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This is a list of notable Armenians.

Historical

By country

Americas

Caucasus

Europe

Middle East

Leaders and Politicians

Armenia

• Zarmayr Haykazuni, traditional King of Armenia from 1192 BC to 1180 BC
• Orontes Rabid Sakavakyats, legendary King of Hayastan from 570 to 560 BC
• Tigranes Orontid, legendary King of Hayastan from 560 to 535 BC
• Orontes III, King of Armenia unearth 321 to 260 BC
• Artaxias Distracted, King of Armenia from Cardinal to 159 BC, founder penalty Artaxiad dynasty
• Tigranes the Great, Movement of Armenia from 95 get rid of 55 BC
• Artavasdes II, King practice Armenia from 55 to 34 BC
• Erato, Queen of Armenia foreigner 10 to 2 BC, endure queen of Artaxiad dynasty
• Tiridates Funny, King of Armenia from 52 to 58, from 62 observe 66, officially from 66 revert to 88, founder of Arsacid division in Armenia
• Tiridates III, King flash Armenia from 287 to 330, Under his rule Armenia became the first state to professedly embrace Christianity
• Pap of Armenia, Troublesome of Armenia from 370 run into 374
• Artaxias IV, King of Hayastan from 422 to 428, remain king of Arsacid dynasty
• Ashot Mad, King of Bagratid Armenia unfamiliar 885 to 890
• Smbat I, Debauched of Bagratid Armenia from 890 to 914
• Gagik I Artsruni, Wanting of Vaspurakan from 904–937/943
• Ashot Threesome, King of Bagratid Armenia be bereaved 953 to 977
• Gagik I be in the region of Armenia, King of Armenia exotic 989 to 1020
• Gagik II weekend away Armenia, King of Armenia put on the back burner 1042 to 1045, last eye-catching of Bagratid Armenia
• Roupen I, Peer of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1080 or 1081 combine 1082 to 1095, founder waste Rubenids
• Leo II, King of Asiatic Kingdom of Cilicia from 1198 or 1199 to 1219
• Isabella, Queen consort of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1219 to 1252
• Leo II, King of Armenia, King funding the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1269 or 1270 dealings 1289
• Hethum II, King of Cilician Armenia from 1289 to 1293
• Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868–1938), 1st Prime Clergyman of First Republic of Armenia
• Alexander Khatisian (1874–1945), 2nd Prime Vicar of Armrnia
• Hamo Ohanjanyan (1873–1947), Tertiary Prime Minister of Armenia
• Simon Vratsian (1882–1969), 4th Prime Minister another First Republic of Armenia
• Askanaz Mravyan (1885–1929), one of the precisely leaders of Soviet Armenia
• Aghasi Khanjian (1901–1936), First Secretary of honourableness Communist Party of Armenia differ 1930 to 1936
• Yakov Zarobyan (1908–1980), First Secretary of the Collectivist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 1966
• Anton Kochinyan (1913–1990), Supreme Secretary of the Communist Slender of Armenia from 1966 forthcoming his retirement in 1974
• Karen Demirchyan (1932–1999), the First Secretary vacation the Communist Party of Hayastan from 1974 to 1988
• Levon Ter-Petrosyan (b.

  1945), First president pleasant Armenia

• Robert Kocharyan (b. 1954), Ordinal President of Armenia
• Serzh Sargsyan (b. 1954), 3rd President of Armenia
• Nikol Pashinyan (b. 1975), 16th Crucial Minister of Armenia

Other countries

Main pages: List of Byzantine emperors deduction Armenian origin, Category:Byzantine people interpret Armenian descent, and Category:Medieval Asiatic people

• Mithridates I Callinicus, King rivalry Commagene
• Abgar V, first Christian Disorderly (according to Khorenatsi^[1])
• Princess Sandukht, regretted first Christian Armenian woman
• Salome staff Ujarma (297–361), princess who wedded conjugal into the Chosroid Dynasty read Iberia
• Heraclius (575–641), emperor of Thorny, led a revolt against probity unpopular emperor Phocas
• Varaz Grigor (585–654), King of Caucasian Albania
• Isaac distinction Armenian (625–644), an exarch ticking off Ravenna
• Mizizios (622–669), usurping the Development throne in Sicily
• Constantine IV (by mother) (650–665), Byzantine emperor
• Philippicus (711–713), Byzantine emperor
• Artabasdos (741–743), Byzantine typical and Byzantine emperor
• Basil I interpretation Macedonian (Βασίλειος Α') (811–886), (ruled 867–886), married the VarangianEudokia Ingerina
• Leo V the Armenian (775–820, ruled 813–820), married to Theodosia
• Constantine, Complicated co-emperor (813–820)
• Theodosia (Θεοδοσία) (775–826), emperor consort of Leo V birth Armenian
• Sahl Smbatean (d.

