This is primarily a list of notable people who contributed to the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity's theology or culture. However it is also for people whose Eastern Orthodox identity is an important part of their notability. As there are many nations that are predominantly Eastern Orthodox names from such nations should usually meet a stricter standard, but in the case of converts their conversion might be notable enough to make an exception.

Artists

• Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Rublev is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.-Biography:...
  
   – Important in the history of Russian Icon
  Icon
  An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...
  
  ography
• Dionisius
  Dionisius
  Dionisius was acknowledged as a head of the Moscow school of icon painters at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. His style of painting is sometimes termed "the Muscovite mannerism"....
  
   – Headed a school of icon painting
• El Greco
  El Greco
  El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...
  
   – From Crete, noted for Christian art
• Feofan Grek – Noted iconographer
• Boris Kustodiev
  Boris Kustodiev
  Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter and stage designer.-Early life:Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary. His father died young, and all financial and material burdens...
  
   Russian artist known for depictions of Russian Orthodox people and culture
• Jerzy Nowosielski
  Jerzy Nowosielski
  Jerzy Nowosielski was a Kraków-born Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer, and illustrator.He was well-known for his religious compositions in the Orthodox Churches in Kraków, Białystok and Jelenia Góra, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross at Wesoła, the Franciscan Church in the...
  
   – Famous Polish
  Poles
  thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
  
   painter, noted for his numerous works of Byzantine influenced religious art
• Karl Matzek
  Karl Matzek
  Karl George Matzek was an Austrian religious artist of Czech descent who is best noted for his panoramas and murals of Biblical scenes in church buildings.Matzek was a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Arts....
  
   – Convert from Catholicism who did religious art for the faith
• Prokhor
  Prokhor
  Prokhor from Gorodets was a medieval Russian icon-painter, thought to have been the teacher of Andrei Rublev....
  
   – Icon painter
• Toros Roslin
  Toros Roslin
  Toros Roslin ; circa 1210–1270) was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages. Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of western European art while continuing the conventions established by his predecessors...
  
   – An Armenian of Oriental Orthodoxy
  Oriental Orthodoxy
  Oriental Orthodoxy is the faith of those Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils — the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the First Council of Ephesus. They rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon...
  
  , but some of his works are Byzantine-influenced
• Simon Ushakov
  Simon Ushakov
  Simon Fyodorovich Ushakov was a leading Russian graphic artist of the late 17th-century. Together with Fyodor Zubov and Fyodor Rozhnov, he is associated with the comprehensive reform of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken by Patriarch Nikon.-Biography:We know almost nothing about the early...
  
   – A leading religious artist linked to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon
  Patriarch Nikon
  Nikon , born Nikita Minin , was the seventh patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church...
  
  
• Roy Marten – An Indonesian Artist
• Valentin Alexandrovich Serov – a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era.

Athletes

• Dimitar Berbatov
  Dimitar Berbatov
  Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...
  
   – Football player
• Haile Gebrselassie
  Haile Gebrselassie
  Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon...
  
   – Runner
• Kenenisa Bekele
  Kenenisa Bekele
  Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who holds the world record and Olympic record in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres events...
  
   - Runner
• Oksana Baiul
  Oksana Baiul
  Oksana Serhiyivna Baiul is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion in Ladies' Singles and 1993 World Champion.-Early and personal life:...
  
   - Figure Skating
  Figure skating
  Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
  
  
• Dejan Bodiroga
  Dejan Bodiroga
  Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....
  
   - Basketball Player
• Anna Chakvetadze
  Anna Chakvetadze
  Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Tirunesh Dibaba
  Tirunesh Dibaba
  Tirunesh Dibaba also known as Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene is an Ethiopian long distance track athlete and the outdoor 5000 metres world record holder. She is the current Olympic 5000 metres and 10,000 metres champion...
  
   - Runner
• Abebe Bikila
  Abebe Bikila
  Abebe Bikila was a two-time Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. A stadium in Addis Ababa is named in his honor.-1932–1959:...
  
   - runner
• Elena Dementieva
  Elena Dementieva
  Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Novak Đoković - Tennis Player
• Daniel Nestor
  Daniel Nestor
  Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
  
   - Tennis Player
• Nadia Comăneci
  Nadia Comaneci
  Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...
  
   - Gymnast
• Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the NBA. At , he played center and was known for his passing skills...
  
   - Basketball Player
• Pete Maravich
  Pete Maravich
  Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich was an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University and played for three NBA teams until injuries induced him to retire in 1980...
  
   - Basketball Player
• Meseret Defar
  Meseret Defar
  Meseret Defar is a female long-distance runner from Ethiopia who competes chiefly in the 3000 metres and 5000 metres events. She has won medals at top-tier international competitions including Olympic and World Championship gold medals over 5000 metres...
  
   - Runner
• Dragan Džajić
  Dragan Džajic
  Dragan Džajić is widely considered to have been one of the best Serbian football players to emerge from former Yugoslavia. Regarded as a preeminent and very proficient left winger, he is strongly reputed to have been one of the finest European players of his generation...
  
   - Football Player
• Aleksandar Đorđević - Basketball Player
• Jeff George
  Jeff George
  Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" George is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts with the first overall pick of the 1990 NFL Draft...
  
   - Former NFL Quarterback
• Alex Holmes
  Alex Holmes
  Alex Holmes was a National Football League tight end.-Professional career:Holmes played for the Miami Dolphins in 2005 and signed as a free agent with the Saint Louis Rams for 2006...
  
   - Football Player
• Ana Ivanović
  Ana Ivanovic
  Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Jelena Janković
  Jelena Janković
  Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Jaromír Jágr
  Jaromir Jagr
  Jaromír Jágr is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger who plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League . Jágr formerly played with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and New York Rangers, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers...
  
   - Former NHL Hockey Player (mostly Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  ). Russian Orthodox. Converted - is from Czech Republic
  Czech Republic
  The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
  
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• Vladimir Jugović
  Vladimir Jugovic
  Vladimir Jugović is a retired Serbian football player renowned for his vision and technique.-Career:Born in Milutovac, a village near Trstenik, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Jugović played throughout his career for numerous top European teams, winning the Champions League twice...
  
   - Football Player
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov
  Yevgeny Kafelnikov
  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Andrei Kirilenko
  Andrei Kirilenko (basketball)
  Andrei Gennadyevich Kirilenko is a Russian-American professional basketball player who plays at the small forward position for the CSKA Moscow in the Russian Professional Basketball League. He also plays for the Russia national basketball team...
  
   - Basketball Player
• Anna Kournikova
  Anna Kournikova
  Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Svetlana Kuznetsova
  Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Siniša Mihajlović
  Siniša Mihajlovic
  Siniša Mihajlović is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was in charge of Serie A club Fiorentina since June 2010 to November 2011....
  
   - Football Player
• Predrag Mijatović
  Predrag Mijatovic
  Predrag "Peđa" Mijatović is a Montenegrin football player and former sports director of Real Madrid. He is considered one of Yugoslavia's best players of the 1990s. He was acclaimed as the best athlete of Yugoslavia in 1997...
  
   - Football Player
• Anastasia Myskina
  Anastasia Myskina
  Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Ilie Năstase
  Ilie Nastase
  Ilie Nastase is a Romanian former professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 tennis player between 1973 and 1974 . He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles . He was inducted into the...
  
