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100 Notable alumni of Yerevan State University

Updated: June 03, 2026 EliteDegrees

Yerevan State University is ranked #2,190 in the world and #1 in Armenia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Yerevan State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Yerevan State University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Grigor Hovhannissian

1. Grigor Hovhannissian

1971-. (aged 55)
diplomat
Grigor Hovhannissian is an Armenian diplomat, who served as Ambassador of Armenia to the United States from 2016 to 2018, and as Ambassador of Armenia to Mexico from 2013 to 2016.
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Artashes Laparitovich Shahinyan

2. Artashes Laparitovich Shahinyan

1906-1978 (aged 72)
mathematician
Artashes Shahinian was a Soviet Armenian mathematician, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (1944), Professor (1944), and member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences (1947, (1947, correspondent member 1945). Honoured scientist of the ArmSSR (1961). He worked in complex analysis, authoring a number of research papers and research monographs in mathematics. Being a talented mentor and professor, Shahinian was...
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Levon Ananyan

3. Levon Ananyan

1946-2013 (aged 67)
editing staff opinion journalist journalist linguist translator
Levon Ananyan was an Armenian journalist and translator.
Emînê Evdal

4. Emînê Evdal

1906-1964 (aged 58)
writer
Emînê Evdal, was a Kurdish writer, linguist and poet who was based in Armenia. He was born into a Kurds–Yezidi family in the village of Yamançayir near Kars which at the time was under Russian control. His village was destroyed during the Armenian genocide where he lost both his parents and his brother. In 1924, he attended the workers' school...
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Ruben Hovsepyan

5. Ruben Hovsepyan

1939-2016 (aged 77)
editing staff opinion journalist politician writer screenwriter
Ruben Hovsepyan was an Armenian novelist, translator and editor who became politically active in the 1990s, and, as member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, served in the National Assembly from 2000 to 2007. He was also a member of the Writers' Union of Armenia (1968).
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Tigran Balayan

6. Tigran Balayan

1977-. (aged 49)
diplomat
Tigran Balayan is an Armenian diplomat and historian. He served as the ambassador of Armenia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the OPCW. As of September 2023, Balayan serves as the head of the Mission of Armenia to the European Union and the ambassador of Armenia to Belgium.
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Lusine Badalyan

7. Lusine Badalyan

1980-. (aged 46)
television presenter presenter politician
Lusine Khachiki Badalyan is an Armenian television presenter and politician, who has been a member of National Assembly of Armenia since 2018.
Tatul Hakobyan

8. Tatul Hakobyan

1969-. (aged 57)
journalist
Tatul Ashiki Hakobyan is an Armenian reporter and an independent political analyst.
Hranush Kharatyan

9. Hranush Kharatyan

1952-. (aged 74)
ethnologist ethnographer
Hranush Kharatyan is an Armenian ethnographer. She also specialises in Caucasus studies, minority groups and Armenian studies. She has been a member of the Pre-Parliament civil initiative since November 2012.
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Ruben Safrastyan

10. Ruben Safrastyan

1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher Turkologist orientalist
Ruben Arami Safrastyan is an Armenian historian and Turkologist who specializes in Turkish, Ottoman, genocide, Middle Eastern and regional studies. He is currently a professor of history and Turkish studies at Yerevan State University and a full member (Oriental Studies) of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. He was director of the Institute of Oriental Studies from 2006 to 2020....
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Norayr Mnatsakanyan

11. Norayr Mnatsakanyan

1923-1986 (aged 63)
singer
Norayr Mnatsakanyan was a Merited Artist of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1965).
Hasmik Poghosyan

12. Hasmik Poghosyan

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Hasmik S. Poghosyan, Armenian state and political figure, Minister of Culture of RA (2006-2016).
Aram Pachyan

13. Aram Pachyan

1983-. (aged 43)
writer prose writer
Aram Pachyan is an Armenian writer. He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the post-Soviet generation of Armenian authors. In 2021, he won the EU Prize for Literature for his book P/F, becoming the first Armenian author to receive the honor. Pachyan's work is noted for its fragmentary, stream of consciousness style and difficult subject matter. His...
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Alvard Petrossyan

14. Alvard Petrossyan

1946-2022 (aged 76)
writer editing staff philologist editor-in-chief opinion journalist
Alvard Petrossyan was an Armenian writer, philologist, politician and publicist.
Levon Zourabian