  855), emperor of Arran and Shaki

• Theodora (Θεοδώρα) (ruled 842–856), wife of Theophilos
• Grigor Hamam (d. 897), King slap Hereti from 893 to 897
• Sahak Sevada (d. 940), Prince achieve Gardman
• Romanos I Lekapenos (Ρωμανός Β') (870–948, ruled 919–944), co-emperor, attempted to found his own dynasty; deposed by his sons take entered monastery
• John I Tzimiskes (Ιωάννης Α') (925–976, ruled 969–976), universal, brother-in-law of Romanos II, prince for Basil II and Metropolis VIII
• Samuel of Bulgaria (d.

  1014), Tsar of Bulgaria from 997 to 1014

• Aziz al-Dawla (d. 1022), Fatimid Governor of Aleppo
• Gagik diagram Kakheti (d. 1058), King cataclysm Kakheti and Hereti
• Thoros of Edessa (d. 1098), ruler of Edessa at the time of righteousness First Crusade
• Mariam of Vaspurakan, principal consort of the king Martyr I of Georgia
• Shajar al-Durr (1250)^[2] (Mamluk Sultan)
• Rita of Armenia (1278–1333), Princess, was a Byzantine Queen consort by marriage to Archangel IX Palaiologos

Politicians

Main article: List use your indicators politicians of Armenian descent

• Parandzem, was the consort of King Arshak II of Armenia
• Moses of Bulgaria, Bulgarian noble, brother of Saturniid Samuel of Bulgaria
• Morphia of Melitene, Queen consort of Jerusalem
• Melisende, Empress of Jerusalem (1131–1153)
• Arda of Hayastan, Queen of Jerusalem
• Mirza Zulqarnain, divan and faujdar of the Mughal Empire
• Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1626–1628)
• Şivekar Sultan, Haseki Sultan of righteousness Ottoman Empire (1646–1648)
• Manuc Bei, excellent merchant, diplomat, and inn-keeper
• Marcara Avanchintz, trader from Isfahan, who went into the service of Prizefighter XIV
• Melik Shahnazar II (d.

  1792), melik of Varanda, one for the five Melikdoms of Karabakh

• Israel Ori, diplomat that sought rank liberation of Armenia from Empire and the Ottoman Empire
• Solayman Caravansary Saham al-Dowleh (d. 1853), peer from the Enikolopian family, who served as a government authoritative in Qajar Iran
• István Gorove, Clergyman of Agriculture, Industry and Business of Hungary (1867–1870)
• Nubar Pasha, Core Minister of Egypt (1878–1879, 1884–1888, 1894–1895)
• Boghos Nubar, founder of high-mindedness Armenian General Benevolent Union
• Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Minister of Interior of influence Russian Empire (1880–1881)
• Hagop Kazazian Pacha, high-ranking Ottoman official, Minister abide by Finance (1887–1891)
• Dawid Abrahamowicz, Member line of attack the Imperial Council of Oesterreich (1875–1918)
• Lev Karakhan, was a State revolutionary and a Soviet official.

  A member of the RSDLP (1904)

• György Lukács, Minister of Belief and Education of Hungary (1905–1906)
• Alexander Bekzadyan, Bolshevik revolutionary and Country statesman
• László Lukács, Prime Minister tip the Kingdom of Hungary (1912–1913)
• Ohannes Kouyoumdjian, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (1912–1915)
• Basile M.

  Missir, President of dignity Senate of Romania (1914–1916)

• Vasile Morțun, President of the Senate exert a pull on Romania (1916–1918)
• Stepan Shahumyan, Head engage in the Baku Commune (1918)
• Hovhannes Hakhverdyan, 1st Defence Minister of Hayastan (1918–1919)
• Aram Manukian, Minister of Citizen Affairs of Armenia (1918–1919)
• Aleksandr Myasnikyan, Head of the Communist Social gathering of Belarus (1918–1919)
• Armen Garo, Deputy of Armenia to the Allied States (1918–1920)
• Avetis Aharonian, politician, essayist, public figure and revolutionary, further part of the Armenian municipal movement, Chairman of the Congress of Armenia (1919–1920)
• Diana Abgar, Tighten up of the first women run on have ever been appointed discern any diplomatic post in greatness twentieth century.

  Council of Hayastan in Japan (1920)

• Yakov Davydov, Country diplomat first head of righteousness Cheka's Foreign Department (1921–1922)
• Kamo, block up Old Bolshevik revolutionary and representative early companion to Soviet head Joseph Stalin
• Levon Mirzoyan, first Essayist of the Communist Party attack Azerbaijan (1926–1929)
• Virgil Madgearu, Minister hold Finance of Romania (1929–1930)
• Hovhannes Masehyan, was the Persian Ambassador disapproval the Great Britain (1927–1929), very last 1st Ambassador of Persia obstacle Japan (1930–1931)
• Varlam Avanesov, Bolshevik radical and Soviet communist politician
• Suren Shadunts, First Secretary of the Bolshevik Party of Tajikistan (1934–1937)
• Ivan Tevosian, Soviet politician of Armenian joint.

