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Producers
- Vahan Moosekian – producer of many shows in USA, including Lie to Me.
- Creg Mooradian – producer of The Twilight Saga (film series)The Twilight Saga (film series)The Twilight Saga is a series of supernatural romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $2 billion in worldwide...
- Mark Vahradian- Executive Producer of Transformers (film) and Salt (2010 film)
- Arthur Sarkissian – producer of Rush Hour
- Howard KazanjianHoward KazanjianHoward G. Kazanjian is an American film producer, former Vice President of Lucasfilm, LTD and a published non-fiction author. Of Armenian descent, Kazanjian is an active member of the Armenian charity and cultural community, and a USC alumnus....
– Producer of Star TrekStar TrekStar Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... - Alain TerzianAlain TerzianAlain Terzian is a French-Armenian film producer, Administrator of Cannes Film Festival jury, President of Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma...
– French Producer, President of Association of French Producers - Katherine SarafianKatherine SarafianKatherine Sarafian is a producer at Pixar Animation Studios. She produced the 2007 Pixar short film "Lifted". She has also worked on several other projects at Pixar. She will produce the upcoming Pixar release Brave.- References :...
– Producer at PixarPixarPixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide... - Ruben Dishdishyan – top Russian Producer
- Ruben JaghinyanRuben JaghinyanRuben V. Jaghinyan - the General Director of SHARM Holding Company.- Education :From 1987 to 1994 attended the Electrotechnical Engineering Department of the Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute.- Beginning :...
- top Armenian and Russian Producer
Actors
- List of Armenian film directors
- Simon AbkarianSimon AbkarianSimon Abkarian is a French-Armenian actor.Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris...
– French-Armenian film actor, Casino RoyaleCasino Royale (2006 film)Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series and the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond... - Jano Toussounian – Australian/Armenian actor.
- Petros AdamianPetros AdamianPetros Heronimosi Adamian was an outstanding Armenian actor, poet, writer, artist and public figure. According to the Russian critics, his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello put Adamian's name among the best tragedians of the world.-Biography:...
– actor - Hrant TokhatyanHrant TokhatyanHrant A. Tokhatyan - the Director of “SHARM Holding” Company).- Education :From 1976 to 1981 he studied in the faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Yerevan State Institute of Foreign Languages after V. Bryusov...
– actor - James AdomianJames AdomianJames Adomian is an Armenian-American actor and stand-up comedian. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and currently lives in New York City...
- actor, comedian - Gregoire AslanGrégoire AslanGrégoire Aslan was an Armenian actor.Born Krikor Aslanian in Switzerland or in Constantinople, according to different sources, Aslan made his professional debut at 18 as a vocalist and drummer with a Paris dance band, then launched an acting career under the name of Koko Aslan. His first film...
– Armenian actor who starred alongside Spencer TracySpencer TracySpencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...
and Frank SinatraFrank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
in the 1960s. - Mariana DerderianMariana DerderianMariana Sirvat Derderián Espinoza is a Chilean actress. She is best known for her protagonistic role in Floribella, the Chilean version of the Argentinian TV serie Floricienta .- Biography :...
– actress - Osvaldo RíosOsvaldo RíosOsvaldo Ríos born Osvaldo Ríos Alonso on October 25, 1960 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican actor, model, singer, and guitarist, of Armenian descent, who is best known for his roles in telenovelas...
- Tulip JoshiTulip JoshiTulip Joshi is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood.-Early life:Joshi was born in Mumbai to a Gujarati Indian father and an Armenian Lebanese mother. She was brought up in Mumbai where she attended the Jamnabai Narsee School, and later Mithibai College from where she graduated majoring...
- Armenian and Indian actress - Adam G. SevaniAdam G. SevaniAdam G. Sevani is an American actor and dancer, known for playing Robert Alexander III aka "Moose" in the films Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up 3D.-Background:...
– actor, dancer - Serge AvedikianSerge AvedikianSerge Avedikian , sometimes credited as Serje Avetikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize.-Early life:...
– Film actor - Val AveryVal AveryVal Avery was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows since the 1950s. In a career that spanned 50 years, Avery appeared in over 100 films and had appearances in over 300 television series.-Early life:Avery was born in Philadelphia...
– actor - Vardan PetrosyanVardan Petrosyan (actor)Vardan Petrosyan is an Armenian actor, scriptwriter, and parodist.- Biography :Vardan Petrosyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia . His childhood passed in his father’s yard, the Khanjian Street, with the small river of Getar. There were many Turkish houses there, so that area was called “Turki mayla”...
– actor - Sevan AydinianSevan AydinianSevan Aydinian , also known as Apollo Poetry, is an Armenian American spoken word poet, hip hop artist, filmmaker, humanitarian, and author. He is the founder of The Traveling Poet Project....
– actor - Vahram SahakianVahram SahakianVahram Sahakian is an Armenian dramatists, film director and actor.-Dramaturgy:* * *Why roars City * *Hello, I'm Staying *...
– playwright and actor - Adrienne BarbeauAdrienne BarbeauAdrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay in the sitcom Maude...
– film actress - Eric BogosianEric BogosianEric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,...
– playwright and performance artist - Arthur Edmund CareweArthur Edmund CareweArthur Edmund Carewe , was an Armenian-American actor in the silent and early sound film era.-Early life:Born Hovsep Hovsepian in Trabzon , Ottoman Empire, Carewe was from a prosperous family in his native country...
– actor, The Phantom of the OperaThe Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force...
, Mystery of the Wax Museum - Mike ConnorsMike ConnorsMike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in...
– TV actor - Ken DavitianKen DavitianKenneth "Ken" Davitian is an American actor who is best known for his role as Borat's producer in the 2006 comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, in which he speaks the Eastern dialect of Armenian throughout the film.-Life and...
– actor - Armen DzhigarkhanyanArmen DzhigarkhanyanArmen Dzigarkhanyan is one of the most popular Soviet, Russian and Armenian actors.He starred in dozens of Soviet films and provided the voice for many cartoon characters. He founded his own theater in Moscow.Dzigarkhanyan worked as assistant cameraman at Armenfilm studios in 1953–1954...
– actor - Naz EdwardsNaz EdwardsNaz Edwards is an American voice actress, singer, and Broadway star who is most remembered as the voice of antagonist Queen Beryl in the DiC English version of Sailor Moon. She is of Armenian descent.-External links:*...
– actress - Arlene FrancisArlene FrancisArlene Francis was an American actress, radio talk show host, and game show panelist...
– actress - FeyrouzFeyrouz (actress)Perouz Artin Kalfayan is a famous Egyptian film child actress of Armenian origin. She is the older sister of Nelly ....
– actress - Vilen GalstyanVilen GalstyanVilen Galstyan is an Armenian ballet dancer and actor who was popular in the former U.S.S.R. and especially in Armenia. He is awarded by the People's Artist of Armenia honorary title.-Biography:...
– film actor. Starred in: The Colour of Pomegranates - Michael Goorjian – actor, filmmaker
- Sid HaigSid HaigSid Haig is a American actor. His roles have included acting in Jack Hill's blaxploitation films of the 1970s as well as his role as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie's horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects...
– actor - David HedisonDavid HedisonAlbert David Hedison, Jr. is an Armenian-American film, television, and stage actor. He was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work. In 1959, when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers, NBC insisted that he change his name...
– Armenian-American actor The FlyThe Fly (1958 film)The Fly is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film, directed by Kurt Neumann. The screenplay was written by James Clavell , from the short story "The Fly" by George Langelaan...
, The Lost WorldThe Lost World (1960 film)The Lost World is a 1960 science fiction adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen...
, Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the... - Tulip JoshiTulip JoshiTulip Joshi is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood.-Early life:Joshi was born in Mumbai to a Gujarati Indian father and an Armenian Lebanese mother. She was brought up in Mumbai where she attended the Jamnabai Narsee School, and later Mithibai College from where she graduated majoring...
– actress and model, Indian father, Armenian (from Lebanon) mother - Dmitry KharatyanDmitry KharatyanDmitry Kharatyan is a Russian actor of Armenian descent.He was born in Olmaliq, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union . His debut was in Vladimir Menshov's The Prank in 1977.-External links:*...
– actor - Lubluba – actress
- Kevork MalikyanKevork MalikyanKevork Malikyan is an English character actor of Armenian descent, perhaps best known for his role as Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade....
- Armenian-British actor Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeIndiana Jones and the Last CrusadeIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
, Flight of the PhoenixFlight of the Phoenix (2004 film)Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of a 1965 film, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive a plane crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new plane out of the old one to escape. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Tyrese... - Andrea MartinAndrea MartinAndrea Louise Martin is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.-Personal life:Martin, the oldest of three...
– actress, My Big Fat Greek WeddingMy Big Fat Greek WeddingMy Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 Canadian and American romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The film is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos , a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper middle class "White... - Frunzik Mkrtchyan – actor. Was the most famous and internationally recognized Armenian artist of the 2nd half of 20th century.
- Vladimir MsryanVladimir MsryanVladimir Ivanovich Msryan was an Armenian stage and film actor.Msryan was born in Ordzhonikidze, Russia. From 1958 to 1962 he studied drama at the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute. He performed at the Yerevan Drama Theater from 1966 onwards...
– actor. - Michael PoghosyanMichael PoghosyanMichael Movsesi Poghosyan is an Armenian film and theatre actor and judge on the Armenian version of Pop Idol....
– actor - Akim TamiroffAkim TamiroffAkim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.Tamiroff was born in Tiflis, Russian Empire , of Armenian ethnicity. He trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the U.S. in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors...
– actor - Dita Von TeeseDita Von TeeseDita Von Teese is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.-Early life:...
– Armenian-American actress, burlesque artist, The Death of Salvador DaliThe Death of Salvador DaliThe Death of Salvador Dalí is a short film written and directed by Delaney Bishop. The plot of this fantasy film involves Salvador Dalí consulting Sigmund Freud on how to depict madness in his artwork.-Cast:*Dita Von Teese - Gala Dalí... - Leonid YengibarovLeonid YengibarovLeonid Georgievich Yengibarov was a Soviet clown and actor.Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955 he joined the State School of Circus Art, Clownship department...
– actor - Andy SerkisAndy SerkisAndrew Clement G. "Andy" Serkis is an English actor, director and author. He is popularly known for playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he earned several award nominations, including the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Two Towers...
- actor, The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings film trilogyThe Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter... - Eddie CibrianEddie CibrianEdward Carl "Eddie" Cibrian is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Cole Deschanel on Sunset Beach, Jesse Cardoza in CSI: Miami, Jimmy Doherty on Third Watch and Russell Varon in Invasion.-Early life and career:...
- actor, Young & The Restless, Third Watch. (Is Half-Armenian on mother's side.) - Kim KardashianKim KardashianKimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian is an American socialite, television personality, model, actress and businesswoman. She is known for the E! reality series that she shares with her family—Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and its spin-offs including Kourtney and Kim Take New York...
- actress, socialite and model - Valerie Boolootian McCaffrey - producer, casting director
- Aracy Balabanian - famous actress in Brazil
Art
- List of Armenian architects
- List of Armenian artists
- Vako Armeno Khakhamian
Authors
- List of Armenian authors of V—XVIII centuries
- Moses of Chorene – (410–490) father of Armenian historiography
- Khachatur AbovianKhachatur AbovianKhachatur Abovian ; ) was an Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century who mysteriously vanished in 1848 and was presumed dead. He was an educator, poet and an advocate of modernization...
– (1805–1842) writer - Nicholas AdontzNicholas AdontzNicholas Adontz was a prominent Armenian historian, specialist of Byzantine and Armenian studies, and philologist. Adontz was the author of the Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.-Early...
– (1871–1942) historian and philologist - Ghazaros AghayanGhazaros AghayanGhazaros Aghayan was an Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure....
– (1840–1911) writer - Vittoria AganoorVittoria AganoorVittoria Aganoor was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry.She was the 7th child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina Pacini, lots of Italian celebrities, such as Andrea Maffei or Antonio Fogazzaro, visited their home when she was a child.In 1876 she went living to Naples, where she met Enrico...
– (1855–1910) poet - Michael ArlenMichael ArlenMichael Arlen , original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England...
– (1895–1956) British-Armenian writer - Artine ArtinianArtine ArtinianArtine Artinian was a French literature scholar of Armenian descent, notable for his manuscript collection, who was immortalized as a fictional character by Gore Vidal.-Background:...
– (1907–2005) literature scholar - Gheorghe AsachiGheorghe AsachiGheorghe Asachi was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation...
– (1788–1869) writer, poet, historian, painter - AtrpetAtrpetSargis Mubayeajian , better known by his pen name Atrpet , was a prolific and multifarious Armenian writer....
– (1860–1937) writer - Marietta ShaginyanMarietta ShaginyanMarietta Sergeevna Shaginian was a Soviet writer and public activist. She was one of the outstanding communist female-authors with broad philosophical and social views....
– (1888—1982) famous Russian writer - Axel BakuntsAxel BakuntsAksel Bakunts was an Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and public activist.-Biography:Aksel Bakunts was born in 1899 in Goris and educated at the Gevorkian Seminary in Echmiadzin. Always outspoken, his first publication, a satirical account of the mayor of Goris, earned him a stint...
– (1889–1937) writer - George StambolianGeorge StambolianGeorge Stambolian was an American educator, writer, and editor of Armenian descent. Stambolian was a key figure in the early gay literary movement that came out of New York during the 1960s and 1970s...
