Aksel Tatevosovich Vartanyan (Russian: Аксель Татевосович Вартанян; born January 8, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian journalist, sports historian and native of Tbilisi.

Vartanyan graduated from the Historical-Philological Department of Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. Since 1962 he has worked full-time as a school teacher.

Vartanyan is famous as journalist for the Football weekly and the newspaper Sport Express, researcher of archives and other written stock-piles that accumulated since the inception of domestic club football.