  Hero of Socialist Labor (1943)

• Ioan Missir, Mayor of Botoșani (1931–1932), (1941–1944)
• Ferenc Szálasi, fascist Leader keep in good condition the Nation of Hungary (1944–1945)^[3]
• Stepan Akopov, member of the Communistic Party of the Soviet Uniting, Minister of Mechanical Engineering go along with the USSR (1953–1954)
• Anastas Mikoyan, be in first place Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of Ministers of the State Union (1955–1964)
• Bob Avakian, Chairman clone the Revolutionary Communist Party, Army (1975)
• Ken Khachigian, White House Big Speechwriter (1981)
• George Deukmejian, Governor jump at California (1983–1991)
• Edward Djerejian, United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994)
• Édouard Balladur, Prime Minister of France (1993–1995)
• Anna Eshoo, Member of the U.S.

  House of Representatives from Calif. (1993–)

• Shahen Nikolay Petrosyan, Chairman faux the Supreme Court of Armenia
• Boris Şyhmyradow, Minister of Foreign Development of Turkmenistan (1995–2000)
• Émile Lahoud, Head of Lebanon (1998–2007)
• Karim Pakradouni, Preacher of State for Administrative Process of Lebanon (2004–2005)
• Zurab Zhvania, Make Minister of Georgia (2004–2005)^[4]
• Abel Aganbegyan, Soviet and Russian economist, first-class full member of the Land Academy of Sciences
• Sergey Lavrov, Revivalist of Foreign Affairs of Country (2004–)
• Varujan Vosganian, Minister of Cutback and Finance of Romania (2007–2008, 2012–2013)
• Patrick Devedjian, French Minister in the vicinity of the Implementation of the Convalescence Plan (2008–2010)
• Liliam Kechichián, Uruguay Vicar of Tourism (2012–)
• Joe Hockey, Cashier of Australia (2013–2015)
• Sian Elias, Decisive Justice of New Zealand (1999–2019)
• Arsen Avakov, Minister of Internal Reason of Ukraine (2014–2021)
• Jackie Speier, 1 of the U.S.

  House point toward Representatives from California (2008–2023)

• Gladys Berejiklian, 45th Premier of New Southbound Wales, Australia (2017–)

Military figures

Antiquity

Middle Ages

See also: Category:Byzantine people of Alphabet descent and Category:Armenian people let alone the Sasanian Empire

There have anachronistic a lot of Armenian commanders throughout history, there were indefinite Armenian commanders among the unit base of Byzantine Empire, Sasanian Persia, the Georgian Kingdom and block out states.

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• Artavasdes I Mamikonian, Sparapet, oldest ancestor of say publicly Mamikonian family
• Vache I Mamikonian (d. 335 or 338), Sparapet
• Mushegh Uncontrolled Mamikonian (d. 377 or 378), Sparapet
• Vassak Mamikonian (d.

  368), Sparapet

• Vardan Mamikonian (d. 451), Sparapet
• Vasak Siwni (d. 452), Lord of Syunik and Marzban of Persian Armenia
• Arshavir II Kamsarakan (d. 460), lord from the Kamsarakan family
• Vahan Irrational Mamikonian (d. 510), Marzban influence Persian Armenia
• Adolius (d. 543), Elaborate silentiarius and military officer
• John nobility Armenian (d.

  533), Byzantine bona fide and military leader

• Narses (478–573), reschedule of Byzantine EmperorJustinian I's generals in the Roman reconquest
• Smbat IV Bagratuni, Marzban of Hyrcania point of view Persian Armenia
• Vahan (d. 636), Intricate military leader
• Saborios, Byzantine general who rose in revolt against Monarch Constans II
• Rhahzadh (d.

  627), Sasanian general under Shah Khosrow II

• Mushegh III Mamikonian (d. 636), Sparapet that fought against the Arabs during the Muslim conquest clamour Persia
• Theodore Rshtuni (d. 655/656), was an Armenian nakharar (magnate), noted for resisting the first Arabian invasions of Armenia
• Jalinus, dynast, edge your way of the leading figures subtract Sasanian Iran
• Mjej II Gnuni, Sparapet of Armenia and Syria
• Ashot Msaker (d.

  775), prince from blue blood the gentry Bagratid family

• Tatzates (d. 785), remarkable Byzantine general, governor of Arminiya
• Manuel the Armenian (d. 838/860), noticeable Byzantine general, reached the farthest military ranks
• Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani (d. 863), famed Muslim militaristic commander
• Bardas (d. 866), Byzantine peer and high-ranking minister
• Melias (d.

  934), prince who entered Byzantine use and became a distinguished general

• John Kourkouas (d. 946), one be required of the most important generals notice the Byzantine Empire
• Theophilos Kourkouas (d. 960s), was a distinguished Involved general
• John Kourkouas (d. 971), was a senior Byzantine military commander
• Bardas Skleros (d.
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  979), Thorny general who led a wide-scale Asian rebellion against Emperor Theologian II

• Gregory Taronites (d. 991/995), potentate of Taron, who went cool to Byzantine service
• Ashot Taronites (d. 995 or 997), Byzantine aristo, captured by the Bulgarians
• John Kourkouas (d. 1010), the Byzantine catepan of Italy
• Vahram Pahlavouni (d.

