This is a list of notable Egyptian Armenians who have contributed to modern Egypt.

Literature

Arpiar Arpiarian Arpiar Arpiarian ( hy, Արփիար Արփիարեան) (December 21, 1851 – February 12, 1908) was an influential 19th-century Armenian writer, the pioneer of realism in Armenian literature and a political activist. Early life and educatio ...

, writer *

Vahan Malezian Vahan Malezian ( hy, Վահան Մալեզեան, in Sulina, Romania - 1966 in Nice, France) was an Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the ...

, writer *

Yervant Odian Yervant Odian ( hy, Երուանդ Օտեան or Երվանդ Օտյան; 19 September 1869 – 1926) was an Ottoman Armenian satirist, journalist and playwright. He is regarded as one of the most influential Armenian satirists, along with his ...

, writer *

Hovhannes Setian Hovhannes Setian ( hy, Յովհաննէս ՍԷթեան, 1853 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire - 1930 Cairo, Egypt), was an Armenian short story writer, poet, and teacher. Biography Setian was born in Constantinople in 1853. He studied at local s ...

, writer * Vahan Tekeyan, poet *

Perch Zeytuntsyan Perch Zeytuntsyan ( hy, Պերճ Արմենակի Զեյթունցյան; July 18, 1938 – August 21, 2017) was an Armenian playwright and screenwriter who served as the Minister of Culture of Armenia from 1990 to 1991. Early life and works Zeyt ...

, writer

Arts

Armen Agop Armen Agop (born in 1969 in Cairo) is a contemporary Egyptian artist who is changing perspectives and pushing the boundaries on contemporary art. He is known for his spiritually charged contemplative works, which were described to reminiscence t ...

, sculptor * Yuhanna al-Armani, 18th century Coptic icon painter * Anoushka, Armenian Egyptian singer *

Garbis Aprikian Garbis Aprikian (born 1926) is a musician from the Armenian Diaspora. He has composed many vocal and instrumental works in which Western musical technique (counterpoint, fugue...) marries Armenian melodies. As a performer, Garbis Aprikian has direct ...

, musician *

Armand Armand refer to: People * Armand (name), list of people with this name *Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer *Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer *Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player *Armand, ...

, photographer *

Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan (; hy, Աթոմ Եղոյեան, translit=Atom Yeghoyan; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. Egoyan m ...

, Canadian filmmaker of Armenian Egyptian origin *

Feyrouz Feyrouz ( ar, فيروز) is an Arabic given name for females and males. Variants of the name include Fayrouz ,'' Fyrooz'' and Fairuz. Notable people with the name include: *Fayrouz Aboelkheir (born 2006), Egyptian squash player *Fayrouz Saad, Amer ...

, Perouz Artin, child actress in the 1950s and 1960s * Gohar Gasparyan, opera singer *

Georges Kazazian Georges Kazazian ( ar, جـورج كازازيان) (born 25 Jan 1953) is an Egyptian-Armenian composer and oud player. He moved between two cultures in the vicinity of his cosmopolitan society, a feature of the social and demographic structure of ...

, musician / oudist (based in Egypt) *

Edmond Kiraz Edmond Kiraz, born Kirazian (25 August 1923 – 11 August 2020) was an Egyptian-born French-Armenian cartoonist and illustrator. Biography Born in Cairo of Armenian descent, Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist at 17 (without arti ...

, cartoonist *

Lebleba Ninochka Manoug Kupelian ( ar, نينوتشكا مانوك كوبليان; born November 14, 1946 in Cairo), better known by her stage name Lebleba ( ar, لبلبة, , also Lubluba), is an Egyptian film actress and entertainer. She is the cousin ...

, or Lubluba, real name Nonia Kupelian, Egyptian actress *

Nelly Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He embarked on his music career with the hip hop group St. Lunatics in 1993 and signed to Universal ...

, Nelly Artin Kalfaian, actress, performer and entertainer * Raffi, or Raffi Cavoukian, Canadian Egyptian children's singer and songwriter of Armenian origin *

Hagop Sandaldjian Hagop Sandaldjian (1931–1990Joshua Tompkins"Honey I Shrunk the Art" '' Los Angeles Magazine'', May 1997, p.24.) was an Egyptian-born Armenian American musician and microminiature sculptor, best known for his tiny art pieces, currently displayed ...

, musician and sculptor *

Alexander Saroukhan Alexander Saroukhan ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Յակոբի Սարուխան, ar, إسكندر صاروخان ; October 1, 1898 – 1977) was an Armenian-Egyptian cartoonist and caricaturist whose drawings have appeared in a number of Arabic and ...

, cartoonist / caricaturist *

Arto Tchakmaktchian Arto Tchakmakchian ( hy, Արտո Չաքմաքչյան, (26 June 1933 – 1 October 2019) was a Canadian-Armenian sculptor and painter, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was awarded by the Armenian Order of Honor in 2015. Bio ...

, sculptor and painter * Ashot Zorian, Turkish-born Egyptian painter and educator of Armenian ethnicity

Community

* Zareh Nubar, president of the Armenian General Benevolent Union * Armenak Yekarian, fedayee

Politics

Boghos Nubar Boghos Nubar ( hyw, Պօղոս Նուպար), also known as Boghos Nubar Pasha () (2 August 1851 – 25 June 1930), was a chairman of the Armenian National Delegation, and the founder, alongside ten other Armenian national movement leaders, of th ...

, son of Nubar Pasha, politician and co-founder of the Armenian General Benevolent Union *

Nubar Pasha Nubar Pasha ( ar, نوبار باشا hy, Նուպար Փաշա (January 1825, Smyrna, Ottoman Empire - 14 January 1899, Paris) was an Egyptian-Armenian politician and the first Prime Minister of Egypt. He served as Prime Minister three times d ...

, politician and the first Prime Minister of Egypt *

Boghos Yousefian Boghos Bey Yusufian (1775 - 1844) was Egypt's Minister of Commerce, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and secretary of Muhammad Ali Pasha. Biography His parents were Marta and Hovsep, who was an Armenian merchant from Kayseri. They later settled in ...

, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Foreign Affairs * Badr al-Jamali, vizier and prominent statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate under Caliph al-Mustansir

Religion

* Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church

Sciences

Armenag K. Bedevian Armenag Kevorg Bedevian, Effendi, from Armenians, Armenian descent, author of ''Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names'', in Latin, Arabic, Armenian language, Armenian, English language, English, French language, French, German language, ...

, botanist * Aram Ter-Ghevondyan, historian *

Yervant Terzian Yervant Terzian (February 9, 1939November 25, 2019) was an American astronomer. He was the Tisch Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Cornell University's Department of Astronomy, which he chaired between 1979 and 1999. Background Yervant Terzian ...

, astronomer *

Joseph Hekekyan Joseph Hekekyan Bey (1807 Istanbul -1874), was an Armenian administrator, archaeologist and civil engineer, who lived most of his life in Egypt. Early life and education Joseph Hekekyan’s father was an interpreter for Mohamed Ali Pasha, and ...

, archaeologist, surveyor and planner

Sport

* Rouben Vesmadian, professional basketball player

References

* http://www.armembegypt.com/main.php?page=comhist * http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6844 {{DEFAULTSORT:Egyptian Armenians Lists of Armenian people Armenian

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