dreams’’. Buniatishvili can be heard on the song ‘Kaleidoscope’. The voice of former United States President Barack Obama also features in the song. Obama is heard singing Amazing Grace while at church.

Kate Melua, Singer  - a Georgian-British singer and songwriter. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eight – first to Northern Ireland and then to London in 1999. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt,[and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.

Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo Soprano - Upon graduating in 2006 she sang as a member of the Tbilisi Opera House before joining the Academy of Lyric Opera at the Accademia Teatro Alla Scala from 2007 to 2009. At the end of her tenure she made her international debut as Carmen for La Scala, Milan. She has since sung the role for companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Arena di Verona and Teatro Regio, Turin.

Beka Gochiashvili – “Georgian Jazz Piano Prodigy” who have been playing piano since the age of 2. Currently he is a student at The Juilliard School in Manhattan and playing and recording with some of the biggest American Jazz names.

Demna Gvasalia – We guess you already know this name. Yes, the creative director of Balenciaga and head designer of Vetements who has taken the fashion industry and whose clothes were worn by Michelle Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna etc.

Tako Natsvlishvili – Famous Georgian Model. Tako walked fashion shows for Versace, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana,Elie Saab, Ralph & russo, Christian Dior. In 2016 she became the face of Armani Collezioni’s spring-summer collection

Science & Invetions

Giorgi Dvali – well-known professor in theoretical physics at the University of New York and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Also scientist in CERN where he mainly works on elementary particle physics and participates in Large Hadron Collider experiment.

Alexander Kartveli – Okay, you may already have heard about Georgian pioneer of American aviation who revolutionized it and invented some of the most powerful airplanes during and after the World War II including P-47 Thunderbolt (the most produced fighter in the US during the WWII), F-84 Thunderjet, F-105 Thunderchief and famous A-10 Thunderbolt II (Warthog) which was first introduced in 1977 and currently is still serving in the US Air Force as one of the most powerful ground-attack aircraft