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.

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]
Nubar Pasha	Egypt	Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95)	^[3]
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)
Ferenc Szálasi	Hungary	Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–45)	^[4]
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)	^[5]^[6]
Zurab Zhvania	Georgia	Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–05)	^[7]
Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	President of Lebanon (1998–2007)	^[8]^[9]
Gladys Berejiklian	Australia	Premier of New South Wales (2017–2021)	^[10]

Austria

Dawid Abrahamowicz - Member of the Imperial Council of Austria

Australia

Joe Hockey (Family Name "Hokeidonian") - Member of Federal Parliament Shadow Treasurer
Gladys Berejiklian- Member of Parliament, Premier of NSW^[11]
Clr Sarkis Yedelian- Deputy Mayor of Ryde, New South Wales.^[12]
Clr. Artin Etmekdjian. JP - Mayor (2010-2012) - City of Ryde, New South Wales

Bulgaria

Raya Nazaryan - Speaker of the National Assembly

Byzantine

Canada

Andre Arthur – former Independent Conservative MP, 2006–2011, talk radio host
Sarkis Assadourian – former Liberal MP, 1993–2004
Ann Cavoukian – former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Harout Chitilian – city councilor and chairman of the City Council of Montreal
Raymond Setlakwe – entrepreneur, politician, lawyer
Michelle Setlakwe – politician, lawyer

Cyprus

Marios Garoyian - President of Cypriot Parliament

Egypt

Boghos Nubar, son of Nubar Pasha, politician and co-founder of the Armenian General Benevolent Union
Nubar Pasha, the first Prime Minister of Egypt
Al-Afdal Shahanshah, vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt
Boghos Bey Yusufian, Egypt's Minister of Commerce, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and secretary of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Badr al-Jamali, was a military commander and statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mustansir
Tigrane Pasha, ninth Foreign Minister of Egypt

France

Édouard Balladur - Former Prime Minister of France
Patrick Devedjian - French Minister
Emmanuel Macron - President of France
Jean Pierre Asvazadourian - French Ambassador to Argentina
Guillaume Kasbarian - Minister of Civil Service, Streamlining, and Public Sector Transformation
Antoine Armand - Minister of the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty
Jacques Marilossian - Member of the National Assembly for Hauts-de-Seine's 7th constituency
Jeanne Barseghian - Mayor of Strasbourg
Danièle Cazarian - French politician of La République En Marche! served as a member of the French National Assembly
Astrid Panosyan - Minister of Labor and Employment
Nadia Essayan - Member of the National Assembly for Cher's 2nd constituency
Georges Képénékian - Mayor of Lyon

Hungary

László Lukács - Prime Minister of Hungary
György Lukács - Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary

India

Mirza Zulqarnain - diwan and faujdar of Mughal Empire
Abdul Hai - Cheif justice of Mughal Empire

Lebanon

Émile Lahoud - Former President of Lebanon
Karim Pakradouni – Ex-Minister, former President of Phalange (Kataeb) Party
Hagop Pakradounian – Member of Parliament

Mexico

Arturo Sarukhán - Mexican ambassador to the US

Moldova

Mark Tkachuk - Member of the Moldovan Parliament

New Zealand

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

Palestine

Manuel Hassassian- Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom

Romania

Vasile Morțun - President of the Assembly of Deputies, Minister of Internal Affairs
Basile M. Missir - President of the Senate of Romania
Varujan Vosganian - Finance minister of Romania

Russia

Ivan Delyanov - Chamberlain, of Russian Empire
Sergey Lavrov - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mikhail Loris-Melikov - Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire
Margarita Simonyan - Editor-in-Chief of RT (Russia Today)
Andranik Migranyan - former director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, New York
Gennadiy Melikyan - former First Deputy Chairman of Central Bank of Russia
Sergey Grigorov - former Head of Federal Agency of Export Control
Sergey Oganesyan - former Head of Federal Energy Agency
Artur Chilingarov - deputy (1993-2011 and since 2016) and Deputy Chairman (2000–11) of State Duma and former member of Federation Council of Russia (2011–14)
Vladimir Jabbarov - member of Federation Council of Russia
Aleksandr Ter Avanesov - former member of Federation Council of Russia (2006-2015)
Ohanes Oganyan - former deputy of State Duma (2011–16) and former member of Federation Council of Russia (2001–11)
Levon Chakmakhcyan - former member of Federation Council of Russia
Semyen Bagdasarov - former deputy of State Duma
Ashot Yegiazaryan - former deputy of State Duma
Arkadiy Sarkisyan - former deputy of State Duma
Stepan Shorshorov - former deputy of State Duma
Igor Khankoev - former deputy of State Duma
Ashot Sarkisyan - former deputy of State Duma

Sweden

Esabelle Dingizian - Member of Riksdag
Murad Artin - Member of Riksdag

Turkmenistan

Boris Şyhmyradow - Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan

Turkey

Ottoman Empire

Şivekar Sultan - Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Artin Dadyan Pasha - Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Hagop Kazazian - Minister of Finance
Garabet Artin Davoudian - First Mutasarrif of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
Ohannes Kouyoumdjian - Mutasarrif of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
Gabriel Noradoungian - Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartkes Serengülian - Member of Ottoman Parliament
Mikael Portukal Pasha - Pasha
Vartan Pasha - Pasha
Damat Halil Pasha - Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Ermeni Süleyman Pasha - Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Turkish Republic

Garo Paylan - Member of Parliament of Turkey
Selina Özuzun Doğan - Member of Parliament of Turkey
Markar Esayan - Member of Parliament of Turkey

Ukraine

Karekin Arutyunov - Member People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, member of "Bat'kivshchina" party.
Arsen Avakov - Interior minister of Ukraine
Oksana Markarova - Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States

United Kingdom

Alexander Raphael - Member of Parliament for St Albans and Carlow
Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (2007-2009)

United States

Uruguay

Liliam Kechichián, Minister of Tourism

Soviet Union

References

^ 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.
^ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 40. (Turkish)
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Gladys Berejiklian: sky’s the limit for self-made Liberal", The Australian, 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
^ Ms Gladys BEREJIKLIAN, BA, DIntS, MCom MP - NSW Parliament Archived 2015-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Sarkis Yedelian

Armenian politics

[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)

[EB1911-3] 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.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

[6] 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

[7] "Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian". PanARMENIAN.Net. 10 June 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2013.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] "Gladys Berejiklian: sky’s the limit for self-made Liberal", The Australian, 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

[11] Ms Gladys BEREJIKLIAN, BA, DIntS, MCom MP - NSW Parliament Archived 2015-12-24 at the Wayback Machine

[12] Sarkis Yedelian

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