This is a list of Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh.

Arts

André, pop singer, first artist to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 Don Askarian, filmmaker, recipient of the Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia Zori Balayan, novelist, journalist, public activist Vladimir Arzumanyan, child singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh

Scientists and scholars

Armen Abaghian, atomic energy specialist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Russian Academy of Sciences Artashes Arakelian (1909–1993), economist, the head of the Economy Institute of Armenian Science Academy Arakel Babakhanian (1860–1932), historian, publicist, writer, critic Ivan Knuniants (1906–1990), Soviet chemist Khoren Sargsian (1891–1970), writer, critic, the director of the Literature Institute of Armenian Academy of Sciences (1943–1947) Armen Takhtajian (1910–2009), botanist Ashot Hovhannisian (1887–1972), Marxist historian and Communist official Andronik Iosifyan (1905–1993), Soviet engineer

List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh

Writers and artists

Stepan Aghajanian (1863–1940), artist, distinguished as a portrait artist

Mikael Arutchian (1897–1961), theatrical painter and designer

Hakob Gyurjian (1881–1948), sculptor

Gevork Kotiantz (1906–1996), painter

Alexander Melik-Pashaev (1905–1964), conductor, born in Tiflis in a family from Shushi Muratsan (1854–1908), writer, one of the most famous figures in Armenian literature Arsen Terteryan (1882–1953), literary critic Vagharsh Vagharshian (1894–1959), director, playwright, actor, theater and public figure

List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh

Politics and statesmen

Hambardzum Arakelian (Shakhriar) (1855–1918), public and political figure

Alexander Atabekian (1868–1933), political figure, anarchist

Artashes Babalian (1887–1959), doctor, politician

Alexander Bekzadyan (1879–1938), Soviet statesman, Soviet ambassador in Norway and Hungary Yeghishe Ishkhanian (1886–1975), political figure Aram Manukian (1879–1919), statesman, the founder of the First Republic of Armenia Arkadi Ghukasyan, politician, 2nd president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan, 3rd president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan, Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2007-2017), current President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Robert Kocharyan, 2nd president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, 3rd president of Armenia Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan (1886–1937), Soviet statesman and politician Tuman Tumian (1879–1906), political activist Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (2016-2018)

Military figures

Samvel Babayan (b. 1965), military commander

Nikol Duman (1867–1914), fedayee

Sergei Khudyakov (1906–1950), Soviet Marshal of the Air Force during World War II Ivan Lazarev (1820–1879), prince, officer of the Russian army, lieutenant general Valerian Madatov (1782–1829), Russian prince and lieutenant-general Nelson Stepanyan (1913–1944), pilot, lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union

Religious figures

Karekin I (Cilicia), Catholicos of Cilicia from 1943 to 1952. Pargev Martirosyan, Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh since 1989

See also

List of Armenians

List of Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh

References

Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Famous Shoushians

People from the Republic of Artsakh

Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenian