Lists of Armenians

This is a list of notable Armenians.

By country

Americas
Caucasus
Europe
Middle East
Word

Leaders and politicians

Armenia

Gagik I Artsruni, King of Vaspurakan
Leo II, queen Guerane, and their five children
Alexander Miasnikian, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Armenia

Royalty

Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor
Teodora wife of Theophilos, Byzantine empress regnant and Byzantine empress consort

Politicians

Soviet statesman Anastas Mikoyan managed to remain at the highest levels of power from the days of Lenin to his retirement under Brezhnev.
Sergey Lavrov – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (2004–)

Military figures

Antiquity

Middle Ages

There have been a lot of Armenian commanders throughout history, there were many Armenian commanders among the troops of Byzantine Empire, Sasanian Iran, the Georgian Kingdom and other states.

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
Narses, one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the Gothic War

Early modern period

There were many Armenian commanders among the states of the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire and Safavid Iran

Roustam Raza, mamluk served Napoleon for fifteen years, travelling with the First Consul and subsequent Emperor on all of his campaigns

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

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

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

United States

Diaspora

Missak Manouchian, considered a hero of the French Resistance

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, the Armenian military leader at the capture of Shushi in May 1992

Religious leaders

Gregory the Illuminator lost icon from Hagia Sophia
Nerses V Ashtaraketsi portriet
Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimyan hayrik)

Cultural figures

Activists

Architects

Artists

Painters

Ivan Aivazovsky, considered one of the greatest masters of marine art
Martiros Saryan, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting

Animators

Illustrators

Sculptors

  • Sargis Baghdasaryan (1923–2001)
  • Ghukas Chubaryan (1923–2009) He authored numerous works that later became symbols of the Armenian capital.
  • Hakob Gyurjian (1881–1948) He was the author of over 300 sculpture portraits and his famous work includes (Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vahan Terian, Martiros Saryan, Georgy Yakulov, etc.)
  • Ara Harutyunyan (1928–1999) He is the creator of monumental statue Mother Armenia installed on the heights of Yerevan, which became one of the most popular symbols of Armenia.
  • Mihran Hakobyan (born 1984) He created the 2014 Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, the first dedicated to the online encyclopedia.
  • Hagop Ishkanian (born 1938) his notable work includes Tsoghik (granite) this work was awarded the first place gold medal in the Republic festival.
  • Rafik Khachatryan (1937–1993) his work includes sculptures and memorial complexes made for the martyred freedom fighters. His works are exhibited in many foreign countries including Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechia, Slovakia, and Germany.
  • Yervand Kochar (1899–1979) was a prominent sculptor and modern artist of the twentieth century and a founder of Painting in Space art movement.
  • Haig Patigian (1876–1950) his impressive work includes the McKinley statue (1906), Arcata, California (removed February 28, 2019 and moved to Canton, Ohio)
  • Ara Sargsyan (1902–1969) his awards include Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR (1935), Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (1939, 1945), People's Painter of the Armenian SSR (1950), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1956), People's Painter of the USSR (1963), State Prize of the Armenian SSR (1971, posthumously), Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus", and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
  • Stephen Sacklarian (1899–1983) Sacklarian's works are in the permanent collection of over 60 museums worldwide.
  • Ara Shiraz (1941–2014) Shiraz's paintings and sculptures are found in many private collections throughout the world: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Beirut, Paris, London, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal.
  • Yervant Voskan (1855–1914) He is the first known sculptor in modern Turkish sculpture history and as the first sculpture teacher at the Sanay-i Nefise he educated the first generation of Turkish sculptors

Ballet dancers

Agrippina Vaganova

Cuisine

Journalists

Media

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

Filmmakers

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
  • Haig Acterian (1904–1943), Romanian film and theater director, critic, dramatist and journalist
  • Hamo Beknazarian (1891–1965), was an Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter
  • Frunze Dovlatyan (1927–1997), a film director, screenwriter and actor
  • Atom Egoyan (born 1960), Canadian filmmaker
  • J. Michael Hagopian (1913–2010), filmmaker
  • Hughes Brothers, filmmakers
  • Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922–2007), Polish film director and politician, having been a member of Polish United Workers' Party
  • Noura Kevorkian, filmmaker, writer, director, producer
  • Edmond Keosayan (1936–1994), film director and compere of the State Variety Orchestra of the Soviet Union
  • Vilen Kolouta (1930–1999), cinematographer
  • Lev Kulidzhanov (1924–2002), Soviet film director, screenwriter and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
  • Sergey Parajanov (1924–1990), he is regarded by film critics, film historians and filmmakers to be one of the best filmmakers in cinema history
  • Artavazd Peleshyan (born 1938), director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist
  • Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France
  • Mikhail Vartanov (1937–2009), filmmaker
  • Rouben Mamoulian (1897–1987), was an American film and theater director
  • Tigran Khzmalyan (born 1963, aka Xmalian), filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
  • Henrik Malyan (1925–1988), film writer and director
  • Karen Shakhnazarov (born 1952), filmmaker, producer and head of the Mosfilm studios

