Adamyan

Adamyan or Adamian (Armenian: Ադամյան, Russian: Адамян) is an Armenian surname derived from the given name Adam.^[1] The Western Armenian equivalent is Atamian (Ադամեան). Notable people with the surname include:

Adamyan or Adamian

• Andranik Adamyan, Armenian football manager
• Armen Adamyan (born 1967), Armenian footballer and manager
• Arshak Adamian (1884–1956), Armenian conductor, composer and pedagogue
• Ashot Adamyan
• Diana Adamyan
• Gregory H. Adamian (1926–2015), president emeritus and chancellor of Bentley College
• Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), Armenian inventor
• Karlen G. Adamyan
• Leyla Adamyan
• Petros Adamian (1849–1891), Armenian actor
• Samvel Adamyan, Armenian football manager
• Sargis Adamyan (born 1993), Armenian-German footballer
• Vadym Adamyan (born 1938), Ukrainian mathematician and theoretical physicist

Atamian

• Charles Garabed Atamian (1872–1947), Ottoman-born French painter of Armenian descent
• Evangelia Atamian better known as Marika Ninou, (1918–1957), Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer

See also

• Adamians, early Christian sect

References

1. Hanks, P. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press, US. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.