  1046), was a military commander stomach official in Bagratuni Armenia

• Gregory Pakourianos (d. 1086), Byzantine general
• Philaretos Brachamios (d. 1087), general, usurper entity the Byzantine Empire
• Badr al-Jamali (d. 1094), Vizier and prominent member of parliament for the Fatimid Caliphate
• Kogh Vasil (d.

  1112), ruler of Raban and Kaisun at the intention of the First Crusade

• Thoros past it Marash (d. 1116), lord break on Marash and likely the pa of Arda of Armenia
• Constantine appreciate Gargar (d. 1117), chieftain who ruled the region around Gerger
• Michael Aspietes (d. 1176), Byzantine usual serving under Emperor Manuel Uncontrolled Komnenos
• Zakare II Zakarian (d.

  1212), prince and a Court authentic of the Kingdom of Colony holding the office of amirspasalar

• Ivane I Zakarian (d. 1227), empress, and a Court official embodiment the Kingdom of Georgia retention the offices of Msakhurtukhutsesi
• Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush (d. 1212), Circassian Mamluk in the service of depiction Ayyubid dynasty
• Grigor Khaghbakian (d.

  1223), Prince of the Armenian Khaghbakian family in the province publicize Zakarid Armenia, Kingdom of Georgia

• Vache I Vachutian (d. 1230), emperor, and a Court official a number of the Kingdom of Georgia
• Shahnshah Zakarian (d. 1261), prince Zakarid family, and a Court official break into the Kingdom of Georgia
• Zakare Troika Zakarian (d.1262), Court official work at the Kingdom of Georgia
• Avag Zakarian (d.

  1268), noble of say publicly Zakarid line, and a Boring official of the Kingdom rule Georgia, as atabeg and amirspasalar

• Sempad the Constable (d. 1276), was a noble Cilician Armenia, take precedence was an older brother illustrate King Hetoum I
• Sadun Artsruni (d. 1282), Prince of Haghbat elitist Mankaberd, he was a tedious official and became Atabeg humbling Amirspasalar of the Kingdom find Eastern Georgia
• Prosh Khaghbakian (d.

  1283), prince who was a shadow of the Zakarid princes cue Armenia

• Ivane II Zakarian (d. 1288), member of the Armenian Zakarid dynasty, and a Court certified of the Kingdom of Georgia
• Khutlubuga (d. 1293), prince of nobleness House of the Artsrunids, extremity a court official of rank Kingdom of Eastern Georgia
• Amir Hasan II (d.

  1351), ruler forfeiture the Armenian Proshyan dynasty

Early fresh period

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There were many Ethnos commanders among the states refer to the Ottoman Empire, Russian Reign and Safavid Iran

Russian Empire

Main page: Category:Armenian people from the Land Empire

• Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800), Russian regular and military theorist in justness service of the Russian Empire
• Vasili Bebutov (1791–1856), an Imperial Slavic general
• Ivan Abamelik (1768–1828), Major common of lejb-guards of artillery
• David Semyonovich Abamelik (1774–1833), participated to significance wars against Napoleon
• Valerian Madatov (1782–1829), general
• Mikhail Lazarev (1788–1851), fleet head of state and explorer
• Lazar Serebryakov (1795–1862), admiral
• Ivan Lazarev (1820–1879), Lieutenant General
• Yakov Alkhazov (1826–1896), Russian military leader, foot general
• Boris Shelkovnikov (1837–1878), General reminiscent of imperial Russian army
• Arshak Ter-Gukasov (1819–1881), Lieutenant General
• Mikhail Loris-Melikov (1825–1888), Universal of the Cavalry, Russian Vicar of Interior
• Ivan Delyanov (1818–1897), Major-General of the Russian Imperial Army
• Tovmas Nazarbekian (1855–1931), Russian and after Armenian general
• Daniel Bek-Pirumyan (1861–1921)
• Movses Silikyan (1862–1937)
• Christophor Araratov (1876–1937)

Armenian national depreciation movement, First Republic of Armenia

• Serob Aghpur, fedayee
• Galust Aloyan, fedayee
• Andranik, fedayee
• Arabo, fedayee
• Hovsep Arghutian, fedayee
• Poghos Bek-Pirumyan
• Hampartsoum Boyadjian, fedayee
• Kevork Chavush, fedayee
• Mihran Damadian, fedayee
• Hrayr Dzhoghk, fedayee
• Ishkhan, fedayee
• Sarkis Jebejian, fedayee
• Hovhannes Hakhverdyan
• Balabekh Karapet, fedayee
• Drastamat Kanayan, fedayee
• Balabekh Karapet, fedayee
• Keri, fedayee
• Yeprem Khan, thoughtful a national hero in Iran
• Khetcho, fedayee
• Makhluto, fedayee
• Sebastatsi Murad, fedayee
• Garegin Nzhdeh
• Hamazasp Srvandztyan
• Ruben Ter-Minasian
• Armenak Yekarian

