Hovhannes
Hovhannes (Armenian: Հովհաննես (reformed); Յովհաննէս (classical)), also spelled Hovhanes, Hovannes or Hovanes is an Armenian name equivalent to English John. (Compare with Ioannes in Greek or Johannes in Latin.)
People with the given name
[edit]Hovannes
[edit]- Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), Soviet Armenian engineer
- Hovannes Amreyan (born 1975), Armenian weightlifter
- Hovannes "Ivan" Gevorkian (1907–1989), Armenian surgeon and scientist
Hovhannes
[edit]- 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 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
[edit]- 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