   - Tennis Player
• Darko Pančev
  Darko Pancev
  Darko Pančev is a retired Yugoslav and Macedonian footballer, and winner of the Golden Boot award in 1991.-Club career:Pančev was the highest scorer in top-division European football in the 1990–91 season with 34 goals, and should have won the European Golden Boot award...
  
   - Football Player
• Troy Polamalu
  Troy Polamalu
  Troy Aumua Polamalu is an American football strong safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Steelers. He played college football at the University of Southern California.-High school:Troy Polamalu graduated...
  
   - Football Player
• Alex Rodriguez
  Alex Rodriguez
  Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez is an American professional baseball third baseman with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Known popularly by his nickname A-Rod, he previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.Rodriguez is considered one of the best...
  
   - Baseball Player His ex-wife is Orthodox, but I've seen no evidence he ever converted. Besides it seems unlikely that he is Orthodox any longer if he ever was. This is debated however has media suggests he recently converted to Kabbalah
  Kabbalah
  Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
  
  .
• Pete Sampras
  Pete Sampras
  Pete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former world no. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time....
  
   - Tennis player
• Dejan Savićević
  Dejan Savicevic
  Dejan Savićević , is a Montenegrin former football player and is the president of the Montenegrin FA....
  
   - Football player
• Dragoslav Šekularac
  Dragoslav Šekularac
  Dragoslav Šekularac Dragoslav Šekularac (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Шекуларац) Dragoslav Šekularac (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Шекуларац) (born November 30, 1937 in Štip, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia is a Serbian former football player and coach....
  
   - Football player
• Maria Sharapova
  Maria Sharapova
  Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
  
   - Tennis player
• Andriy Shevchenko
  Andriy Shevchenko
  Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukraine national team as a striker. He is the third-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 67 goals as of 2011-03-10, behind Filippo Inzaghi and Raúl. With 175 goals scored with A.C...
  
   - Football player
• Irina Slutskaya - Figure skater
• Dejan Stanković
  Dejan Stankovic
  Dejan Stanković is a Serbian association football player who plays for the Italian Serie A side Inter. He captained the Serbian national football team until 2011, when he announced his retirement from international football...
  
   - Football player
• Predrag Stojaković
  Predrag Stojakovic
  Predrag Stojaković , also known by his nickname Peja , is a Serbian professional basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association . Standing at 6 ft 10 , Stojaković plays the small forward position...
  
   - Basketball player
• Dragan Stojković
  Dragan Stojkovic
  Dragan Stojković , also known under the nickname Piksi is a Serbian former footballer and current manager of J...
  
   - Football player
• Nemanja Vidić
  Nemanja Vidic
  Nemanja Vidić is a Serbian footballer who captains English Premier League club Manchester United. He was part of the Serbia national football team from 2002 to 2011....
  
   - Football player
• Lev Yashin
  Lev Yashin
  Lev Ivanovich Yashin nicknamed as "The Black Spider", was a Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper, considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. He was known for his superior athleticism in goal, imposing stature, amazing reflex saves and inventing the idea of...
  
   - Football player
• Theodoros Zagorakis
  Theodoros Zagorakis
  -Kavala:Zagorakis was a defensive midfielder who usually operated on the right hand side of midfield. He started his career with Kavala, the club that also produced Zisis Vryzas, with whom he became close friends...
  
   - Football player
• Sergei Gonchar
  Sergei Gonchar
  Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League...
  
   - Hockey player
• Evgeni Malkin
  Evgeni Malkin
  Evgeni "Geno" Vladimirovich Malkin is a Russian professional ice hockey center and alternate captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League ....
  
   - NHL hockey player with Pittsburgh Penguins
  Pittsburgh Penguins
  The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
  
  
• Gheorghe Hagi
  Gheorghe Hagi
  Gheorghe Hagi is a former Romanian footballer. He was famous for his passing, close control, long shots and was regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s and is considered the greatest Romanian footballer of all time...
  
   - Football player
• Cristian Chivu
  Cristian Chivu
  Cristian Eugen Chivu is a Romanian footballer. He currently plays for Internazionale of the Italian Serie A. He usually plays as a left back but can play as a center back as well as in defensive midfield when needed....
  
   - Football player
• Adrian Mutu
  Adrian Mutu
  Adrian Mutu is a Romanian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cesena.-Argeş Piteşti:Mutu began his professional career with his home club Argeş Piteşti...
  
   - Football player
• Gheorghe Popescu
  Gheorghe Popescu
  Gheorghe Gică Popescu is a former Romanian footballer who played as a defender, and was a key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in an illustrious career that saw him amass many honours...
  
   - Football player
• Evan Lysacek
  Evan Lysacek
  Evan Frank Lysacek is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, the 2005 & 2007 Four Continents champion, the 2007 & 2008 U.S. national champion, and the 2009/2010 Grand Prix Final champion....
  
   - Figure skater

Entrepreneurs/Industrialists

Gus S. Dolianitis, Danville, VA

Elaine Pristouris (Greek Orthodox) Vienna, VA

Entertainers

• F. Murray Abraham
  F. Murray Abraham
  Fahrid Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men and Scarface...
  
  , former Syrian Orthodox altar boy http://www.beyond.com.au/pdfs/childrenofrev.pdf
• John Belushi
  John Belushi
  John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...
  
  , Member of the Albanian Orthodox Church
  Albanian Orthodox Church
  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....
  
   in childhood; his funeral was in that faith http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/John_Belushi.html
• James Belushi
  James Belushi
  James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is the younger brother of comic actor John Belushi.-Early life:Belushi was born in Chicago...
  
  , Member of the Albanian Orthodox Church
  Albanian Orthodox Church
  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....
  
  , John's brother.
• Charles Bronson
  Charles Bronson
  Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...
  
  , former Russian Orthodox, son of a Kryashen.
• George Chakiris
  George Chakiris
  George Chakiris is an American-Greek dancer, singer and actor.-Early life:Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio, to Steven and Zoe Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance....
  
   - Contributor to a Greek Orthodox Cathedral http://google.com/search?q=cache:h2shWdTiho4J:stsophia.org/herald_february_2005.pdf+%22George+Chakiris%22+%22Greek+Orthodox%22+-wikipedia&hl=en
• Sandra Dee
  Sandra Dee
  Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular...
  
   - (birth name: Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck). One time wife of Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...
  
  . Raised Russian Orthodox in New Jersey. Her mother was of Carpathian Russian
  Rusyns
  Carpatho-Rusyns are a primarily diasporic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language, or Ukrainian dialect, known as Rusyn. Carpatho-Rusyns descend from a minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt the use of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" in the early twentieth century...
  
   ancestry.
• Jamie Farr
  Jamie Farr
  Jamie Farr is an American television, film, and theater actor. He is best known for having played the role of cross-dressing Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger in the television sitcom M*A*S*H.-Early life:...
  
