Tsitsernakaberd The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex ( hy, Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր, ''Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir'', or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, '' Tsitsernakaberd'') is Armenia's official ...

is the official memorial to the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through th ...

victims in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and ...

, Armenia. It was opened in 1967 after a mass demonstration that took place in Yerevan on April 24, 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople that marked the beginning of the genocide. After Armenia's

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from the

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in 1991, the memorial became a part of official ceremonies. Since then, almost every foreign official who visited Armenia included a visit to the memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the genocide. A visit to Tsitsernakaberd often includes a tour in the nearby museum. Some notable visitors have planted trees at the memorial. A wide range of politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, and religious figures have visited the memorial. The most notable ones include Presidents of Russia (

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

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Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

), France (

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Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Sei ...

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. He previously was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from ...

), Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Georgia, Iran, Belarus, Romania, Lebanon, Croatia, Serbia, and Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Czech Republic and other countries. Foreign Ministers of many countries (including US Secretary of State

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and several high-ranking officials of the European Union — including

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and

Herman Van Rompuy Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy (; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician, who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. A politic ...

) — have honored the victims by visiting Tsitsernakaberd. Other visitors include Pope

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in 2001,

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in 2016, the Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, the Primate of All England

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, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church

Kirill I of Moscow Kirill or Cyril (russian: link=Russian, Кирилл, chu, , secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, russian: link=no, Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became ...

, World Chess champion

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, World football champion

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, English rock star

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, Serbian filmmaker

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, French actors

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and

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, Nobel Prize winner in Physics

Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...

. No current Turkish state official has visited Tsitsernakaberd.

Significance and controversies

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide is one of the most important foreign policy issues of Armenia, and is the number one goal of the diaspora Armenian organizations. Many Armenians look at these visits as a sign of recognition of the genocide.

Pope John Paul II's visit in 2001

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

arrived in Yerevan on September 25, 2001 to participate in the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as the national religion of Armenia. The Pope visited the memorial the next day after meeting with President

Robert Kocharyan Robert Sedraki Kocharyan ( hy, Ռոբերտ Սեդրակի Քոչարյան ; born 31 August 1954) is an Armenian politician. He served as the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from 1994 to 1997 and Prime Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh fr ...

. He laid a wreath for the victims of the genocide, made a short speech, and read a prayer. The Pope used the term ''Metz Yeghern'' (the Armenian word for genocide, which literally translates as "Great Crime") in his prayer, causing a controversy regarding whether he recognized the events of 1915 as a genocide or not. Nevertheless, it aroused a wave of discontent in Turkey.

Hillary Clinton's visit in 2010

U.S. Secretary of State

arrived in

on July 4, 2010 on America's independence day, thus becoming the highest-ranked American official to visit the country. Her visit was considered "to be symbolic but nonetheless significant" and her possible visit to Tsitsernakaberd became a subject of much discussion in the Armenian media. The United States had not yet recognized the Armenian Genocide officially and by visiting the genocide memorial, many thought that by her visit, the United States sent a clear political message to Turkey. She visited the memorial on July 5, before leaving for

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. The wreath that Clinton laid at the memorial read "From Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton" although it was first announced that her visit would be non-official.

UN GA President, 2022

Abdulla Shahid,

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, visited the memorial and the museum on July 27, 2022 and posted pictures of the visit to

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, however he later deleted the post. Turkey's Foreign Ministry stated that Shahid's visit "has been exploited with the purpose of exposing one-sided Armenian claims and it is in that context that he paid a visit to the so-called genocide memorial." Turkey said Shahid "would have been expected to act in a fair and impartial manner, to be more careful and responsible in this regard."

Refusals

Turkish President

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visited Armenia in September 2008 to attend a football match between the Armenian and Turkish national teams in Yerevan. Since the Turkish government denies the fact of genocide, he did not visit the memorial. Other presidents who opted not to pay a visit to Tsitsernakaberd were Syrian President

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and Iranian

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

. They refused to visit the memorial so as not to compromise their bilateral relationship with neighboring Turkey. In 2010,

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (; born 5 February 1968) is a Turkish diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey since 24 November 2015. He previously served in the same position from August 2014 to August 2015. He is ...

, the Turkish President of the

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(PACE), refused to visit the memorial stating, "it is my own decision. I respect your opinion and you should respect mine."

Politicians

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(2011) * King

Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

(2020)

Presidents

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(2008, 2010) *

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(2012) *

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Vice-Presidents

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(2017)

Prime Ministers

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(1984) as former Prime Minister * Rafik Hariri (1997) *

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(2001) *

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(2002) *

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(2010) *

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(2014, 2021) *

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(2019) * Giorgi Gakharia (2019)

Speakers

* Gennadiy Seleznyov (1996) * Christian Poncelet (1999) * Abd al-Qadir Qaddura (2001) * Antje Vollmer (2001) * Artūras Paulauskas (2005) * Ingrīda Ūdre (2005) * Vladimir Konoplyov (2005) * Anne-Marie Lizin (2005) *

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(2005) *

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(2006) * Bogdan Borusewicz (2006) * Georgi Pirinski (2006) * Christian Poncelet (2006) * Jean-Louis Debré (2006) * Přemysl Sobotka (2008) * David Bakradze (2009) * Armand De Decker (2009) *

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(2010) * Luka Bebić (2011) *

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(2011) *

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Yiannakis Omirou Yiannakis Omirou ( el, Γιαννάκης Ομήρου; born 18 September 1951) is a Greek-Cypriot politician. He was president of the Cypriot parliament from 2011 to 2016 and was leader of political party EDEK between 2001 and 2015. Omirou ...

(2014) * Davit Usupashvili (2015) * Mohammad Jihad al-Laham (2015) * Zoe Konstantopoulou (2015) *

Sergey Naryshkin Sergey Yevgenyevich Naryshkin ( rus, Серге́й Евге́ньевич Нары́шкин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej jɪˈvɡʲenʲɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈrɨʂkʲɪn; born 27 October 1954) is a Russian politician and businessman who has served as the dire ...

(2012, 2015, 2016) *

Jan Hamáček Jan Hamáček (born 4 November 1978) is a Czech politician who was leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from February 2018 until October 2021, and minister of the Interior from June 2018 to December 2021. He also served as the s ...

(2015) *

Maja Gojković Maja Gojković ( sr-Cyrl, Маја Гојковић; born 22 May 1963) is a Serbian politician serving as deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of culture and information since 2020. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), sh ...

(2016) *

Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia Pelosi (; ; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019 and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has represented in the United States House of ...

