Tigran (name) explained

Tigran (Armenian: [[wikt:en:Տիգրան|Տիգրան]]; in Western Armenian pronounced Dikran) is an Armenian given name. The historical name is Tigranes, primarily kings of Armenia.

Tigran and Dikran may refer to:

Given name

• Tigran Avinyan (born 1989), Armenian politician and Mayor of Yerevan
• Tigran Begoyan (born 1948), Armenian middle weight boxing champion between 1968-1978
• 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 Nagdalian (died 2002), Armenian journalist
• 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 Chukhajian (1837-1898), Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire
• 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

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