15. Levon Zourabian

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Levon Arami Zourabian is an Armenian politician and vice-chairman of the Armenian National Congress political party. He was a member of parliament and the head of the Armenian National Congress's parliamentary faction from 2012 to 2017. In December 2025, the Armenian National Congress announced Zourabian as its candidate for prime minister for the 2026 parliamentary elections.
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Albert Nalchajyan

16. Albert Nalchajyan

1939-. (aged 87)
psychologist sociologist
Albert Nalchajyan is an Armenian psychologist. Spheres of his scientific interests include Psychology, Ethnology and Philosophy.
Vache Gabrielyan

17. Vache Gabrielyan

1968-. (aged 58)
banker economist
Vache Vazgeni Gabrielyan is the Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the American University of Armenia. Previously, he served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia and the Minister for International Economic Integration and Reforms from 2014 to 2018. Vache Gabrielyan started his career in public service in 1990 as a staff member in the Armenian Parliament....
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Hambardzum Galstyan

18. Hambardzum Galstyan

1955-1994 (aged 39)
politician
Hambardzum Paylaki Galstyan was an Armenian politician and historian who served as the Chairman of the Yerevan City Council (Mayor of Yerevan) from 1990 to 1992 and was a prominent member of the Karabakh Committee. On December 17, 1994, he was assassinated by unknown assailants.
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David Muradyan

19. David Muradyan

1951-. (aged 75)
writer film scholar playwright screenwriter
David Mouradian is an Armenian philologist, writer, film critic and publicist. He is a lecturer at the Yerevan State University and the Institute of film and theater since 1986.
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Aghvan Vardanyan

20. Aghvan Vardanyan

1958-. (aged 68)
politician editing staff journalist
Aghvan Arshaviri Vardanyan is an Armenian politician currently serving as a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia as a member of the opposition Armenia Alliance. He served as minister of labor and social affairs from 2003 to 2008 under presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan.
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Hayk Chobanyan

21. Hayk Chobanyan

1973-. (aged 53)
historian statesperson
Hayk Harutyuni Chobanyan is an Armenian businessman and former politician. He served as the governor of Tavush Province from 2019 to 2021, then served as the Minister of High-Tech Industry from April to August 2021.
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Jalile Jalil

22. Jalile Jalil

1936-. (aged 90)
historian journalist university teacher writer
Celîlê Celîl is a Kurdish historian, writer and Kurdologist. He was born in Yerevan in family of Kurds-Yazidi and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad. He wrote his thesis regarding the Kurdish rebellions in the 19th century. He received his PhD in 1963, and worked in the Academy of Sciences from 1963 to 1993....
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Hayk Demoyan

23. Hayk Demoyan

1975-. (aged 51)
historian opinion journalist mind gamer
Hayk Demoyan is an Armenian historian who served as the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia from 2006 to 2018.
Gregory Areshian

24. Gregory Areshian

1949-2020 (aged 71)
historian archaeologist
Gregory Areshian was an Armenian-American archeologist and historian who was a professor at American University of Armenia. He was the co-director of the international team of archeologists who, led by Boris Gasparyan, found the 5,500 years old shoe in and the oldest winery in Areni of which Areshian said:
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Ashot Manucharyan

25. Ashot Manucharyan

1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Ashot Manucharyan is an Armenian educator, democratic socialist politician, and one of the founding members of the Karabakh Committee. After the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1991, he served as Minister of Internal Affairs from 1991 to 1992 and as Levon Ter-Petrosyan's National Security Adviser until 1993. Together with Ashot Dabaghyan and Ashot Bleyan, Manucharyan co-founded School...
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Sarmen

26. Sarmen

1901-1984 (aged 83)
poet writer
Sarmen, pseudonym of Armenak Sarkisyan (Armenian: Արմենակ Սարգսյան; 1 March [O.S. 16 February] 1901 – 18 February 1984) was a Soviet Armenian poet.
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Gurgen Yeghiazaryan

27. Gurgen Yeghiazaryan

1948-2020 (aged 72)
politician
Gurgen Ambartsumovich Egiazaryan was an Armenian politician and civil servant.
Gevorg Petrosyan

