List of foreign politicians of Armenian origin

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This article contains a list of Wikipedia articles about politicians in countries outside Armenia who are of Armenian origin.

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Heads of state and heads of government

This is a list of former and current heads of state and heads of government of states (sovereign or otherwise) who were/are of full or partial Armenian origin.

PortraitNameCountryPosition(s)Ref
Damat Halil Pasha Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Ottoman Empire Grand vizier (1616–19, 1626–28) [1]
Ermeni Süleyman Pasha Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg Ottoman Empire Grand vizier (1655–56) [2]
Mohammad Beg Safavid Flag.svg Safavid dynasty Grand Vizier (1654–1661) [3]
Nubar Pasha.jpg Nubar Pasha Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95) [4]
Stepan Shaumyan.jpg Stepan Shaumian Baku Commune.svg Baku Commune Chairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars (1918)
Myasnikyan.jpg Alexander Miasnikian Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-1927).svg Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1918–19)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (1919)
Levon Mirzoyan.jpg Levon Mirzoyan Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1937-1940).svg Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (1937–38)
Ferenc Szalasi.jpg Ferenc Szálasi Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–45) [5]
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoian.jpg Anastas Mikoyan Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1964–65)
George Deukmejian official photograph.jpg George Deukmejian Flag of the United States.svg United States Governor of California (1983–91)
Edouard Balladur-1-crop2.png Édouard Balladur Flag of France.svg France Prime Minister of France (1993–95) [6] [7]
Zurab zhavnia senate.JPG Zurab Zhvania Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–05) [8]
Lebanon.EmileLahoud.01.jpg Émile Lahoud Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon President of Lebanon (1998–2007) [9] [10]
Gladys Berejiklian NSW (cropped).jpg Gladys Berejiklian Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Premier of New South Wales (2017–2021) [11]

Austria

Australia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Byzantine

Canada

Cyprus

Egypt

France

Georgia

Hungary

India

Iran

Lebanon

Mexico

Moldova

New Zealand

Palestine

Romania

Russia

Mikhail Loris-Melikov LorisMelikov Aivazovsky.jpg
Mikhail Loris-Melikov

Sweden

Turkmenistan

Turkey

Ottoman Empire

Turkish Republic

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Soviet Union

Syria

See also

References

  1. ↑ Spiteri, Stephen C. (2013). "In Defence of the Coast (I) - The Bastioned Towers". Arx - International Journal of Military Architecture and Fortification (3): 42–43. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  2. ↑ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 40. (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Matthee 2011, p. 46.
  4. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nubar Pasha". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 842–843.
  5. ↑ Ball, Terence (2005). The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN   0521563542. Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.
  6. ↑ Marsh, David (2011). The Euro. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 1956. ISBN   978-0-300-17390-1. 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.
  7. ↑ Dogan, Mattei, ed. (2003). Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power. Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 41. ISBN   978-90-04-12808-8. Edouard Balladur, former prime minister, is the grandson of an Armenian immigrant
  8. ↑ "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  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. ↑ Razzouk, Nayla (April 21, 2005). "Lebanon's Armenians: Well-Integrated But Dwindling". azatutyun.am. 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. ↑ "Gladys Berejiklian: sky’s the limit for self-made Liberal", The Australian , 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  12. ↑ Ms Gladys BEREJIKLIAN, BA, DIntS, MCom MP - NSW Parliament Archived 2015-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Sarkis Yedelian
  14. ↑ Chaumont, Marie-Louise (August 12, 2011) [December 15, 1986]. "ARMENIA AND IRAN ii. The pre-Islamic period". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. II/4: Architecture IV–Armenia and Iran IV (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. pp. 418–438. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. The conquests of Cyrus the Great made them subjects of the Persians. They seceded at the time of Darius I's accession, but two expeditions, the first led by Dādarši, himself an Armenian, the second under Vahumisa, a Persian, ended their rebellion (DB 2.37-63).
  15. ↑ Briant 2002, p. 82.
  16. ↑ Fisher, William Bayne, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yar-Shater and Peter Avery, The Cambridge history of Iran, Vol.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1985), 219; "Most surprising, however, are the figures for the battle fought by the satrap of Bactria, a Persian, called Dadarsis, against the rebel Frada in Margiana...".
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