List of Americans of Armenian descent

This is a list of notable Armenian-Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Armenian Americans are people born, raised, or who reside in the United States, with origins in the area known as Armenian, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau. There has been sporadic emigration from Armenia to the US since the late 19th century, with the biggest influx coming after the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th century. The majority are based in Los Angeles, other major locales include Boston, New York, Detroit and the state of New Jersey.

During the United States 2000 Census, 385,488 Americans indicated either full or partial Armenian ancestry.[1]

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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Armenian American or must have references showing they are Armenian American and are notable.

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Academia

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Writers

Fictional

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S census Bureau
  2. ^ Daron Acemoglu: A Turk of Armenian descent
  3. ^ [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..."
  4. ^ [5] "at home being Armenian was a badge of honor, instilled in the younger generation at large extended family gatherings."
  5. ^ [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.
  6. ^ [7] "Connors, an Armenian-American born Krekor Ohanian in Fresno, California"
  7. ^ [8] "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."
  8. ^ [9] "Illusion has thrust into the spotlight a new and fresh Armenian-American talent, Michael Goorjian"
  9. ^ [10] "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."
  10. ^ [11] " 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. ^ [12] "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. ^ The Fifty Families (Part 1) - Boston Magazine
  13. ^ http://www.armeniandrama.org/show.php?w=armenianfilm&a=0 Howard Kazanjian
  14. ^ http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1999/spring99/mamoulian.shtml "The son of Armenian parents"
  15. ^ http://www.tribute.ca/bio.asp?id=1830"Zaillian, whose background is Armenian, lives in Los Angeles..."
  16. ^ http://www.cilicia.com/armo_article_cherarmeniatrip.html "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. Cher, who grew up with one half sister, is the daughter of a mother, Georgia, with Irish, English, German and Cherokee bloodlines, and a father, John, whose parents left Armenia after the Armenian Genocide which was conducted by the Ottoman Turks in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians perished."
  17. ^ a b "Official portrait of George Deukmejian as Governor of California". California State Capitol Museum. http://californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_35.html. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
  18. ^ http://www.engr.arizona.edu/news/story.php?id=59
  19. ^ http://frankgroffinc.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/surgeon-develops-revolutionary-endoscopic-procedure-for-removal-of-most-difficult-to-access-brain-tumor/
  20. ^ Abrahamyan - [13] "TATEV ABRAHAMYAN (born January 13, 1988) Armenia (citizen of United States of America)"
  21. ^ [14] "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."