(2022)

Cabinet ministers

;Ministers of Foreign Affairs * Ioannis Kasoulidis (1998) * Eduard Kukan (2000) * Indulis Bērziņš (2001) *

Toomas Hendrik Ilves Toomas Hendrik Ilves (; born 26 December 1953) is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in t ...

(2001) * Anatoly Zlenko (2001) *

Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician. Early life and education Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (hi ...

(2002) *

Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fis ...

(2004) *

Per Stig Møller Per Stig Møller (, informal: Per Stig; born 27 August 1942 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish politician. He was a member of the Folketing (Danish national parliament) for the Conservative People's Party from 1984 until 2015, and was Minister for ...

(2004) *

Philippe Douste-Blazy Philippe Douste-Blazy (; born 1 January 1953) is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Adviser on Innovative Financi ...

(2006) * Micheline Calmy-Rey (2006) *

Frank-Walter Steinmeier Frank-Walter Steinmeier (; born 5 January 1956) is a German politician serving as President of Germany since 19 March 2017. He was previously Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2017, as well as Vice Chan ...

(2007) * Anna Fotyga (2007) * Artis Pabriks (2007) * Kinga Göncz (2008) * Grigol Vashadze (2009) * Urmas Paet (2009) *

Jorge Taiana Jorge Enrique Taiana (born 31 May 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently serving as the country's Minister of Defense, since 10 August 2021. Taiana previously served as Foreign Minister in the administrations of Presiden ...

(2010) * Michael Spindelegger (2010) *

(2010) * Peter Maurer (2010) * Radoslaw Sikorski (2010) * Kostyantyn Hryshchenko (2011) *

Yang Jiechi Yang Jiechi (; born 1 May 1950) is a high-ranking Chinese politician and diplomat, who served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party between 2017 and 2022. Yang spent much of his professional life in the United States, w ...

(2011) *

Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

(2011) *

Jonas Gahr Støre Jonas Gahr Støre (; born 25 August 1960) is a Norwegian politician who has served as the prime minister of Norway since 2021 and has been Leader of the Labour Party since 2014. He served under Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as Minister of For ...

(2011) *

Guido Westerwelle Guido Westerwelle (; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay perso ...

(2012) * Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (2012) *

Erkki Tuomioja Erkki Sakari Tuomioja (born 1 July 1946) is a Finnish politician and a member of the Finnish Parliament. From 2000 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015, he served as the minister for foreign affairs. He was president of the Nordic Council in 2008. Tuomioj ...

(2012) * Audronius Ažubalis (2012) * Sergei Martynov (2012) * Luis Almagro (2012) *

Jean Asselborn Jean Asselborn (; born 27 April 1949) is a Luxembourgish politician who has served in the government of Luxembourg as Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2004. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2004 to 2013, under Prime Minister Jean-C ...

(2012) *

Edgars Rinkēvičs Edgars Rinkēvičs (born 21 September 1973 in Jūrmala) is a Latvian public official and politician, currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, a role he has held since 2011. Before beginning in this role, he served as head ...

(2012) *

Miroslav Lajčák Miroslav Lajčák (born 20 March 1963) is a Slovak politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition, Lajčak also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session fr ...

(2013) * Igor Lukšić (2013) *

Hoshyar Zebari Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled ''Hoshyar Zebari/Zibari'', Kurdish: ''Hişyar Zêbarî''; born 23 September 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in ...

(2013) *

Karel Schwarzenberg House of Schwarzenberg, Prince Karel of Schwarzenberg (, born 10 December 1937) is a Czech Republic, Czech politician, former leader of the TOP 09 party and was its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 Czech presidential elec ...

(2008, 2013) * Ivan Mrkić (2014) *

Sebastian Kurz Sebastian Kurz (; born 27 August 1986) is a former Austrian politician who twice served as chancellor of Austria, initially from December 2017 to May 2019 and then a second time from January 2020 to October 2021. Kurz was born and raised in M ...

(2014) *

(2014) * Linas Linkevičius (2014) *

Sergey Lavrov Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (russian: Сергей Викторович Лавров, ; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004. Lavrov served as the Permanent Repre ...

(2007, 2012, 2014, 2021) *

Gebran Bassil Gebran Gerge Bassil ( ar, جبران جرجي باسيل; born 21 June 1970) is a Lebanese politician who is the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement since 2015. A Maronite Christian, he is the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, and has bee ...

(2015) * Héctor Marcos Timerman (2012, 2015) *

Didier Reynders Didier Reynders (; born 6 August 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR) serving as European Commissioner for Justice since 2019. He held various positions in public institutions before becoming a member of ...

(2015) * Lubomír Zaorálek (2015) *

Margot Wallström Margot Elisabeth Wallström (; born 28 September 1954) is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Coope ...

(2016) * Mikheil Janelidze (2016) *

Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( ar, عبد الله بن زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان; born 30 April 1972) is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates. He is a son o ...

(2017) * Henry Rabary-Njaka (2018) * Louise Mushikiwabo (2018) * Régis Immongault Tatangani (2018) *

Taro Kono is a Japanese politician serving as the Minister of Digital Affairs of Japan since August 2022. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he previously served as Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform from 2015 to 2016 and fro ...

(2018) * Stef Blok (2020) *

Nikos Dendias Nikolaos "Nikos" Dendias ( el, Νικόλαος Δένδιας; born 7 October 1959) is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens, and was Minister for National D ...

(2020) * Ivan Korčok (2021) * S. Jaishankar (2021) *

Alexander Schallenberg Alexander Georg Nicolas Schallenberg (; born 20 June 1969) is an Austrian diplomat, jurist and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer since 2021, previously holding the office from ...

(2022) * Luigi Di Maio (2022) * Anniken Huitfeldt (2022) ;Other ministers * Živadin Jovanović, Deputy Foreign Minister (1995) *

Igor Sergeyev Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev (; 20 April 1938 – 10 November 2006) was a Soviet and later Russian military officer who was Minister of Defense of Russia from 22 May 1997 to 28 March 2001. He was the first and, as of 2022, the only Marshal of t ...

, Minister of Defence (1998) * Georgy Boos, Minister of Taxes and Levies (1999) * Nawaf Massalha, Deputy Foreign Minister (2000) * Sebouh Hovnanian, Minister of Youth and Culture (2001) *

Gediminas Kirkilas Gediminas Kirkilas (, born 30 August 1951) is a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008. Life and career Kirkilas was born in Vilnius in 1951. After returning from mandatory military service, from 1972 to 197 ...

