Habte Giyorgis
| Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde | |
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| Born | 1851 |
| Died | 12 December 1926 (aged 75) |
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Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde (Amharic: ሀብተጊዮርጊስ ዲነግዴ?; 1851 – 12 December 1926) was an Ethiopian military commander and government official, who, among several other posts, served as President of the Council of Ministers and as Minister of War during the reigns of Menelik II, Iyasu V, Zewditu I and Haile Selassie.
Habte Giyorgis was a member of the Chebo people, in a mixed Amhara, Oromo and Gurage family, in the Lake Dandii district. He also had ancestry from Jibat and Macha in Shewa, situated in the present-day Oromia Region in central and southern Ethiopia. The name dinagde means wealth in the Oromo language.
Habte Giyorgis was a young man when he joined the forces of Menelik, then-King of Shewa, during one of Menelik's campaigns to re-establish Ethiopian rule (under Shewan administration) over southern territories that had, over the previous centuries, drifted out of the control of the Ethiopian Empire.
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