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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

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By country

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Americas
Caucasus
Europe
Middle East

Leaders and Politicans

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Armenia

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Leo II, queen Guerane, and their five children

Other countries

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Main pages: List of Byzantine emperors of Armenian origin, Category:Byzantine people of Armenian descent, and Category:Medieval Armenian people
Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor
Teodora wife of Theophilos, Byzantine empress regnant and Byzantine empress consort

Politicians

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Main article: List of politicians of Armenian descent
Anastas Mikoyan, was the only Soviet figure who managed to remain at the highest levels of power from the days of Lenin, and to his retirement under Brezhnev

Military figures

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Antiquity

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  • Nebuchadnezzar IV (d. 521 BC), seized power in Babylon, becoming the city's king and leading a revolt against the Persian Achaemenid Empire
  • Archelaus of Cilicia (d. 38), Cappadocian prince and a Roman client king

Middle Ages

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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

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Main page: Category:Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
Roustam Raza, mamluk served Napoleon for fifteen years, travelling with the First Consul and subsequent Emperor on all of his campaigns

Russian Empire

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Main page: Category:Armenian people from the Russian Empire
Mikhail Loris-Melikov, General of the Cavalry, Minister of the Interior of Russian Empire (1880–1881)

Armenian national liberation movement, First Republic of Armenia

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Andranik Ozanyan, military commander. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, he was one of the main Armenian leaders of military efforts for the independence of Armenia

Soviet period

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Main article: List of Armenian Heroes of the Soviet Union

During World War II 500,000 Armenians served in the war from Soviet Union, 108 Armenians honoured Hero of Soviet Union, Armenians have 5 Marshals, 8 Colonel generals, 31 Lieutenant generals, 109 Major general, 1 Admiral, 3 Vice Admirals[4]

Armenian Marshals of Soviet Union
Ivan Bagramyan
Hamazasp Babadzhanian
Sergei Khudyakov
Sergey Aganov
Ivan Isakov

United States

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Diaspora

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First Nagorno-Karabakh War

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Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, the Armenian military leader at the capture of Shushi in May 1992
  • Simon Achikgyozyan (born 1939), considered a hero in Armenia
  • Samvel Babayan (born 1965), became a hero among Armenians for the military victories achieved under his command
  • Gurgen Dalibaltayan (born 1926), colonel-general, National Hero of Armenia
  • Garo Kahkejian (born 1962), first Armenian from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict
  • Tatul Krpeyan (born 1965), leader of paramilitary units in Getashen and Martunashen villages in Shahumyan District of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
  • Mikael Harutyunyan (born 1946), 7th Defence Minister
  • Kristapor Ivanyan (born 1920), fought in both World War II and the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • Monte Melkonian (born 1957), Armenian-American revolutionary, National Hero of Armenia
  • Seyran Ohanyan (born 1962), Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia
  • Vazgen Sargsyan (born 1959), military commander and politician, and was the first Defence Minister of Armenia
  • Sedrak Saroyan (born 1967), general and politician who served in the Parliament of Armenia
  • Vardan Stepanyan (born 1966), he is considered a hero in Armenia
  • Norat Ter-Grigoryants (born 1936), lieutenant-general who played a leading role in developing the Armed Forces of Armenia
  • Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (born 1939), also known by his nom-de-guerre Komandos

Religious leaders

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Main articles: List of Catholicoi of Armenia, List of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia, List of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia, List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople, and List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
Gregory the Illuminator lost icon from Hagia Sophia
Nerses V Ashtaraketsi portriet
Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimyan hayrik)

Cultural figures

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Actors

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Main article: List of Armenian actors
Mher Mkrtchyan, stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widely considered one of the greatest actors of the Soviet period among Armenians and the USSR as a whole

Theatre

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Activists

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Archeologists

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  • 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
  • Martiros Kavoukjian, architect, researcher, Armenologist and historian-archaeologist
  • 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

Architects

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Main article: List of Armenian architects

Ballet dancers

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Composers

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Main articles: List of Armenian classical composers and List of Armenian composers
Komitas Vardapet, founder of the Armenian national school of music, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology
Aram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers

Conductors

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Folk musicians

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Filmmakers

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Main article: List of Armenian film directors
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

Producers

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Illustrators

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Opera singers

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Journalists

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Main article: List of Armenian journalists

Painters

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Main articles: List of Armenian painters and List of Armenian women artists
Ivan Aivazovsky, considered one of the greatest masters of marine art
Martiros Saryan, Armenian painter, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting

Pianists

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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

Poets

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Medieval

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Modern

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Main article: List of Armenian writers
Hovhannes Tumanyan, national poet of Armenia

Photographers

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Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century
  • Kegham Djeghalian, an Armenian-Palestinian photographer, known for his photographs documenting daily life and political events over four decades
  • Abdullah Frères, photographers of international fame during the late Ottoman Empire
  • Anita Conti, French photographer, and the first French female oceanographer
  • Jean Pascal Sébah, was a Syriac photographer
  • Samvel Sevada, an Armenian artist, photographer and poet
  • Yousuf Karsh, Canadian photograph, famous for his The Roaring Lion portriet
  • Van Leo, Egyptian photographer who became known for his numerous self-portraits and portraits of celebrities of his time

Models

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Sculptors

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Singers

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Scholars and scientists

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Medieval

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Movses Khorenatsi, called the "father of Armenian history", and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus"
Mkhitar Sebastatsi mosaic
  • Mesrop Mashtots (362 – 440), Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist in the Sasanian Empire. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches
  • 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
  • Hovnan Mayravanetsi, was an Armenian theologian and philosopher
  • David the Invincible, was a neoplatonist philosopher of the 6th century
  • 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
  • Movses Kagankatvatsi (7th century), historian, author of the book History of the World from Aghvan
  • Anania Shirakatsi, polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields
  • Leo the Mathematician, Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance
  • Anania Narekatsi, chronicler, theologian, philosopher, commentator, leader of Narekavank and founder of the school
  • 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 (10–11th centuries), was an historian
  • Hovhannes Imastaser (1045–1129), medieval multi-disciplinary scholar known for his works on philosophy, theology, mathematics, cosmology, and literature
  • Stepanos Asoghik (11th century), was an historian
  • Samuel Anetsi (12th century), known for his writing of history and chronicles a book where he is the first author to use the Armenian Chronology
  • Mkhitar Heratsi (12th-century), considered the father of Armenian medicine
  • Matthew of Edessa (12th century), historian in the 12th century from the city of Edessa
  • Gregory of Akner (13th century), historian, faymous for his important source for the Mongol conquest of the Near East
  • Vardan Areveltsi (13th century), historian, geographer, philosopher and translator
  • Hayton of Corycus (14th century), medieval nobleman, monk and historiographer
  • Gregory of Tatev, was an philosopher, theologian and a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Thomas of Metsoph (1378–1446), cleric and chronicler who left an account of Timur’s invasions of the Caucasus
  • Amirdovlat of Amasia (1420–1496), physician and writer, wrote several works on medicine and science
  • Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1701), Croatian-Italian physician and scientist
  • Esayi Hasan-Jalalyan (1677–1728), historian and catholicos of Aghvank
  • Mkhitar Sebastatsi (1676–1749), monk, scholar and theologian who founded the Mekhitarist Order
  • Mikayel Chamchian (1738–1823), was an Armenian Mekhitarist monk, historian, grammarian and theologian
  • Grzegorz Piramowicz (1753–1801), Catholic priest, educator and philosopher
  • Shahamir Shahamirian (1723–1797), writer, philosopher, and wealthy merchant in Madras
  • Joseph Emin (1726–1809), traveler, writer and patriot who sought to achieve the liberation of Armenia from Persian and Ottoman rule
  • Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869), Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator
  • Ioan Mire Melik (1840–1889), Romanian mathematician, educator and political figure

Modern

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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
Kirill Shchelkin, Soviet physicist of former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, Hero of Socialist Labor three times

Inventors

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Main article: List of Armenian inventors and discoverers

Medicine

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Sportspeople

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Main articles: List of Armenian Olympic medalists and List of Armenian wrestlers

Boxers

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Main article: List of Armenian boxers

Chess

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Main article: List of Armenian chess players
Tigran Petrosyan, chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion
Levon Aronyan, the fourth highest-rated player in history

Gymnasts

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Footballers

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Main article: List of Armenian footballers
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, professional footballer

Other sportspeople

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Businesspeople

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Main article: List of Armenian businesspeople
Alexander Mantashev, prominent Russian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist, become one of the world's wealthiest individuals

Economists

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Other

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Fictional

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  4. ^ Арутюнян К. А., Погосян Г. Р. «Вклад армянского народа в победу в Великой Отечественной войне». Москва, 2010. С. 850−857.


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