Tigran (name)

Tigran (in Armenian 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

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
  • Dikran Tchouhadjian (1837-1898), Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire

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
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