Tigran (name)
Tigran (in Armenian: Տիգրան) (in Western Armenian pronounced Dikran) is an Armenian given name. The historical name is Tigranes, primarily kings of Armenia.
Tigran and Dikran may refer to:
Given name
- Tigran Begoyan (born 1948), Armenian middle weight boxing champion between 1968-1978
- Tigran Gharabaghtsyan (born 1984), Armenian football (soccer) player
- Tigran Gharamian (born 1984), Armenian chess player and grandmaster
- Tigran Hamasyan (born 1987), Armenian jazz pianist
- Tigran Hekekyan (born 1959), Armenian professor of music and conductor
- Tigran Keosayan (born 1966), Russian-Armenian film director, actor and writer
- Tigran Khzmalyan (also Xmalian), independent Armenian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Tigran Mansurian (born 1939), Armenian composer of classical music and film scores
- Tigran Martirosyan (tennis) (born 1983), Armenian tennis player
- Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan (born 1988), Armenian weightlifter
- Tigran Vardan Martirosyan (born 1983), Armenian weightlifter who competes in the 85kg category
- Tigran Nagdalian (died 2002), Armenian journalist
- Tigran Ouzlian (born 1968), Greek-Armenian amateur boxer
- Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), Soviet Armenian grandmaster and World Chess Champion
- Tigran L. Petrosian (born 1984), Armenian chess player and grandmaster
- Tigran Petrosyants (born 1973), Armenian football (soccer) player
- Tigran Sargsyan (born 1960), Prime Minister of Armenia
- Tigran Chukhajian (1837-1898), Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire
- Tigran Torosyan (born 1956), Armenian politician, speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2006 to 2008
- Tigran Vardanjan (born 1989), Russian-Armenian figure skater who competes internationally for Hungary
- Tigran Yesayan (born 1972), Armenian football (soccer) player and coach
Dikran
- Dikran Chökürian (1884-1915), Armenian writer and teacher, newspaper editor, a victim of Armenian Genocide
- Dikran Kelekian (1868–1951), collector and dealer of Islamic art
- Dikran Kouyoumdjian (1895–1956), pen name Michael Arlen, American Armenian writer, novelist
- Dikran Tahta (1928–2006), British-Armenian mathematician, teacher and author
Family name
- Aram Tigran or Aramê Dîkran, born Aram Melikyan (1934–2009), contemporary Armenian singer who sang primarily in Kurdish, but also Armenian and Syriac/Assyrian
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