Notable people who are from or have resided in Tbilisi:

Mikheil Saakashvili, current president of Georgia
Eduard Shevardnadze, former president of Georgia and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, former president of Georgia
Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader
Zurab Zhvania, former prime minister of Georgia
Giga Bokeria, Georgian political leader
Yevgeny Primakov, politician
Ilia Chavchavadze, writer, politician, public benefactor
Lado Gudiashvili, painter
Marie Vorobieff, painter
Alexander Griboedov, diplomat, playwright, composer
Maxim Gorky, Soviet writer, founder of the socialist realism literary method
Ryurik Ivnev, poet
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, writer
Hagop Hagopian, writer
Dagny Juel, writer
Alexander Kartveli (Kartvelishvili), aircraft engineer
Alexander de Seversky, aircraft engineer
Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev, aircraft designer, founder of the Beriev Design Bureau
Zurab Tsereteli, architect
Tigran Petrosian, former world chess champion
Maia Chiburdanidze, former women's world chess champion
Nona Gaprindashvili, former women's world chess champion
Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director
Robert Sturua, director
Georgi Daneliya, film director
Tengiz Abuladze, film director
Kakutsa Cholokashvili, national hero of Georgia
Giorgi Kvinitadze, founder of the Tbilisi Junker school
Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov, general
Badri Patarkatsishvili, businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist
Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet
Nino Ananiashvili, ballerina
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, composer
Giya Kancheli, composer
Aram Katchaturian, composer
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, astronomer
Sergei Parajanov, producer
Katie Melua, singer
Zaza Pachulia, NBA player
Merab Mamardashvili, philosopher
Pavel Florensky, philosopher, theologian
Ivane Javakhishvili, historian, public benefactor
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, mineralogist and geologist
Gustav Radde, scientist
Boris Akunin, writer
Felix d'Herelle, French-Canadian microbiologist, one of the discoverers of bacteriophages
Jeanne de Salzmann, mystic
Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky, ethnologist and ideologue of the Pan-Slavism movement
Lavrenti Beria, head of the NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB), supervisor and one of the initiators of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Project
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, former head of NKGB
Lev Kamenev, Bolshevik revolutionary

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