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Tigran (name)

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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 or first 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