Arts and entertainment
- Sarkis Djanbazian – (15 January 1913, Armavir – 11 December 1963, Tehran) ballet master, dancer, choreographer and producer.
- Lilit Teryan – (31 December 1930, Tehran – 7 March 2019, Tehran) sculptor.
Music
- Aram Gharabekian – (4 July 1955, Tehran – 10 January 2014, Los Angeles) conductor.
Singers
- Hovhannes Badalyan – (15 December 1924, Shavarin – 19 August 2001, Yerevan) singer.
- Viguen – (23 November 1929, Hamadan – 26 October 2003, Los Angeles) singer and actor.
- Andy – (22 April 1958, Tehran) singer-songwriter and actor; Iranian Armenian-Armenian.
Composers and instrumentalists
- Hambarsoom Grigorian – (1893 in Tabriz – 28 July 1975, Tehran) composer.
- Ivan Galamian – (23 January 1903 – 14 April 1981) violinist, teacher; Iranian Armenian-American.
- Robert Atayan – (7 November 1915, Tehran – 4 March 1994, Los Angeles) musicologist and composer.
- Varoujan Hakhbandian – (4 December 1936, Qazvin – 17 September 1977, Tehran) composer and songwriter.
- Loris Tjeknavorian – (13 October 1937, Boroujerd) composer and conductor.
- Artashes Avetyan – (14 August 1942) composer, guitarist and singer.
- Armik – (1950s, Tabriz) guitarist, producer and composer.
- Vartan Vahramian – (1955, Tabriz) composer and painter.
- Khachik Babayan – (1956, Tabriz) violinist.
- Armen Ra – (1969, Tehran) thereminist.
Filmmaking
- Ray Aghayan – (28 July 1928, Tehran – 10 October 2011, Los Angeles) fashion designer and costume designer; Iranian Armenian-American.
Actors
- Murad Kostanyan – (25 August 1902, Haftvan, Salmas – 3 January 1989, Yerevan) actor.
- Loreta – (1911, Tehran – 29 March 1998, Vienna) actress.
- Annik Shefrazian – (1909, Isfahan – 28 December 1996, Kahrizak) actress.
- Arman – (21 February 1921, Tabriz – 18 August 1980, Barcelona) actor.
- Yervand Manaryan – (20 September 1924, Arak – 19 February 2020) actor.
- Irene Zazians – (20 August 1927, Babolsar – 28 July 2012, Tehran) actress.
- Aramazd Stepanian – (11 October 1951, Abadan) actor, producer, director and playwright.
- Mary Apick – (16 June 1954, Tehran) actress.
- Marco Khan – (27 March 1961, Tehran) actor and stunt performer; Iranian-born Armenian-American.
- Vahik Pirhamzei – (6 November 1968) actor, producer, director and writer.
- Mahaya Petrosian – (3 January 1970, Tehran) actress.
Directors
- Ovanes Ohanian – (8 October 1896, Mashhad – September 1961, Tehran) film director.
- Aramais Aghamalian – (1910, Julfa – 1985, Tehran) film director and screenwriter.
- Mushegh Sarvarian – (15 February 1910, Tehran – 13 August 1981, Tehran) film director.
- Samuel Khachikian – (21 October 1923 – 22 October 2001) film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor.
- Arman Manaryan – (15 December 1929, Arak – 16 February 2016) film director.
- Robert Ekhart – (1935, Tabriz – 1994, Los Angeles) film director.
- Varuzh Karim-Masihi – (1953, Arak) film director, film editor, and screenplay writer.
Painters, photogeraphers and cartoonists
Branches of science
Applied science
- Alexander Abian – (1 January 1923, Tabriz – 24 July 1999, Ames, Iowa) mathematician; Iranian-Armenian-American.
Natural sciences
- Arsen Minasian – (1906, Rasht – 3 April 1977, Rasht) pharmacist and philanthropist.
- Hayk Mirzayans – (1920, Qazvin – 2 April 1999) entomologist.
- Alenush Terian – (9 November 1921, Tehran – 4 March 2011, Tehran) aastronomer and physicist.
- Manuel Berberian – (27 October 1945, Tehran) earth scientist.
Social science
- Arakel of Tabriz – (1590s, Tabriz – 1670) historian and clergyman.
