Georgy (given name)
Georgy (Russian: Георгий, romanized: Georgiy; Bulgarian: Георги, romanized: Georgi) is a 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 are also Yegor and Yury.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Georgi Markov (1929–1978), Bulgarian dissident
- 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 (born 1930), 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
- Georgy Millyar (1903–1993), Soviet actor
- 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
See also[]
Categories:
- Given names
- Bulgarian masculine given names
- Russian masculine given names