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Varlam is both a masculine given name and a surname derived from the saint's name Barlaam, used predominantly in
Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...
cultures. Notable people with the name include: *
Varlam Cherkezishvili Varlam Nikolozi dze Cherkezishvili ( ka, ვარლამ ნიკოლოზის ძე ჩერქეზიშვილი; 15 September 1846 – 18 August 1925) was a Georgian aristocrat and journalist involved in Georgian anarchist an ...
(1846–1925), Georgian politician and journalist * Varlam Gelovani (1878–1915), Georgian lawyer and politician * Varlam Avanesov (1884–1930), Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet communist politician *
Varlam Shalamov Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic reg ...
(1907–1982), Russian writer, journalist and poet * Varlam Kilasonia (born 1967), Georgian footballer and manager *
Claudiu Varlam Claudiu Varlam (born 31 May 1975 in Braşov, Romania) is a retired Romanian aerobic gymnast Aerobic gymnastics or sport aerobics is a competitive sport originating from traditional aerobics in which complex, high-intensity movement patterns ...
(born 1975), Romanian aerobic gymnast *
Varlam Liparteliani Varlam Liparteliani (; born 27 February 1989) is a Georgian retired judoka. He has won silver at Olympic and World level. Career Liparteliani competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 90 kg event and lost in the second round to Mark An ...
(born 1989), Georgian judoka


See also

* Barlaam (disambiguation), the Western form *
Varlaam (disambiguation) Varlaam is a variant of the saint's name Barlaam, used in the Orthodox churches due to the Byzantine sound shift from /b/ to /v/. A shortened form is Varlam. It may refer to: Places Greece * Varlaam, Greece, a village in the southern Ioannin ...
, another Eastern Orthodox form * Varlamov, an East Slavic surname derived from ''Varlam'' {{given name, type=both Georgian masculine given names Masculine given names