List of Iranian Armenians

Arts and entertainment

• Sarkis Djanbazian – ballet master, dancer, choreographer and producer.
• Lilit Teryan – sculptor.

Music

• Aram Gharabekian – conductor.

Singers

• Hovhannes Badalyan – singer.
• Viguen – singer and actor.
• Andy – singer-songwriter and actor; Iranian Armenian-Armenian.

Composers and instrumentalists

• Hambarsoom Grigorian – composer.
• Ivan Galamian – violinist, teacher; Iranian Armenian-American.
• Robert Atayan – musicologist and composer.
• Varoujan Hakhbandian – composer and songwriter.
• Loris Tjeknavorian – composer and conductor.
• Armik – guitarist, producer and composer.
• Vartan Vahramian – composer and painter.
• Khachik Babayan – violinist.
• Armen Ra – thereminist.

Filmmaking

• Ray Aghayan – fashion designer and costume designer; Iranian Armenian-American.

Actors

• Murad Kostanyan – actor.
• Loreta – actress.
• Annik Shefrazian – actress.
• Arman – actor.
• Yervand Manaryan – actor.
• Irene Zazians – actress.
• Aramazd Stepanian – actor, producer, director and playwright.
• Mary Apick – actress.
• Marco Khan – actor and stunt performer; Iranian-born Armenian-American.
• Vahik Pirhamzei – actor, producer, director and writer.
• Mahaya Petrosian – actress.

Directors

• Ovanes Ohanian – film director.
• Aramais Aghamalian – film director and screenwriter.
• Mushegh Sarvarian – film director.
• Samuel Khachikian – film director, screenwriter, author, and film editor.
• Arman Manaryan – film director.
• Robert Ekhart – film director.
• Varuzh Karim-Masihi – film director, film editor, and screenplay writer.

Painters, photogeraphers and cartoonists

• Bogdan Saltanov – painter; Persian-born Armenian.
• Antoin Sevruguin – photographer.
• Sumbat Der Kiureghian – watercolor painter.
• Marcos Grigorian – painter and gallery owner.
• Nikol Faridani – photographer.

Branches of science

• Jean Althen – agronomist.
• Emik Avakian – inventor; Iranian-Armenian-American.
• Maria Baghramian – philosopher; Iranian-Armenian-Irish.

Applied science

• Gabriel Guevrekian – architect.
• Vartan Hovanessian – architect.
• Armen Hakhnazarian – architect.
• Armen Kocharian – physician and cardiologist.
• Caro Lucas – electrical engineer and inventor.

Formal science

• Alexander Abian – mathematician; Iranian-Armenian-American.

Natural sciences

• Arsen Minasian – pharmacist and philanthropist.
• Hayk Mirzayans – entomologist.
• Alenush Terian – aastronomer and physicist.
• Manuel Berberian – earth scientist.

Social science

• Arakel of Tabriz – historian and clergyman.
• Shahamir Shahamirian – political philosopher.
• Mesrovb Jacob Seth – historian.
• Vartan Gregorian – academic, educator, and historian.
• Ervand Abrahamian – historian; Iranian-American.
• George Bournoutian – historian.

Business

• Marcara Avanchintz – 17th-century powerful Armenian trader from Ispahan.
• Patrick Bet-David - Businessman and Podcaster
• Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev – financier and millionaire; Russian-Armenian-Iranian.
• Arathoon Stephen – hotelier and real estate developer.
• Sarkis Acopian – businessman and philanthropist; Iranian-American.

Education

• Bersabe Hovsepyan-Snhchyan, Iranian entrepreneur and school founder

Literature

• Joseph Emin – prose writer and public figure.
• Mardik Martin – screenwriter; Iranian Armenian-American.

Fiction writers

• Raffi – writer, poet, novelist, essayist.
• Hakob Karapents – short story writer and novelist.
• Zoya Pirzad – novelist.

Poets

• Avetis Nazarbekian – poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary; Iranian-Russian Armenian
• Leonardo Alishan – poet and literary scholar.
• Varand – poet, playwright and lyricist.

Military

• Khosrow Soltan Armani – 17th-century Safavid official and military commander.
• Allahverdi Khan (Armenian) – Safavid military officer.
• Alexander Khan Setkhanian – general, the Chief of Staff of the Cossack Brigade, a Commander in the Iranian Imperial Army
• Hayk Bzhishkyan – military commander; Iranian Armenian-Soviet.

Politics and government

Parthia

• Ariazate - daughter of the Artaxiad king Tigranes the Great, Parthian queen consort as the wife of the Parthian monarch Gotarzes I

Officials

• Hagopdjan de Deritchan – diplomat.
• Set Khan Astvatsatourian – businessman, Iran's ambassador to Great Britain, envoy to the Ottoman Empire, military advisor to Fath-Ali Shah
• Mirza Malkam Khan – writer, diplomat and publicist.
• Hovhannes Masehyan – translator and diplomat.
• Vahan Papazian – politician.
• Abraham Guloyan – politician; Iranian Armenian-Soviet.
• Hrayr Maroukhian –, leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation

Parliament and party members

• Avetis Sultan-Zade – Communist Party of Persia politician.
• Ardeshir Ovanessian – Members of the 14th Iranian Majlis, Communist Party of Persia politician.
• Levon Davidian – psychiatrist, Member of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly.
• Hrant Markarian – politician; Iranian-Armenian.
• Robert Beglarian – Member of the 9th, 8th, and 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Religion

• Stepanos V of Salmast – Catholicos of All Armenians from 1547 to 1567.
• Alexander I of Julfa – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1706 and 1714.
• Harutyun Shmavonyan – priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and journalist.
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr – bishop of the Jama'at-e Rabbani church.

Sports

Individual sports

Combat sports

• Emmanuel Agassi – boxer; Assyiran-Armenian.
• Sarkis Assadourian – fencer.
• Masis Hambarsumian – retired light-heavyweight boxer.
• Vartex Parsanian – boxor.
• Patrik Baboumian – retired strongman and former bodybuilder.
• Gegard Mousasi – mixed martial artist and former kickboxer; Dutch-Iranian.

Team sports

• Emil Vartazarian – retired rugby and association football player.
• Oshin Sahakian – basketball player.
• Aren Davoudi – basketball player.

Football

• Garnik Mehrabian – football player and coach.
• Karo Haghverdian – former footballer.
• Mayis Minasyan – former midfielder.
• Andranik Eskandarian – former footballer.
• Garnik Shahbandari – midfielder.
• Vazgen Safarian – former footballer.
• Markar Aghajanyan – defence and manager.
• Edmond Akhtar – forward.
• Serjik Teymourian – defensive midfielder.
• Edmond Bezik – retired footballer and coach.
• Robert Markosi – former footballer.
• Sebo Shahbazian – retired defender.
• Andranik Teymourian – footballer.