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
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, an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
Levon Mirzoyan, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1926–1929)
Armenian national liberation movement, First Republic of Armenia
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
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[4]
Garo Kahkejian (born 1962), first Armenian from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict
Tatul Krpeyan (born 1965), leader of paramilitary units in Getashen and Martunashen villages in Shahumyan District of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257 – c. 328), founder and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church and in some other churches
Hripsime (d. 290), she and her companions in martyrdom are venerated as some of the first Christian martyrs of Armenia
Saint Parthenius (d. 3rd century), venerated in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Minias, venerated as the first Christian martyr of
Florence
Chrysolius (d. probably 300), the patron saint of Komen/Comines, today in Belgium and France
Simeon of Mantua (d. 1016), Benedictine monk, canonized as a saint
Nerses IV the Gracious (1102–1173), Catholicos of Armenia, called "the
Fénelon of Armenia" for his efforts to draw the Armenian church out of isolation
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
Trdat (940s–1020), was the chief architect of the
Bagratid kings of Armenia, and most notable for his design of the cathedral at Ani and his reconstruction of the dome of
Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
Momik (d. 1333), architect, sculptor and a master artist of Armenian illuminated manuscripts
Komitas Vardapet, founder of the Armenian national school of music, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicologyAram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers
Kevork Ajemian (1932–1998), prominent Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, one of the founders of the
ASALA military organization
Nubar Alexanian (born 1950), photojournalist, documentary photographer, and film director
Ivan Aivazovsky, considered one of the greatest masters of marine artMartiros Saryan, Armenian painter, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting
Ivan Aivazovsky, Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art
Simon Agopian, prominent Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter
Stepan Aghajanian, painter; known primarily for portraits and landscapes
Yuhanna al-Armani, artist in Ottoman Egypt, he is most notable for his religious works
Minas Avetisyan, an painter, one of best-known armenian painters of Soviet Union
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
Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943), author and human rights activist
Perch Zeytuntsyan (born 1938–2017), novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and Minister of Culture of Armenia 1990–1991
Photographers
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
Kegham Djeghalian, an Armenian-Palestinian photographer, known for his photographs documenting daily life and political events over four decades
Abdullah Frères, photographers of international fame during the late Ottoman Empire
Anita Conti, French photographer, and the first French female oceanographer
Mesrop Mashtots (362 – 440), Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist in the Sasanian Empire. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches
Elishe (410 – 475), historian, best known as the author of History of Vardan and the Armenian War
Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), historian of the 5th century. Faustus' History of the Armenians
Ghazar Parpetsi (5th-6th centuries), Armenian chronicler and historian
Koriun, earliest Armenian-language author, his Life of Mashtots contains many details about the evangelization of Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by
Mesrop Mashtots
Movses Khorenatsi, was a prominent historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians
Hovhannes Imastaser (1045–1129), medieval multi-disciplinary scholar known for his works on philosophy, theology, mathematics, cosmology, and literature
Ivan Knunyants, chemist, significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet chemistry; one of the major developers of Soviet
chemical weapons program
Anna Kazanjian Longobardo, author of contributions to the aerospace engineering field, the first woman to receive the Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering achievement
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, pharmacist, one of the world's pioneers of the oil industry, built the world's first modern
oil refinery
Sergey Mergelyan, mathematician, the author of major contributions in Approximation Theory; head of the department of
Complex Analysis of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Artem Mikoyan, aerospace engineer, designer of
MiGjet aircraft, including the first supersonic Soviet jet fighter
Aram Nalbandyan, Soviet physicist, prominent in the field of physical chemistry
Robert Nalbandyan, chemist, co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin, pioneer in the field of free radicals
Stepanos Nazarian (1812-1879), publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist
Leo (1860-1932), an Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University
Joseph Orbeli, orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of
Transcaucasia, and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Yuri Osipyan, physicist, author of fundamental contribution to the physics of movements in solid bodies and inventor of photoplastic effect
James P. Bagian, physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut
Ashot Petrosian, mathematician, computer scientist, contributed to the development of several generations of advanced digital computer systems in former USSR, including the
Nairi (computer) and
ES EVM
Kirill Shchelkin, physicist, in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons who made theoretical and experimental contribution in combustion and gas dynamics.
Armen Takhtajan, botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography
Lev Atamanov (1901 – 1981), director of
Soyuzmultfilm, one of the foremost Soviet animation film directors and one of the founders of Soviet animation art
Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), businessman in the United States, founder of the Star Market
Dona Armênia (Arakel Tchobanian Giovani), character in the Brazilian telenovela Rainha da Sucata played by actress
Aracy Balabanian, of Armenian descent herself
Dany Devedjian, character in the French criminal drama Les Lyonnais
^Ball, Terence (2005). The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. p. 140.
ISBN0521563542. Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.
