List of Iranian Armenians
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This is a list of Iranian Armenian notable people by birth or ancestry, ethnicity or nationality, arranged by main profession then birthdate. For similar reasons related to ethnogenesis and national identity, this list starts from the early modern history of Armenia and Iran, when the Safavids established Iranian Armenia (1502–1828) and a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region.see:Safavid Iran
This list is not automatically filled but the following Iranian people have either stated that they are Armenians or that credible sources indicate that. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Armenian and Iranian.
Arts and entertainment
- Sarkis Djanbazian – (15 January 1913, Armavir – 11 December 1963, Tehran) ballet master, dancer, choreographer and producer. {{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/djanbazian-sarkis--ballet-master|title=DJANBAZIAN, Sarkis|accessdate=28 October 2015}}
- Lilit Teryan – (31 December 1930, Tehran – 7 March 2019, Tehran) sculptor. {{Cite web|url=https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/139511/زندگینامه-لیلیت-تریان-۱۳۰۹-۱۳۹۷|title=زندگینامه : لیلیت تریان (۱۳۰۹- ۱۳۹۷)|date=2011-07-05|website=همشهری آنلاین|language=fa|access-date=2020-01-07}}
= Music =
- Aram Gharabekian – (4 July 1955, Tehran – 10 January 2014, Los Angeles) conductor. {{cite news|url=http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/01/13/conductor-aram-gharabekian-dies-at-58/ |title=Conductor Aram Gharabekian Dies at 58 |work=The Armenian Weekly |date=13 January 2014 |accessdate=15 January 2014}}
== Singers ==
- Hovhannes Badalyan – (15 December 1924, Shavarin – 19 August 2001, Yerevan) singer. {{Cite web |url=http://www.armenianmusiccenter.com/shop.php?step=2&singerid=939 |title=Biography |access-date=2012-04-01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117093501/http://www.armenianmusiccenter.com/shop.php?step=2&singerid=939 |archive-date=2013-01-17 |url-status=dead }}
- Viguen – (23 November 1929, Hamadan – 26 October 2003, Los Angeles) singer and actor. {{cite news|author=Sadeq Saba |url=https://www.theguardian.com/iran/story/0,12858,1093324,00.html |title=Obituary: Vigen Derderian |work=The Guardian |date= 26 November 2003|access-date=16 October 2013 |location=London}}
- Andy – (22 April 1958, Tehran) singer-songwriter and actor; Iranian Armenian-Armenian. {{cite news|title=Weekend Forecast|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|year=2007}}
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|Vigen.jpg|Vigen
(1929–2003)
|Andy in dc 1 09 (cropped).jpg|Andy
(1958)
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== Composers and instrumentalists ==
- Hambarsoom Grigorian – (1893 in Tabriz – 28 July 1975, Tehran) composer. {{Cite web |title=Համբարձում Գրիգորյան |url=https://zarkfoundation.com/library/%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a2%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%b1%d5%b8%d6%82%d5%b4-%d5%a3%d6%80%d5%ab%d5%a3%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%b6/ |website=zarkfoundation.com |language=hy}}
- Ivan Galamian – (23 January 1903 – 14 April 1981) violinist, teacher; Iranian Armenian-American. {{cite book|author=Anthony Feinstein|title=Michael Rabin: America's Virtuoso Violinist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gj-yqydOHhAC&pg=PA19|year=2005|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781574671094|page=19|access-date=April 12, 2016}}
- Robert Atayan – (7 November 1915, Tehran – 4 March 1994, Los Angeles) musicologist and composer. {{cite book|contribution=Աթայան Ռոբերտ [Atayan Robert]|language=hy|title=Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia|publisher=Armenian Encyclopedia|location=Yerevan|editor=Hambardzumyan, Viktor|volume=1|page=127}}
- Varoujan Hakhbandian – (4 December 1936, Qazvin – 17 September 1977, Tehran) composer and songwriter. {{cite web |url= http://www.massoudmehrabi.com/weblog/?id=1452180466 |title=یكه و ماندگار: واروژان: یكی در موسیقی فیلم، بیهمتا در موسیقی پاپ |date=17 November 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181118081906/http://www.massoudmehrabi.com/weblog/?id=1452180466|archive-date= 18 November 2018}}
