David Zakharyevich Sarajishvili (Georgian: დავით ზაქარიას ძე სარაჯიშვილი; (born October 28, 1848, Tiflis, Russian Empire — June 20, 1911, Tiflis, Russian Empire) — Georgian scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

From 1878 to 1879 he studied winemaking in France, where he met winegrower Jean Baptiste Camus, who shared his secret knowledge with Sarajishvili.

[citation needed] In 1880, Sarajishvili returned to Tiflis and settled in the house of his parents in Sergievskaya.

[2] Sarajishvili was the first to start producing cognac at his enterprises in the Russian Empire by keeping the grape spirit in barrels of Caucasian mountain oak.

Sarajishvili was the initiator of the creation of a committee chaired by Niko Tskhvedadze, who was engaged in financing talented young people and granted scholarships for education in Russia and abroad.

Among the Sarajishvili scholarship holders were the composers Zakhary Paliashvili, Dimitri Arakishvili, Meliton Balanchivadze, Kote Potskhverashvili, Ia Kargareteli; artists Gigo Gabashvili, Moses Toidze, Grigol Meskhi; sculptor Iakob Nikoladze; singers Vano Sarajishvili, Valerian Kashakashvili; scientist Filippo Gogichashvili; future Georgian patriarch Callistrat.

Sarajishvili was also the patron of the construction of the building of the noble school (now - Tbilisi State University).

He assisted Georgian social democrats, in particular in 1910, according to the police department, allocated a monthly stipend of 150 rubles to Noe Zhordania policy.