Georgy (given name)
Georgy (or Georgiy or Georgi) (Template:Lang-ru, Template:Lang-bg, Template:Lang-ro) 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. The name Georgy may refer to:
People
- Georgi Markov (1929–1978), Bulgarian dissident
- Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), Russian poet
- Georgy Aleksandrov (1908–1961), Russian politician
- Georgy Arbatov (1923–2010), Russian political scientist
- Georgy Babakin (1914–1971), Russian aerospace engineer
- Georgy Beregovoy (1921–1995), Russian cosmonaut
- Georgiy Daneliya (born 1930), Russian film director
- Georgy Chicherin (1872–1936), Russian politician
- Georgy Petrovich Egorychev (born 1938), Russian mathematician
- Georgy Flyorov (1913–1990), Russian nuclear physicist
- Georgy Ketoyev (born 1985), Russian wrestler
- Georgy Lvov (1861–1925), Russian politician and prime minister
- Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988), Russian politician
- Georgy Millyar (1903–1993), Russian actor
- Georgy Satarov (born 1947), Russian political scientist
- Georgy Sedov (1877–1914), Russian explorer
- Georgy Tovstonogov (1915–1989), Russian theatre director
- Georgy Vitsin (1918–2001), Russian actor
- Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974), Russian general
See also
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