- Loris Tjeknavorian – (13 October 1937, Boroujerd) composer and conductor. {{cite web |title=چکناواریان: خوشحالم که یکی از دیوانهها هستم |url=https://www.isna.ir/news/94072012998/چکناواریان-خوشحالم-که-یکی-از-دیوانه-ها-هستم |access-date=14 April 2023 |language=Persian |date=12 October 2015 |quote=خیلی وقتها به من میگویند، تو ارمنی هستی و ما را از ایرانیها جدا میکنند، در حالی که ما همه ایرانی هستیم.}}
- Armik – (1950s, Tabriz) guitarist, producer and composer. {{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/armik-mn0000598526/biography|title=Armik Biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=2016-03-27}}
- Vartan Vahramian – (1955, Tabriz) composer and painter. [http://www.iran-newspaper.com/1380/800209/html/art.htm#s13395 Biography, Interview], Interview from Iran-Newspaper
- Khachik Babayan – (1956, Tabriz) violinist. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2005/12/051210_la-motzart-tehran.shtml BBCPersian.com]
- Armen Ra – (1969, Tehran) thereminist. {{cite web|title=THE ARROGANCE GOT EATEN UP BY THE MUSIC: ARMEN RA AND MATT HUFFMAN ON "WHEN MY SORROW DIED: THE LEGEND OF ARMEN RA AND THE THEREMIN"|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/the-arrogance-got-eaten-up-by-the-music-armen-ra-and-matt-huffman-on-when-my-sorrow-died-the-legend-of-armen-ra-and-the-theremin|website=Rogerebert.com|access-date=October 10, 2017}}
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|Varoujan Hakhbandian.jpg|Varoujan Hakhbandian
(1936–1977)
|Commemoration Late Gurgen Movsessian (25 November 2014) 06.jpg|Loris Tjeknavorian
(1937)
}}
}}
= Filmmaking =
- Ray Aghayan – (28 July 1928, Tehran – 10 October 2011, Los Angeles) fashion designer and costume designer; Iranian Armenian-American. {{Cite news|last=Horwell|first=Veronica|date=2011-10-16|title=Ray Aghayan obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/oct/16/ray-aghayan|access-date=2020-07-06|issn=0261-3077}}
== Actors ==
- Murad Kostanyan – (25 August 1902, Haftvan, Salmas – 3 January 1989, Yerevan) actor. Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 745
- Loreta – (1911, Tehran – 29 March 1998, Vienna) actress. {{cite book|title=Armenians And Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum Of Iran |location=Tehran|isbn=964-6728-44-8|pages=86}}
- Annik Shefrazian – (1909, Isfahan – 28 December 1996, Kahrizak) actress. {{cite book|title=Armenians and Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum of Iran |location=Tehran|isbn=964-6728-44-8|pages=85}}
- Arman – (21 February 1921, Tabriz – 18 August 1980, Barcelona) actor. {{cite book|title=Armenians And Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum Of Iran |location=Tehran|isbn=978-964-6728-44-8|pages=98}}
- Yervand Manaryan – (20 September 1924, Arak – 19 February 2020) actor.{{cite news|last=Mutafyan|first=Levon|title=The amazing Yervand Manaryan|url=http://en.hayernaysor.am/Ervand-Manaryan|access-date=2 January 2013|date=12 February 2011|agency=«Armenians Today» on-line newspaper|archive-date=13 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113085523/http://en.hayernaysor.am/Ervand-Manaryan|url-status=dead}}
- Irene Zazians – (20 August 1927, Babolsar – 28 July 2012, Tehran) actress. {{cite web |title=ایرن، بازیگر ایرانی، درگذشت |date=28 July 2012 |trans-title=Iranian actress Irene has died |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/2012/07/120728_iren_died_actress.shtml |publisher=BBC Persian website}}
- Aramazd Stepanian – (11 October 1951, Abadan) actor, producer, director and playwright. {{cite news | title =Stepanian's Theatre Company Enacts Toumanian Stories With Inspired Hi-Jinks | newspaper =The Armenian Reporter | date =1 July 2000 | url =http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79122885.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140611123353/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79122885.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =11 June 2014 | access-date =22 May 2013 }}
- Mary Apick – (16 June 1954, Tehran) actress. {{cite web |title=Mary Apick |url=http://www.armenianfilm.org/drupal/about/board-of-directors/mary-apick |website=armenianfilm.org |access-date=12 April 2023}}
- Marco Khan – (27 March 1961, Tehran) actor and stunt performer; Iranian-born Armenian-American. {{Cite web |title=Marco Khan |url=https://www.backstage.com/u/marco-khan/ |access-date=2019-07-25 |website=Backstage.com}}
- Vahik Pirhamzei – (6 November 1968) actor, producer, director and writer. {{cite web |title=pomegranatefilmfestival.com |date=18 October 2013 |url=https://pomegranatefilmfestival.com/guardian-angel-usa-105-min-directed-by-vahik-pirhamzei-world-premiere/ |access-date=14 April 2023}}
- Mahaya Petrosian – (3 January 1970, Tehran) actress. {{cite web |title=زندگینامه ماهایا پطروسیان از زبان خودش |url=https://iraneconomist.com/fa/news/98251/زندگینامه-ماهایا-پطروسیان-از-زبان-خودش |access-date=14 April 2023 |language=Persian |date=23 January 2016}}
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|Irene Zazians25.jpg|Irene Zazians
(1927–2012)
|MahayaPetrosian.jpg|Mahaya Petrosian
(1970)
}}
}}
== Directors ==
- Ovanes Ohanian – (8 October 1896, Mashhad – September 1961, Tehran) film director. {{cite web |url=http://www.sourehcinema.com/People/People.aspx?Id=138201100208/ |title=Iranian Movie DataBase اوهانيان – سوره |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=June 2, 2016 |quote=}}
- Aramais Aghamalian – (1910, Julfa – 1985, Tehran) film director and screenwriter. {{cite web|url=http://www.sourehcinema.com/People/People.aspx?Id=138204230005/ |title=Iranian Movie DataBase آرماييس آقاماليان |access-date=3 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141634/http://www.sourehcinema.com/People/People.aspx?Id=138204230005%2F |archive-date=24 September 2015 }}
- Mushegh Sarvarian – (15 February 1910, Tehran – 13 August 1981, Tehran) film director. {{cite book|title=Armenians And Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum Of Iran |location=Tehran|isbn=964-6728-44-8|pages=88}}
- Samuel Khachikian – (21 October 1923 – 22 October 2001) film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor. {{cite book|last1=Lippard|first1=Terri Ginsberg, Chris|title=Historical dictionary of Middle Eastern cinema|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham|isbn=978-0810873643|page=227|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWs0N_l_o14C}}
- Arman Manaryan – (15 December 1929, Arak – 16 February 2016) film director. {{cite web|title=Arman Manaryan|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541293/|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=5 May 2013}}
- Robert Ekhart – (1935, Tabriz – 1994, Los Angeles) film director. {{cite book|author=Sayyed Morteza Sayyed Mohammadi |title=A Guide To Iranian Cinema Directors 1930–1999|year=1999|publisher=Simroo Publishing House|location=Tehran|isbn=964-5685-35-4|pages=40}}
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi – (1953, Arak) film director, film editor, and screenplay writer. {{cite book|title=Armenians And Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum Of Iran |location=Tehran|isbn=964-6728-44-8|pages=130}}
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|Ovanes Ohanian.jpg|Ovanes Ohanian
(1896–1961)
|Սամուէլ Խաչիկեան.jpg|Samuel Khachikian
(1923–2001)
}}
}}
= Painters, photogeraphers and cartoonists =
- Bogdan Saltanov – (1630s, New Julfa – 1703, Moscow) painter; Persian-born Armenian. {{cite book |url=http://www.brusov.am/docs/Russian_Armenian_Communication-2.pdf |title=Iz istorii armyansko-russkikh vzaimootnosheniy |script-title=ru: Из истории армянско-русских взаимоотношений с X по XVIII века|author=I. A. Atadzhianyan (И. А. Атаджанян) |publisher=Yerevan University|location= Lingva|year= 2006|isbn=99930-79-38-3 |language=ru |access-date=2008-09-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531152821/http://www.brusov.am/docs/Russian_Armenian_Communication-2.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-31 }}
- Antoin Sevruguin – (1851, Tehran – 1933, Tehran) photographer. {{cite web |title=Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present – Virtual Exhibit |url=https://isac.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/special-exhibits/sevruguin/introduction |website=isac.uchicago.edu |access-date=14 April 2023}}
- Sumbat Der Kiureghian – (19 October 1913, Isfahan – June 9, 1999, Los Angeles) watercolor painter. {{cite web | url=https://www.sumbat.com/index2.html | title=Sumbat der Kiureghian }}
