Tigran (disambiguation)

Tigran (in Armenian Տիգրան) (in Western Armenian pronounced Dikran) is an Armenian given name. The historical name is Tigranes, primarily kings of Armenia. A variant is "Tiran" (Armenian: Տիրան).

Tigran and Dikran may refer to:

Given or first name

Tigran

Tigran Gharabaghtsyan (born 1984), Armenian football (soccer) player
Tigran Gharamian (born 1984), Armenian chess player and grandmaster
Tigran Hamasyan (born 1987), Armenian jazz pianist
Tigran Hekekyan (born 1959), Armenian professor of music and conductor
Tigran Keosayan (born 1966), Russian-Armenian film director, actor and writer
Tigran Khzmalyan (also Xmalian), independent Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
Tigran Mansurian (born 1939), Armenian composer of classical music and film scores
Tigran Martirosyan (tennis) (born 1983), Armenian tennis player
Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan (born 1988), Armenian weightlifter
Tigran Vardan Martirosyan (born 1983), Armenian weightlifter who competes in the 85kg category
Tigran Ouzlian (born 1968), Greek-Armenian amateur boxer
Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), Soviet Armenian grandmaster and World Chess Champion
Tigran L. Petrosian (born 1984), Armenian chess player and grandmaster
Tigran Petrosyants (born 1973), Armenian football (soccer) player
Tigran Sargsyan (born 1960), Prime Minister of Armenia
Tigran Torosyan (born 1956), Armenian politician, speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2006 to 2008
Tigran Vardanjan (born 1989), Russian-Armenian figure skater who competes internationally for Hungary
Tigran Yesayan (born 1972), Armenian football (soccer) player and coach

Dikran

Dikran Chökürian (1884-1915), Armenian writer and teacher, newspaper editor, a victim of Armenian Genocide
Dikran Kelekian (1868–1951), collector and dealer of Islamic art
Dikran Kouyoumdjian (1895–1956), pen name Michael Arlen, American Armenian writer, novelist
Dikran Tahta (1928–2006), British-Armenian mathematician, teacher and author
Dikran Tchouhadjian (1837-1898), Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire

Family name

Aram Tigran or Aramê Dîkran, born Aram Melikyan (1934–2009), contemporary Armenian singer who sang primarily in Kurdish, but also Armenian and Syriac/Assyrian

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