28. Gevorg Petrosyan

1972-. (aged 54)
jurist politician
Gevorg Volodya Petrosyan (Armenian: Գևորգ Վոլոդյայի Պետրոսյան, born in Yerevan on September 4, 1972, is an Armenian lawyer and politician, former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.
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Styopa Safaryan

29. Styopa Safaryan

1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Styopa Seryozhayi Safaryan (Armenian: Ստյոպա Սերյոժայի Սաֆարյան; born 7 October 1973) is an Armenian politician and former member of the National Assembly of Armenia. From 2009 to 2012 he was the head of the parliamentary faction of Heritage Party and served as the party's general secretary from 2012 until his departure from the party in 2014. Since 2019 he has...
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Yuri Bakhshyan

30. Yuri Bakhshyan

1947-1999 (aged 52)
volleyball player politician
Yuri Bakhshyan was an Armenian politician, the Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Armenia.
Suren Tovmasyan

31. Suren Tovmasyan

1909-1980 (aged 71)
diplomat statesperson politician
Suren Hakobi Tovmasyan was a Soviet Armenian politician and diplomat who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1953 to 1960, and later as Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam and to Libya.
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Oleg Yesayan

32. Oleg Yesayan

1946-. (aged 80)
diplomat politician
Oleg Yesayan is an Armenian politician and diplomat who is a former Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, President of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Chairman of the Securities Commission of Armenia. Yesayan is also a former ambassador of Armenia to Russia and Belarus, presenting his credentials to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 5 February 2010.
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Anna Vardapetyan

33. Anna Vardapetyan

1986-. (aged 40)
jurist
Anna Vardapetyan is an Armenian lawyer who has been the Prosecutor General of Armenia since 15 September 2022.
Hrachya Kochar

34. Hrachya Kochar

1910-1965 (aged 55)
prose writer writer editing staff
Hrachya Kochar, born Hrachya Kochari Gabrielyan, was an Armenian writer and publicist. He won the first state prize of the Armenian SSR for his novella Patriarch (Nahapet), which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1977.
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Vahe Gurzadyan

35. Vahe Gurzadyan

1955-. (aged 71)
physicist
Vahagn "Vahe" Gurzadyan is an Armenian mathematical physicist and a professor and head of Cosmology Center at Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia, best known for co-writing "Concentric circles in WMAP data may provide evidence of violent pre-Big-Bang activity" paper with his colleague, Roger Penrose, and collaborating on Roger Penrose's recent book Cycles of Time.
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Heciyê Cindî

36. Heciyê Cindî

1908-1990 (aged 82)
university teacher literary scholar writer
Heciyê Cindî was a Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia.
Srbuhi Galyan

37. Srbuhi Galyan

1992-. (aged 34)
solicitor
Srbuhi Hovhannes Galyan is an Armenian lawyer, academic and politician, Minister of Justice of Armenia since 2024. She previously served as Deputy Prosecutor General between 2020 and 2024.
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Zarouhi Batoyan

38. Zarouhi Batoyan

1979-. (aged 47)
public figure statesperson journalist
Zaruhi Valeriani Batoyan, is an Armenian politician, journalist and disability rights activist, and the former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Second Pashinyan government.
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Hranush Hakobyan

39. Hranush Hakobyan

1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Hranush Hrant Hakobyan is an Armenian politician who was the longest-serving woman in the National Assembly of Armenia. She was the first Armenian woman to be "directly elected" into office by the Armenian people instead of "being appointed by a political party".
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Ara Ayvazyan

40. Ara Ayvazyan

1969-. (aged 57)
diplomat
Ara Henrii Ayvazyan is an Armenian diplomat and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.
Mher Grigoryan

41. Mher Grigoryan

1972-. (aged 54)
jurist politician
Mher Herberti Grigoryan is an Armenian politician currently serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia.
Garik Israelyan

42. Garik Israelyan

1963-. (aged 63)
astrophysicist
Garik Israelian is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival. In 1999, Israelian and colleagues presented the first observational evidence that supernova explosions were responsible for the formation of stellar-mass black holes.
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Mkhitar Hayrapetyan

43. Mkhitar Hayrapetyan

1990-. (aged 36)
Turkologist minister
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan is an Armenian politician serving as the Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia. He previously held the position of Minister of Diaspora from May 11, 2018, to January 11, 2019.
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Lena Nazaryan

44. Lena Nazaryan

1983-. (aged 43)
journalist politician
Lena Nazaryan is an Armenian politician and a member of the Armenian National Assembly. As a board member of the Civil Contract Party, she ran under the Way Out Alliance (Yelk) during the 2017 parliamentary election and was elected off the Yelk national list.
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Alexander Arzoumanian

45. Alexander Arzoumanian

1959-. (aged 67)
diplomat politician
Alexander Arzumanyan is Armenia's first ambassador to the United States (from 1992 to 1993) and to the United Nations (from 1992 to 1996). He served as minister of foreign affairs from 1996 until his resignation, with President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, in 1998. Since then, he has been involved in local politics, as chairman of the Armenian national liberation movement (2000–2002), and...
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Ruben Rubinyan

46. Ruben Rubinyan

1990-. (aged 36)
diplomat statesperson politician
Ruben Rubinyan is an Armenian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia and former head of its Standing Committee on Foreign Relations. He was appointed a special envoy from Armenia for normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations in December 2021, meeting his Turkish counterpart Serdar Kılıç on January 14, 2022.
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Andrias Ghukasyan

47. Andrias Ghukasyan

1970-. (aged 56)
politician political scientist
Andrias Marati Ghukasyan is an Armenian political analyst.
Karen Swassjan

48. Karen Swassjan

1948-2024 (aged 76)
literary historian university teacher historian author philosopher
Karen A. Swassjan was an Armenian philosopher, literary critic, historian of culture and anthroposophist. He is one of the best known contemporary philosophers in the Russian-speaking world.
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Ashot Navasardyan

49. Ashot Navasardyan

1950-1997 (aged 47)
politician
Ashot Tsolaki Navasardyan was an Armenian politician and military commander who founded the Republican Party of Armenia.
Ara Papian

50. Ara Papian

1961-. (aged 65)
diplomat lawyer historian
Ara Papian is an Armenian lawyer, historian and diplomat. He served as Armenia's Ambassador to Canada from 2000 to 2006. He is currently the president of the "Modus Vivendi" Center for Social Science.
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Beniamin Margaryan

51. Beniamin Margaryan

1913-1985 (aged 72)
university teacher astronomer
Benjamin Egishevich Markarian was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain is a group of galaxies which was named after him when he discovered that its members move with a common motion. He is also the namesake of a catalog of compact, optically bright galaxies (including both starbursts and active galactic nuclei) known as Markarian galaxies.
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Shahen Meghrian

52. Shahen Meghrian

1952-1993 (aged 41)
military personnel
Shahen Zinavori Meghrian was an Armenian military commander and political activist. He was known as the Eagle of Shahumian (Armenian: Շահումյանի արծիվ, Shahumiani Ardziv).
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Artur Baghdasaryan

53. Artur Baghdasaryan

1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Artur Baghdasaryan is an Armenian politician and former chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia and a former secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia. He is the leader of the Rule of Law party. He is married and has two children.
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Gagik Harutyunyan

54. Gagik Harutyunyan

1948-. (aged 78)
politician judge
Gagik Garushi Harutyunyan is an Armenian politician and jurist who served as the president of the Constitutional Court of Armenia from 1996 to 2018. He served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 22 November 1991 to 30 July 1992.
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Galust Sahakyan

55. Galust Sahakyan

1949-2022 (aged 73)
politician
Galust Grigorii Sahakyan was an Armenian politician and statesman, who served as MP, and the President of the National Assembly of Armenia.
Ishkhan Saghtelyan

56. Ishkhan Saghtelyan

1982-. (aged 44)
politician
Ishkhan Vachiki Saghatelyan is an Armenian politician who has served as a deputy in the National Assembly of Armenia from the opposition Armenia Alliance since August 2, 2021. He served as deputy speaker the National Assembly from August 6, 2021 until his removal from the position on July 2, 2022. He is the current chair of the Supreme Council of...
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Mihran Poghosyan

57. Mihran Poghosyan

1976-. (aged 50)
economist businessperson politician
Mihran Poghosyan is an Armenian businessman and civil servant and former deputy of the Republican Party of Armenia. He was Major-General of Justice and Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer from June 2008 until he resigned in April 2016 following revelations in the Panama Papers on secret foreign bank accounts.
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Lilit Makunts

