Benjamin Markarian

{{short description|Armenian astrophysicist (1913-1985)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Benjamin Markarian

| native_name = Բենիամին Մարգարյան

| image = Benjamin Markarian 2013 Armenian stamp.jpg

| image_size = 270px

| alt =

| caption = Markarian on a 2013 Armenian stamp

| pseudonym =

| birth_name = Benjamin Egishevich Markarian

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|29}}

| birth_place = Shulaver, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|09|29|1913|11|29}}

| death_place = Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR

| field = Astrophysics

}}

Benjamin Egishevich Markarian ({{langx|hy|Բենիամին Եղիշեի Մարգարյան}}) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain is a group of galaxies which was named after him when he discovered that its members move with a common motion. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and active galactic nuclei) known as Markarian galaxies.