List of Famous people born in Armenia
Arthur Abraham
Avetik Abrahamyan, best known as Arthur Abraham, is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2018. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF middleweight title from 2005 to 2009, and the WBO super-middleweight title twice between 2012 and 2016.
Vanes Martirosyan
Vanes Martirosyan is an Armenian-American professional boxer. He has challenged twice for a light middleweight world title in 2013 and 2016, and once for a unified middleweight world title in 2018.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is the Director of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Michel Der Zakarian
Michel Der Zakarian is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as a defender, and the current coach of Montpellier HSC.
Iveta Mukuchyan
Iveta Mukuchyan is an Armenian-German singer-songwriter, model, and actress. Born in Yerevan, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1992. Mukuchyan returned to Armenia in 2009 and placed fifth in the fourth season of the talent competition Hay Superstar. During this time, she received vocal training at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Mukuchyan also participated for season two of The Voice of Germany in 2012.
Armen Sarkissian
Armen Vardani Sargsyan is an Armenian politician, physicist and computer scientist who has served as the President of Armenia since 2018. He served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 4 November 1996 to 20 March 1997 and was the country's (longest-serving) ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2018. Sargsyan was elected on 2 March 2018 and assumed the presidency on 9 April 2018.
Seda Tutkhalyan
Seda Gurgenovna Tutkhalyan is a Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Individual All-around champion and a 2016 Summer Olympics Team silver medalist.
Sarik Andreasyan
Sarik Garnikovich Andreasyan is a Russian-Armenian director, producer and screenwriter of Armenian origin who has worked on films and commercials. He is the founder of Enjoy Movies. In May 2017, Andreasyan left Enjoy Movies studio to start another studio, Bolshoe Kino.
Aleksandr Grigoryan
Aleksandr Vitalyevich Grigoryan is an Armenian professional football coach and a former player who is the manager of Urartu. He also holds Russian citizenship.
Serge Avédikian
Serge Avédikian, sometimes credited as Serje Avétikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize.