Sport
- Albert Azaryan, gymnast, Olympic champion, 1st person to do the Iron Cross, Crucifix, or Azarian Cross
- Arsen Galstyan, judoka, Olympic champion
- Garry Kasparov (Kasparyan), chess player World champion
- Tigran Petrosian, chess player World champion
- Nikita Simonian, footballer, VP of Russian Football Union
- Yurik Vardanian, weightlifter, Olympic champion, several world records
- Vladimir Yengibaryan, boxer, Olympic champion
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“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)