– (1937–1991) a key figure in the early gay literary movement in New York - Peter BalakianPeter BalakianPeter Balakian is a poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University.- Life :...
– (born 1951) author - Ara BaliozianAra BaliozianAra Baliozian is an Armenian author, translator, and critic, born in Athens, Greece on December 10, 1936. He received his education at the Mekhitarist College of Moorat-Raphael in Venice, Italy, where he also studied economics and political science at the University of Ca Foscari. He now lives in...
– (born 1936) man of letters - David BarsamianDavid BarsamianDavid Barsamian is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer, and the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the Boulder, Colorado-based syndicated weekly talk program heard on some 125 radio stations in various countries....
– writer, radio host - Hrair Grigorian - Poet (Yerevan 1909-Los Angeles 1990)
- Rick BayanRick BayanRichard Paul Bayan is a U.S. author, webmaster and advertising copywriter, best known for his advertising thesaurus Words That Sell, his trenchant satirical lexicon, The Cynic's Dictionary, and his darkly humorous online essays....
– (born 1950) essayist, humorist and philosopher - A.I. Bezzerides – (1908–2007) screenwriter and novelist
- Chris BohjalianChris BohjalianChristopher Aram Bohjalian, who goes by the pen name Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist. Bohjalian is the author of 14 novels, including New York Times bestsellers Midwives, "Secrets of Eden," The Law of Similars, Before You Know Kindness, The Double Bind and Skeletons at the Feast...
– novelist - Gary BraverGary BraverGary Braver is the pen name of Gary Goshgarian, a science fiction and thriller novelist and professor of English Literature at Northeastern University, Boston.- As an Author :...
– fiction writer - Michael Casey – (born 1947) poet
- James Der DerianJames Der DerianJames Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program...
– international relations researcher and author - Gevorg EminGevorg Emin- Biography :Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family left Ashtarak and moved to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In 1936 he finished secondary school; in 1940 he graduated from the local Polytechnical Institute as a hydraulic engineer...
– (1918–1998) poet, essayist, and translator - Gregory of NarekGregory of NarekGrigor Narekatsi is a canonized saint. He was an Armenian monk, poet, mystical philosopher and theologian, born into a family of writers. His father, Khosrov, was an archbishop...
(Krikor Naregatsi) – (951-1003) religious poet - Arto Der HaroutunianArto Der HaroutunianArto der Haroutunian was a celebrated British cook, artist, translator and writer.- Background :Arto Der Haroutunian was born in 1940 in Aleppo, Syria to Armenian parents....
– (1940–1987) author - Zbigniew HerbertZbigniew HerbertZbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers...
– (1924–1998) Polish poet. - Garabet IbrăileanuGarabet IbraileanuGarabet Ibrăileanu was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, Iaşi University professor , and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viaţa Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930...
– (1871–1936) writer, literary critic, professor - Avetik IsahakyanAvetik IsahakyanAvetik Isahakyan , Ghazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri, Russian Empire – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist.-Biography:...
– (1885–1957) poet - Tadeusz Isakowicz-ZaleskiTadeusz Isakowicz-ZaleskiTadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski is a Polish Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic priest, author and activist...
– (born 1956) Polish Armenian-catholic priest and author - Artashes Kalantarian - (1931-1991) Journalist, writer, playwright
- Silva KaputikyanSilva KaputikyanSirvard Barunaki "Silva" Kaputikyan was a 20th century prominent Armenian poet, writer, academian and public activist....
– (1919–2006) poet - Martiros KavoukjianMartiros KavoukjianArmenia, Subartu And Sumeris inspired by the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins. It seeks to establish an ethnic Armenian identity for the Armani mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani-Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-Sumer relations"...
– (1908–1988) Armenologist - Nancy KricorianNancy KricorianNancy Kricorian is an American author of the novels Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and Fire ....
– writer, activist - Jan LechońJan LechonLeszek Józef Serafinowicz was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.-Life:Lechoń studied Polish language and literature at Warsaw University, by...
– (1899–1956) (Leszek Józef Serafinowicz), Polish poet. - M. M. MangasarianM. M. MangasarianMangasar Magurditch Mangasarian was an American rationalist and secularist.Born in Mashger in the Ottoman Empire, he attended Robert College in Constantinople, and was ordained as minister in Marsovan in 1878. In about 1880 he enrolled at Princeton University...
– (1859–1943) writer - Zara Mgoyan – (born July 26, 1983 ) Singer
- Claude MutafianClaude MutafianClaude Mutafian is a mathematician and a historian who specializes in Armenian history.Born in 1942 in Clamart, France, Claude Mutafian is an associate professor of mathematics and senior lecturer from the Paris 13 University in Villetaneuse...
– (born 1942) historian and mathematician - Sayat Nova – poet, (1712–1795) philosopher and poet
- Joseph OrbeliJoseph OrbeliJoseph Orbeli , 1887 – February 2, 1961) was a renowned Soviet orientalist and academician of Armenian descent who specialized in medieval history of Southern Caucasus and administered the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951...
– (1887–1961) Orientalist - George Ouzounian (known as "Maddox") – (born 1978) author, satirist and webmaster
- Raffi (Hagop Hagopian) – (1835–1888) novelist and poet
- Aram SaroyanAram SaroyanAram Saroyan is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. There has been a resurgence of interest in his work in the 21st century, evidenced by the publication in 2007 of several previous collections reissued together as Complete Minimal Poems.- Biography :Saroyan was born...
– (born 1943) poet, novelist - William SaroyanWilliam SaroyanWilliam Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...
– (1908–1981) short story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist and memoirist - Paruyr SevakParuyr SevakParuyr Rafaeli Ghazaryan was an Armenian poet. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the twentieth century. -Biography:...
– (1924–1971) poet - Smbat ShahazizSmbat ShahazizSmbat Shahaziz was an Armenian educator, poet and publicist.-Biography:Born in a family of a priest, he was the youngest of six brothers. He was home schooled until the age 10, and then sent to Lazarian College in Moscow...
– (1840–1908) writer - Levon ShantLevon ShantLevon Shant , was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation.- Biography :He was a life-long member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and is the namesake of the ARF's Shant Student Association.Attended Armenian school at Scutari until...
– (1869–1951) playwright, novelist - Hovhannes ShirazHovhannes ShirazHovhannes Shiraz was a notable Armenian poet.- Biography :He was born Hovhannes Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire . His first work called Beginning of Spring was published in 1935...
– (1915–1984) poet - Alexander MovsesyanAlexander ShirvanzadeAlexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist...
– playwright and novelist - SiamantoSiamantoAtom Yarjanian , better known by his pen name Siamanto , was an influential Armenian writer, poet and national figure from the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was killed by the Ottoman authorities during the Armenian Genocide.- Life :He was born in 1878, in the town on Ağın on the...
– (1878–1915) poet and martyr - Juliusz Słowacki – (1809–1849) Polish poet.
- Szymon SzymonowicSzymon SzymonowicSzymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."-Life:Szymonowic studied in Poland , France and Belgium...
– (1558–1629) Polish Renaissance poet. - Serj TankianSerj TankianSerj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
– (born 1967) singer, songwriter - Vahan TekeyanVahan TekeyanVahan Tekeyan was an Armenian poet and public activist.-Biography:Tekeyan has worked as a newspaper editor in Beirut and Cairo, a teacher, and a social worker....
– (1878–1948) writer - Ashot Rustavelian - (532-610) writer
- Henri TroyatHenri TroyatHenri Troyat was a Russian born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.-Biography:Troyat was born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian, Russian, German and Georgian...
(born Levon Aslan Torossian) – (1911–2007) author - Hovhannes TumanyanHovhannes TumanyanHovhannes Tumanyan , is considered to be one of the greatest Armenian poets and writers. His work was mostly written in tragic form, often centering on the harsh lives of villagers in the Lori region.-Biography:...
– (1869–1923) novelist - Kate L. TurabianKate L. TurabianKate Larimore Turabian was an American educator who is best known for her book A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. In 2007 the University of Chicago Press published the 7th edition of the book...
– (1893–1987) educator - VarandVarandVarand Varand Varand (also known as Soukias Hacob Koorkchian born March 10, 1954, Tehran is an Iranian poet, playwright, lyricist, author, translator and painter of Armenian descent. He has published 27 collections of poetry since 1972....
– (Born 1954), Armenian PoetArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, Writer, Translator, Painter, Professor of Armenian LiteratureArmenian literature-Early literature:Armenian literature begins about 406 with the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop.Isaac, the Catholicos of Armenia, formed a school of translators who were sent to Edessa, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea in Cappadocia, and elsewhere, to procure...
, Several Prize Recipient - Vartan PashaVartan PashaVartan Pasha was an Ottoman Armenian statesman, author and journalist of the 19th century, promoted to the rank of "Pasha" after three decades in the service of the state...
– an Ottoman Armenian statesman, writer and journalist of the 19th century, author of the first Turkish-Armenian romance novel "Akabi's Story", published in 1851 in Turkish in the Armenian script. - Alexander Varbetian – (born 1943) Armenologist and ethnologist
- Francis VeberFrancis VeberFrancis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and theater playwright. Many of his French comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin...
– (born 1937) screen writer - Thomas WoodsThomas WoodsThomas E. "Tom" Woods, Jr. is an American historian, economist, political analyst, and New York Times-bestselling author. He has written extensively on the subjects of American history, contemporary politics, and economic theory...
– (born 1972) author and scholar - Perch ZeytuntsyanPerch ZeytuntsyanPerch Zeytuntsyan is an Armenian playwright and screenwriter who served as Minister of Culture of Armenia from 1990 to 1991.-Early Life and Works:...
– (born 1938) novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and Minister of Culture of Armenia from 1990-1991 - Sarkis Vahaken - (born 1927 in Beirut) Playwright, short stories and novel writer, essayist, living in Los Angeles Sinve 1987.
Country
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Entertainment
- Ed AlberianEd AlberianEd Alberian was a stage and television actor and entertainer who began his career in off-Broadway and Broadway productions, and moved into the nascent television industry, where his work was oriented to children's programming and clowning...
– (1920–1997) children's television actor and entertainer - Haig ActerianHaig ActerianHaig Acterian was a Romanian film and theater director, critic, dramatist, poet, journalist, and fascist political activist...
– (1904–1943) Romanian film and Theater director - Aram AvakianAram AvakianAram A. Avakian was an American film editor and director.Directed ground-breaking indie film End of the Road- Life and work :...
- (1926-1987) American movie director & editor - Tina KandelakiTina KandelakiTina Kandeláki is a Russian journalist, young politician, TV presenter and producer. A co-owner of the Apostol Media Group company.- Bio :Tina’s father Givi Kandelaki was an economist and the director of a vegetable depot in Tbilisi. Lived in Moscow after his retirement. Givi Kandelaki is...
– Russian television personality - Jeff Bozz Bozigian – Star of reality show and co-owner, Sunset TanSunset TanSunset Tan was an American reality television program that aired on the E! cable television network. The series chronicles the lives of the managers and employees of a tanning salon in Los Angeles called Sunset Tan. Season Two finished September 28, 2008...
- Pierre ChammassianPierre ChammassianPierre Chammassian is a stand up comic famous in Lebanon for Arabs and Armenians alike, and is also popular in the Armenian Diaspora. He is known especially for his performance as Batale.-career:...
– comedian - David DickinsonDavid DickinsonDavid Dickinson is an English antiques expert, television presenter and entrepreneur.-Biography:...
– (born 1941) British television personality - George DuranGeorge DuranGeorge Duran is an American chef and entertainer who is currently a spokesman in commercials for Hunt's tomatoes. He also became host of TLC's Ultimate Cake Off in its second season.-Biography:...
– (born 1975) entertainer - Atom EgoyanAtom EgoyanAtom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
– (born 1960) film director - Leslie ErganianLeslie ErganianLeslie Erganian, is an American artist, television correspondent, and arts education advocate. Her multi-disciplinary work is influenced by the Surrealists and often incorporates found objects and photographic images into collage and assemblage constructions and installations...
– artist and television personality - Howard KazanjianHoward KazanjianHoward G. Kazanjian is an American film producer, former Vice President of Lucasfilm, LTD and a published non-fiction author. Of Armenian descent, Kazanjian is an active member of the Armenian charity and cultural community, and a USC alumnus....
– (born 1942) producer - Eddy Kazassian - Bulgarian Entertainer
- Edmond KeosayanEdmond KeosayanEdmond Gareginovich Keosayan was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician.1952-54 - worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56 - studied in Plekhanov Moscow Institute of Economy. 1956-58 - studied in Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, worked as a compere. 1964 - graduated from the...
– (1936–1994) film director - Alek KeshishianAlek KeshishianAlek Keshishian is a Lebanese-born Armenian film director. He is best known for his 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare, which for a time was the highest-grossing documentary of all time....
– (born 1964) Lebanese-born American film director - Bob KevoianBob KevoianRobert James "Bob" Kevoian is an American radio host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Bob & Tom Show together with his partner, Tom Griswold. The show is broadcast from WFBQ's studios in Indianapolis, Indiana....
– (born 1950) Co-host of the Bob & Tom Show - Vilen Kolouta – (1930–1999) cinematographer
- George Krikorian – (born 1945) Krikorian Premiere Theaters
- Robert Makłowicz – (born 1963) Polish TV personality.
