Karapet

Karapet or Garabet or Garabed is a common Armenian given name. Variants would include Karbis, Karo or Garbis, Garo.

Karapet / Garabet / Garabed may be:

• a pre-Christian Armenian thunder-god, Karapet.
• the Armenian version of "Carpathian"

Religion

• Karabet (Armenian) or Garabed (Western Armenian), the Armenian name for prodromos, referring to John the Baptist.
• St. Karapet, a church of the Noravank monastery
• Monastery of St. Karapet at Glak, a 4th-century Armenian monastery
• Karapet, a church of the Khtzkonk monastery near Ani
• Saint Karapet Church, Tbilisi, Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia

Given name

Karapet

• Karapet II of Armenia (died 1729), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1726-1729)
• Karapet Chobanyan (1927-1978), Armenian scientist
• Karapet Derderian (1925-2007), Iranian Armenian poet
• Karapet Karapetyan (born 1982), also known as Karapet Papijan, Armenian-Dutch kickboxer
• Karapet Mikaelyan (born 1969), Russia-born Armenian football (soccer) player
• Karapet Rubinyan, Armenian politician
• Karapet Utudjian (1823-1904), Armenian Ottoman journalist, publicist, and writer
• Karapetê Xaço (?-2005), Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish dengbêj music
• Karapet (bridge player), fictional Armenian expatriate contract bridge player created by Victor Mollo (1909-1987)

Garabed

• Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian, American politician of Armenian origin, who was the Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly
• Garabed T. K. Giragossian (20th century), Armenian engilneer
• Garabed Pashayan Khan, (1864-1915), Armenian physician, doctor and public activist.
• Garabed "Garo" Yepremian, (1944-2015), American football placekicker of Armenian origin

Garabet

• Garabet Balyan, (1800–1866) Armenian Ottoman amira, renowned engineer
• Garabet Ibrăileanu (1871–1936), Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, editor, translator, sociologist, professor
• Garabet Yazmaciyan (1868–1929), Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.

See also

• Karapetyan / Garabedian
• Karo (name)