Vartan

Vartan (Armenian: Վարդան), Vardan in Eastern Armenian transliteration, is an Armenian name.

Vartan or Värtan may refer to:

Saint Vartan

  • Saint Vartan (full name Vardan Mamikonian, 393–451 AD), Armenian military leader, martyr and saint of the Armenian Church
  • St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, Armenian Apostolic church in New York City

Vartan

Mononym

  • Sargis Mehrabyan, known as Commander Vartan, Armenian fedayee military commander and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
  • Vartan Pasha (full name Hovsep Vartanian or Osep Vartanian), Ottoman Armenian statesman, author and journalist of the 19th century
  • Vartan Kurjian, an art director

Given name

  • Vartan Ghazarian (born 1969), Lebanese-Armenian footballer
  • Vartan Gregorian (1934–2021), Armenian-American academic
  • Vartan Matiossian (born 1964), historian, translator, editor, and teacher
  • Vartan Oskanian (born 1955), Armenian politician and Foreign Minister of Armenia (1998–2008) and founder of the Civilitas Foundation
  • Vartan Vahramian, Iranian-Armenian artist

Surname

  • John Vartan (1945–2004), American entrepreneur and educational philanthropist
  • Kaloost Vartan (1839–1908), Turkish born Armenian physician of the Nazareth Hospital, the first hospital in Ottoman Galilee
  • Michael Vartan (born 1968), French-American film and television actor
  • Neil Vartan (1962–1994), English cricketer
  • Sylvie Vartan (born 1944), French singer

Patronymic

  • Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929–1984), chess grandmaster and former world chess champion

Värtan

  • Lilla Värtan or simply Värtan, a strait in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stora Värtan, an inlet of the Baltic Sea located in the Stockholm archipelago north of the city of Stockholm, Sweden
  • Värtans IK, Swedish football club in Stockholm

Other uses

  • Vartan (comics), Italian comic book created and drawn by Sandro Angiolini
  • Vartan, Iran, village in Isfahan Province, Iran

See also

  • Bardas (disambiguation), the Hellenized form of the name
  • Vardan (disambiguation), another spelling of the name (usually in Eastern Armenian)
  • Vardanyan (disambiguation), includes Vartanian disambiguation
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