- Marcos Grigorian – (5 December 1925 – 27 August 2007) painter and gallery owner. {{Cite web|url=http://hetq.am/hy/article/25465|title=Մարկոս Գրիգորյանը կասկածում էր իր շրջապատին|website=Hetq.am|date=15 October 2007 |language=hy|trans-title=Marcos Grigorian doubted his surroundings|access-date=2019-10-23}}
- Nikol Faridani – (25 January 1936, Shiraz – 6 February 2008) photographer. [http://www.caroun.com/Photography/Photographers/Iran/NikolFaridani/NikolFaridani.html How I Became a Photographer: Nikol Faridani]
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|Antoin Sevruguin sev3.jpg|Antoin Sevruguin
(1851–1933)
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Branches of science
- Jean Althen – (1709 – 1774) agronomist. {{cite journal|last1=Henri|first1=Michel|title=Հայազգի ժան Ալթենը՝ Ֆրանսիայում բամբակի և տորոնի մշակության առաջնեկ [Armenian J. Althen – a Pioneer of Adoption of the Cultivation of Cotton and Rubia tinctorum in France]|journal=Patma-Banasirakan Handes|date=2000|issue=2|pages=188–195|url=http://hpj.asj-oa.am/4489/|language=hy|issn=0135-0536}}
- Emik Avakian – (5 August 1923, Tabriz – 11 July 2013, Chicopee) inventor; Iranian-Armenian-American. {{cite book|last=Partamian|first=Stepan|title=Yes, we have: contributions of American-Armenians to the United States of America|year=2009|publisher=Armenian Arts Fund}}
- Maria Baghramian – (21 March 1954, Tehran) philosopher; Iranian-Armenian-Irish. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
= Applied science =
- Gabriel Guevrekian – (21 November 1892 Istanbul – 29 October 1970 Antibes) architect. {{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/guevrekian|title=Gabriel Guevrekian|author=Mina Marefat|year=2002}} article at Encyclopaedia Iranica
- Vartan Hovanessian – (1896, Tabriz – 1982, Tehran) architect. {{cite book|title=Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran (Iranian Studies) |year=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415824194|pages=106|editor=Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner}}
- Armen Hakhnazarian – ( 5 May 1941, Tehran – 19 February 2009, Aachen) architect. {{Cite web |url=https://zarkfoundation.com/library/%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%b6-%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%ad%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%a6%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%b6/ |title=ZARK Foundation}}
- Armen Kocharian – (1948, Tehran) physician and cardiologist. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
- Caro Lucas – (4 September 1949, Isfahan – 8 July 2010, Tehran) electrical engineer and inventor. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
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|Արմեն Հախնազարյան4 (cropped).JPG|Armen Hakhnazarian
(1941)
}}
}}
= Formal science =
- Alexander Abian – (1 January 1923, Tabriz – 24 July 1999, Ames, Iowa) mathematician; Iranian-Armenian-American. [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=237 Alexander (Smbat) Abian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033614/https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=237 |date=2018-10-28 }} at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
= Natural sciences =
- Arsen Minasian – (1906, Rasht – 3 April 1977, Rasht) pharmacist and philanthropist. {{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Iranian Armenians |author= Janet D. Lazarian|year=2003|publisher=Hirmand Publisher |location=Tehran|isbn=964-6974-50-3|pages=301–302}}
- Hayk Mirzayans – (1920, Qazvin – 2 April 1999) entomologist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.entsociran.ir/files/site1/user_folders/khabar_n8.pdf |title=Newsletter of the Entomological Society of Iran, no. 8 |access-date=2013-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000456/http://www.entsociran.ir/files/site1/user_folders/khabar_n8.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}
- Alenush Terian – (9 November 1921, Tehran – 4 March 2011, Tehran) aastronomer and physicist. [http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607070625 Interview with Alenoush Terian, Farsnews Wire Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112142223/http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8607070625 |date=2007-11-12 }}.