, Minister of National Defense (2005) *

Joe Hockey Joseph Benedict Hockey (born 2 August 1965) is a former Australian politician and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament for North Sydney from 1996 until 2015. He was the Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott Government from 18 September 20 ...

, Minister for Human Services (2005) * Sergey Ivanov, Minister of Defence (2006) * Christian Estrosi, Territorial Minister (2007) * Teodor Melescanu, Defense Minister (2007) *

Alexander Radkov Alexander Mikhailovich Radkov ( be, Аляксандр Міхайлавіч Радзькоў, born 1 July 1951) is a Belarusian politician. A former Minister of Education and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, he is currently leader ...

, Minister of Education (2007) *

Andrei Fursenko Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko (russian: Андрей Александрович Фурсенко; ; born 17 July 1949 in Leningrad) is a Russian politician, scientist and businessman. He was the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian ...

, Minister of Education and Science (2007) * Abdujabbor Rahmanov, Minister of Education (2007) *

Juozas Olekas Juozas Olekas (born 30 October 1955) is a Lithuanian surgeon and politician, a former Minister of National Defence, from 2006 to 2008. In 1990 and from 2003 to 2004 he also served as the Health Minister. In 2019 he was elected to the European Pa ...

, Minister of National Defense (2007) * Štefan Harabin, Minister of Justice (2008) * Pavel Grachov, former Defence Minister (2008) * Ghia Nodia, Minister of Education and Science (2008) * Vladimir Matvichuk, Minister of Culture (2008) *

Marek Maďarič Marek Maďarič (born 23 March 1966 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create law ...

, Minister of Culture (2008) * Bogdan Klich, National Defense Minister (2009) *

Patrick Devedjian Patrick Devedjian ( hy, Պատրիկ Դեւեջեան; 26 August 1944 – 28 March 2020) was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. A close adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy since the 1990s, he was Minister under the Pri ...

, Minister of the Implementation of the Recovery Plan (2010) * Dimitri Shashkini, Minister of Education and Science (2010) * Henri de Raincourt, Minister of Co-operation (2011) * Orit Noked, Minister of Agriculture (2012) * Cornelia Pieper, Minister of State (2012) *

Rasa Juknevičienė Rasa Juknevičienė (born 26 January 1958) is a Lithuanian politician and paediatrician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She served as Minister of Defense of Lithuania since 2008 to 2012. She is a member o ...

, Minister of National Defense (2012) *

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein Yuli-Yoel Edelstein ( he, יוּלִי־יוֹאֵל אֵדֶלְשְטֵיין, russian: Ю́лий Ю́рьевич Эдельште́йн, link=no, uk, Ю́лій Ю́рійович Едельште́йн, born 5 August 1958) is an Israeli ...

, Diaspora Affairs Minister (2012) * Giampaolo Di Paola, Minister of Defence (2012) *

Sergey Shoygu Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu, ; tyv, Сергей Күжүгет оглу Шойгу, translit=Sergey Kyzhyget oglu Shoygu, . (russian: Сергей Кужугетович Шойгу; born 21 May 1955) is a Russian politician who has served as ...

, Minister of Defense (2013) *

Paban Singh Ghatowar Paban Singh Ghatowar ( as, পৱন সিং ঘাটোৱাৰ) (born 6 December 1950) in Sivasagar, Assam is an Indian politician. Political career He is a member of the Indian National Congress and has been elected Member of Parliamen ...

, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (2013) *

Dimitris Avramopoulos Dimitris Avramopoulos ( el, Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος) is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party, and former career diplomat. He has served in various high-level cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign A ...

, Minister of National Defense (2013) * Rowsch Shaways, Deputy Prime Minister (2013) * Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development (2014) *

David Lidington Sir David Roy Lidington (born 30 June 1956) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Ministe ...

, Minister of State for Europe (2014) * Alexander Chikaidze, Minister of Internal Affairs (2014) * Juozas Bernatonis, Minister of Justice (2015) * Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi, Minister of Transport (2015) * Arthur Nazarian, Minister of Energy (2015) * Elias Bou Saab, Minister of Education (2015) * Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (2015) * José Luis Cancela, Deputy Foreign Minister (2015) * Christoforos Fokaides, Minister of Defence (2015) * Michaela Marksová-Tominová, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2015) * Giorgi Mgerbishvilli, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (2015) * Tea Tsulukiani, Minister of Justice (2015) *

Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Oweis Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed Al Owais (1967) is the minister of Ministry of Health in the United Arab Emirates. A graduate of the United Arab Emirates University, Al Owais attained a bachelor's degree in Accounting and Information. He then became ...

, Minister of Health (2015) * Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe (2015) * Tinatin Khidasheli, Minister of Defence (2016) *

Tzachi Hanegbi Tzachi Hanegbi ( he, צַחִי הַנֶּגְבִּי, born 26 February 1957) is an Israeli politician and national security expert. A member of Likud, Hanegbi previously served as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Minister of R ...

, Regional Cooperation Minister (2017) * Juma Anad, Defense Minister (2021)

Other government officials

Alexander Yakovlev Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Я́ковлев; 2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secreta ...

, member of the

Politburo A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...

(1988) *

Alexander Lebed Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ле́бедь, link=no; 20 April 1950 – 28 April 2002) was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the A ...

, former Secretary of the Russian Federation Council (1997) * Stephen Sestanovich, Adviser on newly independent states to the Secretary of State (1999) *

Jamil Al Sayyed Jamil Al Sayyed ( ar, جميل السيد; born 1950) is a Lebanese politician, a current Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and the former head of Lebanon's Sureté Générale or Lebanese General Security Directorate. He was arbitrarily detai ...

, General Security Directorate (2001) *

Anatoly Kvashnin Anatoly Vasiliyevich Kvashnin (russian: Анатолий Васильевич Квашнин; 15 August 1946 – 7 January 2022) was a Russian military officer, who served as the Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces from 1997 to ...

, Chief of the Russian General Staff (2001) * Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council (2002) *

Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, lobbyist, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 200 ...

, Chairman of the

Democratic National Committee The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, as well ...

(2005) * Xu Jialu, Vice-chairman of the

Standing Committee of the National People's Congress The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPCSC) is the permanent body of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which is the highest organ of state po ...

* Dimitrios Grapsas, Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (2007) * Vladimir Sergeyevich Mikhaylov, Commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force (2007) * Umberto Ranieri, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2007) * Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (2008) * Tod Bunting, Adjutant General of Kansas (2008) * Gunārs Kūtris, President of the Constitutional Court (2008) * Jan Kasal, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies (2008) * Frangos Frangoulis, Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (2010) *

Micha Lindenstrauss Micha Lindenstrauss ( he, מיכה לינדנשטראוס) (28 June 1937 – 2 May 2019) was an Israeli judge and the State Comptroller between 2005 and 2012. Biography Micha Lindenstrauss was born in Berlin, Germany. His family immigrated to M ...

