Vahram Papazyan

Vahram Papazyan (; 12 September 1892 – 6 March 1986) was an Armenian athlete. He was one of two athletes that represented the Ottoman Empire's first official appearance in the Olympic Games. Vahram Papazyan, along with fellow Armenian Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan, were the only two athletes who represented the empire in the country's first official participation of the Olympics.

Life Of Armenian descent, Vahram Papazyan was born in Istanbul and was the son of Sarkis, who was a newsstand owner. At the age of 13 years and 256 days, Papazyan was the youngest man to compete at the 1906 Athens Olympics.

When Turkey was admitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1911, president of Turkey's Olympic committee Selim Sırrı Tarcan placed advertisements in the local Ikdam and Sabah newspapers in order to recruit athletes for the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.

And two hours later, the Turkish flag was flying on every corner, thanks to a young Armenian, who in a few years would be mourning millions of unburied corpses of Armenians, all of them having been massacred by the Turks.|Dr. Hayk Demoyan on Papazyan’s memoirs

He married Annette Egavian and had two sons named Robert and Harold and two daughters named Yolanda and Diane.

Vahram Papazyan ultimately moved to the United States, where he became an electrical engineer.

On the other hand, it is reported by the Armenian weekly Agos newspaper that in a letter written while he was still in Beirut, Vahram Papazyan was disappointed that Turkish flags were not used as part of the Olympic decorations in the city of Stockholm. According to the letter, Papazyan went to the local Turkish embassy and expressed his concerns.