Levon (name)
Levon or Lévon is an Armenian given name 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
- Levon Abrahamian, Armenian anthropologist and historian
- Levon Aghababyan, Armenian mathematician and teacher
- Levon Aghasyan, Armenian triple jumper
- Levon Altonian, Lebanese football player
- Levon Ambartsumian, Armenian classical violinist and conductor
- Levon Ananyan, Armenian journalist and translator
- Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
- Levon Babujian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
- Levon Garabed Baljian, Armenian Supreme Patriarch
- Levon Bayramyan, Russian footballer of Armenian descent
- Levon Alexander Boyadjian, Armenian Egyptian photographer
- Levon Chailakhyan, Russian physiologist, biophysicist, and embryologist of Armenian origin
- Levon Chaushian, Armenian composer, vice-president of the Armenian Composers' Union and chairman of the Armenian Composers Assembly
- Levon Chilingirian, UK-based Armenian violinist, founder of the Chilingirian Quartet
- Levon Chookaszian, Armenian art historian and the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History
- Levon Chorbajian, American sociologist
- Levon Davidian, Iranian-Armenian politician, member of Iranian parliament
- Levon Geghamyan, Armenian Greco Roman wrestler
- Levon Ghulyan, Armenian politician
- Levon Ashotovich Grigorian, Soviet Armenian chess player
- Levon Harutyunyan, Armenian biologist and scholar
- Levon Harutyunyan, Armenian actor
- Levon Hawke, American actor
- Levon Hayrapetyan, Armenian football player
- Levon Helm, American rock musician, singer and actor; member of The Band
- Levon Ichkhanian, Lebanese Armenian Canadian guitarist of stringed instruments specialist
- Levon Ishtoyan, Soviet Armenian footballer
- Levon "Bo" Jones, American former death row inmate for 15 years
- Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Levon Kemalyan, Armenian-American model railroading entrepreneur
- Levon Kendall, Canadian basketball player
- Levon Khechoyan, Armenian writer and novelist
- Levon Khachigian, Armenian Australian medical scientist
- Levon Khachikyan, Soviet Armenian historian and philologist
- Levon Kirkland, American football linebacker
- Levon Lachikyan, Armenian art critic and graphic artist
- Levon Larents, or Levon Kirisciyan, Ottoman Armenian writer, translator, journalist, editor, novelist, poet, and teacher
- Levon Malkhasyan, Armenian jazz musician
- Levon Manaseryan, Armenian artist and professor
- Levon Marashlian, American historian, professor and scholar
- Lévon Minassian, French-Armenian duduk player
- Levon Mirzoyan, Soviet politician; Secretary of Communist Party of the Azeri SSR and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR
- Levon Mkrtchyan, Armenian film and documentary film director
- Levon Mnatsakanyan, Armenian politician
- Levon Orbeli, or Leon Orbeli, Armenian physiologist
- Levon Pachajyan, Armenian footballer
- Levon Pashabezyan, Armenian taekwondo practitioner
- Levon Pashalian, Ottoman Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, novelist, and politician
- Levon Pogosian, Canadian Armenian professor of astrophysics
- Lévon Sayan, or Levon Sanosyan, French-Armenian impresario and producer, operatic tenor
- Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, and founder of the Hamazkayin National Cultural Foundation
- Levon Stepanyan, Armenian footballer and coach
- Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Armenian politician; first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
- Levon Tourian, Armenian-American cleric
- Levon Tumanyan, Russian politician and parliamentarian
- Levon Zekiyan, Armenian scholar
- Levon Zourabian, 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, Georgian king
- León Arslanián, Argentine lawyer, jurist and public official
- Leon Chechemian, Armenian cleric
- Leon Czolgosz, American wireworker and anarchist
- Leon Danielian, American ballet dancer and choreographer
- Alejandra León Gastélum, Mexican Armenian politician
- Alexander Leon Gumuchian, Canadian rapper and singer-songwriter
- Léon Gurekian, Ottoman Armenian writer, architect and political activist
- Pablo León Hakimian, Armenian Argentinian bishop
- Leon Srabian Herald, Armenian-American poet
- Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist
- Leon Khachatourian, Iranian Armenian boxer
- Leon Merian, American jazz trumpeter and teacher
- Richard Leon Paniguian, Armenian British oil executive
- Leon S. Peters, American businessman, engineer and philanthropist
- Leon Petrosyan, Russian mathematician and professor
- Grant-Leon Ranos, Armenian footballer
- Leon Redbone, Armenian-American jazz musician
- Leon Sabua, Russian footballer
- Leon Surmelian, Armenian-American writer
- Leon Takhtajan, Russian-Armenian mathematical physicist
- Leon Topalian, American businessman
- Léon Arthur Tutundjian, Armenian painter
Middle name
- Robert Levon Been, American indie rock bass guitarist, guitarist, and singer
Surname
- August Alexander Levón, Finnish entrepreneur and businessman
- Elen Levon, Ukrainian-born Australian singer, songwriter, and dancer