Tigran (name)

Tigran (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 Avinyan (born 1989), Armenian politician and Mayor of Yerevan
 * 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