Georgy (name)

Georgy (or Georgiy or Georgi) (Russian: Георгий, Bulgarian: Георги) is a masculine given name, derived from the Greek name Georgios. It is also occasionally used as a surname. 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:

First name

• 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
• Georgy Satarov (born 1947), Russian political scientist
• Georgy Sedov (1877–1914), Russian explorer
• Georgy Tovstonogov (1915–1989), Soviet theatre director
• Georgy Vitsin (1918–2001), Soviet and Russian actor
• Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974), Russian general

Surname

• Howard Georgi (born 1947), American physicist
• Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729–1802), German naturalist and geographer
• Yvonne Georgi (1903–1975), German dancer, choreographer, and ballet mistress

See also

• Georgy (disambiguation)
• Gheorghe
• Giorgi