List of Canadian-Armenians
Encyclopedia
Arts
- David AlpayDavid AlpayDavid Alpay is a Canadian actor.-Education:Alpay had planned to pursue a career in neuroscience when he was studying at Earl Haig Secondary School in North York, Ontario. He even went so far as to win the University of Maryland, Baltimore's Brain Bee in grade 12...
– actor - Raffi ArmenianRaffi ArmenianRaffi Armenian, CM is an Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. Since 2008 he has been the director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal....
– conductor - André ArthurAndré ArthurAndré Arthur is a Canadian radio host and politician. He was the independent Member of Parliament for the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier from 2006 to 2011...
– radio host and independent MP - Araz ArtinianAraz ArtinianAraz Artinian is an Armenian filmmaker and documentarian. She was born Montreal, Quebec.In 1999, she started working with Atom Egoyan as Head Researcher for his feature film Ararat which was premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival....
– photographer, filmmaker and humanitarian worker - Isabel BayrakdarianIsabel BayrakdarianIsabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...
– soprano - Garen Boyajian – actor
- H.A. Der-HovagimianH.A. Der-HovagimianH.A. Der-Hovagimian born in Toronto, Canada, is a Canadian-Armenian music composer, songwriter and producer.He signed his first recording contract with the newly found Hi-Bias Records imprint at the age of 17...
– music composer and producer - Atom EgoyanAtom EgoyanAtom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
– filmmaker - Hagop Goudsouzian – filmmaker
- Levon IchkhanianLevon IchkhanianLevon Ichkhanian is a Toronto based guitarist/world stringed instruments specialist, versed in Jazz, World and Traditional music.Ichkhanian was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, of Armenian descent...
– entertainment personality - Malak KarshMalak KarshMalak Karsh, was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, brother of Yousuf Karsh, who is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region....
– photographer - Yousuf KarshYousuf KarshYousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...
– photographer - Arsinee KhanjianArsinée KhanjianArsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer. In addition to her independent work and stage roles, she is regularly cast by her husband, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in his films...
– actress - Serouj KradjianSerouj Kradjian-Early life and education:At fourteen earned a scholarship to study in Vienna, and was gaining allocades by the age of seven. He moved to Vienna at fourteen to pursue his training on a scholarship. He later studied with Marietta Orlov at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, where he...
– pianist - Catherine ManoukianCatherine ManoukianCatherine Manoukian is a Canadian violinist.-Background and Early Life:Catherine Manoukian was born in Toronto, Canada. She is from an ethnically diverse background, consisting of Armenian, Russian, German, and Japanese origins...
– violinist - Patrick MasbourianPatrick MasbourianPatrick Masbourian is a coordinator and Canadian director. He was born in 1970 in the United States to Armenian parents. He began his television career while participating in the "Course destination monde", a transmission of the Télévision de Radio-Canada to give a chance to young reporters and...
– radio and television personality, film director. - Peter OundjianPeter OundjianPeter Oundjian is a violinist and conductor, the youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother. He also claims Scottish ancestry through his maternal grandfather, a Sanderson, and the MacDonell of Glengarry clan.Oundjian was educated in England, where he began studying the...
– violinist and conductor. - Richard OuzounianRichard OuzounianRichard Ouzounian is a Canadian journalist and theatre artist. He is currently the chief theatre critic for the Toronto Star and the Canadian theatre correspondent for Variety.-Life and career:...
– broadcaster - Alice PanikianAlice PanikianAlice Panikian is a Bulgarian-born Canadian model who was crowned Miss Universe Canada on March 21, 2006...
– 2006 Miss Universe Canada - RaffiRaffi (musician)Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC , better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian-Armenian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer...
– children's singer and songwriter
Politics and Public Service
- Ronald AlepianRonald AlepianRonald Alepian is Vice President and Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications for the TMX Group, which owns Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Natural Gas Exchange , Montreal Exchange, Boston Options Exchange , among others...
– communications and marketing strategist, CYMA (Canadian Youth Mission to ArmeniaCanadian Youth Mission to ArmeniaCYMA - Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia - is a volunteer run humanitarian and student exchange program in support of the Republic of Armenia created by Archbishop Hovnan Derderian and Ronald Alepian.- Program Description :...
) co-founder. - Sarkis AssadourianSarkis AssadourianSarkis Assadourian is an Armenian-Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada. He became the first Armenian-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons, with great support of the Armenian community of Toronto.Assadourian has grown distant to some in the Armenian-Canadian community by...
– Former LiberalLiberal Party of CanadaThe Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
MPMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
1993-2004. - Ann CavoukianAnn CavoukianAnn Cavoukian is the current Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian province of Ontario.- Early life and career :Born in Cairo in 1952 to ethnic Armenian parents Artin and Lucie Cavoukian, Cavoukian immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1958...
– Information and Privacy Commissioner of OntarioOntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. - Raymond SetlakweRaymond SetlakweRaymond C. Setlakwe, CM is a Canadian entrepreneur, lawyer, and former senator.Born in Thetford Mines, Quebec, of Armenian descent, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Bishop's University and an L.L.L from Université Laval.He was summoned to the Senate in 2000 on the advice of Jean Chrétien and...
– entrepreneur, politician, lawyer.
See also
- List of Armenian-Russians
- List of French-Armenians
- List of Armenian-Americans
- List of Armenians
- Armenian diasporaArmenian diasporaThe Armenian diaspora refers to the Armenian communities outside the Republic of Armenia and self proclaimed de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic...
- Canadians of Armenian descent