# 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
### 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, 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 (judoka) (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