- Henrik MalyanHenrik MalyanHenrik Sureni Malyan was a Soviet Armenian film director and writer.He was born in Telavi, Georgia. Malyan's uncle was famous actor David Malyan. At early ages among with Tigran Petrosian he studied chess, then from 1942 to 1945 he worked as a draftsman and designer at a factory in Tbilisi...
– (born 1925) film writer and director - Rouben MamoulianRouben MamoulianRouben Mamoulian was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.-Biography:Born in Tbilisi, Georgia to an Armenian family, Rouben relocated to England and started directing plays in London in 1922...
– (1897–1987) film and theater director - Andre ManoukianAndré ManoukianAndré Manoukian, is an French-Armenian songwriter, arranger, and jazz musician.Since 2002, he is also one of the four judges in the French version of Pop Idol, Nouvelle Star.-Early years and education:...
– (born 1957) choreographer in FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... - Alain Manoukian - fashion designer FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- Garik MartirosyanGarik MartirosyanGarik Martirosyan is a neurologist, entertainer, TV host, actor, comedian and singer. He's the co-producer and host of the Comedy Club Russia which airs on Russian TV channel ТНТ.- Biography :...
– (born 1974) TV host and comedian - Patrick MasbourianPatrick MasbourianPatrick Masbourian is a coordinator and Canadian director. He was born in 1970 in the United States to Armenian parents. He began his television career while participating in the "Course destination monde", a transmission of the Télévision de Radio-Canada to give a chance to young reporters and...
– (born 1970) Quebec (Canada) television personality - Levon MkrtchyanLevon MkrtchyanMovie director Levon Mkrtchyan , is an Armenian director known for his documentaries, "Davit Anhaght," "Charentz: Known and Unknown Sides", "Jean Garzu", "Mesrop Mashtots", "My Komitas", "And There Was Light", "The Manuscript of Independence" which was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of...
– (born 1953) film director - Yvette NelsonYvette NelsonYvette Stefens Nelson is an American model, actress and Singer-songwriter.-Television and film roles:*The Tonight Show with Jay Leno *Lingerie Bowl *Medium, episode - "In Sickness and Adultery"...
– (born 1972) actress, Singer-songwriterSinger-songwriterSinger-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, model - Michael OmartianMichael OmartianMichael Omartian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in over 350,000,000 albums and CD’s sold worldwide, as a producer, arranger, artist or musician, during a career that has spanned over 38 years...
– (born 1945) music producer of Donna SummerDonna SummerLaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach... - Kev OrkianKev OrkianKev Orkian is a British-Armenian musician, comedian and actor born in London to Armenian parents. He has performed around the world from New York, Los Angeles and Toronto to Dubai, Oman and Australia...
– (born 1974) actor, musician & comedian - Richard OuzounianRichard OuzounianRichard Ouzounian is a Canadian journalist and theatre artist. He is currently the chief theatre critic for the Toronto Star and the Canadian theatre correspondent for Variety.-Life and career:...
– (born 1950) Armenian by adoption; playwright, director, critic, artistic director - Alice PanikianAlice PanikianAlice Panikian is a Bulgarian-born Canadian model who was crowned Miss Universe Canada on March 21, 2006...
– (born 1985) 2006 Miss UniverseMiss UniverseMiss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
Canada - Sergei Parajanov – (1924–1990) filmmaker
- Rob ParavonianRob ParavonianRob Paravonian is a comedian, best known for his "Pachelbel Rant" which parodies the use of the chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in many popular songs.-Music:...
- comedian, musician - Artavazd Ashoti PeleshyanArtavazd Ashoti PeleshyanArtavazd Ashoti Peleshyan is an Armenian director of film-essays, a documentarian in the history of film art and a film theorist...
– film director - Yevgeny PetrosyanYevgeny PetrosyanYevgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan is a Soviet/Russian comedian of Armenian and Jewish descents. He was named in 2005 among the most influential figures in contemporary Russia, in a survey conducted by independent polling agency The Levada Centre...
– (born 1945) comedian - Deran SarafianDeran SarafianDeran Sarafian is an Armenian-American Actor, film and television Director.Sarafian has directed several episodes of the FOX series House and was made a Co-executive producer of the show for the 2007/08 season...
– (born 1968) television director - Arthur Sarkissian – screenwriter (Rush Hour 1, 2 & 3)
- Cherylin Sarkisian LaPiere – (born 1946) a.k.a. CherCherCher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
– singer, actress - Karen ShakhnazarovKaren ShakhnazarovKaren Georgievich Shakhnazarov is a Soviet and Russian-Armenian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the Director General of the Mosfilm studios in 1998.Shakhnazarov is the son of a prominent politician of Armenian descent, Georgy Shakhnazarov....
– (born 1952) filmmaker, producer and head of the MosfilmMosfilmMosfilm is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein , to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic Война и Мир...
studios - Yevgeny VakhtangovYevgeny VakhtangovYevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Vakhtangov was born to Armenian-Russian parents from Ossetia in Vladikavkaz...
– (1883–1922) theater director - Mikhail VartanovMikhail VartanovMikhail Vartanov . Film director, cinematographer, documentarian, essayist, photographer and artist who developed a style of documentary filmmaking termed the “direction of undirected action.”...
– (1937-2009) filmmaker - Henri VerneuilHenri VerneuilHenri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...
– (1920–2002) filmmaker - Tigran XmalianTigran XmalianTigran Khzmalyan is an independent Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.-Education:*1979-1984 - Yerevan State University, Department of Philology*1990-1992 - Moscow Highest Courses for Film Directors, Russia...
(aka Khzmalyan) – (born April 8, 1963) Independent Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer - Steven ZaillianSteven ZaillianSteven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director, film editor, producer, and founder of Film Rites, a film production company. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and Gangs of New York...
– (born 1953) screenwriter, producer - Khloé Kardashian Odom - Reality Television Personality,Socialite and Model
- Kourtney KardashianKourtney KardashianKourtney Mary Kardashian is an American businesswoman, socialite, model, actress and reality television personality who gained fame as a cast member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, and Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami.She is the oldest child of Kris Jenner and...
- Reality Television Personality, Socialite and Model. - Charla and Mirna - Amazing Race season 5 contestants
Journalists
- Alexandra Avakian - photojournalist
- Ben BagdikianBen BagdikianBen Haig Bagdikian is an American educator and journalist. Bagdikian has made journalism his profession since 1941. He is a significant American media critic and the dean emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
– (born 1920) former editor in chief of Washington Post - John Roy CarlsonJohn Roy CarlsonJohn Roy Carlson is one of the many pen names of Avedis Boghos Derounian, the journalist and best-selling author of Under Cover....
– (1909–1991) best-selling author of Under Cover - Hrant DinkHrant DinkHrant Dink or Հրանտ Դինք ) was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent editor, journalist and columnist....
– (1954–2007) executive editor of Turkish-Armenian newspaper AgosAgosAgos is an Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. It was established on 5 April 1996. Today, it has a circulation of over 9,000. It has both Armenian and Turkish pages as well as an on-line English edition... - George DonikianGeorge Donikian-Radio career:George commenced his media career as an announcer with Radio station 4AM in far North Queensland in the mid 1970s, and was soon lured in a southerly direction and arrived at 2WL in Wollongong, New South Wales....
– news anchor in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - Sergei Dovlatov – (1941–1990) columnist, contributor of New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
- John GarabedianJohn GarabedianJohn H. Garabedian is an American radio personality and disc jockey, known as the host of Open House Party. He has been involved in Massachusetts radio and television stations for around fifty years. John lives in Southborough, Massachusetts....
– radio host - David IgnatiusDavid IgnatiusDavid R. Ignatius , is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He also co-hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues at Washingtonpost.com, with Newsweek 's Fareed Zakaria...
– (born 1950) associate editor of Washington Post - Bedros HadjianBedros HadjianBedros Hadjian is a Buenos Aires-based Armenian writer, educator and journalist. In 1954, he became the headteacher of the Armenian school of Deir el Zor, in northern Syria, one of the destination points of Armenians marched off by Ottoman authorities during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.After...
- writer, journalist and educator. - Bedros HadjianBedros HadjianBedros Hadjian is a Buenos Aires-based Armenian writer, educator and journalist. In 1954, he became the headteacher of the Armenian school of Deir el Zor, in northern Syria, one of the destination points of Armenians marched off by Ottoman authorities during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.After...
– is a Buenos Aires-based Armenian writer, educator and journalist. - Kevork Ajemian – (1932–1998) was a prominent Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, one of the founders of ASALAAsalaAsala may refer to:* Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization.* Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer* Al Asalah, a Salafist political party in Bahrain...
military organization. - Armen KeteyianArmen KeteyianArmen Keteyian is an American television journalist and author. He is currently CBS News' Chief Investigative Correspondent based out of New York, reporting primarily for the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, while also contributing to 60 Minutes.-Early life and career:Keteyian was born in...
– (born 1953) reporter - Nicolas Kristof – (born 1959) correspondent of New York Times
- Tim KurkjianTim KurkjianTim Kurkjian is a Major League Baseball analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. He is also a contributor to ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com. He guests on Mike and Mike in the Morning on Thursdays at 7:44 AM, discussing the latest in happenings in Major League Baseball...
– (born 1956) analyst at ESPNESPNEntertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming.... - Lara SetrakianLara SetrakianLara Setrakian is an American correspondent for Bloomberg Television and ABC News based in Dubai.Lara is an international news reporter with a focus on political economy. Setrakian was instrumental in Bloomberg Television’s live on the ground coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution...
– journalist and political analyst for Bloomberg TelevisionBloomberg TelevisionBloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
and ABC NewsABC NewsABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company... - Janet ShamlianJanet ShamlianJanet Shamlian is a national correspondent for NBC News and appears on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC. She is a contributor to the prime time news magazine Dateline NBC and to CNBC, the business news channel owned and operated by NBC Universal....
– NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
correspondent - Margarita SimonyanMargarita SimonyanMargarita Simonyan is a Russian journalist of Armenian descent. She is the chief editor at Russia Today.- References :...
– Russia TodayRussia TodayRussia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
's chief editor - Roger TatarianRoger TatarianH. Roger Tatarian was vice-president and editor-in-chief of United Press International, a worldwide news-reporting service that supplied stories to thousands of newspapers, magazines, and broadcast outlets.-Background and youth:...
– (1917–1995) senior VP of United Press InternationalUnited Press InternationalUnited Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century... - Philip TerzianPhilip TerzianPhilip Terzian is an American journalist and has been Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine in Washington, D.C. since February 2005...
– (born 1950) editor at Weekly Standard - Matt VasgersianMatt VasgersianMatt Vasgersian is an American sportscaster and television host. Vasgersian is a host for the MLB Network and has served as an announcer for NBC Sports' coverage of the Olympics, and on Fox Sports' MLB coverage...
– (born 1967) sportscaster - Anita VogelAnita VogelAnita Vogel is an American news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She has been with the network since 2001 and is based in Los Angeles. Previously she was a reporter for WTLV in Jacksonville....
– news correspondent of Fox News
Medicine
- George AghajanianGeorge AghajanianGeorge Aghajanian is professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine . He has been a pioneer in the area of neuropharmacology. He discovered the mechanisms by which LSD produces hallucinations and he has also uncovered how atypical antipsychotic drugs work...
– physician, neuropharmacologist and pioneer in serotonin receptor research. - Roger AltounyanRoger AltounyanRoger Edward Collingwood Altounyan was an Armenian physician and pharmacologist who pioneered the use of sodium cromoglycate as a remedy for asthma...
– asthma researcher, pharmacologist who pioneered use of cromolyn sodium inhalation therapy for asthma - A.V. Apkarian – pioneer in magnetic resonance spectroscopy research of the brain
- Viken BabikianViken BabikianDr. Viken L. Babikian is an American doctor and professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Babikian attended the medical school at the American University of Beirut. He then went on to complete his Neurology residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and a stroke...
– cardiovascular researcher - Aram ChobanianAram ChobanianAram V. Chobanian was president ad interim of Boston University from 2003 until June 9, 2005, when, in recognition of Chobanian’s work, the Board of Trustees voted to remove “ad interim” from his title and designate him the ninth president of Boston University. He had succeeded controversial B.U...
– Dean, Boston UniversityBoston UniversityBoston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
School of Medicine, leader in cardiology research - Raymond V. DamadianRaymond V. DamadianRaymond Vahan Damadian is an Armenian American medical practitioner and inventor of the first MR Scanning Machine. His research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance which caused him to first propose the MR body scanner in 1969...
– inventor of MRI, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of FameNational Inventors Hall of FameThe National Inventors Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recognizing, honoring and encouraging invention and creativity through the administration of its programs. The Hall of Fame honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human,... - Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham – surgeon, pioneer in minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery
- Albert KapikianAlbert KapikianDr. Albert Kapikian is an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.He is the 13th recipient of this recognition,awarded...
– virologist and pioneer in vaccine development for rotavirus. - Varaztad KazanjianVaraztad KazanjianDr. Varaztad Kazanjian was an oral surgeon, of Armenian descent, who pioneered techniques for plastic surgery and is considered to be the founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery. He graduated from Harvard Dental School in 1905...
– Father & Pioneer of Plastic surgeryPlastic surgeryPlastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand... - J. W. Kebabian – neuroscientist and pioneer in dopamine receptor research
- Jack KevorkianJack KevorkianJacob "Jack" Kevorkian , commonly known as "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist, euthanasia activist, painter, composer and instrumentalist. He is best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide; he said he assisted at least 130 patients to...