Film and TV Producers

  • Davit Gharibyan (born 1990), producer of Ari Parenq TV series, Happy International Women's Day and We Remember and Demand 106 social videos
  • Howard Kazanjian (born 1942), producer of Star Wars
  • Sev Ohanian (born 1987), producer of Searching, Fruitvale Station and the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy
  • Natalie Qasabian, producer of Searching and Run
  • Katherine Sarafian (born 1969), producer at Pixar
  • Alain Terzian (born 1949), French producer, President of Association of French Producers
  • Steven Zaillian (born 1953), won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List

Social Media

Television

Theatre

  • Hovhannes Abelian (1865–1936), actor, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR
  • Petros Adamian (1849–1891), poet, writer, artist and public figure who worked in the Ottoman and Russian empires
  • Güllü Agop, Ottoman theatre director as well as an occasional actor
  • Vardan Ajemian (1905–1977), theatrical director and actor, Hero of Socialist Labour
  • Nikita Balieff (1877–1936), vaudevillian, stage performer, writer, impresario, and director
  • Olga Gulazyan (1886–1970), Soviet actress of film and theater
  • Azniv Hrachia (1859–1920), Ottoman actress and director
  • Verkine Karakashian (1856–1933), Ottoman actress and soprano
  • Yeranuhi Karakashian (1848–1924), actress in Ottoman Empire
  • Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue
  • Aghavni Papazian, first professional female actors in the Ottoman Empire and thereby the Middle East
  • Arousyak Papazian, first professional female actor in the Ottoman Empire
  • Yenovk Shahen (1881–1915), actor and director who lived in the Ottoman Empire
  • Siranush (1857–1932), one of the few whose work is tied to an entire era of theatrical history
  • Loreta (1911–1998), an Iranian stage and film actress

Models

Classic

Modern

Kim Kardashian

Music

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

Folk musicians

Norayr Mnatsakanyan performing in Luxembourg

Opera Singers

Anahit Mekhitarian as Anoush

Pianists

Arno Babajanyan, Soviet composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Soviet era

Singers

Charles Aznavour, regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and an icon of 20th-century pop culture
Cher, becoming the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in US history at the time
System of a Down known to be one of the most influential metal bands of the 21st century

Violinists

Other Musicians

Photographers

Yousuf Karsh, known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century

Printers

Writers

Medieval

Modern

Hovhannes Tumanyan, national poet of Armenia


Scholars and scientists

Medieval

Mesrop Mashtots, founder of moderen Armenian alphabet, Albanian alphabet
Movses Khorenatsi, called the "father of Armenian history", and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus"

Early Modern

Mkhitar Sebastatsi mosaic

Modern

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

Archaeology

  • Włodzimierz Antoniewicz, rector of the University of Warsaw; member of the PAN.
  • Joseph Hekekyan (1807–1875), archaeologist and civil engineer, who lived most of his life in Egypt.
  • Ashkharbek Kalantar (1884–1942), archaeologist and historian who played an important role in the founding of archaeology in Armenia.
  • Martiros Kavoukjian (1908–1988), architect; researcher; Armenologis; and historian-archaeologist.
  • Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), archeologist and art collector.
  • Yervand Lalayan (1864–1931), ethnographer; archaeologist; folklorist; and the founder and first director of the History Museum of Armenia.
  • Ruben Orbeli (1880–1943), Soviet archeologist; historia; and jurist who was renowned as the founder of Soviet underwater archeology.

Astronomy

Biology

Chemistry

Computer Science

Economics

  • Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967), among the 20 most cited economists in the world; awarded the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal; awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2024.
  • Armen Alchian, economist; one of the major economists of the 20th century.
  • Richard Donchian, father of Trend Following Trading; one of the most outstanding figures of all time in the field of commodity money management.
  • Arman Manukyan (1931–2012), Turkish lecturer; writer; and economist.
  • Lee Ohanian (b. 1957), macroeconomist.

Engineering

History

  • Nicholas Adontz, historian specialising in Byzantine and Armenian studies; philologist.
  • Gabriel Aivazovsky, an Armenian Catholic archbishop; scholar; educator; and historian.
  • Ghevont Alishan, Armenian Catholic priest; historian; educator; and poet.
  • Grigor Ghapantsyan, historian; orientalist; linguist; and philologist that pioneered the study of Urartu and ancient Armenia.
  • Leo (1860–1932), an Armenian historian; writer; critic; and professor at Yerevan State University.
  • Hakob Manandyan, historian and philologist.
  • Stepanos Nazarian (1812–1879), publisher; enlightener; historian of literature; and orientalist.
  • Joseph Orbeli, orientalist; public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia; and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

Inventors

Linguistics

Mathematics

Austrian-Armenian mathematician Emil Artin is considered a co-founder of modern abstract algebra

Medicine

Physics

Political Science

Nobel Laureates

Laureates

Nominees

Sportspeople

Boxing

Chess

Tigran Petrosyan, chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion
Levon Aronyan, the fourth highest-rated player in history

Gymnastics

Albert Azaryan

Football

Henrikh Mkhitaryan, professional footballer

Wrestlers

Artur Aleksanyan

Weightlifters

Kickboxers

Mixed Martial Arts

Arman Tsarukyan

Tennis Players

Andre Agassi

American Football

Baseball

Hockey

Other sportspeople

Law

Judges

Lawyers

Businesspeople

Alexander Mantashev, prominent Russian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist, become one of the world's wealthiest individuals

Other

Fictional

Statue of David of Sassoun from national epic Daredevils of Sassoun

Legendary

References

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