June 3], 1891) was an Armenian actor, poet, writer, artist and public figure who worked in the Ottoman and Russian empires.

He received his primary education at the school of the Holy Savior Armenian Catholic Church in his home neighborhood of Galata.

[1] In 1879, he was hired by the Armenian Theater Board of Tiflis (Tbilisi) and the golden period of his career started afterwards in the Caucasus.

In the 1880s, when the Ottoman Turkish reaction "held the national minorities in scorn",[2] Adamian had an artistic tour in foreign (Russian and Ukrainian) cities, acting both in Armenian and French languages.

Among his best roles of that period are King Lear, Arbenin (Lermontov's Masquerade), Khlestakov (Gogol's Revisor), Mikael (Sundukian's One More Victim), and others.