Ashot

Ashot or Ashod (Armenian: Աշոտ) is an Armenian given name. Notable persons with that surname include:

Kings of the Bagratuni dynasty

• 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

• 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

• Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan
• Derenik-Ashot of Vaspurakan

Other people

• 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