   - M*A*S*H* Actor (Klinger, the one who wore dresses). Raised Antiochian Orthodox in Toledo Ohio - is of Syrian/ Lebanese Ancestry.
• Tina Fey
  Tina Fey
  Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls and Baby Mama .Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the...
  
   http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/04/28/showbuzz/ - Greek-American on her mother's side and married in a Greek Orthodox wedding.
• Zach Galifianakis
  Zach Galifianakis
  Zachary Knight "Zach" Galifianakis is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his numerous film and television appearances including his own Comedy Central Presents special...
  
   - Baptized at St. Barbara's Greek Orthodox Church in Durham, NC
• Tom Hanks
  Tom Hanks
  Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
  
   - Converted on marrying Rita Wilson, mention by Saint Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles. http://google.com/search?q=cache:R3Mnz-WXhwoJ:stsophia.org/herald_may_2004.pdf+%22Tom+Hanks%22+%22Greek+Orthodox+Christian%22&hl=enhttp://www.ldsfilm.com/actors/TomHanks.html
• Melina Kanakaredes
  Melina Kanakaredes
  Melina Eleni Kanakaredes Constantinides is an American actress. She is widely known for two starring roles on U.S. prime-time television drama series; playing Detective Stella Bonasera in CSI: NY and portraying Dr...
  
   - St. Nicholas's Greek Orthodox Church listed her as a possible speaker, credits the church as helpful to her in youth. http://stnicholasannarbor.org/YAL/UofM_HSA/HSA_0405.htmhttp://www.athens2004.com/en/Athens04Issue03Culture/magazine/issue03
• Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan
  Elia Kazan was an American director and actor, described by the New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia, the family emigrated...
  
   - The director. Born to Greek parents who immigrated from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001415/bio
• Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
   - Serbian Orthodox. Raised in a Bosnian Muslim Family. His conversion gained some media attention. http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1429569,00.html
• Larry Lindale - Actor (also an Historian). Russian Orthodox - converted from Presbyterian Church. Reportedly has Russian Ancestry.
• Karl Malden
  Karl Malden
  Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
  
   (Mladen Sekulovich) was said to have been Serbian Orthodox.
• Constantine Maroulis
  Constantine Maroulis
  Constantine James Maroulis is an American rock singer, actor, and writer from Wyckoff, New Jersey. He was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of the reality television series American Idol, and lead vocalist of the hard rock band Pray for the Soul of Betty...
  
   - Greek Orthodox, brother of Athan Maroulis
  Athan Maroulis
  Athanasios Demetrios Maroulis is an actor, vocalist and record producer born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the older brother of singer Constantine Maroulis....
  
   http://www.thecowl.com/media/paper493/news/2003/10/30/ArtsEntertainment/Interview.With.Constantine.Maroulis.Of.Rent-544518.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.thecowl.comhttp://google.com/search?q=cache:3ebFEl-fatIJ:www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/nov/20/yehey/weekend/20051120week1.html+%22Constantine+Maroulis%22+%22Greek+Orthodox%22+-adherents.com&hl=en
• Debbie Matenopoulos
  Debbie Matenopoulos
  Thespina "Debbie" Matenopoulos is an American television personality and actress.- Early life :Matenopoulos was born in Richmond, Virginia, of Greek ancestry. Her birth name is Despina Matenopoulos, named after her grandmother...
  
   http://www.brntwdmagazine.com/media-3/May-Jun-05/40.shtmlhttp://www.lovetripper.com/bridalstars/wedding-database/debbie-matenopoulos.html
• Christopher Orr
  Christopher Orr
  Christopher Orr may refer to:* Chris Orr , English artist* Christopher Orr , Scottish painter* Christopher Orr , American actor...
  
   - convert from Lutheranism
  Lutheranism
  Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...
  
   (Some possibility of confusion here with Orthodox church reader Christopher Orr)
• Christopher Sarantakos "Criss Angel", American of Greek descent. Can be seen crossing himself in an Orthodox manner during his shows, however it is unknown if he is a practicing Orthodox Christian.
• Telly Savalas
  Telly Savalas
  Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz...
  
   - Contributed to Greek Orthodox Cathedrals and his bald image began after playing Pontius Pilate
  Pontius Pilate
  Pontius Pilatus , known in the English-speaking world as Pontius Pilate , was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36. He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the crucifixion of Jesus...
  
   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/bio
• Amy Sedaris
  Amy Sedaris
  Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris...
  
   - American actress, author and comedian
• Nia Vardalos
  Nia Vardalos
  Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, singer and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award–nominated film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.-Personal life:...
  
   Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church site
• Rita Wilson
  Rita Wilson
  -Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....
  
   http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/1034:937/1/Tom_Hanks_Rita_Wilson.htmhttp://google.com/search?q=cache:R3Mnz-WXhwoJ:stsophia.org/herald_may_2004.pdf+%22Tom+Hanks%22+%22Greek+Orthodox+Christian%22&hl=en
• Lana Wood
  Lana Wood
  Lana Wood is an American actress and producer. She was born to Russian émigré parents, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko, and is the younger sister of the late actress Natalie Wood. Her first major role was at age 9 in the John Wayne western The Searchers. She was a regular on the soap opera Peyton Place...
  
   - (birth name: Svetlana Gurdin - family name changed from Zakharenko). Russian Orthodox
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   actress - sister of Natalie Wood.
• Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
  Natalie Wood
  Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko was an American film and television actress. After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the...
  
   - Russian Orthodox
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   actress known as Natalie Wood.http://www.chrisappel.net/natalie/natbio.htm

Musicians/Composers

• Maksym Berezovsky
  Maksym Berezovsky
  Maksym Sozontovych Berezovsky was a Ukrainian composer, opera singer, and violinist.Berezovsky was the first Ukrainian composer to be recognized throughout Europe and the first to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata. His most popular works are his sacred choral pieces written for the...
  
   - Known for religious music http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/B/E/BerezovskyMaksym.htm
• Dmytro Bortniansky
  Dmytro Bortniansky
  Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky was a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin; his father however had been born in thePolish village of Bartne, and was of Lemkos stock.....
  
   - Religious music.http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/o/r/bortniansky_ds.htm
• Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
  William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
  
   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14599
• Alexander Frey
  Alexander Frey
  Alexander Frey is an American symphony orchestra conductor. He is also known as a virtuoso organist and pianist. Frey is in great demand as one of the world's most versatile conductors, and has enjoyed great success in the concert hall and opera house, and in the music of Broadway and Hollywood.In...
  
   - Conductor, pianist, organist and composer, was baptized in the Greek Orthodox church, but is also a practicing Episcopalian.
• David Gahan
  David Gahan
  Dave Gahan is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British electronic music band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo artist, releasing albums in 2003 and 2007...
  
   - English
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
   lead singer for Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  , converted to Greek Orthodox Christianity to marry his current wife Jennifer.
• Constance Geanakoplos, Concert pianist
• Chris Hillman
  Chris Hillman
  Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....
  
   - original member of The Byrds
  The Byrds
  The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
  
  
• Lena Katina
  Lena Katina
  Elena Sergeevna Katina , born October 4, 1984, better known as Lena Katina, is a Russian singer and songwriter who is best known for her work with Russian duo t.A.T.u. She started her career at the age of eight, joining the Russian children's act Avenue, then not long after Neposedi...
  
   - Member of Russian music group t.A.T.u.
  T.A.T.u.
  t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...
  
