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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

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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]
László Lukács Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1912–1913)
Nubar Pasha EgyptPrime Minister of Egypt (1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95)[4]
Stepan Shaumian Baku CommuneChairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars (1918)
Alexander Miasnikian Socialist Soviet Republic of ByelorussiaFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1918–19)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (1919)
Levon Mirzoyan Kazakh Soviet Socialist RepublicFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (1937–38)
Ferenc Szálasi HungaryLeader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–45)[5]
Anastas Mikoyan Soviet UnionChairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1964–65)
George Deukmejian United StatesGovernor of California (1983–91)
Édouard Balladur FrancePrime Minister of France (1993–95)[6][7]
Zurab Zhvania Georgia Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–05)[8]
Émile Lahoud LebanonPresident of Lebanon (1998–2007)[9][10]
Gladys Berejiklian AustraliaPremier of New South Wales (2017–2021)[11]

Austria

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Australia

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Brazil

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Bulgaria

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Byzantine

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Canada

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Cyprus

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Egypt

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France

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Georgia

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Hungary

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India

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Iran

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Lebanon

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Mexico

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Moldova

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New Zealand

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

Palestine

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Romania

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Russia

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Mikhail Loris-Melikov

Sweden

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Turkmenistan

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Turkey

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Ottoman Empire

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Turkish Republic

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Uruguay

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Soviet Union

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Syria

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See also

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References

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  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, Rudi (2011). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. I.B.Tauris. p. 46. ISBN 978-0857731814.
  4. ↑ Wikisource 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. President Emile Lahoud's wife Andree is of Armenian descent, and so was his mother.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  10. ↑ Razzouk, Nayla (April 21, 2005). "Lebanon's Armenians: Well-Integrated But Dwindling". azatutyun.am. RFE/RL (via AFP). The mother and wife of President Emile Lahoud are of Armenian origin.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  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
  14. ↑ Chaumont, Marie-Louise (August 12, 2011) [December 15, 1986]. "ARMENIA AND IRAN ii. The pre-Islamic period". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. II/4: Architecture IV–Armenia and Iran IV (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. pp. 418–438. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. The conquests of Cyrus the Great made them subjects of the Persians. They seceded at the time of Darius I's accession, but two expeditions, the first led by Dādarši, himself an Armenian, the second under Vahumisa, a Persian, ended their rebellion (DB 2.37-63).
  15. ↑ Briant, Pierre (2002). From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns. p. 82. ISBN 9781575061207.
  16. ↑ Fisher, William Bayne, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yar-Shater and Peter Avery, The Cambridge history of Iran, Vol.2, (Cambridge University Press, 1985), 219; "Most surprising, however, are the figures for the battle fought by the satrap of Bactria, a Persian, called Dadarsis, against the rebel Frada in Margiana...".
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