Hakobyan (Armenian: Հակոբյան (reformed); Յակոբեան (classical)) is an Armenian surname with the meaning "son of Hakob" (Armenian for Jacob). This surname has multitudes of transliterations into Latin alphabet, including Acopian, Acopyan, Agopian, Agopyan, Akobian, Akobyan, Akopyan, Hagopian, Hagopyan, Hakobian, and others. A Russified version of this surname is Akopov. A variant is Hakobyants, Hagopiantz (Armenian: Հակոբյանց (reformed); Յակոբեանց (classical)), with similar variations of rendering in the Latin alphabet.

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  • Sarkis Acopian (1926–2007), Armenian-American inventor, industrialist, environmentalist

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  • Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927–2008), American art historian
  • Clara Hagopian, maiden name of the (adopting) mother of Steve Jobs
  • Dean Hagopian, Armenian-Canadian actor, radio personality and musician, voice actor and record producer
  • Frances Hagopian, political scientist.
  • Hagop Der Hagopian (1884–1983), birth name of Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), an Armenian activist and principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, a campaign of revenge against officials of the former Ottoman Empire who instigated the Armenian Genocide during World War I. He is also a writer and a thinker
  • Hagop Hagopian (militant), nom de guerre of Harutiun Takoshian, an Armenian military commander and guerilla, leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
  • Harold Hagopian, Armenian-American violinist, entrepreneur, record producer and founder of Traditional Crossroads world music record label
  • J. Michael Hagopian (1913–2010), Armenian-born American filmmaker
  • Richard Hagopian (born 1937), Armenian-American oud player and a traditional Armenian musician
  • Robert Hagopian (1911–1995), Armenian-American attorney, government official, and politician
  • Seta Hagopian, or Seta Agobian, Iraqi Armenian singer
  • V. H. Hagopian (died 1916), Ottoman Armenian author and professor of Ottoman Turkish and Persian in Anatolia College
  • Yenovk Der Hagopian (1900–1966), American-Armenian artist, sculptor and musician

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  • Hakob Hakobian (painter) or Hakob Hakobyan, also spelled Hagop Hagopian (1923–2013), modern Armenian painter
  • Hakob Hakobian (poet) often transliterated from Russian as Akop Akopian (1866–1937), Soviet Armenian poet, the founder of Armenian proletarian poetry
  • Hakob Melik Hakobian (1835–1888), Armenian author, novelist and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature, better known by his pen name Raffi (Armenian: Րաֆֆի; Persian: رافی)

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