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Georgy
(
;
Russian
:
Георгий
,
romanized
:
Georgiy
;
Bulgarian
:
Георги
,
romanized
:
Georgi
) is a Slavic masculine
given name
, derived from the Greek name
Georgios
. It corresponds to the English name
George
. The name Georgi is the most used masculine name in
Bulgaria
and the most given to new-born boys in the country, with the family name Georgiev/Georgieva also widely used. In Romanian the name is written as
Gheorghe
to signify the hard
g
sound. Russian derivations from
Georgios
include
Yury
.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Georgi Delchev
(1872 ? 1903), Bulgarian revolutionary
- Georgi Rakovski
(1821 - 1867), Bulgarian revolutionary
- Georgi Ivanov
(born 1940), Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Georgi Ivanov
(born 1976), Bulgarian footballer
- Georgi Vazov
(1860 - 1934), Bulgarian general and Minister of War
- Georgi Parvanov
(born 1957),
President of Bulgaria
from 2002 to 2012
- Georgi Dimitrov
(1882 ? 1949), Bulgarian communist politician
- Georgi Asparuhov
(1943 ? 1971), Bulgarian footballer
- Georgy Adamovich
(1892?1972), Russian poet
- Georgy Aleksandrov
(1908?1961), Soviet politician
- Georgy Arbatov
(1923?2010), Soviet and Russian political scientist
- Georgy Babakin
(1914?1971), Soviet aerospace engineer
- Georgy Beregovoy
(1921?1995), Soviet cosmonaut
- Georgiy Daneliya
(1930?2019), Soviet and Russian film director
- Georgy Chicherin
(1872?1936), Soviet politician
- Georgy Egorychev
(born 1938), Soviet and Russian mathematician
- Georgy Flyorov
(1913?1990), Soviet nuclear physicist
- Georgy Ketoyev
(born 1985), Russian wrestler
- Georgij Karlovich Kreyer
(1887-1942), Russian botanist and mycologist
- Georgy Lvov
(1861?1925), Russian politician and prime minister
- Georgy Malenkov
(1902?1988), Russian politician
- Georgi Markov
(1929?1978), Bulgarian dissident
- Georgy Millyar
(1903?1993), Soviet actor
- Georgy Miterev
(1900?1977), Soviet minister of health
- Georgy Mondzolevski
(born 1934), Soviet volleyball player
- Georgi Orlov
(1884?1941), Russian-Estonian politician
- Georgi Petrov (badminton)
(born 1980), Bulgarian badminton player
- Georgy Satarov
(born 1947), Russian political scientist
- Georgy Sedov
(1877?1914), Russian explorer
- Georgi Shangin
(born 1989), Russian ice hockey player
- Georgy Tovstonogov
(1915?1989), Soviet theatre director
- Georgy Vitsin
(1918?2001), Soviet and Russian actor
- Georgy Zhukov
(1896?1974), Russian general
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