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Gurgin Khan (died August 1763), also known as Khoja Gregory, was an Armenian merchant and military leader who served Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763, as minister of war and commander-in-chief. He was responsible for reforming the Nawab's army along European lines. He was assassinated under unclear circumstances—possibly on Mir Qasim's orders—during the Nawab's conflict with the British.

Khoja Gregory was born in the Erivan quarter of New Julfa, an Armenian suburb of Isfahan and the center of an extensive merchant network. He had two brothers, Khoja Petrus and Khoja Barsick Arathoon, who were both also merchants in Bengal. Gregory is said to have worked as a cloth merchant in Hooghly. He may have come to know Mir Qasim through his brother Petrus, who was involved in politics in Bengal.