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List of politicians of Armenian descent


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List

Portrait Name Country Position(s) Comments and notes
Gladys Berejiklian  Australia Premier of New South Wales (2017–)
[1]
Joe Hockey  Australia
Ambassador of Australia to the United States (2016–20)
Treasurer of Australia
(2013–15)
Édouard Balladur  France
Minister of Finance of France
(1986–88)
[2][3]
Patrick Devedjian  France Minister in charge of Implementation of Recovery Plan (2008-10)
Deputy Minister for the Industry (2004–07)
Deputy Minister of Local Freedoms (2002–04)
Mayor of Antony (1983–2002)
[4][5]
Georges Képénékian  France Mayor of Lyon (2017–18)
Jeanne Barseghian  France Mayor of Strasbourg (2020–)
Arsen Avakov  Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2014–2021)
Meri Akopyan  Ukraine Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2021–)
Oksana Markarova  Ukraine
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
(2021–)
Armenian father.[6]
Mikhail Loris-Melikov  Russian Empire
Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire
(1880–81)
Anastas Mikoyan  Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1964–65)
Deputy Premier/Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1955–64)
Minister of Trade (1953–55)
People's Commissar for Foreign Trade (1938–49)
People's Commissar for Food Industry (1934–38)
People's Commissar for Trade (1926–34)
Born to Armenian parents in Sanahin, Armenia (now part of Alaverdi)
Sergey Lavrov  Russia Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (2004–)
Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations (1994–2004)
Armenian father from Tbilisi, Georgia.[7][8]
Saak Karapetyan  Russia Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia (2016–18)
Émile Lahoud  Lebanon President of Lebanon (1998–2007) Armenian mother.[9][10]
Liliam Kechichián  Uruguay Minister of Tourism of Uruguay (2012–20)
Varujan Vosganian  Romania Minister of Economy of Romania (2006–08, 2012–13)
Marios Garoyian  Cyprus President of the House of Representatives (2008–11) [11]
Nubar Pasha  Egypt Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95)
Ferenc Szálasi  Hungary Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–45) [12]
Esabelle Dingizian  Sweden
Third Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag
(2014–18)
Zurab Zhvania  Georgia Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–05) [13]
Boris Şyhmyradow  Turkmenistan Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan (1995–2000)
 United States

List of American politicians of Armenian descent

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Varsen Aghabekian - Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/142819

Guillaume Kasbarian Minister for Housing https://en.armradio.am/2024/02/10/france-appoints-guillaume-kasbarian-as-minister-for-housing/

Ba Maw, Premier of British Burma in 1937–39 and dictator of the State of Burma in 1943–45, who was reportedly of partial Armenian descent.[14][15][16][17][18][19] [a]

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Захарян Гагик, the Vice-Governor of Primorsky Kray in the Russian Far East. Захарян Гагик Левонович экс-вице-губернатор Администрация Приморского края https://whoiswho.dp.ru/cart/person/560084 декабре 2017 года он вошел в команду нового главы региона и стал вице-губернатором, курирующим топливно-энергетический комплекс и ЖКХ. На этом посту Захарян сменил Александра Юрова. 19 марта 2019 года Гагик Левонович написал заявление об отставке и покинул регион



uk:Товмасян Артур Едмарович

Vilen Shatvoryan 2006-2011 - Deputy Head of the State Ecological Inspectorate.

Arturo Sarukhán

Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham

Mirza Malkam Khan

Paul Chater, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong


Lebanese government of January 2020

Ottoman Empire

https://www.tc-america.org/issues-information/armenian-issue/armenians-in-ottoman-bureaucracy-188.htm

Egypt

  • Boghos Yousefian

Lebanon

  • Karim Pakradouni, Minister of State for Administrative Development of Lebanon (2004–2005)

Soviet Union

  • Aleksandr Myasnikyan
    , Head of the Communist Party of Belarus (1918–1919)
  • Stepan Shahumyan
    , Head of the Baku Commune (1918)
  • Levon Mirzoyan, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1926–1929)
  • Anastas Mikoyan, first Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1955–1964)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gladys Berejiklian: sky’s the limit for self-made Liberal", The Australian, 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  2. . Chirac's appointee as finance minister - effectively No. 2 to the prime minister - was the prime, precisely-worded Edouard Balladur, born in Turkey of an Armenian family who emigrated to Marseille in the 1930s.
  3. . Edouard Balladur, former prime minister, is the grandson of an Armenian immigrant
  4. .
  5. L'Express
    (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  6. ^ Markarova, Oksana (January 9, 2024). "#Параджанов100" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Мій тато Сергій, українець вірменського походження називав себе «вірменським сином українського народу». [My dad Sergiy, a Ukrainian of Armenian origin called himself "the Armenian son of the Ukrainian people".]
  7. ^ Suponina, Yelena (18 February 2005). "У Сергея Лаврова грузинские корни, но армянская кровь". Vremya Novostei (in Russian). Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. На что г-н Лавров, отец которого тбилисский армянин, ответил: "Корни у меня вообще-то грузинские -- мой отец из Тбилиси, а вот кровь действительно армянская". {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 13 March 2019 suggested (help)
  8. ^ Lyons, Kate (22 April 2015). "Cher, Kim Kardashian and Andre Agassi: Armenia's A-list diaspora". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Sergei Lavrov Russia's foreign minister since 2004, Lavrov was previously Russia's ambassador to the United Nations for a decade. The 65-year-old was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother and has been quoted as saying: "I have Armenian blood in my veins."
  9. ^ Ibrahim, Alia (February 17, 2000). "Armenian president confirms solidarity". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 16 December 2020. President Emile Lahoud's wife Andree is of Armenian descent, and so was his mother.
  10. RFE/RL (via AFP). Archived from the original
    on 16 December 2020. The mother and wife of President Emile Lahoud are of Armenian origin.
  11. ^ "Cyprus House president Marios Garoyian calls on Turkey to recognize Armenian Genocide". tert.am. 22 November 2010. The House President, an Armenian himself...
  12. . Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.
  13. ^ "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  14. ISSN 0035-9114
    . Dr. Ba Maw was an experienced politician. Of mixed Burmese and Armenian descent, and brought up as a Christian...
  15. . Ba Maw (b. 1893), a Christian, widely believed to be part Armenian
  16. . Ba Maw, who was of mixed Burman and Armenian descent, was born in 1890.
  17. ^ Myint-U, Thant (2011). The River of Lost Footsteps. Faber & Faber. p. 229. One of the newer faces was an up-and-coming barrister named Dr. Ba Maw. The son of one of Thibaw's courtiers, Ba Maw was rumored to be of part-Armenian ancestry.
  18. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 46
    . Dr. Ba Maw was a Eurasian with Armenian blood ; 25 he was originally a Christian and later converted to Buddhism to woo the Burmese Buddhists for political support.
  19. . Not himself a Buddhist by upbringing (he was born in a Christian family with some Armenian connections and was educated in law at Cambridge and Bordeaux), his attitude to the Buddhist Sangha can best be described as opportunist.
  20. ^ Min, U. Kyaw (1945). The Burma We Love. Calcutta: India Book House. p. 8.


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