Vardan

For the village in Iran, see Vartan, Iran.

Vardan (Armenian: Վարդան; Vartan or Wartan in Western Armenian transliteration, pronounced [vɑɾˈtʰɑn] in both Eastern and Western Armenian), Varden (Georgian: ვარდენ) in Georgian, is an Armenian name of Middle Persian origin (from Mid. Pers. Wardā), popular in Armenia and Georgia.

Saint Vardan

• Saint Vardan (Saint Vartan in Western Armenian), an Armenian saint

Given name

• Vardan Adjemyan, Armenian composer of orchestral, operatic and chamber works
• Vardan Aigektsi (died 1250), Armenian author
• Vardan Ajemian (1905–1977), Soviet Armenian theatral director and actor, People's Artist of USSR (1965)
• Vardan Areveltsi (1198–1271), Armenian historian, geographer, philosopher and translator
• Vardan Ayvazyan, the former Ecology Minister of Armenia
• Vardan Bostanjyan (born 1949), Armenian politician
• Vardan Ghazaryan (born 1969), Lebanese-Armenian footballer
• Vardan Khachatryan (born 1968), former Armenian football defender
• Vardan Kushnir (1969–2005), spammer of Armenian descent
• Vardan Mamikonian (musician), Armenian pianist, and a naturalised French citizen
• Vardan Mazalov (born 1983), Uzbek SSR born Armenian football striker
• Vardan Militosyan (born 1950), Armenian weightlifter
• Vardan Minasyan (born 1974), Armenian football manager and former player
• Vardan Oskanyan (born 1955), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia during 1998–2008
• Vardan Voskanyan (born 1972), Armenian judoka

See also

• Vartan, another romanization of the name (used mostly in Western Armenian)
• Wartan in Western Armenian