- Manuel Berberian – (27 October 1945, Tehran) earth scientist. {{cite web|url=https://independent.academia.edu/ManuelBerberian |title=Manuel Berberian |publisher=Independent Academia}}
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|Arsen Minasian.jpg|Arsen Minasian
(1906–1977)
|Ալենուշ Տէրեան.jpg|Alenush Terian
(1921–2011)
|Manuel Berberian.jpg|Manuel Berberian
(1945)
Rouben Galichian - (30 November, 1938, Tabriz) Cartographer
}}
}}
= Social science =
- Arakel of Tabriz – (1590s, Tabriz – 1670) historian and clergyman. {{cite encyclopedia | article = AṘAKʿEL OF TABRĪZ | last = Sanjian | first = A. K. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arakel-of-tabriz-armenian-historian | editor-last = | editor-first = | editor-link = | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 3 | pages = 249–250 | location = | publisher = | year = 1986 | isbn = }}
- Shahamir Shahamirian – (1723 – 1797) political philosopher. {{Cite book |last=Aslanian |first=Sebouh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0Kn-DMl5ZoC |title=From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa |publisher=University of California Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-520-26687-2 |location=Berkeley}}
- Mesrovb Jacob Seth – (15 March 1871, Isfahan – 31 October 1939, Calcutta) historian. {{Cite journal |last=Hananean |first=J̌․ G․ |date=1951 |title=Mesrovb Y. Sēt῾eanc῾ (1871—1939) |url=https://tert.nla.am/archive/NLA%20AMSAGIR/norazdararK/1951(2).pdf |journal=Nor Azdarar |language=hy |issue=2 |pages=15–20}}
- Vartan Gregorian – (8 April 1934, Tabriz – 15 April 2021, New York City) academic, educator, and historian. {{cite web |title=Gregorian, Vartan 1934– |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/gregorian-vartan-1934 |website=Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127132353/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/gregorian-vartan-1934 |archive-date=January 27, 2020 |date=January 21, 2020}}<
- Ervand Abrahamian – (1940, Tehran) historian; Iranian-American. {{cite book |last1=Abrahamian |first1=Ervand |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |date=1989 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |location=London |page=ix |chapter=Acknowledgements |quote=I am an Armenian-Iranian by birth; a sceptic by intellectual training; a democratic socialist by political preference; and, as far as religious conviction is concerned, an agnostic on most days — on other days, an atheist. April 1988.}}
- George Bournoutian – (25 September 1943, Isfahan – 22 August 2021, New Jersey) historian. Jamāl Javānshīr Qarābāghī, George A. Bournoutian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uuxoAAAAMAAJ&q=george+bournoutian+born+in+iran A history of Qarabagh: an annotated translation of Mirza Jamal Javanshir Qarabaghi's Tarikh-e Qarabagh] (originally from the University of Michigan) Mazda Publishers, 1994. {{ISBN|978-1568590110}} p 221
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|Vartan Gregorian and Lionel Barber (5122576496) (cropped).jpg|Vartan Gregorian
(1934–2021)
|George A. Bournoutian.jpg|George Bournoutian
(1943–2021)
}}
}}
Business
- Marcara Avanchintz – 17th-century powerful Armenian trader from Ispahan. Baghdiantz McCabe, Ina 2008 Orientalism in early Modern France Berg {{ISBN|978-1-84520-374-0}}
- Patrick Bet-David (1978-) - Businessman and Podcaster
- Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev – (4 December 1735 – 5 November 1801) financier and millionaire; Russian-Armenian-Iranian. {{cite web|script-title=ru:ДОМ УЧЕНОСТИ В АРМЯНСКОМ ПЕРЕУЛКЕ|publisher=Nauka i Zhizn|language=ru|year=2005|quote=Старший сын Лазарева Иван Лазаревич (1735-1801) был одним из богатейших меценатов России.}}
- Arathoon Stephen – (1861 – 14 May 1927) hotelier and real estate developer. {{Cite book|last=Denby|first=Elaine|title=Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion|publisher=Reaktion|date=April 2004|pages=197–198|isbn=9781861891211|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhLyGME7734C&q=%22Great+Eastern+Hotel%22+%22Spence+Hotel%22&pg=PA197}}
- Sarkis Acopian – (8 December 1926, Tabriz – 18 January 2007) businessman and philanthropist; Iranian-American. {{Cite web |title=Выдающийся изобретатель и «тихий» филантроп: Саргис Акопян и его осуществленная мечта – Фото |url=https://www.radiovan.fm/station/article/36941 |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=www.radiovan.fm |language=ru}}
Education
- Bersabe Hovsepyan-Snhchyan (1906–1999), Iranian entrepreneur and school founder
Literature