, State Comptroller and Ombudsman (2010) * Marie L. Yovanovitch, U.S. Ambassador in Armenia (2010) *

Vojtěch Filip Vojtěch Filip (; born 13 January 1955) is a Czech politician and former leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM). Early life and legal career Filip was born in 1955, in Jedovary near České Budějovice. After graduating f ...

, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies (2010) *

Valentina Matviyenko Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko (russian: Валентина Ивановна Матвиенко, p=vəlʲɪnˈtʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə mətvʲɪˈjɛnkə, ukr, Валентина Іванівна Матвієнко; née Tyutina (Тютина; , ...

, Chairman of the Federation Council (2012) * John A. Heffern, U.S. Ambassador in Armenia (2012) * Wolfgang Thierse, Vice-President of the Bundestag (2012) * Viktor Guminsky, Deputy Speaker of the Belorussian Parliament *

Cao Jianming Cao Jianming (; born September 24, 1955 in Shanghai) was the Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China. Since 2018 he has served as one of the Vice Chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the Nat ...

, Procurator-General of the

Supreme People's Procuratorate The Supreme People's Procuratorate () is the highest national agency responsible for legal prosecution and investigation in the People's Republic of China. Conceived initially in 1949 as the Supreme People's Prosecutor's Office, the agency was ...

(2012) * Marie Ficarra, Member of the

New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...

(2013) * Amanda Fazio, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * David Clarke, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Fred Nile, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) * Shaoquett Moselmane, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2013) *

Gladys Berejiklian Gladys Berejiklian (born 22 September 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian became a member ...

, Minister for Transport of New South Wales (2013) * Ali Fahad Al-Rashid, head of the foreign affairs committee of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

(2013) * Baroness Gloria Hooper, Deputy Speaker and

life peer In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. In modern times, life peerages, always created at the rank of baron, are created under the Life Peerages ...

of the House of Lords (2014) * Baron Faulkner of Worcester, Deputy Speaker and life peer of the House of Lords (2014) * Anna Azari, Head of Eurasia Division of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014) *

Victoria Nuland Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat currently serving as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Nuland, a former member of the foreign service, served as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eura ...

, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2015) *

Evelyn Farkas Evelyn Nicolette Farkas (born December 6, 1967) is an American national security advisor, author, and foreign policy analyst. She is the current Executive Director of the McCain Institute, a nonprofit focused on democracy, human rights, and cha ...

, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia (2015) * Cem Özdemir, Co-chairman of the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

(2015) * Andrey Belyaninov, Head of Federal Customs Service (2015) * Norma Abdala de Matarazzo, First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies (2015) *

Jacob Lew Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the 25th White House Chief of St ...

United States Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

(2015) *

Krasimir Karakachanov Krasimir Donchev Karakachanov ( bg, Красимир Дончев Каракачанов ; born 29 March 1965) is a Bulgarian politician. He has been the leader of the IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement since 1991. Biography Karakachanov say ...

, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (2015) * Zdeněk Škromach, Vice-President of the Senate (2015) * Esabelle Dingizian, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament (2015) * Denise Pascal, Vice President of Parliament (2015) *

Manana Kobakhidze Manana Kobakhidze ( ka, მანანა კობახიძე) (born February 3, 1968) is a Georgian lawyer and politician. She served as a Member of the Parliament of Georgia from 2012 to 2017 and as First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of ...

, First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament (2015) * Carmen Bendovski, former counselor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015) * Pavel Rychetský, president of the Czech Constitutional Court (2015) *

Harlem Désir Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir (; born 25 November 1959) is a French politician who served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017. Previously he was First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. Sin ...

, Secretary of State for European Affairs (2015) * Annick Girardin, Secretary of State for Development (2016) * Felipe Alejos Lorenzana, First Vice President of Guatemala (2019)

Members of Parliament

; U.S. Senators * Jack Reed (D-RI) (1997) *

Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his ...

(R-KS) (1997) *

Dick Durbin Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin has served as the Senate De ...

(D-IL) (2012) ; U.S. Congressmen *

Joseph P. Kennedy II Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born September 24, 1952) is an American businessman, Democratic politician, and a member of the Kennedy family. He is a son of former United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, and he is also a nephe ...

(D-MA) (1993) * Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) (1997) *

Frank Pallone Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. (; born October 30, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1988 to 1 ...

(D-NJ) (1997) *

Dick Gephardt Richard Andrew Gephardt (; born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader fr ...

(D-MO) (1998) * James Rogan (R-CA) (1999) * Connie Morella (R-MD) (1999) *

Pete Visclosky Peter John Visclosky ( ; born August 13, 1949) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1985 until his retirement in 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was the dean of the Indiana congressional del ...

(D-IN) (2004) *

Joseph Crowley Joseph Crowley (born March 16, 1962) is an American politician and consultant who served as U.S. Representative from New York's 14th congressional district from 1999 to 2019. He was defeated by Democratic primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio- ...

(D-NY) (2007) * Adam Schiff (D-CA) (2008) *

Devin Nunes Devin Gerald Nunes (; born October 1, 1973) is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). Before resigning from the House of Representatives and joining TMTG, Nunes was ...

(R-CA) (2012) *

Ed Royce Edward Randall Royce (born October 12, 1951) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Royce served as Chairman of the Unit ...

(R-CA) (2014) * Elliot Engel (D-NY) (2014) *

David Cicilline David Nicola Cicilline (; born July 15, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 36th mayor of Providence from 2003 to 2011, the first openly g ...

(D-RI) (2014) *

Lois Frankel Lois Jane Frankel (born May 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer who has been the United States representative for Florida's 21st congressional district since 2017 and who represented Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2013 to ...

(D-FL) (2014) *

Jackie Speier Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier ( ; born May 14, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th Dis ...

(D-CA) (2015) *

Anna Eshoo Anna A. Eshoo ( ; née Georges; born December 13, 1942) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from . She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 14th district from 1993 to 2013, is based in Silic ...

(D-CA) (2015) * David Trott (R-MI) (2015) *

(D-NJ) (2015) ;

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

(MEPs) * Pia Locatelli, Italy (2007) * Tomasz Poręba, Poland (2010) *

Slavcho Binev Slavcho Penchev Binev ( bg, Славчо Пенчев Бинев) (born 10 December 1965 in Sofia), sometimes Slavi Binev ( bg, Слави Бинев), is a Bulgarian politician and former taekwondo champion. Before politics Binev was a taekwo ...

