Rafael Ghazaryan (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Ղազարյան, 26 January 1924 – 3 November 2007, Yerevan) was an Armenian radio-physicist, academician, public activist, a member of Karabakh Committee.
He is an author of a number of works on radiophysics, laser atmosphere technics and light modulation, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
[1] In 1988, along with other members of Karabakh Committee, he was arrested by Soviet authorities.
In 1989, he became the Vice President of the Supreme Council (parliament) of Armenian SSR, in 1990-95 he headed the parliamentarian Committee of Science and Education.
[2] In his final years, he was one of the leaders of the “Intellectual Forum” (Armenia).