- Joseph Emin – (1726, Hamadan – 2 August 1809, Calcutta) prose writer and public figure. {{Cite book |last=Ioannisi︠a︡n |first=A. R. |url=http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/emin/index.html |title=Iosif Ėmin |publisher=Izd-vo AN Armi︠a︡nskoĭ SSR |year=1989 |location=Erevan |language=ru|page=10}}
- Mardik Martin – (16 September 1934 – 11 September 2019) screenwriter; Iranian Armenian-American. {{cite web | url=https://news.am/eng/news/533216.html | title=American Armenian screenwriter Mardik Martin dies aged 84 }}
= Fiction writers =
- Raffi – (1835, Payajuk – 25 April 1888, Tiflis) writer, poet, novelist, essayist. {{Cite book |last=Baliozian |first=Ara |url=https://archive.org/details/armenianstheirhi0000bali |title=The Armenians: Their History & Culture |publisher=AGBU Ararat Press |year=1980 |isbn=0-933706-21-9 |location=New York |author-link=Ara Baliozian}}
- Hakob Karapents – (9 August 1925, Tabriz – 20 October 1994, Watertown, Massachusetts) short story writer and novelist. {{cite web|title=Hakob Karapents (1925-1994)|url=http://www.armenianculturalfoundation.org/default.aspx?view=article&id=36|work=Armenian Cultural Foundation|accessdate=November 26, 2010}}
- Zoya Pirzad – (1952, Abadan) novelist. {{cite web |url=http://www1.rfi.fr/actufa/articles/118/article_9086.asp |title=RFI – زویا پیرزاد، برندۀ جایزه ادبی "کوریه انترناسیونال" |access-date= 9 October 2015}}
= Poets =
- Avetis Nazarbekian – (1866, Tabriz – 1939, Moscow) poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary; Iranian-Russian Armenian {{cite book|last1=Nalbandian|first1=Louise|title=The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century|date=1963|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520009141|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__dIsS3aidr0C/page/n219 208]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__dIsS3aidr0C|quote=Avetis Nazarbekian, although born in Tabriz (Persia), was considered a Russian Armenian because he had lived in Russia since his childhood and had been educated there.}}
- Leonardo Alishan – (4 March 1951, Tehran – 8 January 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah) poet and literary scholar. Lucian Stone, "Leonardo Paul Alishan's Shadow: A Biographical Introduction," in Dead Man's Shadow: Collected Poems, Blind Owl Press, 2010, pp. xiii-xlviv.
- Varand – (10 March 1954, Tehran) poet, playwright and lyricist. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
Military
- Khosrow Soltan Armani – (? – 1653) 17th-century Safavid official and military commander. {{cite encyclopedia | article = ALLĀHVERDĪ KHAN (2) | last = Fleischer | first = C. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/allahverdi-khan-d-2 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 8 | pages = 892 | year = 1985 }}
- Allahverdi Khan (Armenian) – (? – 1662) Safavid military officer. {{cite encyclopedia | title = ALLĀHVERDĪ KHAN (2) | last = Fleischer | first = C. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/allahverdi-khan-d-2 | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 8 | pages = 892 | year = 1985 }}
- Alexander Khan Setkhanian – (1865, ? – 1953, ?) general, the Chief of Staff of the Cossack Brigade, a Commander in the Iranian Imperial Army
- Hayk Bzhishkyan – (18 February 1887, Tabriz – 11 December 1937, Moscow) military commander; Iranian Armenian-Soviet. {{cite book|last1=Smele|first1=Jonathan D.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926|date=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1442252813|page=435|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwquCgAAQBAJ&q=Hayk+Bzhishkyan+persian&pg=PA435|quote=The esteemed Soviet military commander G.D. Gai was born into a family of teachers at Tabriz, in Iran. His mother was Persian and his father was an Armenian socialist who had fled to Persia in the 1880s to escape the tsarist authorities.}}
Politics and government
= Officials =
- Hagopdjan de Deritchan – (?, New Julfa – 25 August 1726, Marseille) diplomat. Guillaume Aral, « Hagopdjan de Deritchan, consul de Perse à Marseille (1715-1728) », dans Revue du monde arménien moderne et contemporain, Tome 6 (2001), Paris, pp. 29-36.
- Set Khan Astvatsatourian – (1780, ? – 1842, Tehran) businessman, Iran's ambassador to Great Britain, envoy to the Ottoman empire, military advisor to Fath-Ali Shah
- Mirza Malkam Khan – (1834, New Julfa – 1908, Rome) writer, diplomat and publicist. Lloyd Ridgeon, Religion and Politics in Modern Iran (I.B.Tauris, 2005), {{ISBN|1-84511-072-2}}. p. 14.
