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===Politicians=== {{main|List of politicians of Armenian descent}} [[File:Анастас Иванович Микоян.jpg|thumbnail|150px|[[Anastas Mikoyan]], was the only Soviet figure who managed to remain at the highest levels of power from the days of [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], and to his retirement under [[Leonid Brezhnev|Brezhnev]]]] *[[Parandzem]], was the consort of King [[Arshak II]] of Armenia *[[Moses of Bulgaria]], Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria *[[Morphia of Melitene]], Queen consort of Jerusalem *[[Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem|Melisende]], Queen of Jerusalem (1131–1153) *[[Arda of Armenia]], Queen of Jerusalem *[[Mirza Zulqarnain]], diwan and faujdar of the Mughal Empire *[[Damat Halil Pasha]], Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1626–1628) *[[Şivekar Sultan]], Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1646–1648) *[[Manuc Bei]], a merchant, diplomat, and inn-keeper *[[Marcara Avanchintz]], trader from Isfahan, who went into the service of [[Louis XIV]] *[[Melik Shahnazar II]] (d. 1792), melik of Varanda, one of the five Melikdoms of Karabakh *[[Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson]], orientalist, historian and diplomat in Swedish service *[[Israel Ori]], diplomat that sought the liberation of Armenia from Persia and the Ottoman Empire *[[Solayman Khan Saham al-Dowleh]] (d. 1853), nobleman from the Enikolopian family, who served as a government official in [[Qajar Iran]] *[[István Gorove]], Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade of Hungary (1867–1870) *[[Nubar Pasha]], Prime Minister of Egypt (1878–1879, 1884–1888, 1894–1895) *[[Boghos Nubar]], founder of the [[Armenian General Benevolent Union]] *[[Mikhail Loris-Melikov]], Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire (1880–1881) *[[Hagop Kazazian Pasha]], high-ranking Ottoman official, Minister of Finance (1887–1891) *[[Dawid Abrahamowicz]], Member of the Imperial Council of Austria (1875–1918) *[[Lev Karakhan]], was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP (1904) *[[György Lukács (politician)|György Lukács]], Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary (1905–1906) *[[Alexander Bekzadyan]], Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman *[[László Lukács]], Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1912–1913) *[[Ohannes Kouyoumdjian]], Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (1912–1915) *[[Basile M. Missir]], President of the Senate of Romania (1914–1916) *[[Vasile Morțun]], President of the Senate of Romania (1916–1918) *[[Stepan Shahumyan]], Head of the Baku Commune (1918) *[[Hovhannes Hakhverdyan]], 1st [[Minister of Defence (Armenia)|Defence Minister]] of [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]] (1918–1919) *[[Aram Manukian]], Minister of Internal Affairs of [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]] (1918–1919) *[[Aleksandr Myasnikyan]], Head of the Communist Party of Belarus (1918–1919) *[[Armen Garo]], Ambassador of Armenia to the United States (1918–1920) *[[Avetis Aharonian]], politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement, Chairman of the Parliament of Armenia (1919–1920) *[[Diana Abgar]], One of the first women to have ever been appointed in any diplomatic post in the twentieth century. Council of Armenia in Japan (1920) *[[Yakov Davydov]], Soviet diplomat first head of the Cheka's Foreign Department (1921–1922) *[[Kamo (Bolshevik)|Kamo]], an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and an early companion to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin *[[Levon Mirzoyan]], first Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan (1926–1929) *[[Virgil Madgearu]], Minister of Finance of Romania (1929–1930) *[[Hovhannes Masehyan]], was the Persian Ambassador to the Great Britain (1927–1929), and 1st Ambassador of Persia to Japan (1930–1931) *[[Varlam Avanesov]], Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet communist politician *[[Suren Shadunts]], [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan]] (1934–1937) *[[Ivan Tevosian]], Soviet politician of Armenian descent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1943) *[[Ioan Missir]], Mayor of Botoșani (1931–1932), (1941–1944) *[[Ferenc Szálasi]], fascist Leader of the Nation of Hungary (1944–1945)<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=Terence|title=The Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought|year=2005|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521563542|page=140|quote=Szalasi was descended from an eighteenth-century Armenian immigrant named Salossian.}}</ref> *[[Stepan Akopov]], member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Minister of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR (1953–1954) *[[Anastas Mikoyan]], first Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1955–1964) *[[Bob Avakian]], Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (1975) *[[Ken Khachigian]], White House Chief Speechwriter (1981) *[[George Deukmejian]], Governor of California (1983–1991) *[[Edward Djerejian]], United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994) *[[Édouard Balladur]], Prime Minister of France (1993–1995) *[[Anna Eshoo]], Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1993–) * [[Shahen Nikolay Petrosyan]], Chairman of the Supreme Court of Armenia *[[Boris Şyhmyradow]], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan (1995–2000) *[[Émile Lahoud]], President of Lebanon (1998–2007) *[[Karim Pakradouni]], Minister of State for Administrative Development of Lebanon (2004–2005) *[[Zurab Zhvania]], Prime Minister of Georgia (2004–2005)<ref>{{cite news|title=Georgian Prime Minister Proud His Mother Is Armenian|url=http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/10720/|access-date=9 October 2013|date=10 June 2004|agency=[[PanARMENIAN.Net]]}}</ref> *[[Abel Aganbegyan]], Soviet and Russian economist, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences *[[Sergey Lavrov]], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (2004–) *[[Varujan Vosganian]], Minister of Economy and Finance of Romania (2007–2008, 2012–2013) *[[Patrick Devedjian]], French Minister for the Implementation of the Recovery Plan (2008–2010) *[[Liliam Kechichián]], Uruguay Minister of Tourism (2012–2020) *[[Joe Hockey]], Treasurer of Australia (2013–2015) *[[Sian Elias]], [[Chief Justice of New Zealand]] (1999–2019) *[[Arsen Avakov (politician)|Arsen Avakov]], Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2014–2021) *[[Jackie Speier]], Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (2008–2023) *[[Gladys Berejiklian]], 45th Premier of New South Wales, Australia (2017–2021)
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