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
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, an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
Levon Mirzoyan, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1926–1929)
Armenian national liberation movement, First Republic of Armenia
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
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[4]
Garo Kahkejian (born 1962), first Armenian from the diaspora who volunteered to go and fight in the Artsakh conflict
Tatul Krpeyan (born 1965), leader of paramilitary units in Getashen and Martunashen villages in Shahumyan District of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257 – c. 328), founder and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church and in some other churches
Hripsime (d. 290), she and her companions in martyrdom are venerated as some of the first Christian martyrs of Armenia
Saint Parthenius (d. 3rd century), venerated in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches
Minias, venerated as the first Christian martyr of
Florence
Chrysolius (d. probably 300), the patron saint of Komen/Comines, today in Belgium and France
Simeon of Mantua (d. 1016), Benedictine monk, canonized as a saint
Nerses IV the Gracious (1102–1173), Catholicos of Armenia, called "the
Fénelon of Armenia" for his efforts to draw the Armenian church out of isolation
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
Trdat (940s–1020), was the chief architect of the
Bagratid kings of Armenia, and most notable for his design of the cathedral at Ani and his reconstruction of the dome of
Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
Momik (d. 1333), architect, sculptor and a master artist of Armenian illuminated manuscripts
Komitas Vardapet, founder of the Armenian national school of music, one of the pioneers of ethnomusicologyAram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers
Kevork Ajemian (1932–1998), prominent Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, one of the founders of the
ASALA military organization
Nubar Alexanian (born 1950), photojournalist, documentary photographer, and film director
Ivan Aivazovsky, considered one of the greatest masters of marine artMartiros Saryan, Armenian painter, founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting
Ivan Aivazovsky, Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art
Simon Agopian, prominent Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter
Stepan Aghajanian, painter; known primarily for portraits and landscapes
Yuhanna al-Armani, artist in Ottoman Egypt, he is most notable for his religious works
Minas Avetisyan, an painter, one of best-known armenian painters of Soviet Union
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
Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943), author and human rights activist
Perch Zeytuntsyan (born 1938–2017), novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and Minister of Culture of Armenia 1990–1991
Photographers
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
Kegham Djeghalian, an Armenian-Palestinian photographer, known for his photographs documenting daily life and political events over four decades
Abdullah Frères, photographers of international fame during the late Ottoman Empire
Anita Conti, French photographer, and the first French female oceanographer
Mesrop Mashtots (362 – 440), Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist in the Sasanian Empire. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches
Elishe (410 – 475), historian, best known as the author of History of Vardan and the Armenian War
Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), historian of the 5th century. Faustus' History of the Armenians
Ghazar Parpetsi (5th-6th centuries), Armenian chronicler and historian
Koriun, earliest Armenian-language author, his Life of Mashtots contains many details about the evangelization of Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by
Mesrop Mashtots
Movses Khorenatsi, was a prominent historian from late antiquity and the author of the History of the Armenians
Hovhannes Imastaser (1045–1129), medieval multi-disciplinary scholar known for his works on philosophy, theology, mathematics, cosmology, and literature
Ivan Knunyants, chemist, significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet chemistry; one of the major developers of Soviet
chemical weapons program
Anna Kazanjian Longobardo, author of contributions to the aerospace engineering field, the first woman to receive the Egleston Medal for Distinguished Engineering achievement
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, pharmacist, one of the world's pioneers of the oil industry, built the world's first modern
oil refinery
Sergey Mergelyan, mathematician, the author of major contributions in Approximation Theory; head of the department of
Complex Analysis of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Artem Mikoyan, aerospace engineer, designer of
MiGjet aircraft, including the first supersonic Soviet jet fighter
Aram Nalbandyan, Soviet physicist, prominent in the field of physical chemistry
Robert Nalbandyan, chemist, co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin, pioneer in the field of free radicals
Stepanos Nazarian (1812-1879), publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist
Leo (1860-1932), an Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University
Joseph Orbeli, orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of
Transcaucasia, and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Yuri Osipyan, physicist, author of fundamental contribution to the physics of movements in solid bodies and inventor of photoplastic effect
James P. Bagian, physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut
Ashot Petrosian, mathematician, computer scientist, contributed to the development of several generations of advanced digital computer systems in former USSR, including the
Nairi (computer) and
ES EVM
Kirill Shchelkin, physicist, in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons who made theoretical and experimental contribution in combustion and gas dynamics.
Armen Takhtajan, botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography
Lev Atamanov (1901 – 1981), director of
Soyuzmultfilm, one of the foremost Soviet animation film directors and one of the founders of Soviet animation art
Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), businessman in the United States, founder of the Star Market
Dona Armênia (Arakel Tchobanian Giovani), character in the Brazilian telenovela Rainha da Sucata played by actress
Aracy Balabanian, of Armenian descent herself
Dany Devedjian, character in the French criminal drama Les Lyonnais
^Ball, Terence (2005). The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. p. 140.
ISBN0521563542. Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.