| Birth Date: | 12 August 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Gyumri, Armenia (then Leninakan, Soviet Union) |
| Occupation: | musicologist |
| Alma Mater: | Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1952), Moscow Conservatory (1956) |
Gevorg Shmavoni Geodakyan[1] (Armenian: Գևորգ Շմավոնի Գյոդակյան; Russian: Гео́ргий Шмаво́нович Геодакя́н|r=Georgy Shmavonovich Geodakyan; 12 August 1928 – 20 December 2015) was an Armenian musicologist.[2] He headed the Music Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences since 1966.[2]
Born in Leninakan (present-day Gyumri),[3] Geodakyan first graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1952 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956.[4] He died on 20 December 2015 at the age of 87.[5]