  
• Boris Ledkovsky
  Boris Ledkovsky
  Boris Mikhailovich Ledkovsky was a Russian-American composer of Church music and father of composer Alexander Ledkovsky.-Life:...
  
   - Russian-American composer of Church music
• Bob Marley
  Bob Marley
  Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
  
   - was baptized by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on November 4, 1980 http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/rasta/ethiopian_church.shtml http://www.rastafarispeaks.com/cgi-bin/forum/archive1/config.pl?noframes;read=47421 Bob Marley#Religion
• George Michael
  George Michael
  George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
  
   - celebrity pop singer, a Greek-Cypriote.
• Dimitris Mitropoulos
  Dimitris Mitropoulos
  Dimitri Mitropoulos , was a Greek conductor, pianist, and composer. Also known as Dimitris Mitropoulos.-Life and career:Mitropoulos was born in Athens, the son of Yannis and Angeliki Mitropoulos. His father owned a leather goods shop at No. 15, St Marks Street. He was musically precocious,...
  
   - Conductor, pianist and composer. Music Director of the New York Philharmonic and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
• Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
  Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac
  Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac was a Serbian composer and music educator. His work was essential in bringing the spirit of Valach Serbian unwritten folk poems into organized art.-Biography:He was born in Negotin...
  
   - one of the most famous Serbian composers and music educators of the nineteenth century.
• Inva Mula
  Inva Mula
  Inva Mula is an Albanian opera soprano and actress. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father and mother were also opera singers. -Life and Career:...
  
   - Albanian Orthodox, famous opera singer.
• Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
  
   - known for religious music, convert from Lutheranism http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/15.2docs/15-2pg42.html
• Tose Proeski
  Toše Proeski
  Todor Toše Proeski was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and all around Eastern Europe, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene...
  
   - Macedonian pop singer
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
   - Possibly atheist after some point, but did Russian Orthodox church music.
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
   http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8W61GbqW7jwJ:yonkerstribune.com/modules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D4935+%22Rachmaninoff%22+%22Russian+Orthodoxy%22&hl=en
• Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...
  
   - Conductor, National Symphony, Cellist
• Thomas Simaku - Albanian Orthodox, famous composer.
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - Left the faith from 1900 to 1926, after rejoining he did Symphony of Psalms
  Symphony of Psalms
  The Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky was written in 1930 and was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This piece is a three-movement choral symphony and was composed during Stravinsky's neoclassical period. The symphony derives...
  
  .
• John Tavener
  John Tavener
  Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
  
   - Converted to Orthodoxy, and much of his music is influenced by that. He is now often said to be Universalist or Perrenialist, although he himself says that he remains Orthodox.
• Julia Volkova
  Julia Volkova
  Yulia Olegovna Volkova , born February 20, 1985, better known by under the alternative spelling of Julia, is a Russian singer and actress best known as a member of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina. They had signed to Universal Music Russia, where they had eventually signed to...
  
   Member of Russian music group t.A.T.u
• Stephen M. Wolownik
  Stephen M. Wolownik
  Stephen M. "Steve" Wolownik was a pioneer in the Russian and Eastern European music community in the United States. He was a co-founder of the .- Biography :...
  
   - Church music early on
• Steven Delopoulos - Folk singer/songwriter, lead singer for Burlap to Cashmere
  Burlap To Cashmere
  Burlap to Cashmere is a contemporary Christian world music band formed in the 1990s by John Philippidis and Steven Delopoulos. Their music draws heavily on folk and world music influences, especially Greek folk music.-Background:...
  
  
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
   - a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs.

Historians

• Fr. Demetrios Constantelos
  Demetrios Constantelos
  Demetrios J. Constantelos is a researcher in Byzantology and a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ. He was born in Spilia, Messenia, Greece...
  
   - professor of history and religious studies, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey
  Pomona, New Jersey
  Pomona is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Galloway Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey. At the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 4,019...
  
  
• Deno John Geanakopoulos - Byzantine and Italian Renaissance historian
• George Pachymeres
  George Pachymeres
  Georgius Pachymeres , a Byzantine Greek historian and miscellaneous writer, was born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, where his father had taken refuge after the capture of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204...
  
   - Byzantine chief advocate of the church
• Avraamy Palitsyn
  Avraamy Palitsyn
  Avraamy Palitsyn was a 17th century Russian historian. Born near Rostov, he was the cellarer at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra from 1606 to 1613. Palitsyn died in the Solovetsky Monastery on 13 September 1626....
  
   - Russian historian who died at the Solovetsky Monastery
  Solovetsky Monastery
  Solovetsky Monastery was the greatest citadel of Christianity in the Russian North before being turned into a special Soviet prison and labor camp , which served as a prototype for the GULag system. Situated on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, the monastery braved many changes of fortune...
  
  
• Jaroslav Pelikan
  Jaroslav Pelikan
  Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was a scholar in the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history.-Early years:...
  
   - professor of ecclesiastical history, Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
  Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
  Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus , of Constantinople, the last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians, flourished around 1320....
  
   - Byzantine
  Byzantine Empire
  The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...
  
   ecclesiastical historian
• John Xiphilinus
  John Xiphilinus
  Joannes Xiphilinus , epitomator of Dio Cassius, lived at Constantinople during the latter half of the 11th century AD. He was a monk and the nephew of Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople, a well-known preacher ....
  
   - Also a monk
• Joannes Zonaras
  Joannes Zonaras
  Ioannes Zonaras was a Byzantine chronicler and theologian, who lived at Constantinople.Under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos he held the offices of head justice and private secretary to the emperor, but after Alexios' death, he retired to the monastery of St Glykeria, where he spent the rest of his...
  
   - Also a theologian
• Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky
  Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky
  Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky was a Russian naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian, and ideologue of the pan-Slavism and Slavophile movement who expounded a view of world history as circular...
  
  

Journalists

• Ernie Anastos
  Ernie Anastos
  Ernie Anastos is an American Emmy Award-winning New York City television news anchor. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and has worked for several television stations in New York City during his career.-Career:...
  
   - New York television anchor
• Daria Albinger - ABC Radio News
  ABC News
  ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
  
   correspondent
• Thalia Assuras
  Thalia Assuras
  - External links :* , an October 1998 article from a UWO website...
  
   - CBS News
  CBS News
  CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
  
   anchor
• Steve Chiotakis - Marketplace Morning Report
  Marketplace (radio program)
  Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California...
  
   anchor and former host on WBHM
  WBHM
  WBHM is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format during the daytime and mostly classical music overnight. Licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, USA, the station serves the Birmingham area and through repeater WSGN also serves the Gadsden area. The station is licensed to the...
  
  , Birmingham, Alabama
  Birmingham, Alabama
  Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
  
  
• Alexis Christoforous
  Alexis Christoforous
  Alexis Elizabeth Christoforous is the New York-based correspondent for CBS MoneyWatch.com, , and CBS Newspath, the 24-hour affiliate news service of CBS News, since 2005....
  
   - CBS News anchor / correspondent
• Chris Clark
  Chris Clark (reporter)
  Chris Clark was the lead news anchor at WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee. He had been a consistent anchor at the station since 1966, but retired on May 23, 2007 after 41 years, making him one of the longest-tenured anchors in American television history. In the earlier years of his tenure, Clark...
  
   - retired news anchor, WTVF
  WTVF
  WTVF is the CBS-affiliated television station for Middle Tennessee that is licensed to Nashville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter north of downtown along I-24. Owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, the station has studios on James Robertson Parkway...
  
  , Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
  
  
• Dimitra DeFotis - Barron's staff writer
• Rod Dreher
  Rod Dreher
  Rod Dreher is an American writer and editor. He was a conservative editorial writer and a columnist for The Dallas Morning News, but departed that newspaper in late 2009 to affiliate with the John Templeton Foundation. He has also contributed in the past to The American Conservative and National...
  
   - Dallas Morning News columnist, "Crunchy Con" blog
• Mike Emanuel
  Mike Emanuel
  Mike Emanuel is the Chief Congressional Correspondent and a former White House Correspondent for Fox News Channel. He has worked for the network since July 1997...
  
   - Fox News  White House Correspondent
• Vicki Liviakis - San Francisco television news anchor
• Terry Mattingly
  Terry Mattingly
  Terry L. Mattingly is a journalist, author, and professor. As columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, Mattingly has written "On Religion," a nationally syndicated column, since the summer of 1988...
  
   - syndicated columnist
• Serge Schmemann
  Serge Schmemann
  -References:...
  
   - International Herald Tribune
  International Herald Tribune
  The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...
  
  writer/editor
• George Stephanopoulos
  George Stephanopoulos
  George Robert Stephanopoulos is an American television journalist and a former political advisor.Stephanopoulos is most well known as the chief political correspondent for ABC News – the news division of the broadcast television network ABC – and a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news...
  
   - ABC News chief Washington correspondent; a former altar boy, and son of a priest.

Linguists

• Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin
  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin
  Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin , better known under his monastic name Hyacinth, or Iakinf , was one of the founding fathers of Sinology...
  
   - Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   monk and Sinologist
• Saint Innocent of Alaska - Wrote books on Tlingit and worked on an alphabet for Aleut
• Pyotr Kafarov
  Pyotr Kafarov
  Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov , also known by his monastic name Palladius , , was an early Russian sinologist.Kafarov was born in the family of an Orthodox priest...
  
   - Student of Bichurin, also a Sinologist and ROC monk
• Mateja Matejić
  Mateja Matejic (Priest)
  Mateja Matejić Serbian Cyrillic Матеја Матејић - Priest of Serbian Orthodox Church, emigrant since 1945, and the Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and Literatures at Ohio State University...
  
   - Priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
  
  
• Alexander Nedoshivin
  Alexander Nedoshivin
  Aleksandr Mixaylovich Nedoshivin was 27 years a tax specialist at the Ministry of Finance in Imperial Russia, later a lawyer for 10 years. In 1920 he left the country and became a priest in 1927...
  
   - Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   priest and Esperantist
  Esperanto
  is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
  
  
• Epifany Slavinetsky
  Epifany Slavinetsky
  Epifany Slavinetsky was an ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church who helped Patriarch Nikon to revise the ancient service-books, thus precipitating the Great Schism of the national church....
  
   - Polyglot
  Polyglot (person)
  A polyglot is someone with a high degree of proficiency in several languages. A bilingual person can speak two languages fluently, whereas a trilingual three; above that the term multilingual may be used.-Hyperpolyglot:...
  
  , Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
   monk, and translator
• Bullion Pritchard - Translated manuscripts for Leopold II
  Leopold II of Belgium
  Leopold II was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free...
  
  

Modern politicians

Note: Most political figures in the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

, or most other Medieval Eastern European Empires, would be in least nominally Eastern Orthodox. Therefore this is limited to modern times, specifically after 1800. For United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 entries Political Graveyard was used for this section, but additional sources are encouraged.

The list is not complete; the vast majority of politicians in countries such as Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 and others are Eastern Orthodox.

United States / Canada

• Spencer Abraham
  Spencer Abraham
  Edmund Spencer Abraham is a former United States Senator from Michigan. He served as the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush. Abraham is one of the founders of the Federalist Society....
  
   - Former Senator (R-MI) and Energy Secretary
• Eleni Bakopanos
  Eleni Bakopanos
  Eleni Bakopanos, PC is a Canadian politician.Bakopanos was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Ahuntsic from 1997 to 2006, and Saint-Denis from 1993 to 1997 and is the first Greek-born woman to be elected to Parliament. Bakopanos has...
  
   - Former Canadian Member of Parliament
  Parliament of Canada
  The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislative branch of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa. Formally, the body consists of the Canadian monarch—represented by her governor general—the Senate, and the House of Commons, each element having its own officers and...
  
   (Lib-PQ)
• Melissa Bean
  Melissa Bean
  Melissa Luburich Bean is a former U.S. Representative for the who served from 2005 until 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...
  
   - member of Congress (D-IL)
• Helen Delich Bentley
  Helen Delich Bentley
  Helen Delich Bentley is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of Maryland .-Life and career:...
  
   - Former US Congresswoman (R-MD) (Serbian Orthodox) http://www.kosovo.com/usmission.html
• Michael Bilirakis
  Michael Bilirakis
  Michael Bilirakis , American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until 2007, representing the 9th District of Florida....
  
   - member of Congress (R-FL) (Greek Orthodox) http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/22/Northpinellas/Community_mourns__an_.shtml
• Rod Blagojevich
  Rod Blagojevich
  Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago...
  
   - Former Illinois Governor (D) (Serbian Orthodox)
• Tony Clement
  Tony Clement
  Tony Peter Clement, PC, MP is a Canadian federal politician, President of the Treasury Board, Minister for the Federal Economic Initiative for Northern Ontario and member of the Conservative Party of Canada....
  
  - Former Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
   Minister of Health and federal MP (Cons-ON) (Greek Cypriot)
• Michael Dukakis
  Michael Dukakis
  Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...
  
   - Former Governor and Presidential candidate (D-MA) http://www.saintdem.org/
• Nick Galifianakis
  Nick Galifianakis
  Nick Galifianakis was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1967 and 1973.-Life and career:Galifianakis was born in Durham, North Carolina, the son of Greek immigrants Sophia and Mike Galifianakis. Galifianakis attended local public schools and then Duke University, earning a...
  
   - Former Congressman (D-NC)
• George Gekas
  George Gekas
  George William Gekas is a Republican politician from Pennsylvania. He represented the state's 17th Congressional district from 1983 to 2003, when he was unseated in a major upset.-Early life:...
  
   - Former Congressman (R-PA)
• Ray Hnatyshyn
  Ray Hnatyshyn
  Ramon John Hnatyshyn , commonly known as Ray Hnatyshyn, was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 24th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   - Governor-General of Canada (1990–1995)
• Michael Huffington
  Michael Huffington
  Michael Huffington is an American politician, bisexual activist, and film producer. He was a member of the Republican Party, and a member of the United States House of Representatives for one term, 1993–1995, from California...
  
   - Former Congressman and Senatorial candidate (R-CA)
• Johnny Joannou
  Johnny Joannou
  Johnny S. Joannou is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1976–1983, the Senate of Virginia 1984–1991, and has been in the House again since 1998...
  
   - member of Virginia House of Delegates (D-79)
• Nicholas Mavroules
  Nicholas Mavroules
  Nicholas James Mavroules was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who was jailed after pleading guilty to corruption charges....
  
