List of Famous people born in Armenia

Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko is a Russian oligarch and billionaire businessman. He founded and owns the private investment group, Volga Group, which specializes in investments in energy, transport and infrastructure assets. Previously he was a co-owner of Gunvor Group. In 2020, Timchenko was ranked 72nd on the Forbes magazine billionaires list, with an estimated fortune of US$20 billion. He is known for being the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kontinental Hockey League, and President of the SKA Saint Petersburg ice hockey club. He is a citizen of Russia, Finland and Armenia. He is an honorary consul of Serbia in Saint Petersburg.

Artem Harutyunyan is an Armenian-born German professional boxer who competes as a light-welterweight. As an amateur, Harutyunyan represented Germany at the 2016 Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the light-welterweight bracket.

Levon Grigori Aronian is an Armenian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2000. On the March 2014 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2830, making him the fourth-highest rated player in history.

Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova is a Russian high jumper. She was the gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and originally was awarded a bronze medal in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also runner-up at the World Championships in 2007 and 2009, and bronze medalist in 2013 and 2015.

Mihran Ediki Harutyunyan is an Armenian-Russian Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics for Armenia where in the final he lost to Davor Štefanek of Serbia. The decision is still considered to be very doubtful, and a lot of people signed petition to award gold medal to Harutyunyan. He is also a Russian national champion (2012) and runner-up (2011).

Khoren Roberti Bayramyan is an Armenian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for FC Rostov.

Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian is an Armenian-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional songwriter of heavy metal band System of a Down, he also plays bass in Trap group North Kingsley. During the band's hiatus from 2006 to 2010, Odadjian collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA on a project called AcHoZeN, which contributed a number of songs to the motion picture Babylon A.D. A compilation album was released in 2015. Odadjian is also credited with the musical scoring of the film, alongside The Rza and Hans Zimmer.

Gevorg Ghazaryan is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward in the Super League Greece for Lamia, on loan from Cypriot First Division club AEL Limassol, and the Armenia national team.

Alexander "Alex" Abraham is a former Armenian-German professional boxer residing in Berlin, Germany. On 25 October 2008 he won the vacant EBU-EE light middleweight title from Roman Dzhuman and retained it twice. He is the younger brother of Arthur Abraham.

Gagik Tsarukyan is an Armenian businessman, politician, and former athlete. Tsarukyan is the founder and leader of the Prosperous Armenia political party, the largest opposition party in Armenia's National Assembly. He also owns various large-scale businesses and is believed to be one of the richest men in Armenia. He is seen as the most influential of Armenia's former government-connected oligarchs, and a key business partner of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan.