Lists of Armenians

This is a list of notable Armenians.

There have been a lot of Armenian commanders throughout history, there were many Armenian commanders among the troops of Byzantine Empire, Sasanian Iran, the Georgian Kingdom and other states.

There were many Armenian commanders among the states of the Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire and Safavid Iran During World War II 500,000 Armenians served in the war from Soviet Union, 108 Armenians honoured Hero of Soviet Union, Armenians have 5 Marshals, 8 Colonel generals, 31 Lieutenant generals, 109 Major general, 1 Admiral, 3 Vice Admirals[5]

1st row: Hayk • Artaxias I • Tigranes the Great • Trdat III • Gregory the Illuminator
2nd row: Mesrop Mashtots • Vardan Mamikonian • Movses Khorenatsi • Anania Shirakatsi • Grigor Narekatsi
3rd row: Levon II • Toros Roslin • Momik • Sayat Nova • Khachatur Abovyan
4th row: Ivan Aivazovsky • Andranik Ozanyan • Hovhannes Tumanyan • Komitas • Mkrtich Khrimian
5th row: Tovmas Nazarbekian • Aram Manukian • Yeghishe Charents • Arshile Gorky • Gaia Gai
6th row: Artem Mikoyan • Ivan Bagramyan • Aram Khachaturian • Viktor Ambartsumyan • Tigran Petrosian
7th row: Martiros Saryan • Kirk Kerkorian • Sergei Parajanov • William Saroyan • Charles Aznavour
8th row: Vazgen I • Karen Demirchyan and Vazgen Sargsyan • Cher • Monte Melkonyan • Serj Tankian
Gagik I Artsruni , King of Vaspurakan
Leo II , queen Guerane , and their five children
Nikol Pashinyan , Prime minister of Armenia
Leo V the Armenian , Byzantine emperor
Teodora wife of Theophilos , Byzantine empress regnant and Byzantine empress consort
Anastas Mikoyan , was the only Soviet figure who managed to remain at the highest levels of power from the days of Lenin , and to his retirement under Brezhnev
Vardan Mamikonian died in 451 while leading the Armenians at the Battle of Avarayr , which ultimately secured their right to practice Christianity
Vahan Mamikonian , was a marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia
Narses , one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the Gothic War
Roustam Raza , mamluk served Napoleon for fifteen years, travelling with the First Consul and subsequent Emperor on all of his campaigns
Mikhail Loris-Melikov , General of the Cavalry, Minister of the Interior of Russian Empire (1880–1881)
Andranik Ozanyan , military commander. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, he was one of the main Armenian leaders of military efforts for the independence of Armenia
Missak Manouchian , considered a hero of the French Resistance
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan , the Armenian military leader at the capture of Shushi in May 1992
Gregory the Illuminator lost icon from Hagia Sophia
Nerses V Ashtaraketsi portriet
Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimyan hayrik)
Mher Mkrtchyan , stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widely considered one of the greatest actors of the Soviet period among Armenians and the USSR as a whole
Komitas Vardapet , founder of the Armenian national school of music, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology
Aram Khachaturian , Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers
Rouben Mamoulian , an American film and theater director. Mamoulian's film Becky Sharp was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry
Ivan Aivazovsky , considered one of the greatest masters of marine art
Martiros Saryan , Armenian painter, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting
Arno Babajanyan , Soviet composer and pianist. He was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1971. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Soviet era
Hovhannes Tumanyan , national poet of Armenia
Yousuf Karsh , an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century
Charles Aznavour , regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and an icon of 20th-century pop culture
Cher , becoming the female solo artist with the most number-one singles in US history at the time
Mesrop Mashtots , founder of moderen Armenian alphabet , Georgian alphabet and Albanian alphabet
Movses Khorenatsi , called the "father of Armenian history", and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus "
Mkhitar Sebastatsi mosaic
Viktor Ambartsumyan , Soviet Armenian astrophysicist , he was the president of the IAU (1961–1963)
Abraham Alikhanov , experimental physicist , was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists
Kirill Shchelkin , Soviet physicist of former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, Hero of Socialist Labor three times
Tigran Petrosyan , chess grandmaster and the ninth World Chess Champion
Levon Aronyan , the fourth highest-rated player in history
Henrikh Mkhitaryan , professional footballer
Alexander Mantashev , prominent Russian oil magnate, industrialist, financier, and a philanthropist, become one of the world's wealthiest individuals
Statue of David of Sassoun from national epic Daredevils of Sassoun