Ashot or Ashod (Armenian: Աշոտ) is an Armenian given name.[1] Notable persons with that surname include:
Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty edit
- Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Carnivorous) (died 826)
- Ashot I of Armenia (Ashot the Great), ruled 884–890
- Ashot II, Ashot Yerkat (Ashot the Iron), 915–930
- Ashot III, Voghormats (Ashot the Merciful) 953–977
- Ashot IV, Qadj (Ashot the Brave), 1021–1039/1040
Kings of Tao-Klarjeti edit
- Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot I Kuropalates) (died 830), King of Tao-Klarjeti
- Ashot II of Tao Kuropalates, King of Tao-Klarjeti 937–954
- Ashot the Immature (Kukhi), Eristavt Eristavi (died 918), King of Tao-Klarjeti
Kings of Vaspurakan edit
Other people edit
- Ashot ibn Shavur, Shaddadid ruler of Arran in 1068–69
- Ashot Yegisaryan (born 1965), deputy of the State Duma of Russia
- Ashot Danielyan (born 1974), Armenian weightlifter
- Ashot Khachatryan (born 1959), Armenian football defender
- Ashot Anastasian (born 1964), Armenian chess grandmaster
- Ashot Melikjanyan (1952–2001), Soviet Armenian actor
- Ashot Nadanian (born 1972), Armenian chess player
- Ashot Navasardyan (1950–1997), Armenian politician, founder of the Republican Party of Armenia
- Ashot Zorian (1905–1970), Turkish-born Egyptian painter and educator of Armenian ethnicity
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