List of foreign politicians of Armenian origin

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

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.

Portrait Name Country Position(s) Ref
Damat Halil Pasha Ottoman Empire Grand vizier (1616–19, 1626–28) [1]
Ermeni Süleyman Pasha Ottoman Empire Grand vizier (1655–56) [2]
Mohammad Beg Safavid dynasty Grand Vizier (1654–1661) [3]
Nubar Pasha Egypt Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95) [4]
Stepan Shaumian Baku Commune Chairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars (1918)
Alexander Miasnikian Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1918–19)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (1919)
Levon Mirzoyan Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (1937–38)
Ferenc Szálasi Hungary Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–45) [5]
Anastas Mikoyan Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1964–65)
George Deukmejian United States Governor of California (1983–91)
Édouard Balladur France Prime Minister of France (1993–95) [6][7]
Zurab Zhvania Georgia Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–05) [8]
Émile Lahoud Lebanon President of Lebanon (1998–2007) [9][10]
Gladys Berejiklian Australia Premier of New South Wales (2017–2021) [11]

Austria

Australia

Bulgaria

Byzantine

Main article: List of Byzantine emperors of Armenian origin

Canada

Cyprus

Egypt

France

Hungary

India

Iran

Lebanon

Mexico

Moldova

New Zealand

  • Sian Elias - Chief Justice of New Zealand
  • Doug Zohrab- New Zealand's Ambassador to the UN, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria

Palestine

Romania

Russia

Sweden

Turkmenistan

Turkey

Ottoman Empire

Turkish Republic

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Main article: List of American politicians of Armenian descent

Uruguay

Soviet Union

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. ^ 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
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