Giorgi Makharadze (გიორგი მახარაძე) (born 1961) was the deputy ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to the United States.
Around midnight on January 3, 1997, Makharadze was speeding while driving in Washington, D.C. and hit a line of stopped cars at a traffic light, causing a five car crash that injured four people and killed a Brazilian girl, Jovianne Waltrick, who was sixteen years old.
In late 1990, the then Soviet Government demanded his extradition from the US, however, Georgian leaders of the СССР mounted pressure not to prosecute him.
In 1991, he returned to Georgia and started as a Joint Secretary of the Georgian Foreign Ministry.
He was repatriated to his home nation of Georgia in 2000 to continue serving his sentence; and was released on February 27, 2002.