Eleonora /Lola/ Ter-Parsegova-Makhviladze 1875-193? / Public figure. Eleonora joined the Georgian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1902. By Irakli Khvadagiani
Nino Tkheshelashvili 1874-1956 / Public figure. As a suffragette battling for equal rights for women, Nino got involved in the movement started after the 1905 revolution that fought for women's participation in civic and political life. By Lela Gaprindashvili
Marjory Wardrop 1869-1909 / Translator. The English polyglot Marjory Wardrop started learning Georgian while still in London and in 1894 published a collection of Georgian folktales translated into English. By Tamar Tata Tsopurashvili
Bertha Von Suttner 1843-1914 / Writer, public figure. A member of Austria's high aristocracy, Bertha was a writer and peace activist who worked as Alfred Nobel's secretary. By Tamar Tata Tsopurashvili
Ekaterine Porakishvili-Sarajishvili 1862-1916 / Public figure, philanthropist. After marrying businessman Davit Sarajishvili, Ekaterine gained many new friends. During the last years of Russian imperial rule and during Georgia's brief independence (1918-21), their family worked to develop the Georgian "national idea", reform the education system and popularize Georgian culture. By Lela Gaprindashvili
Elisabed /Liziko/ Kavtaradze 1905-88 / Writer, dissident. In 1928 she was arrested in Sukhumi and accused of "anti-Soviet activities". She was first placed in the Metekhi prison in Tbilisi and later, in 1929, sent to Tomsk Region in Russia. By Irakli Khvadagiani
Nutsa /Nino/ Ghoghoberidze 1902-66 / Film director. Nutsa became the first female Georgian film director at the age of 25. She only shot three films during her career. By Tamar Tata Tsopurashvili
Tinatin Khaukhchishvili 1919-2011 / Academic. Tinatin was an outstanding specialist of classical philology, a doctor of philology, a professor and a scholar at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. During her long life, she made important contributions to the development of epigraphy, classical philology and kartvelology (Georgian studies) in Georgia. By Ekaterine Pirtskhalava
Kristine /Chito/ Sharashidze 1887-1973 / Public figure. Kristine became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1905. In 1919 she was elected to the founding congress of the Georgian Democratic Republic under the list of the Social Democrats. By Irakli Khvadagiani
Rene Schmerling 1901-67 / Art historian. Rene was an outstanding researcher and historian of Georgian art. She was one of the founders of what is known today as the Giorgi Chubinashvili National Centre for the Study of Georgian Art History and Monument Protection. By Tamta Tatarashvili