- Shahamir Shahamirian – (1723 – 1797) political philosopher.
- Mesrovb Jacob Seth – (15 March 1871, Isfahan – 31 October 1939, Calcutta) historian.
- Vartan Gregorian – (8 April 1934, Tabriz – 15 April 2021, New York City) academic, educator, and historian.
- Ervand Abrahamian – (1940, Tehran) historian; Iranian-American.
- George Bournoutian – (25 September 1943, Isfahan – 22 August 2021, New Jersey) historian.
Business
Education
Literature
- Joseph Emin – (1726, Hamadan – 2 August 1809, Calcutta) prose writer and public figure.
- Mardik Martin – (16 September 1934 – 11 September 2019) screenwriter; Iranian Armenian-American.
Fiction writers
- Raffi – (1835, Payajuk – 25 April 1888, Tiflis) writer, poet, novelist, essayist.
- Hakob Karapents – (9 August 1925, Tabriz – 20 October 1994, Watertown, Massachusetts) short story writer and novelist.
- Zoya Pirzad – (1952, Abadan) novelist.
Poets
- Avetis Nazarbekian – (1866, Tabriz – 1939, Moscow) poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary; Iranian-Russian Armenian
- Leonardo Alishan – (4 March 1951, Tehran – 8 January 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah) poet and literary scholar.
- Varand – (10 March 1954, Tehran) poet, playwright and lyricist. [citation needed]
Military
Politics and government
Officials
- Hagopdjan de Deritchan – (?, New Julfa – 25 August 1726, Marseille) diplomat.
- Mirza Malkam Khan – (1834, New Julfa – 1908, Rome) writer, diplomat and publicist.
- Hovhannes Masehyan – (23 February 1864, Tehran – 19 November 1931, Kharbin) translator and diplomat.
- Vahan Papazian – (1876, Tabriz – 1973, Beirut) politician.
- Abraham Guloyan – (1893, Salmas – 1938) politician; Iranian Armenian-Soviet.
- Hrayr Maroukhian – (1928, Kermanshah – 1998), leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Parliament and party members
- Avetis Sultan-Zade – (1889, Maragheh – 1938) Communist Party of Persia politician.
- Ardeshir Ovanessian – (1905, Rasht – 1990, Yerevan) Members of the 14th Iranian Majlis, Communist Party of Persia politician.
- Levon Davidian – (24 March 1944, Hamadan – 15 July 2009) psychiatrist, Member of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly.
- Hrant Markarian – (1958, Isfahan) politician; Iranian-Armenian.
- Robert Beglarian – (1961, Tehran) Member of the 9th, 8th, and 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly.
Religion
- Stepanos V of Salmast – (?, Salmas – 1567, Etchmiadzin) Catholicos of All Armenians from 1547 to 1567.
- Alexander I of Julfa – (? – 22 November 1714, Etchmiadzin) Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1706 and 1714.
- Harutyun Shmavonyan – (1750, Shiraz – India 1824, Madras, India) priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and journalist.
- Haik Hovsepian Mehr – (6 January 1945, Tehran – 19 January 1994) bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church.
Sports
Individual sports
Combat sports
Team sports
- Garnik Mehrabian – (September 1937 – 5 June 2022) football player and coach.
- Karo Haghverdian – (11 January 1945, Tehran) former footballer.
- Mayis Minasyan – (1 January 1951, Tehran) former midfielder.
- Andranik Eskandarian – (31 December 1951, Tehran) former footballer .
- Garnik Shahbandari – (1954, Tehran) midfielder.
- Vazgen Safarian – (1954, Tehran) former footballer.
- Markar Aghajanyan – (4 March 1965, Tehran) defence and manager.
- Edmond Akhtar – (18 November 1971, Tehran) forward.
- Serjik Teymourian – (29 May 1974 – 29 August 2020) defensive midfielder.
- Edmond Bezik – (12 August 1975, Tehran) retired footballer and coach.
- Robert Markosi – (14 August 1976) former footballer.
- Sebo Shahbazian – (25 September 1980, Tehran) retired defender. [citation needed]
- Andranik Teymourian – (6 March 1983, Tehran) footballer.
See also
References
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