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This is a list of notable Armenians.

[[File:Armenian_collage_no_2.jpg|250px|thumb|

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

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By country

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;Caucasus

;Europe

;Middle East

Leaders and Politicians

=Armenia=

{{Main article|List of Armenian monarchs}}

File:King Gagik Arcruni, drawing by Panos Tērlēmēzean, 1914. Erevan, Matenadaran.jpg, King of Vaspurakan]]

File:LeonIIQueenGueraneAndTheirFiveChildren1272.jpg, queen Guerane, and their five children]]

File:Besuch des Ministerpräsidenten von Armenien, Nikol Pashinyan, im Kölner Rathaus-2162.jpg, Prime minister of Armenia]]

=Other countries=

{{Main article|List of Byzantine emperors of Armenian origin|Category:Byzantine people of Armenian descent|Category:Medieval Armenian people}}

File:107 - Leo V (Mutinensis - color).png, Byzantine emperor]]

File:Theodora in the Madrid Skylitzes2.png, Byzantine empress regnant and Byzantine empress consort]]

=Politicians=

{{main|List of politicians of Armenian descent}}

File:Анастас Иванович Микоян.jpg, 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

=Antiquity=

=Middle Ages=

{{See also|Category:Byzantine people of Armenian descent|Category:Armenian people from the Sasanian Empire}}

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.

File:Vardan Mamigonian.jpg died in 451 while leading the Armenians at the Battle of Avarayr, which ultimately secured their right to practice Christianity]]

File:Vahan Mamikonyan.jpg, was a marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia]]

File:Narses.jpg, one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the Gothic War]]

=Early modern period=

{{See also|Category:Armenians from the Ottoman Empire}}

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

File:Roustam - Vernet.jpg, mamluk served Napoleon for fifteen years, travelling with the First Consul and subsequent Emperor on all of his campaigns]]

=Russian Empire=

{{See also|Category:Armenian people from the Russian Empire}}

File:Loris-Melikov Mikhail Tarielovich.jpg, General of the Cavalry, Minister of the Interior of Russian Empire (1880–1881)]]

=Armenian national liberation movement, First Republic of Armenia=

File:General Andranik.jpg, 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=

{{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 4 Marshals, 8 Colonel generals, 31 Lieutenant generals, 109 Major general, 1 Admiral, 3 Vice AdmiralsАрутюнян К. А., Погосян Г. Р. «Вклад армянского народа в победу в Великой Отечественной войне». Москва, 2010. С. 850–857.

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=United States=

=Diaspora=

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1983-077-09A, Französischer Widerstandskämpfer.jpg, considered a hero of the French Resistance]]

=First Nagorno-Karabakh War=

File:Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan is Shushi 2012 (cropped).jpg, 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

{{Main article|List of Catholicoi of Armenia|List of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia|List of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia|List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople|List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem}}

File:Gregory the Illuminator mosaic in Hagia Sophia by Wilhelm Salzenberg.jpg lost icon from Hagia Sophia]]

File:Portrait of Nerses Ashtaraketsi.jpg portriet]]

File:Leavening the Levant (1916) (14750077966).jpg (Khrimyan hayrik)]]

Cultural figures

=Actors=

{{Main article|List of Armenian actors}}

File:Mher Mkrtchyan 2006 post card cropped.jpg, 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==

=Activists=

=Archeologists=

  • 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=

{{Main article|List of Armenian architects}}

=Ballet dancers=

=Composers=

{{Main article|List of Armenian classical composers|List of Armenian composers}}

File:Komitas.jpg, founder of the Armenian national school of music, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology]]

File:Aram Khachaturian 1971.jpg, Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers]]

=Conductors=

=Clergy=

=Folk musicians=

=Filmmakers=

{{Main article|List of Armenian film directors}}

File:Rouben Mamoulian - publicity.JPG, 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==

==Animation==

=Illustrators=

=Opera singers=

=Journalists=

{{main|List of Armenian journalists}}

=Painters=

{{main article|List of Armenian painters|List of Armenian women artists}}

File:Aivazovsky portrait by Tyranov.jpg, considered one of the greatest masters of marine art]]

File:Martiros Sarian.jpg, Armenian painter, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting]]

=Pianists=

File:Arno Babajanyan 2.JPG, 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=

==Medieval==

==Modern==

{{Main|List of Armenian writers}}

File:Հովհաննես Թումանյան.jpg, national poet of Armenia]]

