Ashot

Ashot or Ashod is an Armenian given name. Notable persons with that surname include:

Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty

 * Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826)
 * Ashot I of Armenia (Ashot the Great), ruled 884–890
 * Ashot II, Ashot Yerkat (Ashot the Iron), 915–930
 * Ashot III, Voghormats (Ashot the Merciful) 953–977
 * Ashot IV, Qadj (Ashot the Brave), 1021–1039/1040

Kings of Tao-Klarjeti

 * Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot I Kuropalates) (died 830), King of Tao-Klarjeti
 * Ashot II of Tao Kuropalates, King of Tao-Klarjeti 937–954
 * Ashot the Immature (Kukhi), Eristavt Eristavi (died 918), King of Tao-Klarjeti

Kings of Vaspurakan

 * Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan
 * Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan

Other people

 * Ashot ibn Shavur, Shaddadid ruler of Arran in 1068–69
 * Ashot Yegisaryan (born 1965), deputy of the State Duma of Russia
 * Ashot Danielyan (born 1974), Armenian weightlifter
 * Ashot Khachatryan (born 1959), Armenian football defender
 * Ashot Anastasian (born 1964), Armenian chess grandmaster
 * Ashot Melikjanyan (1952–2001), Soviet Armenian actor
 * Ashot Nadanian (born 1972), Armenian chess player
 * Ashot Navasardyan (1950–1997), Armenian politician, founder of the Republican Party of Armenia
 * Ashot Zorian (1905–1970), Turkish-born Egyptian painter and educator of Armenian ethnicity