Levon (name)

Levon or Lévon is an Armenian given name (in Armenian Լեւոն) equivalent to Leon. It is also a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Levon

• King Leo (disambiguation), a series of individuals known as King Levon (in Armenian)
• Levon Abrahamian (born 1947), Armenian anthropologist and historian
• Levon Aghababyan (1887–1915), Armenian mathematician and teacher
• Levon Aghasyan (born 1995), Armenian triple jumper
• Levon Altonian (1936–2020), Lebanese football player
• Levon Ambartsumian (born 1955), Armenian classical violinist and conductor
• Levon Ananyan (1946–2013), Armenian journalist and translator
• Levon Aronian (born 1982), Armenian chess Grandmaster
• Levon Babujian (born 1986), Armenian chess Grandmaster
• Levon Garabed Baljian (1908–1994), Armenian Supreme Patriarch
• Levon Bayramyan (born 1998), Russian footballer of Armenian descent
• Levon Alexander Boyadjian (1921–2002), Armenian Egyptian photographer
• Levon Chailakhyan (1928–2009), Russian physiologist, biophysicist, and embryologist of Armenian origin
• Levon Chaushian (born 1946), Armenian composer, vice-president of the Armenian Composers' Union and chairman of the Armenian Composers Assembly
• Levon Chilingirian (born 1948), UK-based Armenian violinist, founder of the Chilingirian Quartet
• Levon Chookaszian (born 1952), Armenian art historian and the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History
• Levon Chorbajian (born 1942), American sociologist
• Levon Davidian (1944–2009), Iranian-Armenian politician, member of Iranian parliament
• Levon Geghamyan (born 1977), Armenian Greco Roman wrestler
• Levon Ghulyan, Armenian politician
• Levon Ashotovich Grigorian (1947–1975), Soviet Armenian chess player
• Levon Harutyunyan (1927–2007), Armenian biologist and scholar
• Levon Harutyunyan (born 1967), Armenian actor
• Levon Hawke (born 2002), American actor
• Levon Hayrapetyan (born 1989), Armenian football player
• Levon Helm (1940–2012), American rock musician, singer and actor; member of The Band
• Levon Ichkhanian (born 1964), Lebanese Armenian Canadian guitarist of stringed instruments specialist
• Levon Ishtoyan (born 1947), Soviet Armenian footballer
• Levon "Bo" Jones, American former death row inmate for 15 years
• Levon Julfalakyan (born 1964), Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
• Levon Kemalyan (1907–1976), Armenian-American model railroading entrepreneur
• Levon Kendall (born 1984), Canadian basketball player
• Levon Khechoyan (1955–2014), Armenian writer and novelist
• Levon Khachigian (born 1964), Armenian Australian medical scientist
• Levon Khachikyan (1918–1982), Soviet Armenian historian and philologist
• Levon Kirkland (born 1969), American football linebacker
• Levon Lachikyan (born 1955), Armenian art critic and graphic artist
• Levon Larents (1875–1915), or Levon Kirisciyan, Ottoman Armenian writer, translator, journalist, editor, novelist, poet, and teacher
• Levon Malkhasyan (born 1945), Armenian jazz musician
• Levon Manaseryan (1925–2019), Armenian artist and professor
• Levon Marashlian (born 1948), American historian, professor and scholar
• Lévon Minassian, French-Armenian duduk player
• Levon Mirzoyan (1897–1939), Soviet politician; Secretary of Communist Party of the Azeri SSR (1926–1929) and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR (1936–1938)
• Levon Mkrtchyan (born 1953), Armenian film and documentary film director
• Levon Mnatsakanyan (born 1965), Armenian politician
• Levon Orbeli (1882–1958), or Leon Orbeli, Armenian physiologist
• Levon Pachajyan (born 1983), Armenian footballer
• Levon Pashabezyan (born 1986), Armenian taekwondo practitioner
• Levon Pashalian (1868–1943), Ottoman Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, novelist, and politician
• Levon Pogosian, Canadian Armenian professor of astrophysics
• Lévon Sayan (born 1934), or Levon Sanosyan, French-Armenian impresario and producer, operatic tenor
• Levon Shant (1869–1951), Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation
• Levon Stepanyan (born 1971), Armenian footballer and coach
• Levon Ter-Petrosyan (born 1945), Armenian politician; first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
• Levon Tourian (1879–1933), Armenian-American cleric
• Levon Tumanyan (1869–1942), Russian politician and parliamentarian
• Levon Zekiyan (born 1943), Armenian scholar
• Levon Zourabian (born 1964), Armenian politician

Leon/Léon

• Leon I of Abkhazia, 8th-century Armenian king
• Leon II of Abkhazia, 9th-century Armenian king
• Leon III of Abkhazia, 10th-century Georgian king
• Leon of Kakheti (1503–1574), Georgian king
• León Arslanián (born 1941), Argentine lawyer, jurist and public official
• Leon Chechemian (1848–1920), Armenian cleric
• Leon Czolgosz (1873–1901), American wireworker and anarchist
• Leon Danielian (1920–1997), American ballet dancer and choreographer
• Alejandra León Gastélum (born 1976), Mexican Armenian politician
• Alexander Leon Gumuchian (stage name bbno$, born 1995), Canadian rapper and singer-songwriter
• Léon Gurekian (1871–1950), Ottoman Armenian writer, architect and political activist
• Pablo León Hakimian (1953–2024), Armenian Argentinian bishop
• Leon Srabian Herald (1896–1976), Armenian-American poet
• Leon Kalustian (1908–1990), Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist
• Leon Khachatourian (born 1936), Iranian Armenian boxer
• Leon Merian (1923–2007), American jazz trumpeter and teacher
• Richard Leon Paniguian (1949–2017), Armenian British oil executive
• Leon S. Peters (1905–1983), American businessman, engineer and philanthropist
• Leon Petrosyan (born 1940), Russian mathematician and professor
• Grant-Leon Ranos (born 2003), Armenian footballer
• Leon Redbone (1949–2019), Armenian-American jazz musician
• Leon Sabua (born 2000), Russian footballer
• Leon Surmelian (1902–1992), Armenian-American writer
• Leon Takhtajan (born 1950), Russian-Armenian mathematical physicist
• Leon Topalian, American businessman
• Léon Arthur Tutundjian (1905–1968), Armenian painter

Middle name

• Robert Levon Been (born 1978), American indie rock bass guitarist, guitarist, and singer

Surname

• August Alexander Levón (1820–1875), Finnish entrepreneur and businessman
• Elen Levon (born 1994), Ukrainian-born Australian singer, songwriter, and dancer

See also

• Levon (band), American band
• Levon (song), 1971 song by Elton John
• LaVon (given name)
• Leon (given name)
• Levin (given name)