   - Former Congressman (D-MA) http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20031231/OB_008.htmhttp://www.goarch.org/en/archbishop/iakovos/us_government/congress_tribute_30th_anniv.asp
• Paul Sarbanes
  Paul Sarbanes
  Paul Spyros Sarbanes , a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. He did not seek re-election in 2006, when he was succeeded by fellow Democrat Ben Cardin...
  
   - US Senator (D-MD)
• Andrew S. Shandro
  Andrew Shandro (Alberta politician)
  Andrew S. Shandro , was the first Ukrainian Canadian to be elected to the Alberta Legislature. Shandro was the son of Stefan Shandro and his wife, Nostansi...
  
   - Alberta MLA (Lib)
• Dean Skelos
  Dean Skelos
  Dean G. Skelos is an American politician and the Republican Temporary President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate. Skelos represents District 9 in the State Senate, which comprises the southwest region of Nassau County. He is the second Long Islander to hold the position of Majority...
  
   - New York State Senate
  New York State Senate
  The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. There are no limits on the number of terms one may serve...
  
   Majority Leader
  Majority Leader of the New York State Senate
  The Majority Leader of the New York State Senate is elected by the majority of the members of the New York State Senate. The position usually coincides with the title of Temporary President of the State Senate, who presides over the session of the State Senate if the Lieutenant Governor of New York...
  
   (R)
• Olympia Snowe
  Olympia Snowe
  Olympia Jean Snowe , née Bouchles, is the senior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close votes, including whether to end filibusters. She and her fellow Senator from Maine, Susan Collins,...
  
   - US Senator (R-ME); Attended St. Basil's Academy http://snowe.senate.gov/bio.htm
• George Tenet
  George Tenet
  George John Tenet was the Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University....
  
   - Former CIA Director http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2080
• Paul Tsongas
  Paul Tsongas
  Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...
  
   - Late US Senator and Presidential candidate (D-MA) http://google.com/search?q=cache:PYr0bv9loKUJ:www.ocl.org/the2.htm+%22Paul+Tsongas%22+%22Greek+Orthodox%22&hl=en
• John N. Wozniak - member of Pennsylvania Senate (D-35)

Europe / Middle East

• Michel Aflaq
  Michel Aflaq
  Michel Aflaq was a Syrian philosopher, who is credited with being the ideological founder of ba'athism, a hybrid of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.-Early life:...
  
   - Founder of Baathism
• Miron Cristea
  Miron Cristea
  Miron Cristea, was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric and politician....
  
   - first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Prime Minister for about a year
• Constantine Karamanlis
  Constantine Karamanlis
  Konstantínos G. Karamanlís , commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or Caramanlis, was a four-time Prime Minister, the 3rd and 5th President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.-...
  
   - First Prime Minister of the Third Hellenic Republic, Former President of Greece (ND)
• Boris Tadić
  Boris Tadic
  Boris Tadić is the President of Serbia and leader of the Democratic Party. He was elected to a five-year term on 27 June 2004, and was sworn into office on 11 July. He was re-elected for a de facto second five-year term on 3 February 2008 and was sworn in on 15 February...
  
   - President of Serbia
  Serbia
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
  
  
• Kostas Karamanlis - Prime Minister of Greece (ND)
• Vojislav Koštunica
  Vojislav Koštunica
  Vojislav Koštunica is a Serbian politician, statesman and the president of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He was the last President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, succeeding Slobodan Milošević and serving from 2000 to 2003...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Serbia.
• Leonid Kuchma
  Leonid Kuchma
  Leonid Danylovych Kuchma was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent Leonid Kravchuk...
  
   - former President of Ukraine
  Ukraine
  Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
  
  .
• Makarios III
  Makarios III
  Makarios III , born Andreas Christodolou Mouskos , was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church and the first President of the Republic of Cyprus ....
  
   - President of Cyprus
  Cyprus
  Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
  
  
• Dmitry Medvedev
  Dmitry Medvedev
  Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. He defended his dissertation in 1990 and worked as a docent at his alma mater, now renamed to Saint...
  
   - President of Russia
• Fan S. Noli
  Fan S. Noli
  Theofan Stilian Noli, better known as Fan Noli was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924.Fan Noli is venerated in Albania as a champion of literature,...
  
   - Albanian-Orthodox bishop and briefly prime-minister of Albania
• Tassos Papadopoulos
  Tassos Papadopoulos
  Tassos Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as the fifth President of the Republic of Cyprus from February 28, 2003 to February 28, 2008.His parents were Nicolas and Aggeliki from Assia. He was the first of three children...
  
   - President of Cyprus
• Andreas Papandreou
  Andreas Papandreou
  Andreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...
  
   - Former Prime Minister of Greece (PASOK)
• Vladimir Putin
  Vladimir Putin
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
  
   - Prime Minister of Russian & Former President of Russia
• Fyodor Rtishchev
  Fyodor Rtishchev
  Feodor Alekseyevich Rtishchev was a boyar and an intimate friend of Alexis I of Russia who was renowned for his piety and alms-deeds....
  
  
• Viktor Yanukovych
  Viktor Yanukovych
  Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...
  
   - Prime Minister of Ukraine
  Ukraine
  Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
  
  .
• Eleftherios Venizelos
  Eleftherios Venizelos
  Eleftherios Venizelos was an eminent Greek revolutionary, a prominent and illustrious statesman as well as a charismatic leader in the early 20th century. Elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece and served from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1932...
  
   - Former Prime Minister of Greece
• Viktor Yushchenko
  Viktor Yushchenko
  Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...
  
   - President of Ukraine
  Ukraine
  Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
  
  .
• Constantin Zureiq
  Constantin Zureiq
  Constantin Zureiq was a prominent and influential Syrian Arab intellectual who was one of the first to pioneer and express the importance of Arab nationalism. He stressed the urgent need to transform stagnate Arab society by means of rational thought and radical modification of the methods of...
  
   - Early Arab nationalist
  Arab nationalism
  Arab nationalism is a nationalist ideology celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language and literature of the Arabs, calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world...
  
   leader

Scientists

• Anthemius of Tralles
  Anthemius of Tralles
  Anthemius of Tralles was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician...
  
  , an architect who designed the Hagia Sophia
  Hagia Sophia
  Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...
  
  .
• Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
  Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
  Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov to a Karaite family.-Life and career:...
  
  , mathematician.
• Nikolay Bogolyubov
  Nikolay Bogolyubov
  Nikolay Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was a Russian and Ukrainian Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and to the theory of dynamical systems; a recipient of the Dirac Prize...
  
   (1909–1992), theoretical physicist and mathematician.
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
  Theodosius Dobzhansky
  Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky ForMemRS was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis...
  
   – Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
  Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
  "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky, criticising anti-evolution creationism and espousing theistic evolution...
  
   concerns the religious reader.
• Pavel Florensky
  Pavel Florensky
  Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr sometimes compared by his followers to Leonardo da Vinci.-Early life:Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky was born on January 21, 1882, into the family of a railroad...
  
