Artavasdes is the Hellenized form of the Iranian name . Variant renderings in Greek include (), (), and (); in Armenian (); and in Latin or . Artavasdes' name is the Latin attestation of an Old Iranian name *Ṛtavazdah-, identical to the Avestan Ašavazdah, presumably meaning "powerful/persevering through truth" People with this name include:

Persian satraps

Artabazos I of Phrygia Artabazos (; 480 BC - 455 BC) was a Persian people, Persian general in the army of Xerxes I, and later satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia (now northwest Turkey) under the Achaemenid dynasty, founder of the Pharnacid dynasty of satraps. He ...

(flourished 5th century BC) * Artabazos II of Phrygia (flourished 4th century BC)

Kings and emperors

Media Atropatene

* Artabazanes (flourished 3rd century BC), King of Media Atropatene * Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene (flourished 1st century BC), King of Media Atropatene and Sophene * Artavasdes I, King of Media Atropatene and Armenia from AD 4 to 6, also known as Artavasdes III of Armenia

Armenia

* Artavasdes I (died 115 BC), King of Armenia * Artavasdes II (died 31 BC), King of Armenia 53 BC to 34 BC * Artavasdes III, King of Armenia and Media Atropatene from AD 4 to 6, also known as Artavasdes II of Media Atropatene * Artavasdes IV, King of Armenia from 252 until 287

Characene

* Artabazos of Characene, a King who flourished late 40s BC

Byzantine empire

* Artabasdos (died 743), Byzantine Emperor of Constantinople who died in 743

Others

* Artabazes (military officer) (died 542), Byzantine soldier * Artavasdes I Mamikonian, an Armenian sparapet * Ardabast (Ardabastus), probably legendary son of Wittiza, Visigothic king * Ardabast (Ardebart), Father of

Erwig Erwig (; after 642 – 687) was a king of the Visigoths in Hispania (680–687). Parentage According to the 9th-century '' Chronicle of Alfonso III'', Erwig was the son of Ardabast, who had journeyed from the Byzantine Empire to Hispania during ...

, Visigothic king {{given name