58. Lilit Makunts

1983-. (aged 43)
politician philologist
Lilit Kamo Makunts is an Armenian philologist and politician who currently serves as the Armenian ambassador to the United States. Earlier, she served as the leader of the ruling My Step Alliance faction in the seventh National Assembly of Armenia and as Minister of Culture in the first cabinet of Nikol Pashinyan.
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Tigran Khzmalyan

59. Tigran Khzmalyan

1963-. (aged 63)
film director screenwriter
Tigran Khzmalyan is an Armenian politician, literary scholar and film director. Since 2018, Khzmalyan serves as the chairman of the European Party of Armenia. Since 2023, Khzmalyan serves as the chair of the Board of Trustees of PanEuropa Armenia.
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Souren Papikyan

60. Souren Papikyan

1986-. (aged 40)
historian statesperson politician
Suren Rafiki Papikyan is an Armenian politician currently serving as the Minister of Defense of Armenia. He formerly served as minister of territorial administration and infrastructure and briefly as deputy prime minister. He is also chairman of the board of the ruling Civil Contract Party.
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Sergey Mergelyan

61. Sergey Mergelyan

1928-2008 (aged 80)
academic mathematician
Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan was a Soviet and Armenian mathematician, who made major contributions to the Approximation theory. The modern Complex Approximation Theory is based on Mergelyan's classical work. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (since 1953), member of NAS ASSR (since 1956).
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Gohar Vartanian

62. Gohar Vartanian

1926-2019 (aged 93)
intelligence officer
Goar Levonovna Vartanian was an Armenian woman who spied for the Soviet Union together with her husband Gevork Vartanian.
Maro Marġaryan

63. Maro Marġaryan

1915-1999 (aged 84)
translator poet teacher politician
Maro Yeghishe Markarian was an Armenian poet, translator, member of the USSR Writers Union since 1937.
Armen Takhtajan

64. Armen Takhtajan

1910-2009 (aged 99)
pteridologist botanist botanical collector scientific collector biologist
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian, was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. He was one of the most influential taxonomists of the latter twentieth century.
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Arsen Julfalakyan

65. Arsen Julfalakyan

1987-. (aged 39)
politician amateur wrestler
Arsen Julfalakyan is an Armenian Greco-Roman style wrestler, Olympic silver medalist, World and European Champion, World Cup winner and three-time Olympian.
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Leonid Azgaldyan

66. Leonid Azgaldyan

1942-1992 (aged 50)
physicist soldier
Leonid Rubeni Azgaldyan was an Armenian physicist who rose to prominence as a military leader during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He is best known as one of the founders and commander of a large special operations force known as the Liberation Army (Armenian: Ազատագրական Բանակ).
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Vigen Sargsyan

67. Vigen Sargsyan

1975-. (aged 51)
military personnel politician
Vigen Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the Defence Minister of Armenia from October 2016 until May 2018 and as the Chief of Presidential Administration from October 2011 to October 2016.
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Nairi Hunanyan

68. Nairi Hunanyan

1965-. (aged 61)
politician writer journalist
Nairi Hrachiki Hunanyan is an Armenian journalist who led the armed attack on the Armenian parliament on 27 October 1999 and killed Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other politicians.
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David Tonoyan

69. David Tonoyan

1967-. (aged 59)
politician
David Edgari Tonoyan is an Armenian political figure and former Defence Minister of Armenia, in office from 2018 to 2020.
Vasyl Shkliar

70. Vasyl Shkliar

1951-. (aged 75)
writer journalist short story writer politician
Vasyl Mykolayovych Shkliar is a Ukrainian writer and political activist. He is one of the most well known and widely read, contemporary Ukrainian authors. Some observers have even named him the “Father of the Ukrainian Bestseller”. The Committee of the Shevchenko National Prize declared him a Shevchenko Prize Laureate in 2011.
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Vardges Petrosyan

71. Vardges Petrosyan

1932-1994 (aged 62)
playwright writer prose writer opinion journalist journalist
Vardges Hamazaspi Petrosyan was a Soviet Armenian novelist, playwright, essayist and politician. He was assassinated in 1994, aged 61.
Vahagn Davtyan

72. Vahagn Davtyan

1922-1996 (aged 74)
editing staff opinion journalist public figure translator poet
Vahagn Davtyan was an Armenian poet, translator, publicist and public activist.
Artur Mkrtchyan

