Kerovbe Patkanian or Kerope Petrovich Patkanov was a Russian Armenian philologist, linguist, orientalist, and historian who served as Professor of Armenian Studies at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Uni

Raphael Patkanian, also known by the penname Gamar Katipa, was a nineteenth-century Russian Armenian writer and educator. He was born into a noted family of Armenian intellectuals in Nakhichevan-on-Do