What is "gevorg"

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

• Gevorg Bashinjaghian (1857-1925), painter
• Gevorg Emin (1918-1998), writer
• Gevorg Ghazaryan (born 1988), football player

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

• 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 1942), English character actor of Armenian descent; played Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade