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Lists of Armenians

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This is a list of notable Armenians.

1st row: Hayk • Artaxias I • Tigranes the Great • Trdat III • Gregory the Illuminator
2nd row: Mesrop Mashtots • Vardan Mamikonian • Movses Khorenatsi • Anania Shirakatsi • Grigor Narekatsi
3rd row: Levon II • Toros Roslin • Momik • Sayat Nova • Khachatur Abovyan
4th row: Ivan Aivazovsky • Andranik Ozanyan • Hovhannes Tumanyan • Komitas • Mkrtich Khrimian
5th row: Tovmas Nazarbekian • Aram Manukian • Yeghishe Charents • Arshile Gorky • Gaia Gai
6th row: Artem Mikoyan • Ivan Bagramyan • Aram Khachaturian • Viktor Ambartsumyan • Tigran Petrosian
7th row: Martiros Saryan • Kirk Kerkorian • Sergei Parajanov • William Saroyan • Charles Aznavour
8th row: Vazgen I • Karen Demirchyan and Vazgen Sargsyan • Cher • Monte Melkonyan • Serj Tankian

Historical[edit]

By country[edit]

Americas
Caucasus
Europe
Middle East

By occupation[edit]

Ambassadors[edit]

List of ambassadors of Armenia

Art[edit]

Archeologists[edit]

  • Joseph Hekekyan, archaeologist and civil engineer, who lived most of his life in Egypt
  • Ashkharbek Kalantar, archaeologist and historian who played an important role in the founding of archaeology in Armenia
  • Hagop Kevorkian, archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector
  • Ruben Orbeli, Soviet archeologist, historian and jurist, who was renowned as the founder of Soviet underwater archeology
  • Yervand Lalayan, ethnographer, archaeologist, folklorist, and also the founder and the first director of the History Museum of Armenia
  • Yervant Voskan, the first known sculptor in modern Turkish sculpture history and as the first sculpture teacher

Business[edit]

Chefs[edit]

Entertainers[edit]

Rouben Mamoulian, an American film and theater director. Mamoulian's film Becky Sharp was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry

Actors[edit]

Businessmen

Directors[edit]

Musicians[edit]

See also: List of Armenian composers and List of American musicians of Armenian descent
Aram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers
Arno Babajanyan, Soviet composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Soviet era

Producers[edit]

Journalists[edit]

Main article: List of Armenian journalists

Historians[edit]

Movses Khorenatsi, called the "father of Armenian history", and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus"
  • Elishe (410 – 475), historian, best known as the author of History of Vardan and the Armenian War
  • Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), historian of the 5th century. Faustus' History of the Armenians
  • Ghazar Parpetsi (5th-6th centuries), Armenian chronicler and historian
  • Koriun, earliest Armenian-language author, his Life of Mashtots contains many details about the evangelization of Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots
  • Movses Khorenatsi, was a prominent historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians
  • Sebeos (7th century), bishop and historian
  • Tovma Artsruni (9th-10th centurys), historian, authored the History of the House of Artsrunik
  • Zenob Glak (10th century), historian who became the first abbot of the Glak monastery
  • Stepanos Asoghik (11th century), was an historian
  • Matthew of Edessa (12th century), historian in the 12th century from the city of Edessa
  • Vardan Areveltsi (13th century), historian, geographer, philosopher and translator
  • Hayton of Corycus (14th century), medieval nobleman, monk and historiographer
  • Thomas of Metsoph (1378–1446), cleric and chronicler who left an account of Timur’s invasions of the Caucasus

Early modern period[edit]

Modern period[edit]

  • Ghevont Alishan (1820-1901), Armenian Catholic priest, historian, educator and poet
  • Gabriel Aivazovsky (1812-1879), an Armenian Catholic archbishop, scholar, educator and historian
  • Stepanos Nazarian (1812-1879), publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist
  • Leo (1860-1932), an Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University
  • Manuk Abeghyan (1865-1944), an philologist, literary scholar, folklorist, lexicographer and linguist
  • Joseph Orbeli (1887-1961), orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia, and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences

Military[edit]

Antiquity
  • Nebuchadnezzar IV, (d.521 BC) seized power in Babylon, becoming the city's king and leading a revolt against the Persian Achaemenid Empire
Middle Ages
Vardan Mamikonian died in 451 while leading the Armenians at the Battle of Avarayr, which ultimately secured their right to practice Christianity
Vahan Mamikonian, was a marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia
Early modern period
Russian Empire
Mikhail Loris-Melikov, General of the Cavalry
Armenian national liberation movement, First Republic of Armenia
Garegin Nzhdeh, military commander and nationalist political thinker
Soviet period
United States
Diaspora
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, the Armenian military leader at the capture of Shushi in May 1992

Monarchs[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Main article: List of politicians of Armenian descent

Philosophers[edit]

  • Anania Narekatsi, chronicler, theologian, philosopher, commentator, leader of Narekavank and founder of the school
  • Anania Shirakatsi, polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields
  • David the Invincible, was a neoplatonist philosopher of the 6th century
  • Hovhannes Imastaser, medieval multi-disciplinary scholar known for his works on philosophy, theology, mathematics, cosmology, and literature
  • Gregory of Tatev, was an philosopher, theologian and a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Hovnan Mayravanetsi, was an Armenian theologian and philosopher

Religious leaders[edit]

Science[edit]

Main article: List of Armenian scientists
Viktor Ambartsumyan, Soviet Armenian astrophysicist, he was the president of the IAU (1961-1963)
Abraham Alikhanov, experimental physicist, was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists

Medicine[edit]

Economists[edit]

Sports[edit]

Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a professional footballer

Writers[edit]

Main article: List of Armenian writers

Fictional[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ball, Terence (2005). The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 0521563542. Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.
  2. ^ "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  3. ^ Andreski, Stanislav (2019-07-15). Wars, Revolutions and Dictatorships: Studies of Historical and Contemporary Problems from a Comparative Viewpoint. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-19173-3.


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