List of foreign politicians of Armenian origin explained

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 the sovereign countries who were/are of full or partial Armenian origin. This list does not include acting, interim, transitional, temporary or representative heads of state and government.

Heads of state and heads of governments of Armenian origin

S.No.	Name	Portrait	Country	Title	Tenure	Ref.
1	Nubar Pasha Նուբար Փաշա		Egypt	Prime Minister of Egypt	1878–79, 1884–88, 1894–95
2	Édouard Balladur Էդուար Բալլադյուր		France	Prime Minister of France	1993–95	^[1]
3	Émile Lahoud Էմիլ Լահուդ		Lebanon	President of Lebanon	1998–2007	^[2]

Australia

• • Joe Hockey (Family Name "Hokeidonian") - Member of Federal Parliament Shadow Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian- Member of Parliament, Premier of NSW Ms Gladys BEREJIKLIAN, BA, DIntS, MCom MP - NSW Parliament
• Clr Sarkis Yedelian- Deputy Mayor of Ryde, New South Wales.^[3]
• Clr. Artin Etmekdjian. JP - Mayor (2010-2012) - City of Ryde, New South Wales

Canada

• Sarkis Assadourian  - Former Liberal MP 1993-2004.
• Harout Chitilian, Chairman of the City Council of Montreal

Cyprus

• Marios Garoyian - President of Cypriot Parliament

Egypt

• Nubar Pasha, the first Prime Minister of Egypt

France

• Édouard Balladur - Former Prime Minister of France
• Patrick Devedjian - French Minister
• Jean Pierre Asvazadourian - French Ambassador to Argentina

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

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

• Varujan Vosganian-Finance minister of Romania

Russia

• Sergey Lavrov- Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 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

Turkey

• Garo Paylan - 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

United Kingdom

• Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (2007-2009)

United States

See main article: List of American politicians of Armenian descent.

Uruguay

• Liliam Kechichián, Minister of Tourism

See also

• List of Armenians

References

• Armenian politics

Notes and References

1. Book: Cook, Bernard A.. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia. 27 January 2014. Routledge . 9781135179328. 12 October 2020. 10 March 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210310032541/https://books.google.com/books?id=P7-2AgAAQBAJ&q=%C3%89douard+Balladur+1929&pg=PT121. live.
2. News: Emile Lahoud. 14 June 2012. Lebanon Today.
3. http://www.yedelian.com Sarkis Yedelian