, Bulgaria (2011) * Evgeni Kirilov, Bulgaria (2011) * Libor Rouček, Czech Republic (2011) * Milan Cabrnoch, Czech Republic (2011) * Laima Andrikienė, Lithuania (2012) * Martin Callanan, UK (2013) * Tatjana Ždanoka, Latvia (2015) *

Jaromír Štětina Jaromír Štětina (born 6 April 1943) is a Czech journalist, writer and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 for the Czech Republic, representing TOP 09. He is also known as a war correspondent from t ...

, Czech Republic (2015) *

Heidi Hautala Heidi Anneli Hautala (born 14 November 1955) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Green League, part of the European Green Party. She is currently a Member of the European Pa ...

, Finland (2015) * Ryszard Czarnecki, Poland (2014, 2015) ;Other *

Yossi Sarid Yossi Sarid ( he, יוסי שריד‎; 24 October 1940 – 4 December 2015) was an Israeli politician and news commentator. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister o ...

(2005) * François Roelants du Vivier (2006) * Georges Colombier (2006) * Margherita Boniver (2007) *

Leoluca Orlando Leoluca Orlando (born 1 August 1947), is an Italian politician, Mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and President of Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his m ...

(2007) * Raffaello De Brasi (2007) * Christine Egerszegi (2008) * Arsalan Fathipour (2009) * Serge Lagauche (2010) * Caroline Cox (2011) * Nah Youn Mi (2012) * Sophie Joissains (2012) * Bernard Fournier (2012) * Philippe Marini (2012) * Leonid Slutsky (2014) * Dana Reizniece-Ozola (2013) * Andrejs Klementjevs (2013) * Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (2013) *

Stéphane Dion Stéphane Maurice Dion (born 28 September 1955) is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who has been the List of ambassadors of Canada to France, Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco since 2022 and special envoy to the Europe ...

(2013) * Valérie Boyer (2013) * Guy Teissier (2013) * Hassan Ayed Bukhamas (2013) *

Stephen Pound Stephen Pelham Pound (born 3 July 1948) is a British former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing North from 1997 to 2019. Background His father, Pelham Pendennis Pound (1922–1999) was a BBC sub-editor ...

(2014) *

John Whittingdale Sir John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale (born 16 October 1959) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Maldon (and its predecessors) since 1992. A member of the Conservative Party, Whittingdale served as the Minister o ...

(2014) *

Mike Gapes Michael John Gapes (born 4 September 1952) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 1992 to 2019. Born in Wanstead Hospital, Gapes attended Buckhurst Hill County High School. He studied ec ...

(2014) *

Brad Butt Brad Butt (born May 10, 1967) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election. He represented the electoral district of Mississauga—Streetsville as a member of the Conservative Party until his ...

(2014) * Leon Benoit (2014) * Russ Hiebert (2014) * Zuzka Bebarová-Rujbrová (2014) * Bruno Le Roux (2014) * René Rouquet (2013, 2014) *

Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov ( uk, Микола Іванович Рижков; russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков; born 28 September 1929) is a Soviet, and later Russian, politician. He served as the last Chairman of the Coun ...

(2014) * Ekin Deligöz (2015) * Nachman Shai (2015) *

Anat Berko Anat Berko ( he, ענת ברקו, born 14 January 1960) is an Israeli criminologist and politician. An expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, she served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019. Biography Berko was born in ...

(2015) * Giorgos Varnava (2015) *

Marios Garoyian Marios Garoyian ( el, Μάριος Καρογιάν; hy, Մարիոս Կարոյեան; born 31 May 1961) is a Greek Cypriot politician. He served as leader of the Democratic Party (Cyprus), Democratic Party from 2006 to 2013. On 06/03/2008, h ...

(2015) * Eleni Theocharous (2014, 2015) * Karl Vanlouwe (2015) * Gundars Daudze (2015) * Harold Albrecht (2010, 2015) * Harry van Bommel (2015) * Noh Young-min (2015) * Hannes Weninger (2015) * Julie de Groote (2015) * Fatoumata Sidibé (2015) * André du Bus de Warnaffe (2015) * Hervé Doyen (2015) * Simone Susskind (2015) * Vanessa Matz (2015) * Karim Van Overmeire (2015) * László Borbély (2015) * Mark Pritchard (2016) * Tali Ploskov (2016) * Sergejs Potapkins (2016) * Liana Kanelli (2016) * Kenneth G. Forslund (2017)

Regional and local

;U.S. State legislature and City Council members *

Paul Krekorian Paul Krekorian (born March 24, 1960) is an American politician, currently serving as the 26th president of the Los Angeles City Council since October 18, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented the second district on the Lo ...

, Los Angeles City Councilman (2004 and 2013) * John Pérez, Speaker of the California State Assembly (2013) * Katcho Achadjian, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) * Cheryl Brown, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) * Adrin Nazarian, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) *

Scott Wilk Scott Thomas Wilk Sr. (born March 16, 1959) is an American politician who has served as the California State Senate minority leader since January 20, 2021. He is a Republican representing the 21st district, encompassing Antelope Valley, Victor ...

, Member of the California State Assembly (2013) * Bob Blumenfield, Los Angeles City Councilman (2013) ;Governors * Boris Gromov, Governor of Moscow Oblast (2008) * Georgy Boos, Governor of Kaliningrad (2009) *

Georgy Poltavchenko Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko ( rus, Гео́ргий Серге́евич Полта́вченко, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ pɐlˈtaftɕɪnkə; born on 24 February 1953) is a Russian politician. He became Governor of Sai ...

, Governor of Saint Petersburg (2015) ;Mayors *Gürbüz Çapan —

Esenyurt Esenyurt () is a district of the Istanbul Province and is a part of the metropolitan municipality of Istanbul. Located in the European side of Istanbul, Esenyurt borders with Avcılar and Lake Küçükçekmece on the east, Büyükçekmece on t ...

, Istanbul Province, Turkey (1995) *

Yury Luzhkov Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov ( rus, Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʊˈʂkof; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010 ...

— Moscow, Russia (2003, 2005) * Jacques Peyrat — Nice, France (2007) * Jean-Claude Gaudin — Marseille, France (2007, 2013) * Gérald Tremblay — Montreal, Canada (2010, 2011) *

Bertrand Delanoë Bertrand Delanoë (; born 30 May 1950) is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he previously served in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and Senate from 1995 until ...