– pathologist, euthanasiaEuthanasiaEuthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....
activist - Zaven KhatchaturianZaven KhatchaturianDr. Zaven Khachaturian is a neuroscientist and a pioneer in Alzheimer's disease research.Khachaturian previously worked for the National Institute on Aging. He is currently the head of research at the Alzheimer's Association in the United States. He was named the editor of the journal Alzheimer's...
– neuroscientist; Alzheimer's diseaseAlzheimer's diseaseAlzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
researcher - Edward KhantzianEdward KhantzianDr. Edward J. Khantzian is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse which states that individuals abuse drugs in attempt to self-medicate....
– Harvard psychiatrist; developed self medication hypothesis of substance abuse - Leon OrbeliLeon OrbeliLevon Orbeli was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR. He was a member of the Academies of Science of USSR and Armenian SSR...
– (1882–1958) physiologist, who known as the founder and pioneer of the Evolutionary Physiology. - Michel (Michael) Ter-PogossianMichel (Michael) Ter-PogossianMichel M. Ter-Pogossian was an Armenian-American physicist who is one of the fathers of positron emission tomography , the first functional brain imaging technology...
– inventor of PET scan, which has revolutionized the understanding of how the brain functions - John S. Najarian – developed the practice of organ transplantation in medicine, “a giant of 20th century medicine” whose intelligence, genius, and skill in the operating room have allowed him to pioneer an entire field of medicine.
Military
- Ioan Vodă cel CumplitIoan Voda cel CumplitJohn III the Terrible , also John III the Brave or John III the Armenian was Voivode of Moldavia between February 1572 and June 1574....
– (1521–1574) Voivode of Moldavia - Israel OriIsrael OriIsrael Ori was a prominent figure of the Armenian national liberation movement and a diplomat that sought the liberation of Armenia from Persia and the Ottoman Empire.-Early life:...
– (1658–1711) Leader of Armenian national movementArmenian national movementArmenian national movement, also known as the "Armenian revolutionary movement" and Armenian national liberation movement was the Armenian national effort to re-establish an Armenian state in the historic Armenian homelands of eastern Asia Minor and the Transcaucasus... - Joseph EminJoseph EminJoseph Emin , was a prominent figure of the Armenian national liberation movement who travelled to various European countries and Russia in order to secure support for the liberation of Armenia from Persia and the Ottoman Empire...
– (1726-1809) Leader of Armenian national movementArmenian national movementArmenian national movement, also known as the "Armenian revolutionary movement" and Armenian national liberation movement was the Armenian national effort to re-establish an Armenian state in the historic Armenian homelands of eastern Asia Minor and the Transcaucasus... - Basentsi AzoyanBasentsi AzoyanBasentsi Azoyan was a Major-General and chief of the Intelligence Department of the Armenian armed forces general staff....
– (1947–2006) Major-General of the Armenian armed forces. - Hamazasp Babadjanian – (1906–1977); Chief Marshal of the Armored troops of the USSR.
- Ivan Bagramian – (1897–1982) Soviet Marshal; Deputy Minister of Defense, World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
CommanderCommanderCommander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...
of a Front. - Philaretos BrachamiosPhilaretos BrachamiosPhilaretos Brachamios was a distinguished Byzantine general and warlord of Armenian heritage, and for a time was a usurper against emperor Michael VII...
– Late Roman (Byzantine) general. - Gayk BzhishkyanGayk BzhishkyanHayk Bzhishkyan |Russian]]: Гайк Бжишкян, also known as Guy Dmitrievich Guy, Gai Dmitrievich Gai , Gaya Gai , or Bzhishkyan, –December 11, 1937), was a Soviet military commander of the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War.-Biography:Hayk was an ethnic Armenian born in Tabriz, Iran to a family...
– (1887–1937) Soviet military commander. - Gurgen Dalibaltayan – colonel-general, Armenian Armed Forces.
- Mikael HarutyunyanMikael HarutyunyanMikael Harutyunyan was the 7th Defence Minister of Armenia from April 4, 2007 until April 14, 2008. As of April 14, 2008 he has been serving as Chief Military Inspector and Presidential Advisor to the President of Armenia.-Early life:...
– (born 1946) 7th Defence Minister. - Paul Ignatius – (born 1920) United States Assistant Secretary of DefenseUnited States Assistant Secretary of DefenseAssistant Secretary of Defense is a title used for many executive positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense within the United States Department of Defense. Reorganization Plan No.6 of 30 June 1953 increased the number of assistant secretaries...
(Installations and Logistics); US SecretarySecretaryA secretary, or administrative assistant, is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication & organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one other employee or may be for the benefit...
of the NavyNavyA navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...
. - Ivan Stepanovich Isakov – (1894–1967); Soviet Admiral; Chief of Main headquarters of Soviet NavySoviet NavyThe Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...
, World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. - Drastamat KanayanDrastamat KanayanGeneral Drastamat Kanayan , known as General Dro, Դրօ, May 31, 1884 March 8, 1956), was a politician, revolutionary, military commander of Hitler’s Armenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, and part of Armenian national liberation movement as a member of the A.R.F...
(1884–1956) Commander of the Armenian Legion - Rafael Ivanovich KapreliantsRafael Ivanovich KapreliantsRafael Ivanovich Kapreliants was a Soviet Armenian first class pilot, Honorary test-pilot of USSR, a Hero of the Soviet Union and the holder of 10 world records for helicopters....
– (1909–1984) pilot and Air Force commander. - KekaumenosKekaumenosKekaumenos is the family name of the otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Graeco-Armenian origin and the grandson of the doux of Hellas...
– Late Roman (Byzantine) general; author. - Sergei KhudyakovSergei KhudyakovSergei Alexandrovich Khudyakov , born Armenak Artem Khanferiants , was a Soviet Armenian chief Marshal of the Air Force.Armenak Khanferiants was born in 1902 in Mets Takhlar village of Hadrut, nagorno-karabagh...
– (1901–1950) Chief-Air-Marshal, USSR; commander of the Anti-aircraft warfareAnti-aircraft warfareNATO defines air defence as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground and air based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures. It may be to protect naval, ground and air forces...
of MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. - Ivan Lazarev – (1820–1887) general in the Russian ArmyImperial Russian ArmyThe Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of numerous Balkan...
. - Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-MelikovMikhail Tarielovich Loris-MelikovCount Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov was a Russian-Armenian statesman, General of the Cavalry, and Adjutant General of H. I. M. Retinue....
– (1825 or 1826–1888), General of the Cavalry; Adjutant GeneralAdjutant generalAn Adjutant General is a military chief administrative officer.-Imperial Russia:In Imperial Russia, the General-Adjutant was a Court officer, who was usually an army general. He served as a personal aide to the Tsar and hence was a member of the H. I. M. Retinue...
of the H. I. M. Retinue; Minister of Interior, Russian EmpireRussian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. - Valerian MadatovValerian MadatovPrince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov was an Armenian prince and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire.-Early life:...
– (1782–1829) general. - Monte MelkonianMonte MelkonianMonte Melkonian was a famed Armenian commander during Nagorno-Karabakh war. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war...
– (1957–1993) Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. - NarsesNarsesNarses was, with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the "Reconquest" that took place during Justinian's reign....
– (478-573) Late Roman (Byzantine) general. - Garegin Nzhdeh – (1886–1955) Freedom fighter and World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
General. - Seyran OhanyanSeyran OhanyanSeyran Ohanyan is the current Defence Minister of Armenia. He has held this position since April 14, 2008.-Biography:Ohanyan was born in the town of Shusha, then a part of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union...
– (born 1962) Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia. - Gaik OvakimianGaik OvakimianHaik Badalovich Ovakimian , Major General, USSR , better known as "the puppetmaster" in intelligence circles, was a leading Soviet NKVD spy in the United States....
– (1898–1967) Major General, Soviet spy. - Andranik Ozanian – (1865–1927) World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
General. - Gregory PakourianosGregory PakourianosGregory Pakourianos was a politician and military commander in the Byzantine service. He was the founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God Petritzonitissa in Bachkovo and author of its typikon...
– (? - 1086) general in the Byzantine armyByzantine armyThe Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct descendant of the Roman army, the Byzantine army maintained a similar level of discipline, strategic prowess and organization...
. - Bardas PhocasBardas PhocasBardas Phokas was an eminent Byzantine general who took a conspicuous part in three revolts for and against the ruling Macedonian dynasty.- First rebellion :...
– Late Roman (Byzantine) general. - Yahya Rahim SafaviYahya Rahim SafaviMajor General Yahya Rahim Safavi is an Iranian military commander who served as the Chief commander of the Sepah from September 1, 1997 until September 1, 2007.-Early life:...
- (born 1958) Chief commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards from 1997 to 2007. - Lazar SerebryakovLazar SerebryakovLazar Serebryakov , born in 1795 was a Russian Navy Admiral of Armenian descent. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829, serving in the Black Sea and Baltic fleets, commanding battleships. In 1838, he laid the foundation of the city of Novorossiysk...
– (1795–1862) admiral. - Seyran ShahsuvaryanSeyran ShahsuvaryanSeyran Nickolai Shahsuvaryan is the Press-Secretary of the Defence Minister, Army Colonel of the RA, of Armenia. He was born on August 13, 1953 in Yerevan. He graduated in 1974 from KH.Aboyan State Pedagogic Institute, producer department of the culture faculty. He was trained in Moscow, in the...
– (born 1953) Army Colonel of the RA. - Movses SilikyanMovses SilikyanMovses Silikyan , , Movses Silikov) was a famed Armenian general and national hero of World War I, Major General in the Russian army and subsequently in the Armenian army...
– (1862–1937) Major General; Commander of Armenian troops; hero of Battle of SardarapatBattle of SardarapatThe Battle of Sardarabad or Battle of Sardarapat was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarabad , Armenia from May 21-29, 1918... - Bardas Sklerus – Late Roman (Byzantine) general.
- Ter-GukasovTer-GukasovArshak Ter-Gukasov was the Yerevan Forces commander of Russia's army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878....
– Yerevan Forces commander of Russia's army during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of numerous Balkan...
. - Yeprem KhanYeprem KhanYeprem Khan Davidian , also Yefrem Khan, was an Armenian revolutionary leader and national hero of Persia...
– (1868–1912) Armenian-Iranian revolutionary leader. - Yuri Khachaturov - (born 1952) Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel-General.
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- List of Armenian composers
- Dennis AgajanianDennis AgajanianDennis Agajanian is a Christian musician. Agajanian has played at countless churches across the world, plus he has been featured at the Harvest Crusades and Billy Graham's crusades. He is of Armenian origin. Dennis is a five time Musician of the year, and a three time Entertainer of the year CCMA...
– USA; gospel singer; "Harvest Crusade". - Anahid AjemianAnahid AjemianAnahid Ajemian is an American violinist. Ajemian's career in contemporary music got its impetus from the desire to help young composers of her generation have their compositions performed. Additionally, she enjoyed performing the music of established contemporary performers...
– (born 1924) violinist. - Maro AjemianMaro AjemianMaro Ajemian was an American pianist. Ajemian's career in contemporary music got its impetus from her Armenian heritage; she became known as a contemporary pianist after performing the U.S...
– (1921–1978) pianist. - Irina AllegrovaIrina AllegrovaIrina Aleksandrovna Allegrova is a Russian singer of Russian and Armenian descent.-Biography:Irina Allegrova was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1952. Her Armenian father Alexander Sarkisov took the last name Allegrov as a pseudonym when he was just 17 and Irina was born under the name Allegrova. Her...
– (born 1952) Russia, singer. - Lucine AmaraLucine AmaraLucine Amara is an American soprano who was largely based at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.-Biography:Amara was born Lucine Armaganian in Hartford, Connecticut, of Armenian heritage, before moving to San Francisco where she was raised.She studied at the San Francisco's Community Music School...
– (born 1927) Lucine Tockqui Armaganian, soprano. - Levon AmbartsumianLevon AmbartsumianLevon Ambartsumian is Armenian classical violinist and conductor. Levon Ambartsumian currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, United States....
– (born 1955) classical violinist. - Armen AnassianArmen AnassianArmen Anassian is an Armenian violinist who has played with the Los Angeles Opera and is concertmaster of the Santa Clarita Symphony, in Santa Clarita, California. He has performed in hundreds of concerts around the world with many notable symphony orchestras...
– violinist. - AndréAndré (singer)André, born Andrey Hovnanian is an Armenian singer. He won the Best Male Singer trophy at the Armenian Music Awards in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. In addition, he performs as a actor at the local theater in Stepanakert, in the Nagorno-Karabakh.-Early life :At the age of three André started...
– (born 1979) pop singer. - Andy (Andranik Madadian) – (born 1956) singer
- AnoushkaAnoushkaKartanios Garbis Slim , better known by her stage name Anoushka , is an Egyptian singer and actress.She was born to an Egyptian father and an Armenian mother...
– (born 1960) Egyptian-Armenian singer - Nareh ArghamanyanNareh ArghamanyanNareh Arghamanyan is an Armenian pianist trained at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna under Heinz Medjimorec. She is best known for winning the 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition.-Biography:...
– (born 1989) pianist. - Tigran Arakelyan – (born 1987) flutist/conductor
- Rosy ArmenRosy ArmenRosy Armen , born on May 1, is a French singer of Armenian descent. She is a multilingual singer, with most songs in French and Armenian, but also in English, German, Spanish and Italian.- Biography :...
– FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, singer. - Raffi ArmenianRaffi ArmenianRaffi Armenian, CM is an Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. Since 2008 he has been the director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal....
(born 1942), Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. - Alexander ArutiunianAlexander ArutiunianAlexander Grigorevich Arutiunian , also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի...
– (born 1920) composer. - Şahan ArzruniSahan ArzruniŞahan Arzruni is an Armenian pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, lecturer, writer and producer.Arzruni was born in Istanbul, Turkey, whose family name belongs to an ancient Armenian dynasty...
– (born 1943), pianist. - Aram AsatryanAram AsatryanAram Asatryan was an Armenian pop singer and songwriter known for his energetic concerts and music.- Life :Aram Asatryan was born in Echmiadzin, Armenia, the son of Hapet Asatryan and Ashken Mampreyan. He was born to a refugee family. Ever since his childhood years he had been a prodigal...
– (1953–2006) pop singer. - George AvakianGeorge AvakianGeorge Avakian is an American record producer and executive known particularly for his work with Columbia Records, and his production of albums by Miles Davis and other notable jazz musicians....
– (born 1919) jazz producer. - Artemi AyvazyanArtemi AyvazyanArtemi Ayvazyan was a Soviet Armenian composer, conductor, founder of the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra, and People's Artist of Armenia ....
– (1902–1975) composer - Charles AznavourCharles AznavourCharles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
– (born 1924) FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, singer, songwriter, actor. - Arno Babadzhanian – (1921–1983) composer.
- Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. – (1919–1972) USA, pseudonym "David Seville"; creator of Alvin and the ChipmunksAlvin and the ChipmunksAlvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
. - Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. is an Armenian-American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist and the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.-Life and career:...
– (born 1949) USA, continues work of his father for Alvin and the ChipmunksAlvin and the ChipmunksAlvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
. - Aram Bajakian – (born 1977) USA, guitarist, composer.
- Clint BajakianClint BajakianClint Bajakian is an American video game composer and musician.-Biography:Bajakian was born in Massachusetts, United States. He was linked with music since age of 8. In middle school Bajakian played in marching bands, and also played in range of rock bands...
– USA; composer of video game music. - Ani BatikianAni BatikianAni Batikian is an Armenian violinist currently living in Scotland.-Education:Batikian started her studies at the Yerevan State Conservatoire in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, and was awarded an undergraduate diploma in 2002, followed by a postgraduate diploma with honours in 2003.She...
(born 1982), Armenian violinist living in the UK - Isabel BayrakdarianIsabel BayrakdarianIsabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...
– (born 1974) CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, soprano and engineer. - Aram BedrosianAram BedrosianAram Bedrosian is a bass guitarist known for composing and performing unaccompanied solo bass guitar music. His work has been acknowledged in numerous international publications including Bass Player Magazine, Bass Guitar Magazine and Performer Magazine and he has performed all over North...
-(born 1977) USA, bass player/songwriter - Ara BerberianAra BerberianAra Berberian was an American operatic bass singer.Berberian made his debut in 1958 with the Turnau Opera in Woodstock, New York, as Don Magnifico in Rossini's La Cenerentola. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1979 as Zacharie in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète...
– (1930–2005) opera singer. - Cathy BerberianCathy BerberianCatherine Anahid Berberian was an American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati , Igor Stravinsky.She also interpreted...
– (1925–1983) mezzo-soprano singer. - John BerberianJohn BerberianJohn Berberian is an American musician known for his virtuosity on the oud, the Middle Eastern stringed instrument.Berberian was born in New York City; his parents were Armenian immigrants...
– Oud player, U.S.A. - Herbert von KarajanHerbert von KarajanHerbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...
– orchestra and opera conductor, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
. - Raffi Cavoukian – (born 1948) stage name RaffiRaffi (musician)Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, children's singer, songwriter, musician. - Lena ChamamyanLena ChamamyanLena Chamamyan is a Syrian singer of Armenian descent. Born in Damascus, she started singing at an early age giving her first concert when she was five years old.Through her elementary and secondary education she held many school concerts...
– Syrian-Armenian singer. - CherCherCher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
(Cherilyn Sarkisian) – USA; (born 1946) singer, songwriter, actor, director. - H.A. Der-HovagimianH.A. Der-HovagimianH.A. Der-Hovagimian born in Toronto, Canada, is a Canadian-Armenian music composer, songwriter and producer.He signed his first recording contract with the newly found Hi-Bias Records imprint at the age of 17...
– (a.k.a. DerHova, Mark Ryan) Armenian-Canadian record producer, composer, songwriter and arranger. - Alexey EkimyanAlexey EkimyanAlexey Ekimyan also Alexey Gurgenovich Hekimyan was a famous Armenian-Russian composer, and author of popular songs. Ekimyan was also a General of Soviet militsia and was the head of Criminal Investigation Department of Moscow region...
– (1927–1982) composer. - Stéphan ElmasStéphan Elmas-Life:Elmas was born into a family of wealthy entrepreneurs in Smyrna , a city in the Ottoman Empire. It was soon discovered that the little boy was a child prodigy: he began taking piano lessons and writing short piano pieces under the tutelage of a local music teacher, Mr...
– (1862–1937) composer, pianist. - Patrick FioriPatrick FioriPatrick Fiori is a French singer.-Biography:Fiori was born to an Armenian father and a Corsican mother in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical La légende des santonniers...
– (born 1969) FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
; singer. - Vladimir FontikovVladimir FontikovVladimir Karnikovich Fontikov was a Soviet opera singer best known for his interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Gudunov....
– (1941–1987) Russian Born Armenian Opera Singer. - Nikol GalanderianNikol GalanderianNicol Galanderian is a noted composer of Armenian music and is especially known for vocal, choral and children's works whose primary source of inspiration is folk music and urban folksong.- Biography :...
– (1881–1946) IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, composer. - Ivan GalamianIvan GalamianIvan Alexander Galamian was an influential Armenian violin teacher of the twentieth century.He was born in Tabriz, Iran, but his family soon emigrated to Moscow, Russia. Galamian studied violin at the School of the Philharmonic Society there with Konstantin Mostras until his graduation in 1919...
– (1903-1981) violinist. - Sergio GaloyanSergio GaloyanSergey Galoyan is an ASCAP/PRS Award–winning songwriter/producer and DJ, born in Moscow. He is more commonly known as Sergio Galoyan and is of Armenian descent....
– (born 1981) record producer and songwriter. - Georges GarvarentzGeorges GarvarentzGeorges Garvarentz was an Armenian-French composer, noted for his music for Charles Aznavour's songs.-Biography:Georges Garvarents was born in Athens, Greece, to a family of Armenian immigrants...
– (1932–1993) composer. - Djivan GasparyanDjivan GasparyanDjivan Gasparyan is an Armenian musician and composer. He plays the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gasparyan is known as the Master of the duduk.-Biography:...
– (born 1928) musician, composer. - HaykoHaykoHayk Hakobyan , better known as Hayko , is an Armenian singer who won Armenia's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. He represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest in the final with the song "Anytime You Need"...
– singer. - Inga and Anush ArshakyansInga and Anush ArshakyansInga and Anush Arshakyan , or, the Arshakyan Sisters , are an Armenian folk singing duo. The sisters represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, eventually finishing in 10th place in the final.-Early life:...
- singers - Ara GevorgyanAra GevorgyanAra Gevorgyan is an Armenian musician, composer and musical producer. In 2004 he was awarded by the Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia title by the President Robert Kocharyan.-Biography:...
– (born 1960) Armenia, composer. - Slava GrigoryanSlava GrigoryanSlava Grigoryan is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist of Armenian heritage.He was born in Kazakhstan to Eduard and Irina Grigoryan, both professional violinists. His family emigrated to Australia in 1981 and he was raised in Melbourne. Grigoryan began to study guitar with his...
– (born 1976) guitar virtuoso. - Rouben HakhverdianRouben HakhverdianRuben Hakhverdyan is a popular Armenian poet, guitarist, singer, songwriter and lyricist. Hakhverdyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1950. He attended Yerevan's theater institute and in 1975, earned his degree in television and theater direction. He worked for the city's State Television...
– musician, songwriter. - J. Michael HagopianJ. Michael HagopianJakob Michael Hagopian , was an Armenian-American Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Armenian Genocide survivor.-Biography:Hagopian was born to an Armenian family on 20 October 1913, in Kharpert, Ottoman Empire...
– drummer of Deli Creeps. - Sib HashianSib HashianJohn "Sib" Hashian is a drummer who was a member of the rock band Boston during their first and most successful lineup. Hashian currently lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Sib is of Armenian descent.-Boston years:...
- (born 1949) drummer, was a member of the rock band Boston during their first and most successful lineup. - John HeraldJohn HeraldJohn Herald was an American folk and bluegrass songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio.-Biography:...
– (1939–2005) USA, bluegrass musician. - Alan HovhanessAlan HovhanessAlan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
– (1911–2000) composer. - Vatche HovsepianVatche HovsepianVatche Hovsepian is a duduk player. With Antranik Askarian, he performed the duduk parts on "The Feeling Begins," the first track of Peter Gabriel's Passion, the soundtrack album from Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ...
– musician. - Levon IchkhanianLevon IchkhanianLevon Ichkhanian is a Toronto based guitarist/world stringed instruments specialist, versed in Jazz, World and Traditional music.Ichkhanian was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, of Armenian descent...
– (born 1964) guitarist/multi-instrumentalist. - Alexander KaloianAlexander KaloianAlexander Kaloian born 1962 in Los Angeles, California is an Armenian composer, residing dually in the United States and the Republic of Armenia...
– (born 1962) composer. - Sirvart Karamanuk – (1912–2008) composer.
- Vili Kazassian .- (8.ХІІ.1934 - 12.VІІ.2008) composer, arranger, conductor, pianist
- Udi Hrant KenkulianUdi Hrant KenkulianUdi Hrant Kenkulian , often referred to as Udi Hrant or as Hrant Emre was an oud player of Turkish classical music, and a key transitional figure in its transformation into a contemporary popular music...
– (1901–1978) musician. - François KevorkianFrançois KevorkianFrançois Kevorkian, alias François K, is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner. Having started his career in renowned clubs such as the Paradise Garage and Studio 54, the New York City resident is widely considered as one of the forefathers of house...
– (born 1954) USA, producer and record label owner. - Sergey KhachatryanSergey KhachatryanSergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. He was born in Yerevan in 1985.He made his New York City debut on August 4, 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.-Prizes:...
- (born 1985) youngest violinist winner of Sibelius competition and 2005 winner Queen Elizabeth competition. - Aram KhachaturianAram KhachaturianAram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
– (1903–1978) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, composer. - Ontronik Khachaturian – USA, singer, songwriter, musician, member of VoKeeVoKEEVoKee is an alternative rock, California-based band featuring former Apex Theory vocalist and ex-System of a Down drummer, Ontronik .-Biography:...
, former member of System Of A DownSystem of a DownSystem of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California. The band was formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan...
and The Apex Theory. - Avo Kouyoumdajian – (Austria) first prize at the Sixth International Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1981.
- Matthaniel Kumjian - (born 1985) Armenian rap singer, enjoyed fame as Mixmaster Kumskeet with the Brandywine Killaz.
- Michel LegrandMichel LegrandMichel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
– (born 1932) FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, composer. - Ana LenchantinAna LenchantinAna Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Into the Presence The Eels, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, Brian Wilson, Billy Corgan,...
- Argentine-born American musician. - Paz LenchantinPaz LenchantinPaz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....
– (born 1973) Argentine-born American musician. - Hampartsoum Limondjian – (1768–1839) an Ottoman Armenian composer of Armenian church music and Turkish classical music and musical theorist who developed the Hampartsoum notation system.
- Pavel LisitsianPavel LisitsianPavel Gerasimovich Lisitsian was a Soviet baritone opera singer who performed in the Bolshoi Opera, Moscow from 1940 until his retirement from stage in 1966....
– (1911–2004) RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, opera singer. - Richard HagopianRichard HagopianRichard Avedis Hagopian is an American Oriental-style oud player and traditional Armenian musician.Hagopian was born in Fowler, California. He has been a musician since childhood, learning to play the violin and clarinet at nine years old. He started playing the oud at age of 11...
– (born 1937) musician. - Tigran MansurianTigran MansurianTigran Mansurian is an Armenian composer of classical music and film scores. He was born in Beirut and educated in Yerevan, Armenia, where his family had moved in 1947...
– (born 1939) composer. - Edward ManukyanEdward ManukyanEdward Manukyan is an Armenian-born composer residing in Southern California, United States...
– (born 1981) USA, composer. - Haig MardirosianHaig MardirosianHaig Mardirosian Haig Mardirosian is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa, a concert organist, composer, and conductor. He has performed in many of the most important concert venues throughout North America and Europe...
- (born 1947) USA, organist, conductor, composer, academic. - Edvard MirzoyanEdvard MirzoyanEdvard Mirzoyan , is an Armenian composer.Mirzoyan was born in Gori, Georgia. Initially schooled in music in Yerevan and graduated from the Komitas State Conservatory, Mirzoyan went on to Moscow to further refine his art. In late 1956 he was elected president of the Armenian Composers’ Union, a...
(born 1921) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, composer - Norayr MnatsakanyanNorayr MnatsakanyanNorayr Mnatsakanyan was a Merited Artist of Armenia.As a renowned vocal performer of Armenian traditional and gousan music, Norayr Mnatsakanyan has become one of the most influential vocalists in the canon of Armenian traditional music...
