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

• 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

See also

• Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), American composer
• Hovhannisyan (surname)
• List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
• List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople
• List of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia
• Adapa#As Oannes (Hovhannes Հովհաննես in Armenian)
• Ohannes