Svan people

The Svans (; ) are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians indigenous to Svaneti, a region in northwest Georgia. They speak the Svan language and are mostly bilingual also in Georgian. Both these languages belong to the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Svans were categorized as a separate ethnic group (). The self-designation of the Svan is Mushüan, which is probably reflected in the ethnonym Misimian of the Classical authors.

Georgian film director (1934-2023)

Russian and Soviet actor and film director (1893-1956)

Georgian footballer (1951-2001)

Georgian footballer (1947-2002)

Georgian politician (1926-2003)

Georgian former politician and military commander (1938–2023)

20th-century Georgian painter, graphic artist, and theater decorator (1898–1975)

Georgian-French film director

fencer (1937-1992)

Georgian writer and noble (1814–1887)

Georgian film director, script writer and actor

Georgian writer (1930–2011)

Georgian poet (1917-1944)

Soviet general, born 1915

Soviet mountaineer (1935-1969)

Russian lawyer (1878–1915)

prominent Georgian psychiatrist/one of the founders of scientific psychiatry in Georgia

Submarine commander (1912–1978)

Georgian politician

Misimians () were a tribe in the western Caucasus living in the mountainous side of South Caucasus, north of Sokhumi.

Georgian philosopher and political activist