   – Worked on Dielectric
  Dielectric
  A dielectric is an electrical insulator that can be polarized by an applied electric field. When a dielectric is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the material, as in a conductor, but only slightly shift from their average equilibrium positions causing dielectric...
  
  s and theodicy
  Theodicy
  Theodicy is a theological and philosophical study which attempts to prove God's intrinsic or foundational nature of omnibenevolence , omniscience , and omnipotence . Theodicy is usually concerned with the God of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, due to the relevant...
  
  .
• Alexander Friedmann – Discovered the expanding universe solution to the Einstein field equations.
• Sergei Korolev – Designed the R-7 rocket which launched the Space Age on October 4, 1957.
• Dmitri Mendeleev
  Dmitri Mendeleev
  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev , was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements...
  
   – Noted chemist.
• Josif Pančić
  Josif Pancic
  Josif Pančić OSS was a Serbian botanist. He was a famous lecturer at the Great School in Belgrade and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy. Pančić is credited for discovering the new species of coniferthe Serbian Spruce.-Biography:...
  
   (convert)
• Ivan Pavlov
  Ivan Pavlov
  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a famous Russian physiologist. Although he made significant contributions to psychology, he was not in fact a psychologist himself but was a mathematician and actually had strong distaste for the field....
  
   – His father was a Russian Orthodox priest and Ivan Pavlov was enrolled in the seminary before reading The Origin of Species
  The Origin of Species
  Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the...
  
   http://www.ivanpavlov.com/.
• John Philoponus
  John Philoponus
  John Philoponus , also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria, was a Christian and Aristotelian commentator and the author of a considerable number of philosophical treatises and theological works...
  
   – "Christian philosopher, scientist, and theologian" http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philoponus/.
• Alexander Popov
  Alexander Stepanovich Popov
  Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic waves....
  
   – Inventor of radio. Son of a priest; planned to study in the seminary.
• Michael I. Pupin – Famous physicist.
• Nikola Tesla
  Nikola Tesla
  Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
  
   – Serbian scientist, inventor of AC and radio. He was Serbian Orthodox
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
  
   as a child in least since his father was a priest.http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html

Writers/philosophers

• Nikolai Berdyaev
  Nikolai Berdyaev
  Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.-Early life and education:Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely...
  
   – Russian Orthodox Christian existentialist
  Christian existentialism
  Christian existentialism describes a group of writings that take a philosophically existentialist approach to Christian theology. The school of thought is often traced back to the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian considered the father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard...
  
  
• Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
  Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
  Antony of Sourozh was best known as a writer and broadcaster on prayer and the Christian life. He was a monk and Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church...
  
   – A bishop and writer.
• Michael Choniates
  Michael Choniates
  Michael Choniates , Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic, was born at Chonae . At an early age he studied at Constantinople and was the pupil of Eustathius of Thessalonica. Around 1175 he was appointed archbishop of Athens...
  
   – Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....
  
   – Many of his novels, like The Idiot
  The Idiot (novel)
  The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoyevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of...
  
   and The Brothers Karamazov
  The Brothers Karamazov
  The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...
  
  , have specific Russian Orthodox themes
• Jim Forest
  Jim Forest
  Jim Forest is a writer, lay theologian, educator, peace activist. Since 1989, a year after his reception into the Orthodox Church, he has been international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship as well as editor of its quarterly journal, In Communion. In 1964, while still a Roman Catholic,...
  
   – Writer, peace activist and lay theologian
  Lay theologian
  A lay theologian is a theologian who is not an ordained clergyman.Among lay theologians are the following:* George Abbot * Thomas J. J. Altizer* Joseph T. Bayly* Edward Musgrave Blaiklock* Nicholas Cabasilas* Chung Hyun Kyung...
  
  
• Alexander Galich
  Alexander Galich
  Alexander Galich , was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, and singer-songwriter. Galich is a pen name, a sort of acronym of his last name, first name, and patronymic: Ginzburg Alexander Arkadievich. He adopted this name to conceal his Jewish ancestry in the face of antisemitism in the Soviet...
  
   – Russian Jewish convert who wrote poems and screenplays. (Also joined the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
  National Alliance of Russian Solidarists
  The National Alliance of Russian Solidarists ), known by its Russian abbreviation "NTS" is a Russian far-right anticommunist organization founded in 1930 by a group of young Russian anticommunist White emigres in Belgrade, Serbia .The organization was formed in response to the older generation of...
  
  )
• Ivan Ilyin
  Ivan Ilyin
  Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin was a Russian religious and political philosopher, White emigre publicist and an ideologue of the Russian All-Military Union.-Young years:...
  
   – Slavophile, wrote Axioms of Religious Experience
• Ivan Kireevsky
  Ivan Kireevsky
  Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov, co-founded the Slavophile movement.-Early life and career:...
  
   – often considered the father of Russian and Slavophile philosophy.
• Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  Konstantin Petrovich Pobyedonostsyev was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars...
  
  
• Seraphim Rose
  Seraphim Rose
  Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose , was an American hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He also translated Orthodox Christian texts and authored several polemical works...
  
  (convert) – Monk
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
  
   – Russian Orthodox novelist
• Richard Swinburne
  Richard Swinburne
  Richard G. Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a very influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in philosophy of religion and...
  
   – Christian philosopher and convert to Orthodoxy late in life
• Timothy Ware
  Timothy Ware
  Kallistos Ware is an English bishop within the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate and one of the best known contemporary Eastern Orthodox theologians. From 1982 to his retirement in 2001 he held the position of Bishop of Diokleia...
  
   – A bishop and writer.
• Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin – Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
• Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol – considered the father of modern Russian realism, but at the same time, his work is very much in the genre of romanticism.

Theologians and clergy

• Michael Apostolius
  Michael Apostolius
  Michael Apostolius was a Greek theologian and rhetorician of the 15th century.- Life :...
  
  
• Basil of Caesarea
  Basil of Caesarea
  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor . He was an influential 4th century Christian theologian...
  
   – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs
  Three Holy Hierarchs
  The Three Holy Hierarchs of Eastern Christianity refers to Basil the Great , Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. They were highly influential bishops of the early church who played pivotal roles in shaping Christian theology...
  
   and a Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.-Catholic Church:In the Catholic Church, this name is given to a saint from whose...
  
   in Catholicism
  Catholicism
  Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
  
  
• Georges Florovsky
  Georges Florovsky
  Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was an Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and ecumenist. He was born in the Russian Empire, but spent his working life in Paris and New York...
  
  
• Charles Sydney Gibbes
  Charles Sydney Gibbes
  Charles Sydney Gibbes was the English tutor of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. Later in his life he became an Orthodox monk, adopting the name of Nicholas after Saint Nicholas The Passion Bearer. After his return to Britain he became a prominent figure in Orthodoxy in Britain...
  
   – English tutor of the Romanov
  Romanov
  The House of Romanov was the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia, reigning from 1613 until the February Revolution abolished the crown in 1917...
  
   children.
• Michael Glycas
  Michael Glycas
  Michael Glycas or Glykas was a Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was probably from Corfu and lived in Constantinople ....
  
   – also a historian and poet
• Thomas Hopko
  Thomas Hopko
  Thomas Hopko is an Orthodox Christian priest and theologian. He was the Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary from September 1992 until July 1, 2002 and taught dogmatic theology there from 1968 until 2002. Now retired, he carries the honorary title of Dean Emeritus.- Life and...
  
