List of politicians of Armenian descent
Country
Australia
- Joe Hockey (Family Name "Hokeidonian") - Member of Federal Parliament Shadow Treasurer
- Gladys Berejiklian- Member of Parliament, Shadow Minister for Transport, Shadow Minister for Citizenship.[1]
- Clr Sarkis Yedelian- Deputy Mayor of Ryde, New South Wales.[2]
- 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
Romania
- Varujan Vosganian-Finance minister of Romania
Russia
- Sergey Lavrov- Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Margarita Simonyan- Editor-in-Chief of RT
- 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
Palestinian National Authority
- Manuel Hassassian- Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom
Sweden
- Esabelle Dingizian - Member of Riksdag
- Murad Artin - Member of Riksdag
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 States
- Amy Shuklian, Mayor of Visalia, California
- Katcho Achadjian, California assemblyman
- Greg Aghazarian, California assemblyman
- Armand Arabian, former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Brad Avakian, Oregon politician; Current Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries; Former State Senator and Secretary of State candidate
- Joe Ariyan, Democratic Congressman from Indiana
- Gary Azarian, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- King Banaian, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
- Marvin Baxter, Associate Justice on the California Supreme Court
- Adam Benjamin, Jr., Democratic Congressman from Indiana
- James Bozajian, former mayor of Calabasas, California, member of the Calabasas City Council
- Albert A. Boyajian, business leader and activist for Armenian causes
- Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, United States federal judge
- George Deukmejian, Republican politician, the thirty-fifth Governor of California (1983–1991), and a former California Attorney General (1979–1983).
- Edward Djerejian, former U.S. diplomat
- Steven Boghos Derounian, former Congressman from New York
- Anna Eshoo, Democratic Congresswoman (Armenian mother)
- John Harabedian, mayor of Sierra Madre, California
- Chuck Haytaian, former speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly
- Paul Robert Ignatius, Secretary of the Navy during the Johnson Administration
- Howard Kaloogian, Republican politician
- George Keverian, former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Peter Koutoujian, Sheriff of Middlesex County
- Paul Krekorian, California State Assemblyman
- Mark Krikorian, activist for stricter immigration laws
- Robert Mardian, a former Republican Party official and Associate US Attorney General
- Samuel Mardian, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
- Adrin Nazarian, California assemblyman
- Bill Paparian, Mayor of Pasadena
- Charles Pashayan, Republican Congressman from Fresno, California
- Charles Poochigian, Republican politician
- Rousas John Rushdoony, credited as the father of both Christian Reconstructionism and the modern homeschool movement
- Jackie Speier, Democratic Congresswoman
- Joe Simitian, California State Senator
- Charlene Takesian, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- Julia Tashjian, former Secretary of State of Connecticut
- Dickran Tevrizian, former United States federal judge
- Harry Tutunjian, mayor of Troy, New York
- Larry Zarian, former mayor of Glendale, California
Uruguay
- Liliam Kechichián, Minister of Tourism
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