Gevorg Explained

Gevorg (hy|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 Bashinjaghian (1857–1925), Armenian painter
• Gevorg Emin (1918–1998), Armenian writer
• Gevorg Karapetyan (footballer, born 1963), Lebanese-Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Karapetyan (born 1990), Armenian footballer
• Gevorg Ghazaryan (born 1988), Armenian football player

Gevork

• Gevork Kotiantz (1909–1996), Russian-Armenian painter
• Gevork Vartanian (1924–2012), Soviet intelligence agent

Kevork

• Kevork Ajemian (Adjemian) (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 founder of Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959
• Kevork Malikyan (born 1943), English character actor of Armenian descent; played Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

See also

• Sourp Kevork Church, Limassol, Cyprus