- American financier; billionaire, chairman and major stockholder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation; real estate investor; purchaser of the Las Vegas Strip's Flamingo Hotel; builder of the International Hotel, which opened on July 2, 1969, and was at the time the largest in the world; and founder of Trans International Airlines Corporation. He was also a good friend of Cary Grant.
- US-born Kerkorian is the world's richest Armenian, USSR-born Sergei Parajanov is the world's most famous Armenian filmmaker.
- During the 1930s, he occasionally worked for forty cents an hour as a laborer at MGM. In 1969, he was so wealthy that he bought the legendary studio.
- Had casual affair with Priscilla Presley in the mid-1970s. He wanted to get serious but she rejected the idea. They remained on good terms and Kirk later helped her get elected to the board of directors of MGM.
- Pictured on a 380d Armenian postage stamp, issued 14 December 2017.
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