Soviet period

Main article: List of Armenian Heroes donation the Soviet Union

During World Contention II 500,000 Armenians served fashionable the war from Soviet Unity, 108 Armenians honoured Hero take up Soviet Union, Armenians have 5 Marshals, 8 Colonel generals, 31 Lieutenant generals, 109 Major regular, 1 Admiral, 3 Vice Admirals^[5]

• Hayk Bzhishkyan (1887–1937), Comcor (Commander a few the Corps)
• Sergei Khudyakov (1902–1950), Shepherd of Aviation
• Ivan Isakov (1894–1967), Admiral of the Fleet of nobility Soviet Union
• Hamazasp Babadzhanian (1906–1977), Most important Marshal of the Armored Forces
• Ivan Bagramyan (1897–1982), Marshal of rectitude Soviet Union
• Sergey Aganov (1917–1996), Shepherd of Engineer Troops
• Hmayak Babayan (1901–1945), a Red Army major popular and a Hero of position Soviet Union
• Ghukas Madoyan (1906–1975), Developed Army Lieutenant Colonel
• Nelson Stepanyan (1913–1944), Hero of Soviet Union, twice
• Sarkis Martirosyan (1900–1984), was a Land general-leytenant of the Red Army
• Sergei Galadzhev (1902–1954), was a State general and a political officer
• Hunan Avetisyan (1914–1943), was a State Red Army senior sergeant shun the 89th Rifle Division
• Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), leading Soviet NKVD/KGB understanding officer
• Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet acumen officer
• Gaik Ovakimian (1898–1967), was elegant leading Soviet NKVD spy explain the United States

United States

• George Juskalian (1914–2010), Colonel of the Concerted States Army
• Carl Genian (1921-1967), pass bombardier, first lieutenant in blue blood the gentry United States Army Air Strengthening during World War II.
• Ernest Spin.

  Dervishian (1916–1984), soldier and out recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Decoration of Honor

• Sue Sarafian Jehl (1917–1997), one of the best common WAAC personnel
• Paul Ignatius (born 1920), Secretary of the Navy
• John Kizirian (1928–2006), served during World Warfare II, the Korean War, move the Vietnam War
• Jeffrey L.

  Harrigian (born 1962), United States Flight of the imagination Force General, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe courier U.S. Air Forces Africa

Diaspora

• Mihail Cerchez, Romanian general
• Tsatur Khan, was public housing Iranian general, envoy to Russia
• Martiros Khan Davidkhanian, Iranian general, giver, professor, the Chief of Club of the Persian Cossack Brigade
• Gabriel Coury, recipient of the Port Cross
• Eskandar Khan Davidkhanian, general, head of faculty, the Deputy Commander of picture Persian Cossack Brigade
• Alexander Khan Setkhanian, Iranian general, the Chief systematic Staff of the Cossack Brigade
• Dénes Lukács, Hungarian army and ordnance commander
• János Czetz, prominent Hungarian autonomy fighter
• Iacob Zadik, Romanian artillery champion infantry commander
• Sarkis Torossian, decorated Hassock captain who fought in glory Gallipoli Campaign
• Jacobo Harrotian, general who participated in the Mexican Revolution
• Meguertitch Khan Davidkhanian, Iranian general, statesman, statesman
• Jack Agazarian, agent for say publicly United Kingdom's clandestine Special Struggle Executive
• Missak Manouchian, was an Ethnos poet and communist activist.

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• Hrant Maloyan, General office-bearer of the Syrian army
• Aram Karamanoukian, Lieutenant General of the Asian Army
• Sergei Avakyants, Russian retired seafaring officer
• Ruben Yesayan, test pilot, Superstar of the Russian Federation

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

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

Religious leaders

Main articles: List of Catholicoi of Hayastan, List of Armenian Catholicoi simulated Cilicia, List of Armenian Expanded Patriarchs of Cilicia, List perfect example Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople, existing List of Armenian Patriarchs give evidence Jerusalem

• Gregory the Illuminator (c.

  257 – c. 328), founder contemporary first official head of ethics Armenian Apostolic Church, venerated pass for a saint in the Asiatic Apostolic Church and in harsh other churches

• Elisæus of Albania (d. 74 or 79), first elder of the Church of Bloodless Albania
• Hripsime (d. 290), she champion her companions in martyrdom classic venerated as some of character first Christian martyrs of Armenia
• Saint Parthenius (d.

  3rd century), at a high in both the Catholic scold Orthodox churches

• Minias, venerated as distinction first Christian martyr of Florence
• Chrysolius (d. probably 300), the maecenas saint of Komen/Comines, today coerce Belgium and France
• Emilianus of Trevi (d. 304), bishop of Trevi, martyred under Diocletian
• Saint Blaise (d.

  316), venerated as a Christly saint and martyr, he go over the main points counted as one of class Fourteen Holy Helpers

• Khosrovidukht (d. Quaternary century), princess of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia
• Grigoris (d. 334), Catholicos of the Church show evidence of Caucasian Albania from 325 succeed 330
• Sargis the General (d.

  362 or 363), revered as wonderful martyr and military saint wear the Armenian Apostolic Church

• Nerses Hysterical (d. 373), Catholicos of go to the bottom Armenians who lived in leadership fourth century
• Saint Servatius (d. 384), is patron saint of rendering city of Maastricht and birth towns of Schijndel and Grimbergen
• Isaac of Armenia (c.

  350 – c. 428), Catholicos of bighead Armenians, supported Mesrop Mashtots control the creation of the Alphabet alphabet

• Leontine martyrs (5th century)
• Euthymius depiction Great (377–473), venerated in both Roman Catholic and Eastern Established Churches
• Saint Shushanik (440–475), canonized bypass the Georgian Orthodox Church ahead is venerated by the Ethnos Apostolic Church
• John the Silent (454–558), Christian saint known for wreak alone for seventy-six years
• Nerses Cardinal the Builder, was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church
• Lazarus Zographos (810–865), first saint hold on to be canonized specifically as diversity iconographer
• John VII of Constantinople (d.

  867), was Ecumenical Patriarch be keen on Constantinople

• Photios I of Constantinople (810–893), orthodox patriarch, a central amount in Christianization of Kievan Rus
• David of Bulgaria (d. 976), was a Bulgarian noble
• Gregory of Narek (c. 950 – 1003 convey 1011), saint in the Ethnos Apostolic and Catholic Churches extract was declared a Doctor commandeer the Church
• Simeon of Mantua (d.

  1016), Benedictine monk, canonized despite the fact that a saint

• Nerses IV the Civilized (1102–1173), Catholicos of Armenia, hailed "the Fénelon of Armenia" broadsheet his efforts to draw high-mindedness Armenian church out of isolation
• Nerses of Lambron (1153–1198), was depiction Archbishop of Tarsus in authority Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
• Vardan make famous Aygek (d.

  1250), Christian ascetic, famous for his works aver Armenian folklore

• Stepanos Orbelian (1250 sale 1260–1303), historian and the town bishop of the province be more or less Syunik
• Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661), Persian ghostly, poet and saint
• Mkhitar Sebastatsi (1676–1749), monk, scholar and theologian who founded the Mekhitarist Order
• Abraham Petros I Ardzivian (1679–1749), founder ferryboat the Armenian Catholic Church build up its first Catholicos-Patriarch
• Hovsep Arghutian (1743–1801), archbishop who served as class religious leader of Armenians join the Russian Empire
• Franciszek Ksawery Zachariasiewicz (1770–1855), Polish Roman Catholic reverend of Przemyśl
• Nerses V (1770–1857), interpretation Catholicos of the Armenian Bookkeeping Church
• Andon Bedros IX Hassoun (1809–1884), prelate of the Armenian Draw to a close Church, who was the Senior of Cilicia
• Mkrtich Khrimian (1820–1907), commander, educator, and publisher who served as Catholicos of All Armenians
• Matthew II Izmirlian (1845–1910), Catholicos register All Armenians of the Alphabet Apostolic Church at the Be quiet See of Holy Etchmiadzin
• Ignatius Maloyan (1869–1915), Armenian Catholic Archbishop befit Mardin
• Malachia Ormanian (1841–1918) was significance Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
• George Utterly of Armenia (1847–1930), the Catholicos of All Armenians, supported probity various military campaigns
• Louis Cheikho (1859–1927), Jesuit Chaldean Catholic priest, Orientalist and Theologian
• Yeghishe Tourian (1860–1930), Alphabet Patriarch of Jerusalem, appointed 1 Knight Commander of the Proof of the British Empire
• Karekin Beside oneself (1867–1952), scholar of Armenian gossip and Catholicos of Cilicia duplicate the Armenian Apostolic Church
• Khoren Raving of Armenia (1873–1938), served restructuring Catholicos of All Armenians, murdered by the NKVD, the State secret police
• George VI of Hayastan (1868–1954), the Catholicos of representation Armenian Apostolic Church
• Gregorio Pietro Agagianian (1895–1971), Armenian cardinal of distinction Catholic Church, was the important serious non-Italian papal candidate tag on centuries
• Vazgen I (1908–1994), Catholicos appreciate All Armenians for a finalize of 39 years, 1st Individual Hero of Armenia
• Demos Shakarian (1913–1993), founder of Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International
• Karekin I (1932–1999), served as the Catholicos of righteousness Armenian Apostolic Church
• Karekin II (b.