73. Artur Mkrtchyan

1959-1992 (aged 33)
politician
Artur Aslani Mkrtchyan was the first Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, who was elected on 7 January 1992. He made an important contribution to reinforcing the defensive capabilities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but was fatally shot under unclear circumstances in April 1992.
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Arpine Hovhannisyan

74. Arpine Hovhannisyan

1983-. (aged 43)
politician
Arpine Hovhannisyan is an Armenian politician, lawyer, former Minister of Justice of Armenia, and former vice president of the National Assembly of Armenia. Hovhannisyan is also the first female to ever hold the position of Justice Minister in Armenia. Currently a member of the Chamber of Advocates, she is fully engaged in a professional activity. During her political career, Hovhannisyan...
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Alen Simonyan

75. Alen Simonyan

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Alen Roberti Simonyan is an Armenian politician currently serving as the president of the National Assembly of Armenia since 2 August 2021. He served as the acting president of Armenia from 1 February 2022 to 13 March 2022, and is a former member of Yerevan City Council.
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Gurgen Mahari

76. Gurgen Mahari

1903-1969 (aged 66)
poet writer prose writer literary scholar opinion journalist
Gurgen Mahari was an Armenian writer of prose and poetry. His most significant works include the semi-autobiographical novella Barbed Wires in Blossom (1968) and the novel Burning Orchards (1966), which is set in the writer's hometown of Van on the eve of the Armenian genocide.
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Ararat Mirzoyan

77. Ararat Mirzoyan

1979-. (aged 47)
historian politician
Ararat Samveli Mirzoyan is an Armenian politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. Before this, he served as President of the National Assembly of Armenia from January 2019 to August 2021.
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Nairi Zaryan

78. Nairi Zaryan

1900-1969 (aged 69)
public figure opinion journalist writer translator
Nairi Zarian was a Soviet and Armenian writer, poet and playwright. From 1944 to 1946, he was the President of the Writers Union of Armenia. From 1951 to 1958 he was a Deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR. He also served as the Chairman of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Committee for the Defense of Peace, the...
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Vazgen Manukyan

79. Vazgen Manukyan

1946-. (aged 80)
mathematician politician
Vazgen Mikayeli Manukyan is an Armenian politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Armenia from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Manukyan was acting Defence Minister of Armenia. He was also a member of Armenia's parliament from 1990 to 2007.
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Kurt M. Campbell

80. Kurt M. Campbell

1957-. (aged 69)
diplomat
Kurt Michael Campbell is an American diplomat and businessman who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from 2024 to 2025. He previously served as deputy assistant advisor to President Biden and National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific from 2021 to 2024. In this capacity, Campbell had been referred to as the Biden administration's "Asia coordinator" or...
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Artur Janibekyan

81. Artur Janibekyan

1976-. (aged 50)
manufacturer
Artur Janibekyan is a founder of Comedy Club Production, television producer and media manager. He is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts Emmy International and a member of the Armenian National Film Academy.
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Paruyr Sevak

82. Paruyr Sevak

1924-1971 (aged 47)
literary scholar poet politician
Paruyr Sevak was an Armenian poet, translator and literary critic. A major figure in Soviet Armenia during the Khrushchev Thaw, Sevak and his works remain widely popular in Armenia today. He is considered one of the greatest Armenian poets of the 20th century.
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Hovhannes Shiraz

83. Hovhannes Shiraz

1915-1984 (aged 69)
translator poet philologist writer
Hovhannes Shiraz was an Armenian poet.
Karen Karapetyan

84. Karen Karapetyan

1963-. (aged 63)
prime minister economist politician
Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan is an Armenian politician who was Prime Minister of Armenia from September 2016 until April 2018. He was previously Mayor of Yerevan, the capital, from 2010 to 2011. He was appointed prime minister by President Serzh Sargsyan on 13 September 2016 and held office until 9 April 2018. Karapetyan served as first deputy prime minister from 17...
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Silva Kaputikyan

85. Silva Kaputikyan

1919-2006 (aged 87)
public figure poet opinion journalist writer
Silva Kaputikyan was an Armenian poet and political activist. One of the best-known Armenian writers of the twentieth century, she is recognized as "the leading poetess of Armenia" and "the grand lady of twentieth century Armenian poetry". Although a member of the Communist Party, she was a noted advocate of Armenian national causes.
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Anna Hakobyan