- Hovhannes Masehyan – (23 February 1864, Tehran – 19 November 1931, Kharbin) translator and diplomat. [http://hpj.asj-oa.am/1074/1/1967-2-3%28228%29.pdf V. Vardanyan, "Hovhannes Masehyan"]
- Vahan Papazian – (1876, Tabriz – 1973, Beirut) politician. {{cite book|last=Schaller|first=Dominik J.|title=Late Ottoman Genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415480123|page=83}}
- Abraham Guloyan – (1893, Salmas – 1938) politician; Iranian Armenian-Soviet. {{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Armenia|url= |year=2002|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=|volume=|pages=|author=Rouben Paul Adalian}}
- Hrayr Maroukhian – (1928, Kermanshah – 1998), leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
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|Mirza Malkam Khan (cropped).jpg|Mirza Malkam Khan
(1834–1908)
|Hovhannes Massehian.jpg|Hovhannes Masehyan
(1864–1931)
|Hrayr Marukhyan.JPG|Hrayr Maroukhian
(1928–1988)
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= Parliament and party members =
- Avetis Sultan-Zade – (1889, Maragheh – 1938) Communist Party of Persia politician. Ia.B. Vasilkov and M.Iu. Sorokin, [http://memory.pvost.org/pages/sultan-zade.html "Avetis Sultanovich Sultan-Zade (nast. fam. Mikaelian) (1889-1938),"] Liudi i Sud'by: Biograficheskii slovar' vostokovedov-zhertv politicheskogo terrora v sovetskii period (1917-1919) (People and Fates: Biographical Dictionary of Easterner-victims of Political Terror in the Soviet Period, 1917-1991), memory.pvost.org/
- Ardeshir Ovanessian – (1905, Rasht – 1990, Yerevan) Members of the 14th Iranian Majlis, Communist Party of Persia politician. {{cite book|last1=Ladjevardi|first1=Habib|title=Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran|date=1985|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0815623434|page=[https://archive.org/details/laborunionsautoc0000ladj/page/260 260]|url=https://archive.org/details/laborunionsautoc0000ladj|url-access=registration|quote=Ardeshir Ovanessian born rasht.}}
- Levon Davidian – (24 March 1944, Hamadan – 15 July 2009) psychiatrist, Member of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly. {{cite book |author=Lazarian |first=Janet D. |title=Encyclopedia of Iranian Armenians |publisher=Hirmand Publisher |year=2003 |isbn=964-6974-50-3 |location=Tehran |pages=87}}
- Hrant Markarian – (1958, Isfahan) politician; Iranian-Armenian. {{Cite web|last=Danielyan|first=Emil|date=1997-12-05|title=THE RE-LEGALIZATION OF ARMENIA'S DASHNAK PARTY ON THE CARDS|url=https://jamestown.org/program/the-re-legalization-of-armenias-dashnak-party-on-the-cards/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Jamestown|language=en-US}}
- Robert Beglarian – (1961, Tehran) Member of the 9th, 8th, and 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly. [http://www.fides.org/en/news/37427-ASIA_IRAN_Iranian_MPs_are_preparing_to_commemorate_the_Armenian_Genocide#.VYoz-_ntmko ASIA/IRAN – Iranian MPs are preparing to commemorate the Armenian Genocide] retrieved June 2015
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|Ardashes.png|Ardeshir Ovanessian
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(1961)
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Religion
- Stepanos V of Salmast – (?, Salmas – 1567, Etchmiadzin) Catholicos of All Armenians from 1547 to 1567. {{cite book|last1=Varnava|title=The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-exclusion|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars|isbn=978-1443800525|pages=67–68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XQsAQAAIAAJ&q=Step%27annos+V+of+Salmast|display-authors=etal}}
- Alexander I of Julfa – (? – 22 November 1714, Etchmiadzin) Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1706 and 1714. {{cite book|last1=Floor|first1=Willem|last2=Herzig|first2=Edmund|title=Iran and the World in the Safavid Age|date=2012|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-1850439301|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2S_DxLGKw6IC&q=yerevan+1710+safavid}}
- Harutyun Shmavonyan – (1750, Shiraz – India 1824, Madras, India) priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and journalist. [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Haroutiun_Shmavonian Haroutiun Shmavonian]
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr – (6 January 1945, Tehran – 19 January 1994) bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church. {{cite web | url=https://iranfocus.com/terrorism/34218-crimes-against-christians-in-iran-remembering-bishop-haik-hovsepian-mehr/ | title=Crimes Against Christians in Iran: Remembering Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr | date=19 January 2020 }}
Sports
= Individual sports =
== Combat sports ==
- Emmanuel Agassi – (25 December 1930, Salmas – 24 September 2021, Las Vegas) boxer; Assyiran-Armenian. {{cite web|title=Andre Agassi |url=http://www.persianmirror.com/culture/famous/bios/andreagassi.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006012520/http://www.persianmirror.com/culture/famous/bios/andreagassi.cfm |work=PersianMirror |year=2004 |archive-date=October 6, 2009 |access-date=May 23, 2009 |url-status=dead }}