– (1923–1986) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, national singer. - Armen MovsessianArmen MovsessianArmen Movsessian is a violin player. His formal training as a musician began as a child. He received his high school diploma from the Tchaikovsky's School of Music for the musically gifted, and earned his B.A. and Master’s from the Yerevan Conservatory named after Komitas...
– violinist. - Armen NalbandianArmen NalbandianArmen Nalbandian is a jazz pianist, composer & humanitarian.-Music:In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz, improvised and experimental music in California...
– (born 1978) pianist, composer. - Maria NalbandianMaria NalbandianMaria Nalbandian is a Lebanese Armenian singer from Beirut. She was born to a Lebanese father and an Armenian mother and has a younger brother. Currently she is studying Business Marketing. Since Maria was discovered at age 13 she has done many commercials. She won the Miss Bikini Asia 2002 in...
– (born 1983), LebaneseLebanonLebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
singer. - NourhanneNourhanneNourhanne also transliterated as Nourhan, is a Lebanese singer.A Lebanese Armenian, Nourhanne was born to an ethnic Armenian family from Lebanon...
– (born 1977) Egyptian singer from Armenian (Lebanon) parents. - Sayat Nova (Harutin) – (1712–1795) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, GeorgiaGeorgia (country)Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
, folk songwriter-musician, XVIII century. - Bulat OkudzhavaBulat OkudzhavaBulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author song"...
– (1924–1997) Armenian-Georgian musician, poet and editor. - Kev OrkianKev OrkianKev Orkian is a British-Armenian musician, comedian and actor born in London to Armenian parents. He has performed around the world from New York, Los Angeles and Toronto to Dubai, Oman and Australia...
– (born 1974) actor, musician & comedian - Harout PamboukjianHarout PamboukjianHarout Pamboukjian , , is an Armenian American pop singer living in Los Angeles. His Armenian dance, folk and revolutionary songs make him a favorite among Armenians.- Early life :...
– (born 1950) Armenian singer and songwriter. - Hasmik PapianHasmik Papian- Biography :Hasmik Papian graduated from High Academy in Yerevan first as a violinist, then as a singer. After her debut at the Armenian National Opera, she was invited as a soloist among others by Opera Bonn and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany...
– (born 1961) soprano. - Karina PasianKarina PasianKarina Pasian is an American Grammy Award nominated singer and pianist. She is currently signed to Def Jam.-Life and career:...
– (born 1991) Grammy Nominated singer and pianist. - Krzysztof PendereckiKrzysztof PendereckiKrzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
– (born 1933) Polish composer and conductor of classical music. - Konstantin PetrossianKonstantin PetrossianComposer, pianist and conductor Konstantin Petrossian graduated from the R. Melikian Music College and Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia. Petrossian lectured on and taught harmony, theory, and chorale arrangement at R. Melikian Music College...
– (born 1946 ) Composer - Leon RedboneLeon RedboneLeon Redbone is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics....
– (born 1949) USA; neo-vaudeville singer (unconfirmed). - Gevorg SargsyanGevorg SargsyanGevorg Sargsyan is an Armenian conductor.Winner of Sir Georg Solti Foundation grant-award for 2006, Gevorg Sargsyan is one of the youngest and most renowned Armenian conductors....
– (born 1981) Opera-simfonic conductor. - Ghazaros Saryan – (1920–1998) composer.
- Hélène SégaraHélène SégaraHélène Ségara is a French female singer revealed in her interpretation of Esmeralda in the french musical Notre Dame de Paris.-Her childhood in the French Riviera:...
– (born 1971) France, singer. - Nariné SimonianNariné SimonianNarine Simonian is an Armenian-French musical director and producer of operas. Nariné is also an organist, an harpsichord and pianoforte player as well as a pianist, mainly specializing in baroque genre....
– FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Armenian-French pianist, organist, Opera musical director. - Derek SherinianDerek SherinianDerek Sherinian is a rock keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Alice In Chains. He was also a member of Dream Theater and is the founder of the instrumental metal-fusion band Planet X...
– (born 1966) USA, world renowned rock and fusionJazz fusionJazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
keyboardist. - Greg Steele – (born 1963), USA Original guitarist for rock band Faster PussycatFaster PussycatFaster Pussycat is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986. The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their self-titled debut album, their 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over and the 80,000 selling Whipped! in 1992.-The roots of Faster Pussycat...
. - StephanieStephanie (singer)-External links:*...
(born 1987) Japanese singer, Armenian father. - System of a DownSystem of a DownSystem of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California. The band was formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan...
– USA, alternative metal band.- John DolmayanJohn DolmayanJohn William Dolmayan is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American songwriter and drummer. He is best known as the drummer of System of a Down. Dolmayan is also the drummer for the band Scars on Broadway and Indicator....
– (born 1973) USA, drums. - Daron MalakianDaron MalakianDaron Vartan Malakian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist, songwriter, and occasional vocalist of the heavy metal band System of a Down and as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative...
– (born 1975) USA, guitar, vocals. - Shavo OdadjianShavo OdadjianShavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian is an Armenian American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music video director/editor, music producer, and artist/painter. He is best known as the bassist, backing vocalist and occasional songwriter of the Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down...
– (born 1974) USA, bass. - Serj TankianSerj TankianSerj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
– (born 1967) USA, vocals, keyboards.
- John Dolmayan
- Mikael TariverdievMikael TariverdievMikael Tariverdiev |Georgia]] - 24 June 1996, Sochi, Russia) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception.-Biography:...
– (1931–1996) USSR, composer. - Harry TavitianHarry TavitianHarry Tavitian is a Romanian jazz pianist and singer, whose style covers free-jazz, blues, ethno-jazz and avant-garde. He plays piano solo, as well as with Orient Express septet and with Black Sea Orchestra...
– (born 1952) jazz musician. - Avet TerterianAvet TerterianAvet Terterian was an Armenian composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize. He was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli, Konstantin Orbelyan, and Tigran Mansuryan...
– (1929–1994) USSR, ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, composer. - Aram TigranAram TigranAram Tigran was a contemporary Armenian singer who was born in Al-Qamishli in northeastern Syria. After finishing grade nine, he concentrated his efforts on learning music and playing Oud and by the age of twenty years old, he was singing in three languages: Kurdish, Arabic and Armenian...
– (1934-2009) famous kurdishKurdish peopleThe Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
singer. - Loris TjeknavorianLoris TjeknavorianLoris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...
– (born 1937) IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, composer. - Tonio K. – (born 1950) USA, recording artist and composer.
- Karnig SarkissianKarnig SarkissianKarnig Sarkissian is a popular Armenian singer born in Aleppo, Syria and a naturalized American citizen. He is well-known for his Armenian patriotic songs throughout the Armenian diaspora and a big supporter of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation .-Prison:In 1982, Sarkissian was convicted in...
- Armenian revolutionary songsArmenian Revolutionary SongsArmenian Revolutionary Songs are songs that promote Armenian patriotism. The origins of these songs lay largely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Armenian political parties were established to struggle for the political and civil rights of Armenians living in the Ottoman...
singer. - Arto TunçboyacıyanArto TunçboyaciyanArto Tunçboyacıyan is an Armenian-Turkish musician. A famous avant-garde folk artist , he appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went to work with numerous jazz legends including Chet Baker, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul as well as a semi-regular...
– (born 1957) percussionist and singer, brother of Onno Tunç. - Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan (Onno TunçOnno TunçOnno Tunç was a leading Turkish-Armenian musician, working mainly as a composer and an arranger. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double bass, contributing to the albums of several musicians. He was the elder brother of musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan.-Early years :Onno Tunç was born in...
) – (1948–1996) Turkish-Armenian musician, composer. - George TutunjianGeorge TutunjianGeorge Tutunjian was a singer of Armenian patriotic and revolutionary songs and life-long supporter of Armenian Revolutionary Federation .He started singing at the age of 22...
– (died 2006) pioneering Armenian Revolutionary songsArmenian Revolutionary SongsArmenian Revolutionary Songs are songs that promote Armenian patriotism. The origins of these songs lay largely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Armenian political parties were established to struggle for the political and civil rights of Armenians living in the Ottoman...
performer. - Komitas VardapetKomitas VardapetIn 1950s his manuscripts were also transferred from Paris to Yerevan.Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in Yerevan. In collecting and publishing so many folk songs, he saved the cultural heritage of Western Armenia that otherwise would have...
– (1896–1935) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, musician. - Sylvie VartanSylvie VartanSylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
– (born 1944) FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, singer. - Samvel YervinyanSamvel YervinyanSamvel Yervinyan is an Armenian violinist and composer.Yervinyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He began studying at the age of 7 in Spenderian Music School under the tutoring of Armen Minasian. In the competitions he participated, he won all the first place prizes in his age group...
– (1966-), violinist. - Nune YesayanNune YesayanNune Yesayan commonly known as Nune or Nouné is a popular Armenian pop singer who began singing with an Armenian jazz band in the early 1990s before becoming a lounge singer at resorts in the Middle East...
– (born 1969) pop musician. - Gregory PageGregory Page (bassist)Gregory Page is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in London, England on Easter Sunday in 1963. His Armenian and Irish parents met while they were on tour with their bands en route to the Middle East. According to an interview with KGTV reporter Phil Konstantin,...
– (born 1963) born England, resides San Diego, California, USA. - Lilit PipoyanLilit PipoyanLilit Pipoyan is an Armenian musician, singer and architect.Pipoyan belongs to that narrow circle of modern Armenian musicians whose works present an alternative to the traditional folk, classical, spiritual and pop music...
– (born 1955) ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, musician, singer and architect. - Ashmedi – (born 1973) Holland, MelecheshMelecheshMelechesh is a Assyrian-Armenian black metal band that originated in Jerusalem. Ashmedi started the band as a solo project in 1993. In the following year, guitarist Moloch and drummer Lord Curse were added to the line-up...
black metal band. Musician, singer, composer. - Vartan VahramianVartan VahramianVartan Vahramian forms part of the Iranian-Armenian music and painting history, because in both these fields, he has displayed mastership, taste and skill, a phenomenon that one does not see often...
- (born 1955) IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, musician, painter.
Religion
- List of Catholicoi of Armenia
- List of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia
- List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople
- List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
Science
- Hovhannes Adamian - inventor of the color television
- Evgeny AbramyanEvgeny AbramyanEvgeny Aramovich Abramyan — is a Soviet/Armenian physicist, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Winner of USSR State Prize, one of the founders of several research directions in the Soviet and Russian nuclear technology. Author of more than 100 inventions and several books on applied physics...
- founder of several research directions in the Soviet and Russian nuclear technology - Sergei AdianSergei AdianSergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adjan is one of the most prominent Soviet and Russian mathematicians. He is a professor at the Moscow State University. He is most famous for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.-Biography:...
- soviet mathematician - George AdomianGeorge AdomianGeorge Adomian was the Armenian-American mathematician who developed the Adomian decomposition method for solving nonlinear differential equations, both ordinary and partial. The method is explained, among other places, in his book "Solving Frontier Problems in Physics: The Decomposition Method"...
- mathematician, developer of Adomian decomposition methodAdomian decomposition methodThe Adomian decomposition method is a non-numerical method for solving nonlinear differential equations, both ordinary and partial. The general direction of this work is towards a unified theory for partial differential equations . The method was developed by George Adomian, chair of the Center... - Tateos AgekianTateos AgekianTateos Artemjevich Agekian was an outstanding Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent, one of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics. Has found two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly flattened. Suggested essentially new method to investigate the...
- astrophysicist, one of the pioneers of Stellar Dynamics - Armen AlchianArmen AlchianArmen Albert Alchian is an American economist and an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles....
- economist, price theorist of the second half of the 20th century, a pioneer of new institutional economics and one of the founding fathers of the "law and economics" school, and in particular what has come to be known as the property rights approach, among the top 20th-century contributors to economic knowledge - Artem AlikhanianArtem AlikhanianArtem Isahaki Alikhanian was a Soviet Armenian physicist, one of the founders and first director of the Yerevan Physics Institute, a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , academic of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. USSR State Prizes , Lenin Prize...
- one of the founders of experimental nuclear and cosmic-ray physics in USSR, discoverer of the first artificial radioactive element which ejects electrons, first to mark the existence of new elementary particles in cosmic rays etc. - Abraham AlikhanovAbraham AlikhanovAbraham Isahakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet Armenia physicist, academic, and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences...
- one of the founders of nuclear physics in USSR, founder of the first nuclear reactor of USSR - Emil ArtinEmil ArtinEmil Artin was an Austrian-American mathematician of Armenian descent.-Parents:Emil Artin was born in Vienna to parents Emma Maria, née Laura , a soubrette on the operetta stages of Austria and Germany, and Emil Hadochadus Maria Artin, Austrian-born of Armenian descent...
- one of the leading algebraists of the 20th century, one of the founding fathers of modern algebra - Michael ArtinMichael ArtinMichael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics department, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. and also generally recognized as one of the outstanding professors in his field.Artin was born in Hamburg,...
- mathematican, contributed to Algebraic geometry - Roger AltounyanRoger AltounyanRoger Edward Collingwood Altounyan was an Armenian physician and pharmacologist who pioneered the use of sodium cromoglycate as a remedy for asthma...