86. Anna Hakobyan

1978-. (aged 48)
journalist
Anna Vachiki Hakobyan is an Armenian journalist and the spouse of the current Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. She is the editor-in-chief of the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper. Unofficially, Hakobyan is regarded as the "First Lady of Armenia", a position that is reserved for the spouses of the President of Armenia.
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Sirusho

87. Sirusho

1987-. (aged 39)
singer-songwriter singer
Siranush Hrachyayi Harutyunyan, known professionally as Sirusho (Armenian: Սիրուշո), is an Armenian singer and songwriter. She received her first award when she was nine years old for her song "Lusabats". Sirusho's first studio album, Sirusho, was released in 2000 followed by the second album Sheram in 2005. In the same year, she was awarded the Future of Armenian Music, Best...
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Nikol Pashinyan

88. Nikol Pashinyan

1975-. (aged 51)
writer journalist activist politician
Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1998, which was shut down a year later for libel. He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan. He...
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Serzh Sargsyan

89. Serzh Sargsyan

1954-. (aged 72)
military personnel politician
Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
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Armen Sarkissian

90. Armen Sarkissian

1953-. (aged 73)
entrepreneur university teacher politician physicist computer scientist
Armen Vardani Sarkissian is an Armenian politician, physicist, investor, businessman, and computer scientist who was the 4th president of Armenia from 2018 to 2022. He also was Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1997. He was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia born in the former Armenian SSR.
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Ara Abramyan

91. Ara Abramyan

1957-. (aged 69)
businessperson
Ara Abrahamyan is a prominent philanthropist, social activist, and businessman. He was born in Malishka, a village in Vayots Dzor Region, Armenia, in a family of physicians. He attended Yerevan State Agricultural University and gained a degree in economics.
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Armen Harutyunyan

92. Armen Harutyunyan

1964-. (aged 62)
human rights defender
Armen A. Harutyunyan is an Armenian economist, who served as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Armenia in 2013–2018. Additionally, Harutyunyan has been a lecturer at the Agribusiness Educational Center from 2012 to 2014, and at the Yerevan State Medical University since 2018.
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Tigran Mkrtchyan

93. Tigran Mkrtchyan

1978-. (aged 48)
diplomat
Tigran Mkrtchyan is an Armenian diplomat, historian and political scientist. As of April 2022, he serves as the Ambassador of Armenia to the Hellenic Republic, to the Republic of Albania and to the Republic of Cyprus.
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Manvel Grigoryan

94. Manvel Grigoryan

1956-2020 (aged 64)
military personnel politician
Lieutenant General Manvel Sektori Grigoryan was an Armenian military leader and a member of the National Assembly of Armenia.
Grigory Martirosyan

95. Grigory Martirosyan

1978-. (aged 48)
economist
Grigory Martirosyan is a politician who served as the State Minister of the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh from 2018 until 2021. He also previously served as Finance Minister from September 2017 until June 2018, when then State Minister, Arayik Harutyunyan, resigned and Martirosyan was appointed in his place.
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Nouneh Sarkissian

96. Nouneh Sarkissian

1954-. (aged 72)
children's writer philologist politician
Nouneh Sarkissian is an Armenian art historian and author. She is the wife of former Armenian President Armen Sarksyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.
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Samvel Kocharyants

97. Samvel Kocharyants

1909-1993 (aged 84)
electrical engineer
Samvel Grigorievich Kocharyants was a Soviet Armenian designer and developer of the first Soviet nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles. He was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor twice.
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Armen Grigoryan

98. Armen Grigoryan

1983-. (aged 43)
statesperson political scientist
Armen Grigoryan is a singer/songwriter, artist, and the front man (and main songwriter) of "Krematorij" (Crematorium) Russian rock-band.
Norair Sisakian

99. Norair Sisakian

1907-1966 (aged 59)
biologist biochemist chemist
Norair Martirosovich Sisakian was a Soviet biologist of Armenian origin who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program, working mainly on biomechanics effects. Sisakian is also one of the founders of space biology, an outstanding organizer of science, a member of the Pugwash movement.
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Levon Ter-Petrosyan

100. Levon Ter-Petrosyan

1945-. (aged 81)
historian politician
Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician and historian who served as the first president of Armenia from 1991 until his resignation in 1998.
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