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The highest concentration of Americans of Armenian descent is in the Greater Los Angeles area, where 486,498 people have identified themselves as Armenian to the 2000 Census, comprising over 45% of the 485,488 people who identified Armenian origins in the United States at the time.
This is a list of notable Armenian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.Armenian Americans are people born or raised in the United States, or who reside there, with origins in the country known as Armenia, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau.
Hagop Bogigian - Opened oriental carpet store on Harvard Square in the 1870s, and is known as the "first Armenian American millionaire"; Peter Koutoujian - is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
American people of Armenian descent (4 C, 678 P) Pages in category "Armenian diaspora in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The first Armenian families began to settle in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 19th century. Aram Yeretzian, a social worker and Protestant Christian minister who wrote a 1923 University of Southern California thesis on the Armenians of Los Angeles, stated that the first Armenian in Los Angeles arrived in around 1900.
Three decades after the 1915 Armenian Genocide, an optimistic American Armenian returns to his Sovietized homeland, only be thrown in prison under flimsy circumstances. From his squalid jail cell ...
Pages in category "American people of Armenian descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 678 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [44] [45] [46] Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. [47]