  
• Archbishop Iakovos
  Iakovos, Archbishop of America
  Archbishop Iakovos , born Demetrios Koukouzis was the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from 1959 until his resignation in 1996...
  
   – former Leader of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• John of Kronstadt
  John of Kronstadt
  Saint John of Kronstadt was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and member of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a striking and somewhat unconventional figure in his personality but was deeply pious and immensely energetic...
  
   – Archpriest
  Archpriest
  An archpriest is a priest with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches, although it may be used in the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church instead of dean or vicar forane.In the 16th and 17th centuries, during...
  
  
• Jeremias II – Patriarch of Constantinople
• John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic...
  
   – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs and a Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.-Catholic Church:In the Catholic Church, this name is given to a saint from whose...
  
   in Catholicism
  Catholicism
  Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
  
  
• John of Shanghai and San Francisco
  John of Shanghai and San Francisco
  Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco also John the Wonderworker was a noted Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia who was active in the mid-20th century...
  
  
• John of Tobolsk
  John of Tobolsk
  Saint John of Tobolsk was born in Uman, in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. He was the only one of the seven sons of Maxim Vasilkovsky Maximovitch to choose a career in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which service he was appointed Ekonom of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678...
  
  
• Konstantin of Murom
  Konstantin of Murom
  The Holy and Blessed Prince Constantine of Murom was a direct descendant of Vladimir I of Kiev and the son of Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov. His father at his request assigned him to rule the city of Murom, which at the time was inhabited by pagans, that he might spread Christianity in that...
  
  
• Cyril Lucaris
  Cyril Lucaris
  Cyril Lucaris born Constantine Lukaris or Loucaris was a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Candia, Crete . He later became the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as Cyril III and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I...
  
   – Crypto-Protestant Patriarch of Constantinople
• John Anthony McGuckin
  John Anthony McGuckin
  John Anthony McGuckin is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest and poet.McGuckin was raised Roman Catholic and at 19 became a member of the Passionist religious order. In 1989 he became Greek Orthodox and was ordained a priest for the Romanian Orthodox Church, now serving at the St. Gregory the...
  
   – Priest and professor, originally a Latin rite Catholic
  Catholic
  The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
  
  , but he changed to the Romanian Orthodox
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
  
   tradition.
• Alexander Men
  Alexander Men
  Father Alexander Vladimirovich Men was a Russian Orthodox theologian, Biblical scholar and writer.Father Alexander wrote dozen of books ; baptized hundreds if not thousands; founded an Orthodox Open University; opened one of the first Sunday Schools in...
  
  
• John Meyendorff
  John Meyendorff
  John Meyendorff was a modern Orthodox scholar, writer and teacher. He was born into the Russian nobility as Ivan Feofilovich Baron von Meyendorff , but was known as Jean Meyendorff during his life in France.Fr John Meyendorff retired as Dean of St Vladimir's Seminary on June 30, 1992...
  
  
• Metropolitan Gerasimos – Metropolitan Bishop of San Francisco
• Peter Mohyla
• Gregory Nazianzus – One of the Three Holy Hierarchs and a Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.-Catholic Church:In the Catholic Church, this name is given to a saint from whose...
  
   in Catholicism
  Catholicism
  Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
  
  
• Nicholas of Japan
• Gregory Palamas
  Gregory Palamas
  Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessaloniki known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. The teachings embodied in his writings defending Hesychasm against the attack of Barlaam are sometimes referred to as Palamism, his followers as Palamites...
  
  
• Grigol Peradze
  Grigol Peradze
  Saint Grigol Peradze , was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor.- Life and works :...
  
   – Patristics
  Patristics
  Patristics or Patrology is the study of Early Christian writers, known as the Church Fathers. The names derive from the Latin pater . The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age Patristics or Patrology is the study of Early Christian...
  
  , also a historian.
• Maximus Planudes
  Maximus Planudes
  Maximus Planudes, less often Maximos Planoudes , Byzantine grammarian and theologian, flourished during the reigns of Michael VIII Palaeologus and Andronicus II Palaeologus. He was born at Nicomedia in Bithynia, but the greater part of his life was spent in Constantinople, where as a monk he...
  
  
• Justin Popović
  Justin Popovic
  Saint Justin Popović was a theologian, a philosopher of the Eastern Orthodox theology, a Dostoyevski scholar, a champion of anti-communism, a writer, and a critic of the pragmatic church life...
  
  
• Sergius of Radonezh
  Sergius of Radonezh
  Venerable Sergius of Radonezh , also transliterated as Sergey Radonezhsky or Serge of Radonezh, was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia. Together with Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most highly venerated saints.-Early life:The date of...
  
  
• Alexander Schmemann
  Alexander Schmemann
  Alexander Schmemann was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Gennadius Scholarius
• George Scoulos – Greek Orthodox priest
• Victor Sokolov
  Victor Sokolov
  The Very Reverend Archpriest Victor Sokolov was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest....
  
   – Archpriest and Soviet dissident journalist
• Theophan the Recluse
  Theophan the Recluse
  St. Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik" or "Theophanes the Recluse" , is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born George Vasilievich Govorov, in the village of Chernavsk. His father was a Russian Orthodox priest. He was educated in the seminaries at...
  
  
• Patriarch
  Patriarch
  Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...
  
   Tikhon of Moscow
  Tikhon of Moscow
  Saint Tikhon of Moscow , born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin , was the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.-Early life:...
  
   – Martyr
• Joseph Volotsky
  Joseph Volotsky
  Joseph Volotsky — also known as Joseph of Volotsk or Joseph of Volokolamsk ; secular name Ivan Sanin — was a prominent caesaropapist ideologist of the Russian Orthodox Church who led the party defending monastic landownership.He is a saint ; his memory is celebrated on 9 September and 18...
  
   – Theologian/saint.
• Bishop Savas of Troas – Director of the Office of Society and Culture of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Fools for Christ

Yurodivy

Foolishness for Christ refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining a monastic order. It can also refer to deliberate flouting of society's conventions to serve a religious purpose — particularly of Christianity. The term fools for Christ derives from the writings...

• Basil Fool for Christ
  Basil Fool for Christ
  Basil the Blessed is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or "holy fool for Christ"....
  
  
• Nicholas Salos of Pskov
  Nicholas Salos of Pskov
  Nicholas Salos of Pskov was a Russian self-styled prophet in opposition of czar Ivan IV's oprichnina. In 1570, Ivan IV retaliated by raiding Pskov. However, during the raid Nicholas reprimanded the czar causing him to retreat his force to Alexandrov. He is regarded as a saint in the Eastern...
  
  
• Xenia of Saint Petersburg
  Xenia of Saint Petersburg
  Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg is a patron saint of St...
  
  

Sources

On the politics section the main source is Political Graveyard: Eastern Orthodox Politicians.

For other sections Adherents.com Famous Adherents Eastern Orthodox Christians and NNDB.com were used. As these are unreliable additional searches on each individual were used for verification.

See also

• List of Byzantine Empire-related topics
• List of children of Orthodox priests
• List of Orthodox dioceses and archdioceses
• List of current patriarchs
• OrthodoxWiki
• Portal:Eastern Christianity