Moses Minas Housepian (Armenian: Մովսես Մինասի Հովսեփյան; 1876 – December 11, 1952) was a Syrian-born Armenian-American physician and humanitarian aid worker.

Moses Minas Housepian was born in 1876 in Kessab, Cilicia, Ottoman Empire (now Syria).

[2] He later headed a humanitarian medical mission in Russian Armenia from 1916 to 1918 treating refugees from the Armenian genocide.

[2][3] He is credited with stopping the spread of a typhus epidemic and was known as the "Angel of Mercy", and as "Dr. Purgich" (English: "Dr.

[4] Housepian was active in the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, whose chapter in New York City was posthumously named for him.