Gevorg

Gevorg (Armenian: Գևորգ), also spelled Gevork and pronounced and transliterated as Kevork in Western Armenian, is the Armenian version of the name George. Bearers include:

Gevorg

• Gevorg Abajian (1920–2002), Armenian literary critic
• Gevorg Aleksanyan (born 1981), Armenian weightlifter
• Gevorg Arutyunyan (born 1997), Russian-Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Avagyan (1922–2013), Soviet Armenian painter
• Gevorg Badalyan (born 1991), Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Bashinjaghian (1857–1925), Armenian painter
• Gevorg Dabaghyan (born 1965), Armenian folk musician
• Gevorg Davtyan (born 1983), Armenian weightlifter
• Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian writer
• Gevorg Geodakyan (1928–2015), Armenian musicologist
• Gevorg Gharadjian (1861–1936), Armenian political activist and revolutionary
• Gevorg Gharibyan (born 2002), Armenian wrestler
• Gevorg Ghazaryan (born 1988), Armenian football player
• Gevorg Ghazaryan, 20th-century Armenian politician
• Gevorg Gorgisyan (born 1986), Armenian politician and parliamentarian
• Gevorg Harutjunyan (born 1981), Armenian chess grandmaster
• Gevorg Harutyunyan (born 1990), Armenian singer
• Gevorg Hovhannisyan (born 1983), Armenian footballer
• Gevorg II of Armenia, 9th-century Armenian bishop
• Gevorg Jahukyan (1920–2005), Armenian linguist and philologist
• Gevorg Karapetyan (born 1963), Lebanese-Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Karapetyan (born 1990), Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Kasparov (born 1980), Armenian footballer and coach
• Gevorg Khachatrian (1936–1996), Armenian scientist, teacher and engineer
• Gevorg Manukian (born 1993), Armenian-born Ukrainian boxer
• Gevorg Martirosyan, Armenian singer and actor
• Gevorg Melik-Karagyozyan, 20th-century Armenian politician
• Gevorg Najaryan (born 1998), Kazakh footballer of Armenian descent
• Gevorg Petrosyan (born 1972), Armenian lawyer and politician
• Gevorg Petrosyan (born 1985), Armenian-Italian kickboxer
• Gevorg Sahakyan (born 1990), Polish wrestler of Armenian origin
• Gevorg Sargsyan (born 1981), Armenian conductor
• Gevorg Tamamyan, Armenian doctor
• Gevorg Tarakhchyan (born 2002), Armenian footballer

Middle name

• Ervand Gevorg Kogbetliantz (1888–1974), Armenian-American mathematician
• Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan (born 1988), Armenian weightlifter

Gevork

• Gevork Alikhanyan (1897–1938), Armenian Soviet politician and statesman
• Gevork Kotiantz (1909–1996), Russian-Armenian painter
• Gevork Minaskanian, American professor and pharmacologist
• Gevork Sarkisyan (born 1999), Russian footballer of Armenian descent
• Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet intelligence agent

Kevork

• Kevork Ajemian (1932–1998), Armenian writer, journalist, novelist, theorist and public activist, one of the founders of ASALA
• Kevork Aslan, Armenian historian
• Kevork Chavush (1865–1907), Armenian fedayi in the Ottoman Empire
• Kevork Hovnanian (1923–2009), Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founded Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959
• Kevork Malikyan (born 1943), English character actor of Armenian descent; played Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Kevork Mardikian (born 1954), Syrian footballer
• Kevork Mardirossian (1954–2024), American violinist
• Kevork Shadoyan (born 1974), Syrian-Armenian fashion designer

See also

Surname derived from the name:

• Gevorgyan

Places and media derived from the name:

• Sourp Kevork Church, Limassol, Cyprus
• St. Gevorg Church, multiple churches in Armenia
• Gevorg Marzpetuni, 1896 Armenian novel
• Oh, Gevorg, 1979 Soviet film