Matvei Mikhailovich Mirianashvili (5.10.1906-23.01.1975) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1974). He was born in Tbilisi. He graduated from Tbilisi University, where in 1933 — 75 he headed the department of general physics (in 1959 — 71 also vice-rector), and in 1943 — 51 he was director of the Institute of Physics and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR.
His work concerned quantum electrodynamics, the theory of ferrites, general relativity and cosmology. He studied the physical foundations of general relativity and its tetrad and nonholonomic formulations, and proposed new methods of integrating Einstein's equations.