Karapet Mikaelyan (born 1969), Russia-born Armenian football (soccer) player
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Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian, American politician of Armenian origin, who was the Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly
Karp (Karapet) Mkrtchi Khachvankyan (January 23, 1923, Akhaltskha - November 23, 1998, Yerevan) was an Armenian actor and director, People's Artist of Armenia (1967).
Saint Karapet Monastery was also one of the three most important sites for Armenian Christian pilgrimage, and among the richest, most ancient institutions in Ottoman Armenia, until it was destroyed to its foundations by Turks after the Armenian Genocide.
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After the extermination and expulsion of the Armenians in the Armenian Genocide, Surp Karapet ceased to exist not only as a spiritual center, but also as an architectural monument.