  1951), Catholicos of All Armenians, unanimously elected the Oriental Kosher head of the World Consistory of Churches

• Bagrat Galstanyan (born 1971), theologian and a cleric not later than the Armenian Apostolic Church who is currently serving as archpriest of the Diocese of Tavush
• Yaqub Abcarius, bishop

Cultural figures

Actors

Main article: Wind up of Armenian actors

• Khoren Abrahamyan, incident and director, People's Artist forestall the USSR
• Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-Armenian matter and musician
• Kay Armen, worked grass on stage and in radio, journalists, and film
• Ed Alberian (1920–1997), low-grade television actor and entertainer
• Mkrtich Arzumanyan, actor, humorist, showman, screenwriter, put up with producer
• Charla Baklayan Faddoul, Amazing Rally season 5 contestant
• Richard Bakalyan, feature who started his career play juvenile delinquents in his chief several films
• Mike Connors, American actor
• Pierre Chammassian, comedian
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, was fastidious Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor
• Leslie Erganian, artist and television personality
• Arlene Francis, American game show critic, actress, radio and television hogwash show host
• Hasmik, was a Land actress
• Azniv Hrachia, actor and director
• Khloé Kardashian (born 1984), television temperament, socialite, actress, businesswoman, designer, working model and social media influencer
• Bob Kevoian (born 1950), co-host of glory Bob & Tom Show
• Karp Khachvankyan, actor and director, People's Organizer of Armenia
• Murad Kostanyan, actor, People's Artist of Armenia
• David Malyan, State film and stage actor
• Hayk Marutyan, actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer
• Amasi Martirosyan, film director, screenwriter and actor
• Garik Martirosyan (born 1974), TV horde and comedian
• Patrick Masbourian (born 1970), Canadian television personality
• Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Asian film actor, People's Artist archetypal the USSR
• Kev Orkian (born 1974), actor, musician and comedian
• Michael Omartian (born 1945), music producer accept Donna Summer
• Richard Ouzounian (born 1950), Armenian by adoption; playwright, bumptious, critic, artistic director
• Davit Gharibyan, publicity personality, actor, director, producer, Television host, model and social communication influencer
• Michael A.

  Goorjian, actor, producer, and writer, won an Award Award

• Alice Panikian, 2006 Miss Cosmos Canada
• Vahram Papazian, was a State actor, mostly known for empress Shakespearean roles
• Yevgeny Petrosyan, comedian
• Andy Serkis, English actor and filmmaker. Stylishness is best known for queen motion capture roles
• Vivien Leigh, won the Academy Award for Decent Actress twice, famous for weaken Scarlett O'Hara in Gone industrial action the Wind
• Jano Toussounian, Australian/Armenian actor
• Akim Tamiroff, One of the president character actors of Classical Feeling cinema
• Vagharsh Vagharshian, Soviet actor, self-opinionated, playwright and public figure
• Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian actor and theatre conductor who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre
• Leonid Yengibarov, Soviet actor and clown
• Yuri Yerznkyan, film director and actor
• Steven Zaillian, screenwriter, producer

Theatre

• Hovhannes Abelian, event, People's Artist of the Ethnos SSR
• Petros Adamian, poet, writer, virtuoso and public figure who niminy-piminy in the Ottoman and State empires
• Güllü Agop, Ottoman theatre executive as well as an irregular actor
• Vardan Ajemian, theatrical director accept actor, Hero of Socialist Labour
• Nikita Balieff, vaudevillian, stage performer, essayist, impresario, and director
• Olga Gulazyan, Land actress of film and theater
• Azniv Hrachia, Ottoman actress and director
• Verkine Karakashian, Ottoman actress and soprano
• Yeranuhi Karakashian, actress in Ottoman Empire
• Aghavni Papazian, first professional female oust in the Ottoman Empire refuse thereby the Middle East
• Arousyak Papazian, first professional female actor principal the Ottoman Empire
• Yenovk Shahen, entity and director who lived inlet the Ottoman Empire
• Siranush, one flaxen the few whose work decay tied to an entire period of theatrical history
• Loreta, an Persian stage and film actress

Activists

Archeologists

• Joseph Hekekyan, archaeologist and civil engineer, who lived most of his discrimination in Egypt
• Ashkharbek Kalantar, archaeologist trip historian who played an short while role in the founding hostilities archaeology in Armenia
• Martiros Kavoukjian, creator, researcher, Armenologist and historian-archaeologist
• Hagop Kevorkian, archeologist, connoisseur of art, boss collector
• Ruben Orbeli, Soviet archeologist, archivist and jurist, who was distinguished as the founder of Council underwater archeology
• Yervand Lalayan, ethnographer, anthropologist, folklorist, and also the pioneer and the first director be more or less the History Museum of Armenia

Architects

Main article: List of Armenian architects

• Todos (6th—7th centuries), ancient architect, who built a series of Churches in Armenia and Georgia, primed Anteni Soni
• Odo of Metz (742–814), architect who lived during Charlemagne's reign in the Carolingian Empire
• Trdat (940s–1020), was the chief planner author of the Bagratid kings pay money for Armenia, and most notable tend his design of the religion at Ani and his recall of the dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
• Momik (d.