— Paris, France (2011) *

Osman Baydemir Osman Baydemir (born 1971 in Diyarbakır) is a Turkish politician, lawyer and human rights activist of Kurdish descent. He was the mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey ...

— Diyarbakır, Turkey (2014) *Maysar Haji Salih — Shangal, Iraq (2015) *Delegation of twelve mayors from Germany (2015) * Bekir Kaya -

Van A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and bigger than a common car. There is some varying in the scope of the word across ...

, Turkey (2015) *Huseyin Olan -

Bitlis Bitlis ( hy, Բաղեշ '; ku, Bidlîs; ota, بتليس) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Bitlis Province. The city is located at an elevation of 1,545 metres, 15 km from Lake Van, in the steep-sided valley of the Bitlis R ...

, Turkey (2015) *Ozcan Birlik -

Mutki Mutki ( ku, Motkî), is a town and district of Bitlis Province Bitlis Province ( tr, , , ku, Parêzgeha Bidlîsê) is a province of eastern Turkey, located to the west of Lake Van. The province is considered part of Western Armenia by Armenian ...

, Turkey (2015) *Mehmet Emin Özkan - Güroymak, Turkey (2015) *Avtandil Nemsitsveridze -

Mtskheta Mtskheta ( ka, მცხეთა, tr ) is a city in Mtskheta-Mtianeti province of Georgia. It is one of the oldest cities in Georgia as well as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the World. Itis located approximately north of ...

, Georgia (2015) * Anne Hidalgo - Paris, France (2016)

Leaders or delegations from international organizations

* René van der Linden, President of the

(2005) * Vladimir Rushailo, Executive Secretary of CIS (2005, 2007) * Terry Davis, Secretary General of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 46 member states, with a p ...

(2007) *

Kōichirō Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. He is the former Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and reelected on 12 October 2005 for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference. In ...

, Director-General of

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(2008) *

Wilfried Martens Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party, during his premiership ...

, President of the

European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Fo ...

(2010) *

Abdou Diouf Abdou Diouf ( ; Serer: ; born 7 September 1935)Biography at Socialist Party website

, Secretary General of
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie The (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, french: La Francophonie , but also called International Organisation of in English-language context) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a ...
(2010) *
Thorbjørn Jagland Thorbjørn Jagland (born Thorbjørn Johansen; , 5 November 1950) is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. He served as the secretary general of the Council of Europe from 2009 to 2019. He served as the 32nd prime minister of Norway from ...
, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2010) * Petros Efthymiou, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (2011) *
Jerzy Buzek Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. He has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as Pre ...
, President of the
European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
(2011) *
Jean-Claude Mignon Jean-Claude Mignon (born February 2, 1950) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Seine-et-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=n ...
, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2013) * Herwig van Staa, President of the
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is the pan-European political assembly representing local and regional authorities from the forty-six member states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, imp ...
(2013) *
Yuri Fedotov Yury Viktorovich Fedotov (russian: Юрий Викторович Федотов, 14 December 1947 – 16 June 2022) was a Russian diplomat. From 2010 to 2019 he served as executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ...
, Director of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: ''Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime'') is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the ...
(2013) * Majed el-Shafie, President and founder of One Free World International (2014) * Delegation from the
All-China Women's Federation The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF; ) is a women's rights people's organization established in China on 24 March 1949. It was originally called the All-China Democratic Women's Foundation, and was renamed the All-China Women's Federation in ...
(2014) * Delegation from the European Jewish Parliament (2014) * Jean-Paul Wahl, European Regional Head of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (2015) *
Anne Brasseur Anne Brasseur (born 19 May 1950 in Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish politician and former sports and training minister. On 28 January 2014 Brasseur was elected as the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for a one-year ren ...
, President of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up o ...
(2015) * Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (2015) * Delegation from the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) (2015) * Nikolay Bordyuzha, General Secretary of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty ha ...
(2015) *
Joseph Daul Joseph Alexander Daul (born 13 April 1947) is a French politician who served as President of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament from 2007 to 2014 and a ...
, President of the
European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Fo ...
(2015) * Members of the Executive Bureau of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC) (2015) * Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva (2015) * Delegation from the
NATO Parliamentary Assembly Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) serves as the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Alliance. Its current President is Gerald E. Connolly from the United States, elected in 2019. Its curr ...
(2015) * Delegation from the
International Association of Genocide Scholars The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is an international non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, including the Armenian genocide, the Holoca ...
(2015) * Michaëlle Jean, Secretary General of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2015, 2018) * Marija Pejčinović Burić,
Secretary General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...
of the
Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 46 member states, with a p ...
(2022) * Abdulla Shahid,
President of the United Nations General Assembly The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly. Election ...
(2022)

European Union
*
Herman van Rompuy Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy (; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician, who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. A politic ...
, President of the
European Council The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union. It is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, the President of the Eu ...
(2012) *
José Manuel Barroso José Manuel Durão Barroso (; born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician and university teacher, currently serving as non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He previously served as the 11th president of the European Commi ...
,
President of the European Commission The president of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU). The President of the Commission leads a Cabinet of Commissioners, referred to as the College, collectively account ...
(2012) *
Donald Tusk Donald Franciszek Tusk ( , ; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. He served as the 14th Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and was a co-founder and leader of the Civic P ...
, President of the European Council (2015) *
Charles Michel Charles Michel (; born 21 December 1975) is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of Developm ...
, President of the European Council (2021)

