List of Armenian Americans

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This is a list of famous Armenian-Americans.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
Hapas | Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

Contents

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Actors

[edit] Directors and Producers

  • Howard Kazanjian [16] "In order to see films of quality produced or directed by Armenians in America, we must turn our attention to the new generation whose members have studied cinematography in the best American universities. Among the best-known producers are Howard Kazanjian with The Return of the Jedi..."
  • Rouben Mamoulian [17] "The son of Armenian parents, Mamoulianâs father, Zachary, was a bank president in Tiflis, Georgia who served with distinction in the Russian Army in World War One. He lived a long, rewarding life and reached the age of 100. Mamoulianâs mother, the former Virginia Kalantarian, was for many years President of the Armenian Theater in Tiflis."
  • Steven Zaillian [18] "Zaillian, whose background is Armenian, lives in Los Angeles..."

[edit] Music

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Sciences

[edit] Sports

  • Tatev Abrahamyan (1988 - ) youngest top rated U.S. woman's chess player[12]
  • Ben Agajanian (1919 - ) pro football kicking specialist. Kicked for the 1956 NFL Champion New York Giants. Played from the 1940s through the mid 1960s, kicking for the now-defunct All America Football Conference, the American Football League and the National Football League. Coached kicking for Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys for 24 years.
  • Andre Agassi, tennis (Armenian father)
  • Alecko Eskandarian (1982 - ) professional soccer player in Major League Soccer, playing for D.C. United[13]
  • Andranik Eskandarian, soccer
  • Chuck Essegian, Baseball player, Member of 1959 World champion L.A. Dodgers.
  • Tim Kurkjian, ESPN analyst
  • Vanes Martirosyan, boxer
  • Karo Parisyan, mixed martial arts fighter
  • Ara Parseghian, Notre Dame head football coach
  • Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
  • Garo Yepremian, NFL kicker 1966-1981; a member of the 1972 undefeated Miami Dolphins team.

[edit] Writers

[edit] Misc.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] "I'm Armenian... So truthfully I'm only half Armenian but it's the half I was raised in." [2] "Half French-Canadian and half Armenian, she grew up in California during the 1950s." [3] "Almost every family has suffered persecution at some time. My family's Armenian, we were the first genocide of the [last] century -- even before Hitler..." [4] "The book begins with her as a child, half Armenian..."
  2. ^ [5] "at home being Armenian was a badge of honor, instilled in the younger generation at large extended family gatherings."
  3. ^ [6] "To understand why Cher undertook this journey, it helps to remember that behind the leather and lace costumes and the club-scene poses, she is still Cherilyn Sarkisian, the only black-haired member in a family of Southern California blonds.
  4. ^ [7] "This woman has got experience, great looks (she's one-half Italian, one-half Armenian) and everything else that makes up the persona of a true, original adult star."
  5. ^ [8] "Connors, an Armenian-American born Krekor Ohanian in Fresno, Calif."
  6. ^ [9] "Born Arlene Francis Kazanjian on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts... Her father was an Armenian immigrant, a refugee from the Turkish massacres of 1905-06, who became a successful painter and photographer, and her mother was the daughter of actor Alfred Davis, who instilled in the young Arlene a love of performing that came to shape her entire life."
  7. ^ [10] "Illusion has thrust into the spotlight a new and fresh Armenian-American talent, Michael Goorjian"
  8. ^ [11] "Haig has been a performer for as long as he can remember. Born in 1939 in the heart of Fresno's Armenian community (his birth name is Sid Mosesian; Haig is his father's first name), he was taking dance classes at age 7."
  9. ^ Armenian-American father, Robert Kardashian
  10. ^ [12] " was born in Portland, Maine on January 15, 1947 of Armenian heritage. Her grandfather, whose last name was Papazian, emigrated from Ottoman Turkey in the early 1900s, changing his name to Martin when he settled in Maine."
  11. ^ [13] "Although we think of him in roles as Spanish or Hispanic, he was actually an Armenian. Short and stocky with dark hair, thick eyebrows over intense eyes, often with a black mustache, he was cast in a variety of ethnic roles as both hero and heavy."
  12. ^ Abrahamyan - [14] "TATEV ABRAHAMYAN (born Jan-13-1988) Armenia (citizen of United States of America)"
  13. ^ [15] "Eskandarian joined more than 1,000 Armenian-Americans in front of the Turkish Embassy... Eskandarian's soft exterior belies his hard Armenian roots. His father is Andranik Eskandarian, a hellion defender who played in the 1978 World Cup for Iran and for the New York Cosmos from 1979 to 1984... Growing up in the Armenian Christian church, attending an Armenian school from nursery school through eighth grade -- "I had classes in a trailer," he said, "only eight kids were in my grade" -- Eskandarian's Armenian identity was nurtured from birth. Nothing enraptured him more, though, than his grandfather's life story."
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