* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer ( d. 1923 )

* Armenian poet Kevork Emin has translated several verses of the Rubaiyat.

* May 10 – Zahrad, Western Armenian poet ( d. 2007 )

* Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet

* Sipan Shiraz, Armenian poet

* Gregory of Narek, Armenian monk, poet, and theologian

* Vahram Alazan, an Armenian poet, writer and public activist, the First Secretary of the Writers Union of Armenia from 1933 to 1936.

* Gurgen Mahari, an Armenian writer and poet.

* Nairi Zarian, a Soviet Armenian poet and writer.

In the 20th century, the poet Nairi Zarian retold the story of Ara the Beautiful and Shamiram, in a work considered to be a masterpiece of Armenian literary drama.

In the same 7th century, Armenian poet Davtak Kertogh writes his Elegy on the Death of Grand Prince Juansher, where each passage begins with a letter of Armenian script in alphabetical order.

* Gregory of Narek, Armenian monk, poet, philosopher, and theologian

He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian extraction.

* Khosrovidukht ( flourished 8th century ), an Armenian hymnographer and poet

Sayat-Nova () ( born as Harutyun Sayatyan ( on 14 June 1712, Tiflis – died 22 September 1795, Haghpat ), was an Armenian poet, musician and ashik who had compositions in a number of languages.

In Armenia, Sayat Nova is considered a great poet who made a considerable contribution to the Armenian poetry and music of his century.

* The first translations of the Armenian odes of Sayat Nova in European languages was in France by Elisabeth Mouradian and the French poet Serge Venturini in 2006 ; the book was dedicated to Sergei Parajanov.

Gabriyel ’ Arkadyevich Uryeklyan (; 15 December 1899 – 30 June 1945 ), better known as El-Registan ( Эль-Регистан ), was a Soviet Armenian poet.

Armenian poet Hovhannes Shiraz has a poem about the island:

: The Armenian Radio was asked: " Has poet Mayakovsky committed suicide?

The poet ’ s father, Bolesław ( half-blooded Armenian ), was a soldier in the Polish Legions during World War I and a defender of Lwów ; he was a lawyer and worked as a bank manager.

* Hovhannes Tumanyan ( 1869 – 1923 ), Armenian poet and writer

Armenian communist leaders such as Vagharshak Ter-Vahanyan and Aghasi Khanjian fell victim to the purge, the former being a defendant at the first of the Moscow Show Trials.

Khakamada was born to a Japanese father, Mutsuo Hakamada, a communist who defected to the Soviet Union in 1939, and Nina Sinelnikova, who is of Russian and Armenian roots, schoolteacher who lost her father to the Stalinist purges and her mother to suicide following the family's forced relocation to Khabarovsk.

Under communist rule, Armenians started to leave the country, and Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime eventually closed all Armenian schools.

But it suffered greatly with the establishment of communist regime, the emigration of many Armenian Romanians back to Soviet Armenia after the Second World War, the immigration waves to the West.

The relationship between the communist authorities and the Armenian society took a turn for the worse in March and the developments climaxed in November when a state of emergency was declared, along with a nighttime curfew, and a mass movement of up to 50, 000 Armenians fleeing ethnic violence arrived from Azerbaijan.

Khankendi ( renamed Stepanakert after the Armenian communist Stepan Shaumyan ), which previously was a small village, became the new regional capital and soon became the largest town within Mountainous Karabakh Autonomous Region.

The Armenian Communist Party (, ՀԿԿ ; Hayastani Komunistakan Kusaktsutyun, HKK ) is a communist political party in Armenia.

Armenian Communist elements headed by Ruben Tovmasyan, and the loyal elite of the party, clearly unfavorable to Sargsyan's move to dissolve the traditional ( historic ) Communist Party of Armenia, founded in their turn in 1991, a new Armenian Communist Party ( in Armenian Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն ) to continue the communist banner in the new Armenian Republic.

Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party (, Al-Ḥizb Al-Shuyū ' ī Al-Sūrī Al-Lubnānī ; French: Parti communiste de la Syrie et du Liban ), a communist political party operating in Syria and Lebanon founded in 1924 by the Lebanese Egyptian Fu ' ad al-Shimali, the Lebanese Yusuf Yazbek and the Armenian Artin Madoyan.

Karen Demirchyan (, ; April 17, 1932 – October 27, 1999 ) was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician.

Missak Manouchian was born on 1 September 1906 at Adıyaman in the Ottoman Empire into a peasant family of Armenian ethnicity.

Missak and his brother, Karabet, now orphaned, joined the stream of Armenian refugees heading south into the French protectorate of Syria.

* Missak Manouchian — Armenian

* Missak Manouchian — Armenian

Manouchian wrote poetry and, with his Armenian friend by the surname of Séma ( Kégham Atmadjian ), founded two literary magazines, Tchank ( Effort ) and Machagouyt ( Culture ).

In 1935, Manouchian assumed responsibility for the Armenian-language weekly newspaper, Zangou, named for an Armenian river.

Manouchian became the political chief of the Armenian section of the underground MOI, but little is known about his activities until 1943.

The center photo of Manouchian had the following inscription: " Armenian gang leader, 56 bombings, 150 dead, 600 wounded.