Religious figures
* Konrad Raiser, General Secretary of the
World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jur ...
(1996) *
Alexy II Patriarch Alexy II (or Alexius II, russian: link=no, Патриарх Алексий II; secular name Aleksei Mikhailovich Ridiger russian: link=no, Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ри́дигер; 23 February 1929 – 5 December ...
, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1996) *
Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
(2001) *
Pope Shenouda III Pope Shenouda III (; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲅ̅ '; ar, بابا الإسكندرية شنودة الثالث '; 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012) was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See ...
,
Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church ( cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ, translit=Papa; ar, البابا, translit=al-Bābā), also known as the Bishop of Alexandria, is the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, with ancient Christian roots in Egypt. The ...
(2003) * Stephen Blaire, Bishop of Stockton (2003) * Robert Edward Mulvee, Bishop of Providence, RI (2003) * Basil H. Losten, Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2003) * Nicholas Samra, Auxiliary of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, MA (2003) * John Joseph Nevins, Bishop of Venice, FL (2003) * Howard James Hubbard, Bishop of Albany, NY (2003) * William Henry Keeler, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore (2003) * Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel (2005) * Danny Rich, Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism (2007) *
Rowan Williams Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the ...
, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England (2007) * Cardinal Bertone, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church and Secretary of State of The Vatican (2008) * Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (2010) * Mir Tahsin Beg, religious leader of the
Yazidis Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The majo ...
(2012) *
Theodore Edgar McCarrick Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is a laicized American bishop and former cardinal of the Catholic Church. Ordained a priest in 1958, he became an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in 1977, then became Bishop of Metu ...
, American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2015) * Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (2014) *
Olav Fykse Tveit Olav Fykse Tveit (born 24 November 1960) is a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and bishop, and the current Preses of the Bishops' Conference of the Church of Norway. He was elected to the post of general secretary of the World Council of Churches o ...
, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (2011, 2014) * Helga Haugland Byfuglien, Bishop of the
Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church ...
(2015) *
Bechara Boutros al-Rahi Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (or Raï; syr, ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܒܫܐܪܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܠܪܐܥܝ; ar, بشارة بطرس الراعي, Mor Bishārah Buṭrus al-Rāʿī; la, Béchara Petrus Raï) (born on 25 February 1940) is the 77th Maronite Patri ...
,
Patriarch of Antioch Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey). As the traditional "overseer" (ἐπίσκοπος, ''episkopos'', from which the word ''bishop'' is derived) of the first gentile Christian c ...
, and head of the
Maronite Church The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic '' sui iuris'' particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The current head of the Mar ...
(2015) *
Kurt Koch , alt = , caption = Koch pictured in December 2016. , church = Roman Catholic Church , archdiocese = , province = , metropolis = , diocese = , see = , appointed = 1 July 2010 , ended = , predecessor = Walter Kasper , successor = , ...
, Swiss cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (2015) *
John X Pope John X ( la, Ioannes X; died 28 May 928) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from March 914 to his death. A candidate of the counts of Tusculum, he attempted to unify Italy under the leadership of Berengar of Friuli ...
, Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East (2015) * Pope Tawadros II, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (2015) * Christopher Hill, retired British bishop and president of the
Conference of European Churches The Conference of European Churches (CEC) was founded in 1959 to promote reconciliation, dialogue and friendship between the churches of Europe at a time of growing Cold War political tensions and divisions. In its commitment to Europe as a who ...
(2015) *
Richard Chartres Richard John Carew Chartres, Baron Chartres , FBS (; born 11 July 1947) is a retired bishop of the Church of England. He was area Bishop of Stepney from 1992 to 1995 and Bishop of London from 1995 to 2017. He was sworn of the Privy Council i ...
, Bishop of London (2015) * Robert Innes, Bishop in Europe (2015) * Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (2015) *
Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013 ...
(2016)