– asthma researcher, pharmacologist who pioneered use of cromolyn sodium inhalation therapy for asthma - Viktor Ambartsumian - one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics
- Apkar ApkarianA. V. ApkarianApkar Vania Apkarian is a professor of neuroscience at Northwestern University. He has been a pioneer in the use of Magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the neurochemistry of the brain. Dr.Apkarian has a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and...
- pioneer in magnetic resonance spectroscopy research of the brain - Stephan Ariyan - reconstructive surgeon, originator of the pectoralis major flap, which has become the most commonly used flap for head and neck reconstruction worldwide
- Daron AcemoğluDaron AcemogluKamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian origin. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
- among the 20 most cited economists in the world, winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal - Gurgen AskaryanGurgen AskaryanGurgen Askaryan was a prominent Soviet physicist, famous for his discovery of the self-focusing of light, pioneering studies of light-matter interactions, and the discovery and investigation of the interaction of high-energy particles with condensed matter...
- physicist, inventor of light self focusing - Iosif Atabekov - virologist, founder of the molecular biology of plant's viruses (USSR)
- George AghajanianGeorge AghajanianGeorge Aghajanian is professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine . He has been a pioneer in the area of neuropharmacology. He discovered the mechanisms by which LSD produces hallucinations and he has also uncovered how atypical antipsychotic drugs work...
- professor of psychiatry, a pioneer in the area of neuropharmacology. He discovered the mechanisms by which LSD produces hallucinations and he has also uncovered how atypical antipsychotic drugs work. - Hagop S. AkiskalHagop S. AkiskalHagop Souren Akiskal is an Armenian-American psychiatrist best known for his research on temperament and bipolar disorder . Born in Lebanon to Armenian parents, he received his M.D. from the American University of Beirut in 1969...
– psychiatrist best known for his pioneering research on temperament and bipolar disorder (manic depression). - Boris BabaianBoris BabaianBoris Artashesovich Babayan is an Armenian supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union....
- the father of supercomputing in the former Soviet Union and Russia. Second European to hold the Intel Fellow title. Originator of the world's first superscalar computer. - Levon Badalian - founder of the child neurology in the Soviet Union
- John BasmajianJohn BasmajianJohn V. Basmajian, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian academic and scientist. He was known for his work in rehabilitation science, specifically in the area of electromyography and biofeedback....
- leader in Rehabilitation Medicine, father of “EMG Biofeedback”, author of pioneering works in electromyography. - John P. Bilezikian authority on bone and bone disorders from Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsColumbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, often known as P&S, is a graduate school of Columbia University that is located on the health sciences campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan...
at New York Presbyterian Hospital. - Levon Chailakhyan - physiologist, in 1986 with his soviet colleagues got the world's first successfully cloned mammal - mice "Masha", 10 years before famous "Dolly"
- Mikhail ChailakhyanMikhail ChailakhyanMikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan was an Armenian-Russian scientist who is widely known for proposing the existence of a universal plant hormone that is involved in flowering. He named this hormone florigen in 1936. His studies included the mechanisms of flowering, tuberization and sex...
- founder of hormonal theory of plant development - Artur ChilingarovArtur ChilingarovArtur Nikolayevich Chilingarov is a Russian polar explorer. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1986 and the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2008. Chilingarov is also a member of State Duma from Nenets...
- famous Russian polar explorer - Giacomo Luigi CiamicianGiacomo Luigi CiamicianGiacomo Luigi Ciamician was an Italian photochemist of Armenian descent.-Biography:He was born on August 27, 1857 in Trieste, Italy .He was a nine-time Nobel prize nominee and an Italian senator...
- father of the solar panel - Raymond Damadian - inventor of MRI
- Ara DarziAra DarziAra Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, KBE, PC MD FMedSci, HonFREng, FRCS, FRCSI, FRCSEd, FRCPSG, FACS, FCGI, FRCPE FRCP HonFRCPI , is one of the world's leading surgeons at Imperial College London where he holds Hamlyn Chair of Surgery, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and...
- surgeon, pioneer in minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery - Richard DonchianRichard DonchianRichard Davoud Donchian was an Armenian-American commodities and futures trader, and pioneer in the field of managed futures....
- the father of Trend Following Trading, one of the most outstanding figures of all time in the field of commodity money management - Edward KhantzianEdward KhantzianDr. Edward J. Khantzian is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse which states that individuals abuse drugs in attempt to self-medicate....
- early pioneer in the psychological understanding of addictions, co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis - George Ganjian - produced the first modern circuit board in the United States, which eventually was used by NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
during the first lunar landing. - Grigor GurzadyanGrigor Gurzadyan- Life :Gurzadyan was born on October 15, 1922 in Baghdad, to parents who fled in 1915 Western Armenia. Upon graduating the from the Hydrotechnical and Constructional Department of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1944, he became the postgraduate of Victor Ambartsumian, who had just moved to Armenia...
- founder of space astronomy - Spiru HaretSpiru HaretSpiru C. Haret was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by...
- Romanian astronomer of Armenian descent, who made a fundamental contribution to the most celebrated problem of dynamics: the n-body problem, initially aimed at modelling the planetary motions in our Solar System. His works implied that planetary motion is not absolutely stable, and being continued by Poincaré, eventually led to the creation of chaos theoryChaos theoryChaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...
. Haret's work marked the beginning of the end of an era, that of exclusively quantitative endeavours in mathematics. - Paris HerouniParis HerouniParis M. Herouni is an Armenian professor and scientist, member of National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia in the fields of radio-physics, radio-engineering, and radio-astronomy...
- projected and built the world's first radio-optical telescope - Bagrat IoannisianiBagrat IoannisianiBagrant Ioannisiani was a Soviet telescope designer of Armenian descent. He was the chief designer of the BTA-6, one of the largest telescopes in the world.He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1957....
- constructor of new astronomical instruments, chief designer of BTA-6BTA-6The BTA-6 is a 6 m aperture optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory located in the Zelenchuksky District on the north side of the Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia...
- the largest telescope in the world - Andronik IosifyanAndronik IosifyanAndronik Iosifyan was a Soviet scientist of Armenian descent in the field of electrical engineering....
- soviet engineer, one of the founders of missilery and cosmonautics, the father of electromechanics in USSR, chief designer of the first soviet meteorological satellites of Earth. Inventor of noncontact synchronized transmissions. - Albert KapikianAlbert KapikianDr. Albert Kapikian is an Armenian-American virologist who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in infants. He was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for his pioneering work on the vaccine.He is the 13th recipient of this recognition,awarded...
- virologist, the father of human gastroenteritisGastroenteritisGastroenteritis is marked by severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract involving both the stomach and small intestine resulting in acute diarrhea and vomiting. It can be transferred by contact with contaminated food and water...
virus research, who developed the first licensed vaccine against rotavirusRotavirusRotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children, and is one of several viruses that cause infections often called stomach flu, despite having no relation to influenza. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. By the age of five,...
- the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and children, which accounts for more than 500,000 deaths annually - Anna Kazanjian LongobardoAnna Kazanjian LongobardoAnna Kazanjian Longobardo is the former director of the engineering firm and executive at Unisys Corp. Anna Longobardo headed Unisys, supporting the development of military systems and weather radar systems worldwide from 1988 to 1995, before she retired...
- author of contributions to the aerospace engineering field, the first woman to receive the Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering achievement - Varaztad KazanjianVaraztad KazanjianDr. Varaztad Kazanjian was an oral surgeon, of Armenian descent, who pioneered techniques for plastic surgery and is considered to be the founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery. He graduated from Harvard Dental School in 1905...
- founder of the modern practice of plastic surgery - John Kebabian - neuroscientist and pioneer in dopamine receptor research
- Alexander KemurdzhianAlexander KemurdzhianAlexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian was a pioneering scientist, from Armenian origin, in the space flight program of the Soviet Union...
- engineer, designer of the first rovers to explore another world, the founder of the school of space transport engineering. - Hampar KelikianHampar KelikianHampar Kelikian, , was a pioneering orthopedic surgeon, who significantly extended the surgical field .Being a pioneer in the surgical restoration of otherwise useless limbs , he was instrumental in helping U.S. Senator Bob Dole...
- orthopedic-surgeon pioneer, who extended the surgical field - Edward KeonjianEdward KeonjianDr. Edward Keonjian was a prominent engineer, an early leader in the field of low-power electronics, the father of microelectronics. In 1954 Keonjian designed the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter. In 1959 Keonjian designed the first prototype of integrated circuit...
- pioneer of microelectronics, designer of the world's first solar-powered, pocket-sized radio transmitter - Semyon Kirlian inventor of Kirlian PhotographyKirlian photographyKirlian photography refers to a form of photogram made with voltage. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a source of voltage an image is produced on the photographic plate.Kirlian's work, from 1939 onward,...
, discovered that living matter is emitting energy fields. - Zaven KhachaturianZaven KhatchaturianDr. Zaven Khachaturian is a neuroscientist and a pioneer in Alzheimer's disease research.Khachaturian previously worked for the National Institute on Aging. He is currently the head of research at the Alzheimer's Association in the United States. He was named the editor of the journal Alzheimer's...
- researcher on Alzheimer’s, the father of neurobiology of aging research in USA - Levon Khachigian - molecular biologist
- Leonid KhachiyanLeonid KhachiyanLeonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan was a Soviet mathematician of Armenian descent who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time...
- mathematician, computer scientist, who proved the existence of an efficient way to solve linear programming problems thought to be intractable until that time - Mihran Kassabian - x-ray pioneer, X-ray operator in the United States
- Ivan Knuniants - chemist, Major General, four times an awardee of the USSR State Award. In chemical science he introduced historical changes and significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet Chemistry. Founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, one of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program.
- Samvel Kocharyants - developer of the first Soviet atomic and thermonuclear weapons
- Matthew Kumjian - meteorologist, pioneer in the field of polarimetric radar observations, first identified the ZDR arc (GDL elk) signatures in supercell thunderstorms.
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz - polish pharmacist of Armenian descent, devised the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil. One of the pioneers of oil industry in the world.
- Sergey MergelyanSergey MergelyanSergey Nikitovich Mergelyan was an soviet scientist of Armenian origin, an outstanding mathematician, who is the author of major contributions in Approximation Theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work....
- mathematician, the author of major contributions in Approximation Theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work. - Alexander Merzhanov - leader in the scientific field of combustionCombustionCombustion or burning is the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species. The release of heat can result in the production of light in the form of either glowing or a flame...
and explosionExplosionAn explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion creates a shock wave. If the shock wave is a supersonic detonation, then the source of the blast is called a "high explosive"...
, inventor of the Self-propagating high-temperature synthesisSelf-propagating high-temperature synthesisSelf-propagating high-temperature synthesis is a method for producing inorganic compounds by exothermic reactions, usually involving salts. A variant of this method is known as solid state metathesis...
(SHS) - Michel (Michael) Ter-PogossianMichel (Michael) Ter-PogossianMichel M. Ter-Pogossian was an Armenian-American physicist who is one of the fathers of positron emission tomography , the first functional brain imaging technology...
– one of the inventors of PET scan, which has revolutionized the understanding of how the brain functions - Artem Mikoyan - designer of MiGMig-Industry:*MiG, now Mikoyan, a Russian aircraft corporation, formerly the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau*Metal inert gas welding or MIG welding, a type of welding using an electric arc and a shielding gas-Business and finance:...
aircraft. Mikoyan's fighters showed 55 world records. The Mikoyan MiG-19 was the first supersonic Soviet jet fighter. - Zadig Mouradian - astrophysicist, specialised in the Sun corona.
- John NajarianJohn NajarianJohn S. Najarian is a noted transplant surgeon and is Clinical Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Minnesota. Najarian is the father of the former professional NFL football player Pete Najarian and options trader Jon Najarain.- External links :*...
surgeon, the organ transplant pioneer, who developed one of the world's largest transplant programs. - Robert NalbandyanRobert NalbandyanRobert Nalbandyan was an Armenian chemist, the co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin, a pioneer in the field of free radicals, and a noted and prolific writer on various subjects in the field of chemistry....
chemist, the co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin, a pioneer in the field of free radicals. - Alexander Narinyani father of soviet artificial intelligence (AIAiAI, A.I., Ai, or ai may refer to:- Computers :* Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science* Ad impression, in online advertising* .ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code for Anguilla...
), author of novel theory involving the conception of sub-defined models, founder of the new scientific field - constraint programmingConstraint programmingConstraint programming is a programming paradigm wherein relations between variables are stated in the form of constraints. Constraints differ from the common primitives of imperative programming languages in that they do not specify a step or sequence of steps to execute, but rather the properties...
. - Yuri OganessianYuri OganessianYuri Oganessian is a Russian nuclear physicist of Armenian descent. He and his team discovered the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table ....
- physicist, one of the founders of heavy ion physics, author of the discoveries of heaviest elements of the Periodic Table of MendeleevPeriodic tableThe periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the 118 known chemical elements organized by selected properties of their atomic structures. Elements are presented by increasing atomic number, the number of protons in an atom's atomic nucleus...
. An acknowledged world-leader in the field of synthesizing and exploring new elements. - Leon OrbeliLeon OrbeliLevon Orbeli was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR. He was a member of the Academies of Science of USSR and Armenian SSR...
- founder of the evolutionary physiology, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Yuri OsipyanYuri OsipyanYuri Andreevich Osipyan was a Soviet, Russian physicist who worked in the field of solid state physics.Osipyan was born in Moscow and graduated from Georgy Kurdyumov's class at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1955...
