Vartan

Vartan (Armenian: Վարդան), Vardan in Eastern Armenian transliteration, is an Armenian name.

Vartan or Värtan may refer to:

Saint Vartan

• Saint Vartan (full name Vardan Mamikonian, 393–451 AD), Armenian military leader, martyr and saint of the Armenian Church
• St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, Armenian Apostolic church in New York City

Vartan

Mononym

• Sargis Mehrabyan, known as Commander Vartan, Armenian fedayee military commander and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
• Vartan Pasha (full name Hovsep Vartanian or Osep Vartanian), Ottoman Armenian statesman, author and journalist of the 19th century
• Vartan Kurjian, an art director

Given name

• Vartan Ghazarian (born 1969), Lebanese-Armenian footballer
• Vartan Gregorian (1934–2021), Armenian-American academic
• Vartan Matiossian (born 1964), historian, translator, editor, and teacher
• Vartan Oskanian (born 1955), Armenian politician and Foreign Minister of Armenia (1998–2008) and founder of the Civilitas Foundation
• Vartan Vahramian, Iranian-Armenian artist

Surname

• John Vartan (1945–2004), American entrepreneur and educational philanthropist
• Kaloost Vartan (1839–1908), Turkish born Armenian physician of the Nazareth Hospital, the first hospital in Ottoman Galilee
• Michael Vartan (born 1968), French-American film and television actor
• Neil Vartan (1962–1994), English cricketer
• Sylvie Vartan (born 1944), French singer

Patronymic

• Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929–1984), chess grandmaster and former world chess champion

Värtan

• Lilla Värtan or simply Värtan, a strait in Stockholm, Sweden
• Stora Värtan, an inlet of the Baltic Sea located in the Stockholm archipelago north of the city of Stockholm, Sweden
• Värtans IK, Swedish football club in Stockholm

Other uses

• Vartan (comics), Italian comic book created and drawn by Sandro Angiolini
• Vartan, Iran, village in Isfahan Province, Iran

See also

• Bardas (disambiguation), the Hellenized form of the name
• Vardan (disambiguation), another spelling of the name (usually in Eastern Armenian)
• Vardanyan (disambiguation), includes Vartanian disambiguation