List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh

Arts

• André, pop singer, first artist to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006
• Don Askarian, filmmaker, recipient of the Golden Camera Award for Life Achievement at Int. ART Film Festival, Slovakia
• Zori Balayan, novelist, journalist, public activist

  Scientists

• Armen Abaghian, atomic energy specialist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Russian Academy of Sciences
• Artashes Arakelian, economist, the head of the Economy Institute of Armenian Science Academy
• Arakel Babakhanian, historian, publicist, writer, critic
• Ivan Knuniants, Soviet chemist
• Khoren Sargsian, writer, critic, the director of the Literature Institute of Armenian Academy of Sciences
• Armen Takhtajian, botanist

  Writers and artists

• Stepan Aghajanian, artist, distinguished as a portrait artist
• Mikael Arutchian, theatrical painter and designer
• Hakob Gyurjian, sculptor
• Gevork Kotiantz, painter
• Alexander Melik-Pashaev, conductor, born in Tiflis in a family from Shushi
• Muratsan, writer, one of the most famous figures in Armenian literature
• Arsen Terteryan, literary critic
• Vagharsh Vagharshian, director, playwright, actor, theater and public figure

  Politics and public figures

• Hambardzum Arakelian , public and political figure
• Alexander Atabekian, political figure, anarchist
• Artashes Babalian, doctor, politician
• Alexander Bekzadyan, Soviet statesman, Soviet ambassador in Norway and Hungary
• Arkadi Ghukasyan, politician, president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
• Arayik Harutyunyan, current Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
• Yeghishe Ishkhanian, political figure
• Robert Kocharyan, former president of Armenia
• Aram Manukian, statesman, the founder of the First Republic of Armenia
• Bako Sahakyan, current president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
• Serzh Sargsyan, former president of Armenia
• Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan, Soviet statesman and politician
• Tuman Tumian, political activist

  Military figures

• Samvel Babayan, military commander
• Nikol Duman, fedayee
• Sergei Khudyakov, Soviet Marshal of the Air Force during World War II
• Ivan Lazarev, prince, officer of the Russian army, lieutenant general
• Valerian Madatov, Russian prince and lieutenant-general
• Nelson Stepanyan, pilot, lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union

  Religious figures

• Karekin I, Catholicos of Cilicia from 1943 to 1952.
• Pargev Martirosyan, Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh since 1989