Other notables
*
Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...
, Russian film-maker (1972) *
Ian Gillan Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945) is a British singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple. He is known for his powerful and wide-ranging singing voice. Initially influenced by Elvis Presley, Gillan ...
, English rock singer (1990, 2009) *
Cher Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industr ...
, Armenian-American singer and songwriter (1993) *
Oral Çalışlar Oral Çalışlar (born 14 December 1946, Tarsus) is a Turkish journalist and writer, currently columnist for ''Radikal'' and '' Serbestiyet'', after briefly working as editor-in-chief of ''Taraf''. He was previously a columnist for ''Cumhuriyet'' ...
, Turkish journalist and writer (1995) * Cengiz Çandar, Turkish journalist and a former war correspondent (1995) *
Kirk Kerkorian Kerkor Kerkorian ( hy, Գրիգոր Գրիգորեան; June 6, 1917 – June 15, 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Bever ...
, American businessman (1997) *
Thomas de Waal Thomas Patrick Lowndes de Waal (born 1966) is a British journalist and writer on the Caucasus. He is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe. He is best known for his 2003 book '' Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War''. Lif ...
, British journalist and author (2000) *
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, as well ...
(2001) *
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, (born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen; 20 June 1946) is a Danish member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a grandson of George V. They have three children. ...
(2001) * John Welty, President of California State University, Fresno (2004) *
Hrant Dink Hrant Dink ( hy, Հրանդ Տինք; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspa ...
, Turkish-Armenian journalist assassinated in 2007 (2004) *
Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more book ...
, Brazilian novelist (2004) *
Murat Belge Murat Belge (born March 16, 1943) is a Turkish academic, translator, literary critic, columnist, civil rights activist, and occasional tour guide. Career Belge was a member of the organizing committee for a two-day academic conference that st ...
, Turkish columnist and academic (2005) *
Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer ( he, יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926) is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University ...
, Israeli historian, scholar of the Holocaust (2005) * Taner Akçam, Turkish historian and sociologist (1995, 2005) *
Youri Djorkaeff Youri Raffi Djorkaeff (born 9 March 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Throughout his club career, he played for teams in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the United States. A ...
, French football/soccer player, World and European champion (2006) *
Jerry Tarkanian Jerry Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools. He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Reb ...
, American basketball coach (2006) *
Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Cha ...
, Russian World Chess champion (2007) * Hasan Cemal, writer, journalist and grandson of
Djemal Pasha Ahmed Djemal ( ota, احمد جمال پاشا, Ahmet Cemâl Paşa; 6 May 1872 – 21 July 1922), also known as Cemal Pasha, was an Ottoman military leader and one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Djemal ...
, one of the main perpetrators of the genocide (2008) *
Tony Iommi Anthony Frank Iommi () (born 19 February 1948) is a British musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. I ...
, English guitarist (2009) *
Geoff Downes Geoffrey Downes (born 25 August 1952) is an English keyboardist who gained fame as a member of the new wave group The Buggles with Trevor Horn, the progressive rock band Yes, and the supergroup Asia. Born in Stockport, Downes moved to Lon ...
, English keyboardist (2009) *
Pat Cash Patrick Hart Cash (born 27 May 1965) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 4 in May 1988 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 6 in August 1988. Upon winning ...
, Australian professional tennis player (2009) *
Israel Charny Israel W. Charny (born 1931) is an Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar. He is the editor of two-volume ''Encyclopedia of Genocide'', and executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Background Israe ...
, Israeli genocide scholar (2005, 2010) * Vahakn Dadrian, Genocide scholar (2010) *
Yves Ternon Yves Ternon (; born 1932 in Saint-Mandé) is a French physician and medical historian, as well as an author of historical books about the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian genocide. He is professor of the history of medicine at University Paris ...
, French historian (2010) * Leandro Despouy, Argentinian human rights lawyer (2010) * William Schabas, Canadian academic (2010) *
Emir Kusturica Emir Kusturica ( sr-cyrl, Емир Кустурица; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. He also has French citizenship.http://www.serbia.com/emir-kusturica-artist-builder-and-anti-glo ...
, Serb filmmaker (2010, 2015) *
Alexei Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the ...
, Soviet astronaut, the first human to conduct a space walk (2010) *
Serj Tankian Serj Tankian (born August 21, 1967) is an Armenian-American singer, musician, songwriter, political activist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, keyboardist, and occasional rhythm guitarist of heavy metal ...
, Armenian-American rock singer (2010) *
Gérard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, filmmaker, businessman and vineyard owner since 1989 who is one of the most prolific thespians in film history having completed over 250 films since 1967 al ...
, French actor (2010) *
Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...
, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (2011) *
Steve Wozniak Stephen Gary Wozniak (; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, inventor, and technology entrepreneur. In 1976, with business partner Steve Jobs, he ...
, American computer engineer, co-founder of Apple, Inc. (2011) * Arsen Galstyan, Armenian-born Russian Olympic champion in judo (2012) * Uğur Üngör, Turkish historian (2012) *
Alain Delon Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (; born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for h ...
, French actor (2012) *
Anna Chapman Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko on 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 J ...
, Russian intelligence agent (2013) *
Montserrat Caballé Montserrat Caballé i Folch or Folc (full name: María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch (, , ; (12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018), known simply as Montserrat Caballé, was a Catalan Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide ...
, Spanish opera singer (2013) * Sait Çetinoğlu, Turkish historian (2013, 2016) *
Joseph Kobzon Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich Kobzon (russian: link=no, Ио́сиф Давы́дович Кобзо́н; 11 September 1937 – 30 August 2018) was a Russian singer, known for his crooner style. Early life Kobzon was born to Jewish parents in the ...
, Russian singer (2013) * Mario Mazzola, Chief Development Officer at
Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
(2014) * İsmail Beşikçi, Turkish scholar and candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize (2014) *
Fatih Akın Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. He has won numerous awards for his films, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film '' Head ...
, Turkish-German film director (2015) * Mardik Martin, American screenwriter (2015) *
Evgeny Kissin Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (russian: link=no, Евге́ний И́горевич Ки́син, translit=Evgénij Ígorevič Kísin, yi, link=no, יעווגעני קיסין, translit=Yevgeni Kisin; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian concert pianis ...
, Russian pianist (2015) *
Kim Kardashian Kimberly Noel Kardashian (formerly West; born October 21, 1980) is an American socialite, media personality, and businesswoman. She first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after the sex ...
, Armenian-American television personality (2015) *
Khloe Kardashian Chloe (; ), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. T ...
, Armenian-American television personality (2015) *
Kanye West Ye ( ; born Kanye Omari West ; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West gained recognition as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the e ...
, American rapper and record producer (2015) *Charlie Armstrong, American jazz singer (2015) * Daniel Decker, American singer and composer (2015) *
Dima Bilan Dima Nikolayevich Bilan (russian: Ди́ма Никола́евич Била́н; born Viktor Nikolayevich Belan, russian: Ви́ктор Никола́евич Бела́н, links=no; 24 December 1981) is a Russian singer, songwriter and acto ...
, Russian singer (2016) *
Arthur Abraham Avetik Abrahamyan ( hy, Ավետիք Աբրահամյան; born 20 February 1980), best known as Arthur Abraham, is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2018. He held multiple world championships in two weight ...
, German-Armenian professional boxer (2015) *
Maria Guleghina Maria Agasovna Guleghina, russian: Mapия Aгacoвнa Гулeгинa, uk, Марія Агасівна Гулегіна, hy, Մարիա Գուլեգինա (née Meytardjan (russian: Мейтарджян); born 9 August 1959) is a Soviet-born ope ...
, Russian soprano opera singer (2015) * Esther Mujawayo, Rwandan author and
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
survivor (2015) * Vic Darchinyan, Australian-Armenian professional boxer (2015) *
Richard Hovannisian Richard Gable Hovannisian ( hy, Ռիչարդ Հովհաննիսյան, born November 9, 1932) is an Armenian American historian and professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known mainly for his four-volume history o ...
, Armenian-American historian (2015) * Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (2015) * André Manoukian, French-Armenian jazz musician (2015) * Cengiz Aktar, Turkish journalist and writer (2015) * Matthias Bjornlund, Danish historian (2015) *
Ronda Rousey Ronda Jean Rousey (; born February 1, 1987) is an American professional wrestler, actress, former judoka and mixed martial artist. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current SmackDown Women� ...
, American martial artist and
UFC The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Zuffa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA ...
champion fighter (2015) *
Gegard Mousasi Gegard Mousasi (born 1 August 1985), is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer, currently competing in Bellator MMA, where he is the former two-time Bellator Middleweight Champion. As of December 13, 2022, he is #10 in the Bellator m ...
, Dutch mixed martial artist and UFC fighter (2015) *
Alexis Ohanian Alexis Kerry Ohanian ( hy, Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Ste ...
, Co-founder and executive chairman of
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(2015) *
Conan O'Brien Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows for almost 28 years, beginning with ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' (1 ...
, American television host, comedian (2015) *Kemal Yalçın, Turkish writer (2015) * Anatoly Torkunov, rector of
Moscow State Institute of International Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (МГИМО), also known as MGIMO University) is an institute o ...
(2015) *
Eugene Kaspersky Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-found ...
, Russian information specialist and CEO of
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(2015) * Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and
Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology ...
laureate (2016) *
Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi ( fa, شيرين عبادى, Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi wa ...
, Iranian lawyer, former judge and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2016) * Syeda Ghulam Fatima, Pakistani human and labour rights activist (2016) *
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, Burundian human rights activist (2016) *
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, Pakistani human rights activist (2016) * John Prendergast, American human rights activist and founding member of
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(2016) *
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, Puerto Rican musician (2016) *
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, French-Armenian singer (2015, 2016) *
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and Grand Master of the
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(2016) *
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, American actor (2017) *
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(2018) *
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, Irish screenwriter and director (2018) *
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,
Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
's personal lawyer and former mayor of
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(2018) *
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, Armenian-American television personality (2019) *
Prince Radu of Romania Prince Radu of Romania (born Radu Duda on 7 June 1960, formerly known as Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen from 1999 to 2007) is the husband of Margareta of Romania, head of the House of Romania and a disputed pretender to the former Romani ...
(2019) * Éric Zemmour (2021),
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candidate * Ardem Patapoutian, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2022)

See also
*
Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through th ...
* Armenian genocide recognition

References
{{Armenian Genocide Armenian genocide commemoration Museums in Yerevan