- Sarkis Assadourian – (22 May 1948) fencer. Arek Yapoudjian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo8lAQAAMAAJ&q=andranik+eskandarian+born+in Armenian Olympians: From Athens to Athens] Trafford, 1 January 2007 (originally published by the University of Michigan, digitalised 11 Juli 2011) {{ISBN|1425138578}} p 95
- Masis Hambarsumian – (3 June 1951) retired light-heavyweight boxer. {{cite web |url=http://vista.ir/article/278400 |title=مشت زنی ایران در بازیهای آسیایی – مهمترین اخبار ایران و جهان|date= |website= |publisher=Vista |access-date= 15 August 2015|quote=}}
- Vartex Parsanian – (7 August 1952) boxor. {{cite web |url=http://vista.ir/article/278400 |title=مشت زنی ایران در بازیهای آسیایی – مهمترین اخبار ایران و جهان|date= |website= |publisher=Vista |access-date= 15 August 2015|quote=}}
- Patrik Baboumian – (1 July 1979, Abadan) retired strongman and former bodybuilder. {{Cite web|url=http://www.richroll.com/podcast/patrik-baboumian/|title = Patrik Baboumian: The World Record Holding Vegan Strongman on Why Compassion is His Greatest Strength|date = 13 December 2015}}
- Gegard Mousasi – (1 August 1985) mixed martial artist and former kickboxer; Dutch-Iranian. {{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/mma/2017/10/19/gegard-mousasi-exodus-iran-life-one-worlds-great-road-warriors/|title=Gegard Mousasi: from exodus in Iran to a life as one of the world's great road warriors|last=Davies|first=Gareth A.|date=2017-10-19|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-02-10|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
= Team sports =
- Emil Vartazarian – (25 May 1976) retired rugby and association football player.{{cite web | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/other/emil-thankful-for-india-connect/story-KGoXkX3Lbw8NurRhgSgxBM.html | title=Emil thankful for India connect | date=3 September 2010 }}
- Oshin Sahakian – (21 March 1986) basketball player. {{cite web | url=https://www.isna.ir/news/95030502538/اوشین-ساهاکیان-هستم-به-دور-از-هر-حاشیه | title=اوشین ساهاکیان هستم به دور از هر حاشیه | date=24 May 2016 }}
- Aren Davoudi – (12 July 1986) basketball player. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
== Football ==
- Garnik Mehrabian – (September 1937 – 5 June 2022) football player and coach.
- Karo Haghverdian – (11 January 1945, Tehran) former footballer. {{cite web |title=پرونده ای برای همه ارمنی های فوتبالیست |url=https://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/139528/پرونده-ای-برای-همه-ارمنی-های-فوتبالیست |website=tabnak.ir |access-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421050536/https://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/139528/پرونده-ای-برای-همه-ارمنی-های-فوتبالیست |archive-date=21 April 2023 |language=Persian |date=1 January 2011}}
- Mayis Minasyan – (1 January 1951, Tehran) former midfielder.
- Andranik Eskandarian – (31 December 1951, Tehran) former footballer .Arek Yapoudjian. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo8lAQAAMAAJ&q=andranik+eskandarian+born+in Armenian Olympians: From Athens to Athens] Trafford, 1 January 2007 (originally published by the University of Michigan, digitalised 11 Juli 2011) {{ISBN|1425138578}} p 95
- Garnik Shahbandari – (1954, Tehran) midfielder.
- Vazgen Safarian – (1954, Tehran) former footballer.
- Markar Aghajanyan – (4 March 1965, Tehran) defence and manager.
- Edmond Akhtar – (18 November 1971, Tehran) forward. {{cite web|url=http://www.teammelli.com/matchdata/details/player.php?id=228 |title=Statistics: Iran [Powered by Team Melli] |publisher=Teammelli.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-30}}
- Serjik Teymourian – (29 May 1974 – 29 August 2020) defensive midfielder.
- Edmond Bezik – (12 August 1975, Tehran) retired footballer and coach.
- Robert Markosi – (14 August 1976) former footballer.
- Sebo Shahbazian – (25 September 1980, Tehran) retired defender. {{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
- Andranik Teymourian – (6 March 1983, Tehran) footballer. {{cite web|url=http://isport.ir/fa/content/33488/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819075102/http://isport.ir/fa/content/33488/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 19, 2016|title=Andranik Teymoruain, the first Iranian christian captain of Iran|publisher=Isport.ir|access-date=12 August 2014}}
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|Edmond Bezik 1.jpg|Edmond Bezik
(1975)
|Andranik Teymourian 2014.jpg|Andranik Teymourian
(1983)
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See also
Footnotes
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References
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- {{cite book|title=Armenians And Iranian Cinema|date=Summer 2004|publisher=Film Museum of Iran|location= Bagh-e Ferdows, Tehran }}
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