This is a list of notable Armenians.

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Leaders and politicians Armenia

Zarmayr Haykazuni, legendary King of Armenia from 1192 BC to 1180 BC Orontes I Sakavakyats, legendary King of Armenia from 570 to 560 BC Tigranes Orontid, legendary King of Armenia from 560 to 535 BC Orontes III, King of Armenia from 321 to 260 BC Artaxias I, King of Armenia from 190 to 159 BC, founder of Artaxiad dynasty Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC Artavasdes II, King of Armenia from 55 to 34 BC Erato, Queen of Armenia from 10 to 2 BC, last queen of Artaxiad dynasty Tiridates I, King of Armenia from 52 to 58, from 62 to 66, officially from 66 to 88, founder of Arsacid dynasty in Armenia Tiridates III, King of Armenia from 287 to 330, Under his rule Armenia became the first state to officially embrace Christianity Pap of Armenia, King of Armenia from 370 to 374 Artaxias IV, King of Armenia from 422 to 428, last king of Arsacid dynasty Ashot I, King of Bagratid Armenia from 885 to 890 Smbat I, King of Bagratid Armenia from 890 to 914 Gagik I Artsruni, King of Vaspurakan from 904–937/943 Ashot III, King of Bagratid Armenia from 953 to 977 Gagik I of Armenia, King of Armenia from 989 to 1020 Gagik II of Armenia, King of Armenia from 1042 to 1045, last king of Bagratid Armenia Roupen I, Lord of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1080 or 1081 or 1082 to 1095, founder of Rubenids Leo II, King of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1198 or 1199 to 1219 Isabella, Queen of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1219 to 1252 Leo II, King of Armenia, King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1269 or 1270 to 1289 Hethum II, King of Cilician Armenia from 1289 to 1293 Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868–1938), 1st Prime Minister of First Republic of Armenia Alexander Khatisian (1874–1945), 2nd Prime Minister of Armenia Hamo Ohanjanyan (1873–1947), 3rd Prime Minister of Armenia Simon Vratsian (1882–1969), 4th Prime Minister of First Republic of Armenia Gevorg Alikhanyan (1897–1938), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1920 to 1921 Alexander Miasnikian (1886–1925), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Armenia from 1921 to 1922 Askanaz Mravyan (1885–1929), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1921 to 1922 Sargis Lukashin (1883–1937), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Armenia from 1922 to 1925 Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan (1886–1937), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Armenia from 1928 to 1935 Aghasi Khanjian (1901–1936), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1930 to 1936 Grigory Arutinov (1900–1957), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1937 to 1953 Suren Tovmasyan (1910–1980), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1953 to 1960 Yakov Zarobyan (1908–1980), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1960 to 1966 Anton Kochinyan (1913–1990), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 to 1974 Jemma Ananyan (1931–2018) politician of the Communist Party of Armenia Karen Demirchyan (1932–1999), the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1974 to 1988 Levon Ter-Petrosyan (b. 1945), First president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan (b. 1954), 2nd President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan (b. 1954), 3rd President of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan (b. 1975), 16th Prime Minister of Armenia

Royalty

Zariadres, King of Sophene Mithrobouzanes of Sophene, King of Sophene Arkathias, King of Sophene Ptolemaeus of Commagene, King of Commagene (163 BC–130 BC) Sames II Theosebes Dikaios, King of Commagene (130 BC–109 BC) Mithridates I Callinicus, King of Commagene (109 BC–70 BC) Antiochus I of Commagene, King of Commagene (70 BC–31 BC) Antiochus II of Commagene, Prince of Commagene Mithridates II of Commagene, King of Commagene (31 BC–20 BC) Mithridates III of Commagene, King of Commagene (20 BC–12 BC) Antiochus III of Commagene, King of Commagene (12 BC–17 AD) Abgar V, first Christian King (according to Khorenatsi) Antiochus IV of Commagene, King of Commagene (38 AD–72 AD) Princess Sandukht, regretted first Christian Armenian woman Salome of Ujarma (297–361), princess who married into the Chosroid Dynasty of Iberia Parandzem, was the consort of King Arshak II of Armenia Heraclius (575–641), emperor of Byzantine, led a revolt against the unpopular emperor Phocas Varaz Grigor (585–654), King of Caucasian Albania Mizizios (622–669), usurper of the Byzantine throne in Sicily Isaac the Armenian (625–644), an exarch of Ravenna Constantine IV (by mother) (650–665), Byzantine emperor Philippicus (711–713), Byzantine emperor Artabasdos (741–743), Byzantine general and Byzantine emperor Basil I the Macedonian (Βασίλειος Α') (811–886), (ruled 867–886), married the Varangian Eudokia Ingerina Leo V the Armenian (775–820, ruled 813–820), married to Theodosia Adarnase I of Tao-Klarjeti, nobleman of Iberia and founder of the Bagrationi dynasty. Constantine, Byzantine co-emperor (813–820) Theodosia (Θεοδοσία) (775–826), empress consort of Leo V the Armenian Sahl Smbatean (d. 855), prince of Arran and Shaki Theodora (Θεοδώρα) (ruled 842–856), wife of Theophilos Grigor Hamam (d. 897), King of Hereti from 893 to 897 Zoe Zaoutzaina (d. 899), Byzantine empress consort Sahak Sevada (d. 940), Prince of Gardman Adarnase of Hereti (d. 943), King of Hereti (897–943) Romanos I Lekapenos (Ρωμανός Β') (870–948, ruled 919–944), co-emperor, attempted to found his own dynasty; deposed by his sons and entered monastery John I Tzimiskes (Ιωάννης Α') (925–976, ruled 969–976), general, brother-in-law of Romanos II, regent for Basil II and Constantine VIII Moses of Bulgaria, Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria Samuel of Bulgaria (d. 1014), Tsar of Bulgaria from 997 to 1014 Gagik of Kakheti (d. 1058), King of Kakheti and Hereti Thoros of Edessa (d. 1098), ruler of Edessa at the time of the First Crusade Mariam of Vaspurakan, first consort of the king George I of Georgia Arda of Armenia, Queen of Jerusalem Morphia of Melitene, Queen consort of Jerusalem Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (1131–1153) Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Emir of Mosul (1234–1259) Shajar al-Durr (1250) (Mamluk Sultan) Rita of Armenia (1278–1333), Princess, was a Byzantine Empress consort by marriage to Michael IX Palaiologos John III the Terrible (1572–1574), Voivode of Moldavia Şivekar Sultan, Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1646–1648) Melik Shahnazar II (d. 1792), melik of Varanda, one of the five Melikdoms of Karabakh Princess Rym Ali, wife of Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan

Politicians

Aziz al-Dawla (d. 1022), Fatimid Governor of Aleppo Marcara Avanchintz, trader from Isfahan, who went into the service of Louis XIV Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1626–1628) Mirza Zulqarnain, diwan and faujdar of the Mughal Empire Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, orientalist, historian and diplomat in Swedish service Israel Ori, diplomat that sought the liberation of Armenia from Persia and the Ottoman Empire István Gorove, Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade of Hungary (1867–1870) Daniel-Bek of Sassun, bek in Sassun Manuc Bei, a boyar, merchant, diplomat, and inn-keeper Mohammad Beg, Grand Vizier of the Safavid Empire (1654—1661) Solayman Khan Saham al-Dowleh (d. 1853), nobleman from the Enikolopian family, who served as a government official in Qajar Iran Nubar Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–1879, 1884–1888, 1894–1895) Boghos Nubar, founder of the Armenian General Benevolent Union Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire (1880–1881) Hagop Kazazian Pasha, high-ranking Ottoman official, Minister of Finance (1887–1891) Dawid Abrahamowicz, Member of the Imperial Council of Austria (1875–1918) Lev Karakhan, Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP (1904) György Lukács, Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary (1905–1906) Alexander Bekzadyan, Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman László Lukács, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1912–1913) Ohannes Kouyoumdjian, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (1912–1915) Basile M. Missir, President of the Senate of Romania (1914–1916) Vasile Morțun, President of the Senate of Romania (1916–1918) Stepan Shahumyan, Head of the Baku Commune (1918) Hovhannes Hakhverdyan, first Defence Minister of Armenia (1918–1919) Aram Manukian, Minister of Internal Affairs of Armenia (1918–1919) Armen Garo, Ambassador of Armenia to the United States (1918–1920) Avetis Aharonian, politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement, Chairman of the Parliament of Armenia (1919–1920) Diana Abgar, one of the first women to have ever been appointed in any diplomatic post in the twentieth century. Council of Armenia in Japan (1920) Yakov Davydov, Soviet diplomat first head of the Cheka's Foreign Department (1921–1922) Kamo, Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin Levon Mirzoyan, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1926–1929) Virgil Madgearu, Minister of Finance of Romania (1929–1930) Hovhannes Masehyan, Persian Ambassador to the Great Britain (1927–1929), and first Ambassador of Persia to Japan (1930–1931) Varlam Avanesov, Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet communist politician Suren Shadunts, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan (1934–1937) Ivan Tevosian, Soviet politician of Armenian descent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1943) Ioan Missir, Mayor of Botoșani (1931–1932), (1941–1944) Ferenc Szálasi, fascist Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–1945) Stepan Akopov, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Minister of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1953–1954) Anastas Mikoyan, first Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1955–1964) Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (1975) Ken Khachigian, White House Chief Speechwriter (1981) George Deukmejian, Governor of California (1983–1991) Edward Djerejian, United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994) Édouard Balladur, Prime Minister of France (1993–1995) Anna Eshoo, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1993–2025) Shahen Nikolay Petrosyan, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Armenia Boris Şyhmyradow, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan (1995–2000) Émile Lahoud, President of Lebanon (1998–2007) Karim Pakradouni, Minister of State for Administrative Development of Lebanon (2004–2005) Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–2005) Abel Aganbegyan, Soviet and Russian economist, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (2004–) Varujan Vosganian, Minister of Economy and Finance of Romania (2007–2008, 2012–2013) Patrick Devedjian, French Minister for the Implementation of the Recovery Plan (2008–2010) Liliam Kechichián, Uruguay Minister of Tourism (2012–2020) Joe Hockey, Treasurer of Australia (2013–2015) Arsen Avakov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2014–2021) Jackie Speier, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (2008–2023) Gladys Berejiklian, 45th Premier of New South Wales, Australia (2017–2021)

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