- physicist, author of fundamental contribution to the physics of movements in solid bodies and inventor of photoplastic effect. Y. A. Osipian for many years was the Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Artem Sarkisyan - a pioneer scientist in numerical modelling of ocean circulation, one of the world's leading oceanologists
- Hrayr ShahinianHrayr ShahinianDr. Hrayr Shahinian is a skull base surgeon and founder of the Skull Base Institute. He is a pioneer in microsurgical techniques of the brain. He pioneered new methods of introducing surgical microinstruments into the brain through the skull base to remove tumors and perform other neurosurgical...
- a pioneer in microsurgical techniques of the brain - Luther George SimjianLuther George SimjianLuther George Simjian was an Armenian-American inventor of numerous devices and owner of over 200 patents.-Biography:...
- inventor of ATMAutomated teller machineAn automated teller machine or automatic teller machine, also known as a Cashpoint , cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public...
, flight simulator and more - Alex Norairovich Sisakyan - scientist in the field of elementary particle physics, director of JINRJoint Institute for Nuclear ResearchThe Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR , in Dubna, Moscow Oblast , Russia, is an international research centre for nuclear sciences, with 5500 staff members, 1200 researchers including 1000 Ph.D.s from eighteen member states The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR , in Dubna, Moscow...
- Norair SisakianNorair SisakianNorair Martirosovich Sisakian was a Soviet Armenian biochemist, academic, one of the founders of space biology, an outstanding organizer of science, a member of the Pugwash movement...
- one of the founders of space biology, pioneer in biochemistry of sub-cell structures and technical biochemistry, one of the first in the mid-1940s to start the studies of plant cell structures. Author of the new concept of chloroplasts as polyfunctional cell structures. The first soviet scientist to work in UNESCO. - Armen TakhtajanArmen TakhtajanArmen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian , was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus...
- botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution - Karen Ter-MartirosianKaren Ter-MartirosianKaren Avetovich Ter-Martirosyan was a Russian theoretical physics scientist of Armenian origin, known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and the author of several hundred articles in his area.He was born in Tbilisi and graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1943...
- theoretician, made important contributions to the understanding of high-energy physicsParticle physicsParticle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
phenomena. Created new trends in the theory of strong interactionsStrong interactionIn particle physics, the strong interaction is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, the others being electromagnetism, the weak interaction and gravitation. As with the other fundamental interactions, it is a non-contact force...
, was one of the founders of theory of strong interactions at high-energies. Author of fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. - Alenoush Terian- first Iranian-Armenian female astrophysicist
- Avadis Tevanian - computer scientist, the architect of Apple’s OS X
- Nikolay Yenikolopov - chemist of the former USSR, one of the founders of Russian polymer science
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- HeracliusHeracliusHeraclius was Byzantine Emperor from 610 to 641.He was responsible for introducing Greek as the empire's official language. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas.Heraclius'...
(575 – 641) was Emperor from 610 to 641 - Basil IBasil IBasil I, called the Macedonian was a Byzantine emperor of probable Armenian descent who reigned from 867 to 886. Born a simple peasant in the Byzantine theme of Macedonia, he rose in the imperial court, and usurped the imperial throne from Emperor Michael III...
the Macedonian (Βασίλειος Α') (811–886, ruled 867–886) - married the Varangian Eudokia IngerinaEudokia IngerinaEudokia Ingerina was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Basil I, the mistress of his predecessor Michael III, and the mother to both the Emperors Leo VI and Alexander and Patriarch Stephen I of Constantinople.-Family:...
, mistress of Michael IIIMichael IIIMichael III , , Byzantine Emperor from 842 to 867. Michael III was the third and traditionally last member of the Amorian-Phrygian Dynasty...
; died in hunting accident - Leo VI the WiseLeo VI the WiseLeo VI, surnamed the Wise or the Philosopher , was Byzantine emperor from 886 to 912. The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty , he was very well-read, leading to his surname...
(Λέων ΣΤ') (866–912, ruled 886–912) – son of Eudokia Ingerina, legal son and heir of Basil I; possibly the natural son of Michael III - Alexander(Αλέξανδρος) (870–913, ruled 912–913) – son of Basil I, regent for nephew
- Constantine VIIConstantine VIIConstantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...
the Purple-born (Κωνσταντίνος Ζ') (905-959, ruled 913 - 959) – son of Leo VI - Romanos IRomanos IRomanos I Lekapenos was Byzantine Emperor from 920 until his deposition on December 16, 944.-Origin:...
Lekapenos (Ρωμανός Β') (870–948, ruled 919–944) – father-in-law of Constantine VII; co-emperor, attempted to found his own dynasty. Deposed by his sons and entered monastery (Origin: ArmenianArmeniansArmenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
) - Romanos IIRomanos IIRomanos II was a Byzantine emperor. He succeeded his father Constantine VII in 959 at the age of twenty-one, and died suddenly in 963.-Life:...
the Purple-born (Ρωμανός Β') (938–963, ruled 959–963) – son of Constantine VII - Nikephoros IINikephoros IINikephoros II Phokas was a Byzantine Emperor whose brilliant military exploits contributed to the resurgence of Byzantine Empire in the tenth century.-Early exploits:...
Phocas (Νικηφόρος Β') (912–969, ruled 963–969) – successful general, married Romanos II's widow, regent for Basil; assassinated (Origin: Cappadocian) - John I TzimiskesJohn I TzimiskesJohn I Tzimiskes or Tzimisces, was Byzantine Emperor from December 11, 969 to January 10, 976. A brilliant and intuitive general, John's short reign saw the expansion of the empire's borders and the strengthening of Byzantium itself.- Background :...
(Ιωάννης Α')(925-976, ruled 969–976) – successful general, brother-in-law of Romanos II, lover of Nikephoros's wife but banned from marriage, regent for Basil II and Constantine VIII (Origin: ArmenianArmeniansArmenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
) - Basil IIBasil IIBasil II , known in his time as Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young to distinguish him from his ancestor Basil I the Macedonian, was a Byzantine emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025.The first part of his long reign was dominated...
(Βασίλειος Β') the Bulgar-slayer (958–1025, ruled 976–1025) – son of Romanos II - Constantine VIIIConstantine VIIIConstantine VIII was reigning Byzantine emperor from December 15, 1025 until his death. He was the son of the Emperor Romanos II and Theophano, and the younger brother of the eminent Basil II, who died childless and thus left the rule of the Byzantine Empire in his hands.-Family:As...
(Κωνσταντίνος Η') (960-1028, ruled 1025–1028) – son of Romanos II; silent co-emperor with Basil II, sole emperor after his brother's death - ZoeZoe (empress)Zoe reigned as Byzantine Empress alongside her sister Theodora from April 19 to June 11, 1042...
(Ζωή Α') (c. 978–1050, ruled 1028–1050) – daughter of Constantine VIII - Romanos IIIRomanos IIIRomanos III Argyros was Byzantine emperor from 15 November 1028 until his death.-Biography:...
Argyros (Ρωμανός Γ')(968–1034, ruled 1028–1034) – eparch of Constantinople; Zoe's first husband, arranged by Constantine VIII; murdered - Michael IV the Paphlagonian (Μιχαήλ Δ') (1010–1041, ruled 1034–1041) – Zoe's second husband
- Michael VMichael VMichael V "the Caulker" or Kalaphates , , was Byzantine emperor for 4 months in 1041–1042, as the nephew and successor of Michael IV and the adoptive son of his wife, the Empress Zoe.Michael V was the son of Stephen by Maria, a sister of Emperor Michael IV...
the Caulker (Μιχαήλ Ε') (1015–1042, ruled 1041–1042) – Michael IV's nephew, Zoe's adopted son - TheodoraTheodora (11th century)Theodora was a Byzantine Empress. Born into the Macedonian dynasty that had ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe for two months in 1042 and sole empress from 11 January 1055 to after 31 August 1056...
(Θεοδώρα)(980–1056, ruled 1042) – daughter of Constantine VIII, co-empress with Zoe - Constantine IX Monomachos (Κωνσταντίνος Θ') (1000–1055, ruled 1042–1055) – Zoe's third husband
- TheodoraTheodora (11th century)Theodora was a Byzantine Empress. Born into the Macedonian dynasty that had ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe for two months in 1042 and sole empress from 11 January 1055 to after 31 August 1056...
(Θεοδώρα) (ruled 1055–1056) – restored
- Alexios I KomnenosAlexios I KomnenosAlexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus , was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power. The title 'Nobilissimus' was given to senior army commanders,...
(Ἀλέξιος Α' Κομνηνός, 1056 – 15 August 1118 -- note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and the founder of the Komnenian dynasty. - Manuel I KomnenosManuel I KomnenosManuel I Komnenos was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean....
(Μανουήλ Α' Κομνηνός, Manouēl I Komnēnos) (November 28, 1118 – September 24, 1180) was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean - Andronikos I KomnenosAndronikos I KomnenosAndronikos I Komnenos was Byzantine Emperor from 1183 to 1185). He was the son of Isaac Komnenos and grandson of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.-Early years:...
(Ανδρόνικος Α’ Κομνηνός, Andronikos I Komninos) (c. 1118 – September 12, 1185) was a Byzantine emperor (r. 1183–1185), son of sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos. His paternal grandparents were Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Eirene Doukaina. - John II KomnenosJohn II KomnenosJohn II Komnenos was Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as Kaloïōannēs , he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina...
(Ίωάννης Β΄ Κομνηνός, Iōannēs II Komnēnos) (September 13, 1087 – April 8, 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as Kaloïōannēs ("John the Beautiful"), he was the eldest son of emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. The - Isaac I KomnenosIsaac I KomnenosIsaac I Komnenos was Byzantine Emperor from 1057 to 1059, and the first reigning member of the Komnenos dynasty...
(Ισαάκιος A' Κομνηνός, Isaakios I Komnēnos) (c. 1005 – 1061) was Byzantine Emperor from 1057 to 1059, and the first reigning member of the Komnenos dynasty. - Alexios II KomnenosAlexios II KomnenosAlexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus , Byzantine emperor , was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch...
(Αλέξιος Β’ Κομνηνός, Alexios II Komnēnos) (10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople), Byzantine emperor (1180–1183), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch
- Isaac II AngelosIsaac II AngelosIsaac II Angelos was Byzantine emperor from 1185 to 1195, and again from 1203 to 1204....
(Ισαάκιος Β’ Άγγελος, Isaakios II Angelos) (September 1156 – January 1204) was Byzantine emperor from 1185 to 1195, and again from 1203 to 1204. - Alexios III AngelosAlexios III AngelosAlexios III Angelos was Byzantine Emperor from 1195 to 1203.- Early life:Alexios III Angelos was the second son of Andronikos Angelos and Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa. Andronicus was himself a son of Theodora Komnene, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. Thus...
(Αλέξιος Γ' Άγγελος) (c. 1153 – 1211) was Byzantine emperor from 1195 to 1203 - Alexios IV AngelosAlexios IV AngelosAlexios IV Angelos was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204. He was the son of emperor Isaac II Angelus and his first wife Irene. His paternal uncle was Emperor Alexius III Angelus....
(Αλέξιος Δ' Άγγελος) (c. 1182 – February 8, 1204) was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204. He was the son of emperor Isaac II Angelus and his first wife Irene. His paternal uncle was Emperor Alexius III Angelus. - Alexios V Doukas (Ἀλέξιος Δούκας Μούρτζουφλος, d. December 1205, Constantinople) was Byzantine emperor (5 February – 12 April 1204) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. He was related to the imperial Doukas family.
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- Margos Dezerian – Hitman for the Armenian Mob on The ShieldThe ShieldThe Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
. - Rabo KarabekianRabo KarabekianRabo Karabekian is a fictional character and the narrator and protagonist of the 1987 novel Bluebeard by American author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.-In Vonnegut's fiction:...
– Protagonist of Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
's 1987 book Bluebeard - Armin Tamzarian – SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
character better known as Principal Seymour SkinnerSeymour SkinnerPrincipal W. Seymour Skinner is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Harry Shearer. Born in Capitol City, he is the principal of Springfield Elementary School... - Capt. John Joseph YossarianYossarianThis article is about a "Catch-22" character. For the meerkat from "Meerkat Manor", see List of "Meerkat Manor" meerkats - Yossarian.Capt. John Joseph Yossarian is a fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time...
– Protagonist in Joseph HellerJoseph HellerJoseph Heller was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II...
's novel Catch-22Catch-22Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953, and the novel was first published in 1961. It is set during World War II in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century...
and its sequel Closing TimeClosing Time (novel)Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to the popular Catch-22. It takes place in New York City in the 1990s, and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder and Chaplain Tappman.... - Petra ArkanianPetra ArkanianPetra Arkanian is a main character of the books Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card. She is also a major character in Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Giant.-Ender's Game:...
– Secondary character in Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
's novel Ender's GameEnder's GameEnder's Game is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. The book originated as the short story "Ender's Game", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Elaborating on characters and plot lines depicted in the novel, Card later wrote additional...
and a primary character in subsequent sequels such as Shadow of the HegemonShadow of the HegemonShadow of the Hegemon is the second novel in the Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card. It is also the sixth novel in the Ender's Game series. It is told mostly from the point of view of Bean, a largely peripheral character in the original novel Ender's Game... - Claire Zachanassian – protagonist of Friedrich DürrenmattFriedrich DürrenmattFriedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire...
's book The VisitThe VisitThe Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.-Plot summary:...