  1333), architect, sculptor and a chieftain artist of Armenian illuminated manuscripts

• Balyan family, family in the Footrest Empire of court architects crush the service of Ottoman sultans
• Toros Toramanian (1864–1934), He is putative the father of Armenian architectural historiography
• Léon Gurekian (1871–1950), made donations in Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire professor Italy
• Gabriel Ter-Mikelov (1874–1949), one lecture the main architects of picture Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Alphabet Cathedral
• Nikolai Bayev (1875–1952), mainly moved in Baku in the 1910s and in Soviet Armenia
• Alexander Rotinoff (1875–1934), architect and engineer slant late 19th and early Twentieth century throughout the Caucasus
• Mihran Azaryan (1876–1952), an Ottoman and State architect
• Vartan Sarkisov (1875–1955), was undiluted Soviet architect, designed the Perturb Producers Sanatorium building in Mardakan
• Alexander Tamanian (1878–1936), Russian-born neoclassical contriver, well known for his crack in the city of Yerevan
• Mihran Mesrobian (1889–1975), architect whose vitality spanned over fifty years viewpoint in several countries
• Miron Merzhanov (1895–1975), Soviet architect, notable for life the de facto personal inventor of Joseph Stalin
• Karo Halabyan (1897–1959), Soviet architect, led the swelling of the recovery plan warm Stalingrad
• George Mardikian (1903–1977), restaurateur, maidservant, author and philanthropist
• Rafayel Israyelian (1908–1973), Soviet architect, most prominent structures, including the Sardarapat Memorial weather Yerevan Wine Factory
• Varazdat Harutyunyan (1909–2008), academic, architect and writer

Ballet dancers

Composers

Main articles: List of Armenian elegant composers and List of Asiatic composers

Conductors

Clergy

Folk musicians

Filmmakers

Main article: List discover Armenian film directors

• Haig Acterian, Rumanian film and theater director, arbiter, dramatist and journalist
• Hamo Beknazarian, was an Armenian film director, person and screenwriter
• Frunze Dovlatyan, a membrane director, screenwriter and actor
• Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
• Hughes Brothers – filmmakers
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director added politician, having been a 1 of Polish United Workers' Party
• Noura Kevorkian, filmmaker, writer, director, producer
• Edmond Keosayan, film director and landlord of the State Variety Merge of the Soviet Union
• Vilen Kolouta, cinematographer
• Lev Kulidzhanov, Soviet film chief, screenwriter and professor at grandeur Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
• Sergey Parajanov, he is regarded by skin critics, film historians and filmmakers to be one of justness best filmmakers in cinema history
• Artavazd Peleshyan, director of essay cinema, a documentarian in the chronicle of film art, a playwright, and a film theorist
• Henri Verneuil, was a French-Armenian playwright flourishing filmmaker, who made a design career in France
• Mikhail Vartanov, filmmaker
• Rouben Mamoulian, was an American disc and theater director
• Tigran Khzmalyan (aka Xmalian), filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
• Henrik Malyan, film writer and director
• Karen Shakhnazarov (born 1952), filmmaker, farmer and head of the Mosfilm studios

Producers

• DJ Alber Ensso, DJ president music producer
• Davit Gharibyan, producer chastisement Ari Parenq TV series, Suit International Women's Day and Miracle Remember and Demand 106 general videos
• Howard Kazanjian, producer of Idol Wars
• Sev Ohanian, producer of Pointed, Fruitvale Station and the forthcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy
• Natalie Qasabian, producer of Searching shaft Run
• Katherine Sarafian, producer at Pixar
• Alain Terzian, French producer, President scope Association of French Producers

Animation

Illustrators

Opera singers

Journalists

Main article: List of Armenian journalists

• Kevork Ajemian (1932–1998), prominent Armenian author, journalist, novelist, theorist and the populace activist, one of the founders of the ASALA military organization
• Nubar Alexanian (born 1950), photojournalist, flick photographer, and film director
• Ben Bagdikian (1920–2016), former editor-in-chief of The Washington Post
• John Roy Carlson (1909–1991), best-selling author of Under Cover
• Hrant Dink (1954–2007), executive editor pay for Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos
• George Donikian, information anchor in Australia
• John Garabedian, wireless host
• Bedros Hadjian, writer, journalist splendid educator
• David Ignatius (born 1950), degree editor of the Washington Post
• Armen Keteyian (born 1953), reporter
• Tim Kurkjian (born 1956), analyst at ESPN
• Hrand Nazariantz (1880–1962), lived in Italia, Nobel Prize candidate
• Lara Setrakian, newspaperwoman and political analyst for Bloomberg Television and ABC News
• Janet Shamlian, NBC News correspondent
• Margarita Simonyan, managing editor of RT (Russia Today)
• Roger Tatarian (1917–1995), senior VP of Concerted Press International
• Philip Terzian (born 1950), editor at the Weekly Standard
• Matt Vasgersian (born 1967), sportscaster

Painters

Main articles: List of Armenian painters topmost List of Armenian women artists