Hovhannes

Hovhannes (Armenian: Հովհաննես (reformed); Յովհաննէս (classical)), also spelled Hovhanes, Hovannes or Hovanes is an Armenian name equivalent to English John. It is comparable with Ioannes in Greek or Johannes in Latin.

People with the given name

Hovannes

• Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), Soviet Armenian engineer
• Hovannes Amreyan (born 1975), Armenian weightlifter
• Hovannes "Ivan" Gevorkian (1907–1989), Armenian surgeon and scientist

Hovhannes

• Hovhannes Abelian (1865–1936), Armenian actor
• Hovhannes Aivazovsky (1817–1900), 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 Bujicanian (1873–1915), Ottoman Armenian teacher and academic
• Hovhannes Chekijyan (born 1928), Armenian conductor and art director
• Hovhannes Danielyan (born 1987), Armenian light flyweight amateur boxer
• Hovhannes Davtyan (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 Ghorghanyan, 19th-century Russian-Armenian economist
• 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 Harutiunian (1860–1915), Ottoman Armenian teacher and writer
• 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 Hovhannisyan (born 1980), Armenian politician, theologian, historian and professor
• Hovhannes I of Ani, King of Ani (1020–1040)
• Hovhannes Imastaser (1045/1050–1129), a medieval Armenian multi-disciplinary scholar
• Hovhannes Kasparian (1927–2011), Armenian Catholic Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia
• Hovhannes Katchaznouni (1868–1938), the first Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia
• Hovhannes Mamikonean, 7th-century Armenian noble
• Hovhannes Masehyan (1864–1931), Iranian Armenian translator and diplomat
• Hovhannes Mrkuz Jughayetsi (1643–1715), Armenian theologian and philosopher
• Hovhannes Nazaryan (born 1998), Armenian footballer
• Hovhannes Sargsyan (born 1987), Armenian cross-country skier
• Hovhannes Semerdjian (1920–2013), French-Armenian painter
• 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, 20th-century Armenian politician
• Hovhannes Tertsakian (1924–2002), bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States
• Hovhannes Tlkurantsi (1450–1535), 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 (1946–2015), Soviet Armenian 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

Middle name

• Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian (1878–1973), Armenian-American scientist
• Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni, 11th-century Armenian king
• Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian (1879–1974), Armenian surgeon and founder of plastic surgery

See also

• Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), American composer
• Hovhannisyan (surname)
• St. Hovhannes Church, multiple churches in the Caucasus
• 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