=Photographers=

File:Yousuf Karsh.jpg, 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=

=Sculptors=

=Singers=

File:Charles Aznavour Fot Mariusz Kubik 01 (Remini enhanced).jpg, regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and an icon of 20th-century pop culture]]

File:Cher - Casablanca.jpg, becoming the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in US history at the time]]

Scholars and Scientists

=Medieval=

File:Mesrop Mashtots 1882 painting.jpg, founder of moderen Armenian alphabet, Georgian alphabet and Albanian alphabet]]

File:St.Movses Khorenatsi.jpg, called the "father of Armenian history", and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus"]]

  • 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
  • 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
  • Elishe (410–475), historian, best known as the author of History of Vardan and the Armenian War
  • Agathangelos (5th century), pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator
  • Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), historian, describes in detail the reigns of Arshak II and his son Papas Pap, and portrays the Mamikonians
  • Ghazar Parpetsi (5th–6th centuries), Armenian chronicler and historian
  • Hovnan Mayravanetsi, was an Armenian theologian and philosopher
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hovhannes Erznkatsi (1230s–1293), scholar and philosopher
  • Gregory of Akner (13th century), historian, famous 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

= Early Modern =

File:Portrait de Pierre Mékhitar (Saint Lazare des Arméniens, Venise) (5182840694)(crop).jpg mosaic]]

  • Gregory of Tatev (1346–1409 or 1410), 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
  • Hakob Meghapart (16th century), first Armenian printer, the originator of printing in Armenia
  • 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=

{{main|List of Armenian scientists}}

File:Viktor Ambartsumian (published 1968).png, Soviet Armenian astrophysicist, he was the president of the IAU (1961–1963)]]

File:Абрам Исаакович Алиханов.jpg, experimental physicist, was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists]]

File:Hovhannes Metakksyan.jpg, Soviet physicist of former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, Hero of Socialist Labor three times]]

==Inventors==

{{Main article|List of Armenian inventors and discoverers}}

==Medicine==

= Nobel Laureates =

{{Main article|List of Armenian Nobel laureates}}

== Laureates ==

  • Daron Acemoglu, Nobel Prize for Economics in 2024{{cite book |last1=Sorman |first1=Guy |title=Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis |date=2013 |publisher=Encounter Books |isbn=978-1594032547 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=–7ftEOQozu8C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=Daron+Acemoglu 31] |quote=...Daron Acemoğlu, an Armenian from Turkey... |author-link1=Guy Sorman}}
  • Ardem Patapoutian, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2021{{cite web|date=April 30, 2020|title=Scripps Research neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences|url=https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200430-patapoutian-academy.html|url-status=live|access-date=October 5, 2021|website=Scripps Research|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310150556/https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200430-patapoutian-academy.html |archive-date=March 10, 2021 }}
  • Emmanuele Charpentier, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2020, Armenian grandfather{{Cite web |title=Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier reveals Armenian identity |url=https://en.armradio.am/2022/09/06/nobel-laureate-emmanuelle-charpentier-reveals-armenian-identity/|access-date=6 September 2022|date=6 September 2022|website=Public Radio of Armenia |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221029160607/https://en.armradio.am/2022/09/06/nobel-laureate-emmanuelle-charpentier-reveals-armenian-identity/ |archive-date=29 October 2022}}
  • Dork Sahagian, Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a part of IPCC{{Cite web |title=Dork Sahagian {{!}} Earth & Environmental Science |url=https://ees.cas.lehigh.edu/content/dork-sahagian |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=ees.cas.lehigh.edu |language=en}}

== Nominees ==

Sportspeople

{{Main article|List of Armenian Olympic medalists}}

=Boxers=

{{Main article|List of Armenian boxers}}

=Chess=

{{Main article|List of Armenian chess players}}

File:Anefo 910-9356 Hoogovenschaaktoernooi.jpg, chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion]]

File:Levon Aronian in 2023.jpg, the fourth highest-rated player in history]]

=Gymnasts=

=Footballers=

{{Main article|List of Armenian footballers}}

File:Henrikh Mkhitaryan goal celebration 2016-12-08.jpg, professional footballer]]

=Wrestlers=

{{Main article|List of Armenian wrestlers}}

=Weightlifters=

=Other sportspeople=

Businesspeople

{{Main article|List of Armenian businesspeople}}

{{See also|List of Armenian merchants}}

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

=Economists=

Other

Fictional

File:Sasuntsi Davit closeup5.jpg of David of Sassoun from national epic Daredevils of Sassoun]]

=Legendary=

References

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External links

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