Vardanyan

Vardanyan (Armenian: Վարդանյան), also spelled Vardanean or Vardanian, and in Western Armenian spelled Vartanian or Vartanyan, is an Armenian surname, from the Armenian given name Vardan and Vartan with the addition of -ian.

Persons

Notable people with the surname include:

Vardanyan

(Armenian / Eastern Armenian)

• Ara Vardanyan (administrator) (born 1977), executive director of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund
• Ara Vardanyan (weightlifter) (born 1974), Armenian weightlifter
• Armen Vardanyan (born 1982), Armenian sport wrestler
• Erik Vardanyan (born 1998), Armenian footballer
• Ernest Vardanean (born 1980), Moldovan journalist
• Gegham Vardanyan (born 1988), Armenian figure skater
• Gevork Vartanian (1924−2012), Soviet spy
• Gor Vardanyan (born 1972), Armenian actor
• Greta Vardanyan (born 1986), Armenian powerlifter and Para-alpine skier
• Harutyun Vardanyan (born 1970), Armenian footballer
• Knarik Vardanyan (1914–1996), Soviet Armenian painter and printmaker
• Norayr Vardanyan (born 1987), Armenian weightlifter
• Ruben Vardanyan (politician) (born 1968), Armenian businessman
• Ruben Vardanyan (wrestler) (1929–1996), Armenian sport wrestler
• Yurik Vardanyan (1956−2018), Soviet Armenian weightlifter
• Erik Vardanyan (born 2004), insurance broker

Vardanian

• Mariam Vardanian (1864−1941), Armenian political activist and revolutionary

Vartanian

(Western Armenian)

• Gevork Vartanian (1924−2012), Soviet intelligence officer
• Hrag Vartanian (born 1973/74), American writer
• Mark Vartanian, American professional wrestler
• Mariam Vardanian (1864−1941), Armenian activist and revolutionary
• Ara Vartanian (born 1975), Brazilian jeweler
• Sylvie Vartan (born 1944), born Vartanian

Vartanyan

• Aksel Vartanyan (born 1938), Georgian-Russian journalist and sports historian
• Eduard Vartanyan (born 1991), Russian mixed martial artist

Vardanjan

• Gurgen Vardanjan (born 1963), Armenian-Hungarian figure skating coach
• Tigran Vardanjan (born 1989), Hungarian figure skater of Armenian descent

Vardanean

• Ernest Vardanean, Armenian-Moldovan journalist and political scientist

Vartanean

• Gaik Vartanean (born 1979), Armenian-Moldovan politician

Places

• Vardanjan Rural District, in Shahrekord County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
  • Vardanjan, Iran, a village in Shahrekord County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran (aka Vardaniān, Vardangūn and Wardangun)
  • Vardanjan, Farsan, a village in Farsan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran

See also

• Vardan (disambiguation)
• Vartan (disambiguation)