Hovhannes

Hovhannes (Armenian: Հովհաննես (reformed); Յովհաննէս (classical)), also spelled Hovhanes, Hovannes or Hovanes is Armenian for John. (Compare with Ioannes in Greek or Johannes in Latin.)

People with the given name[edit]

Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), Soviet Armenian engineer
Hovannes Amreyan (born 1975), Armenian weightlifter
Hovannes "Ivan" Gevorkian (1907–1989), prominent Armenian surgeon and scientist
Hovhannes Abelian (1865–1936), Armenian actor
Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Russian Romantic painter
Hovhannes Avetisyan (1939–2000), Armenian painter
Hovhannes Avoyan (born 1965), serial entrepreneur, investor, and scholar
Hovhannes Avtandilyan (born 1978), Armenian diver
Hovhannes Azoyan (born 1967), Armenian actor and presenter
Hovhannes Babakhanyan (born 1968), Armenian-American actor and singer
Hovhannes Bachkov (born 1992), Armenian boxer
Hovhannes Badalyan (1924–2001), Armenian singer and professor
Hovhannes Bagramyan (1897–1982), Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union
Hovhannes Barseghyan (born 1970), Armenian retired weightlifter
Hovhannes Chekijyan (born 1928), Armenian conductor and art director
Hovhannes Danielyan (born 1987), Armenian light flyweight amateur boxer
Hovhannes Davtyan (actor) (born 1985), Armenian actor
Hovhannes Davtyan (born 1983), Armenian judoka
Hovhannes Demirchyan (born 1975), Armenian football player
Hovhannes Erznkatsi (c. 1250–1326), Armenian scholar
Hovhannes Gabuzyan (born 1995), Armenian chess Grandmaster
Hovhannes Galstyan (born 1969), Armenian film director, writer, and producer
Hovhannes Goharyan (born 1988), Armenian footballer and manager
Hovhannes Hakhverdyan (1873–1931), first Minister of Defence of the First Republic of Armenia
Hovhannes Hambardzumyan (born 1990), Armenian football player
Hovhannes Harutyunyan (born 1999), Armenian footballer
Hovhannes Hintliyan (1866–1950), Armenian teacher, pedagogue, publisher, and educator
Hovhannes Hisarian (1827–1916), Ottoman Armenian writer, novelist, archeologist, editor, and educator
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (1864–1929), Armenian poet, translator and educator
Hovhannes I of Ani, King of Ani (1020–1040)
Hovhannes Imastaser, a medieval Armenian multi-disciplinary scholar
Hovhannes Kasparian, Armenian Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia
Hovhannes Katchaznouni (1868–1938), the first Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia
Hovhannes Mamikonean, 10th-century Armenian noble
Hovhannes Masehyan (1864–1931), Iranian Armenian translator and diplomat
Hovhannes Mkrtchyan (born 1991), Armenian figure skater
Hovhannes Sargsyan (born 1987), Armenian cross-country skier
Hovhannes Setian (1853–1930), Armenian short story writer, poet, and teacher
Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet
Hovhannes Tahmazyan (born 1970), Armenian footballer
Hovhannes Tcholakian (1919–2016), Turkish-Armenian Archbishop of the Armenian Catholic Church
Hovhannes Ter-Mikaelyan, an Armenian politician
Hovhannes Tertsakian (1924–2002), bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States
Hovhannes Tlkurantsi, Armenian poet
Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian poet and writer
Hovhannes Vahanian (1832–1891), Ottoman politician, minister, social activist, writer, and reformer
Hovhannes Varderesyan (born 1989), Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
Hovhannes XII Arsharuni (1854–1929), Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople
Hovhannes Zanazanyan, Soviet football player and coach
Hovhannes Zardaryan (1918–1992), Armenian painter
Hovhannes, Catholicos of Armenia or John V the Historian, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925

Hovhannes

People with the given name[edit]

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