Hovhannes
Hovhannes (Armenian: Հովհաննես (reformed); Յովհաննէս (classical)), also spelled Hovannes or Hovanes is Armenian for John. (Compare with Ioannes in Greek or Johannes in Latin.)
People with the given name:
- Hovhannes Bagramyan (1897–1982), Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Hovhannes, Catholicos of Armenia or John V the Historian, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925
- Hovhannes Erznkatsi (c. 1250–1326), Armenian scholar
- Hovannes "Ivan" Gevorkian (1907–1989), prominent Armenian surgeon and scientist
- Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, (1864–1929), Armenian poet, translator and educator
- Hovhannes I of Ani, King of Ani (1020–1040)
- Hovhannes Katchaznouni (1868–1938), the first Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia
- Hovhannes Mkrtchyan (born 1991), Armenian figure skater
- Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet
- Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian poet and writer
See also
- Alan Hovhaness
- 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)
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