List of Greeks
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This is a list of notable Greeks
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Angelique Rockas ( see www.hellenism.net)
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(See Academics).
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
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Modern period
- Criss AngelCriss AngelChristopher Nicholas Sarantakos , better known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American illusionist, writer, director, musician, and actor...
- Jennifer AnistonJennifer AnistonJennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, film director, and producer, best known for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.Aniston has also enjoyed a successful film career,...
(of Greek descent) - Hank AzariaHank AzariaHenry Albert "Hank" Azaria is an American film, television and stage actor, director, voice actor, and comedian. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons , on which he performs the voices of Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief...
- Yannis BezosYannis BezosIoannis 'Yannis' Bezos is a Greek actor, best known from the television series "Oi Aparadektoi". He is currently married to Natalia Tsaliki, his co star in "Akros Oikogeneiakon"....
- Dennis BoutsikarisDennis BoutsikarisDennis Boutsikaris is an American two-time Obie-Award winning character actor. He is a Broadway Actor and frequent television guest star and leading man in made-for-TV movies...
- Gabrielle CarterisGabrielle CarterisGabrielle Anne Carteris is an American actress known for her role as Andrea Zuckerman on the early seasons of the 1990s television series Beverly Hills, 90210.-Personal life:...
- George ChakirisGeorge ChakirisGeorge 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....
- Michael ChiklisMichael ChiklisMichael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, voice actor, occasional director and television producer. Some of the previous roles for which he is best known include Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish, LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield, Thing in...
- Jean ConstantinJean ConstantinJean Constantin was a well known Romanian comedianof Greek ethnicity.Constantin was born in Techirghiol and died in Constanţa.-Filmography:*Poker *Supravieţuitorul .... Limba*Roming ......
- CybeleCybele (actress)Cybele was the stage name of the famous Greek actress Cybele Andrianou .She was born in 1887 to an unmarried couple in Smyrna and spend the first two years of her life in an Athens orphanage. At the age of two-and-a-half, she was adopted by Anastasis and Maria Andrianou...
- Georges CorrafaceGeorges CorrafaceGeorges Corraface is a Franco-Greek actor who has had an international career in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the famed Peter Brook Company. His film credits include To Tama, Escape from L.A., La Pasión Turca, Vive La Mariée, Impromptu,...
- Jacques DamalaJacques DamalaAristides Damalas , known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala, , was a Greek military officer-turned-actor, who is mostly remembered as being husband to Sarah Bernhardt for a number of years. Damala's characterization by modern researchers is far from positive...
- Rika DiallinaRika DiallinaRika Diallina also spelled Dialina and Dialyna, born in Heraklion, Crete in 1934, won the Miss Star Hellas title, and went on to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 1954 pageant in Long Beach, California....
- Lavrentis DianellosLavrentis DianellosLavrentis Dianellos was a Greek actor. From 1948 to 1975, he appeared in 200 films, leading one reviewer to call him "ubiquitous."-External links:**...
- Olympia DukakisOlympia DukakisOlympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, BAFTA, and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck...
- Alberto EskenazyAlberto EskenazyAlberto Eskenazy, also spelled Alberto Eskenazi, is a Greek actor of Jewish descent. He has appeared in numerous Greek films, such as the famous soap opera Kalimera Zoe. His Greek version of the one-man play Stagones tis Agapis is set to be translated into an English version.-External links:*...
- Tina FeyTina FeyElizabeth 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...
- Mimis FotopoulosMimis FotopoulosDimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos was a Greek actor, writer, poet and academic....
- Zach GalifianakisZach GalifianakisZachary 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...
- Angie HarmonAngie HarmonAngela Michelle "Angie" Harmon is an American fashion model and television/film actress. She became a well-known model before gaining international fame for her roles in Baywatch Nights and Law & Order....
- Marilu HennerMarilu HennerMary Lucy Denise "Marilu" Henner is an American actress, producer and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1983.-Early life:...
- Constantinos HilasConstantinos HilasConstantinos Hilas is a Greek film director and actor. He was born in Athens, Greece, on March 18, 1991.-Βiography:...
- Dimitris HornDimitris HornDimitris Horn was a Greek theatrical and film performer. He is regarded probably as the greatest Greek actor of modern times.-Biography:...
- Melina KanakaredesMelina KanakaredesMelina 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...
- Maria KanellisMaria KanellisMaria Louise Kanellis, , or simply Maria, is a singer-songwriter, actress, model, and professional wrestler, best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment. Kanellis's career began as a contestant on the reality show Outback Jack in 2004...
- Tzeni KareziTzeni KareziTzeni Karezi was a Greek film and theatre actress. She was considered one of the most popular and successful actresses of the cinema of Greece.-Early life:...
- Vasilis KarrasVasilis KarrasVasilis Karras is a Greek folk singer, in 2010 he celebrated his 30th year as a recording artist.-Biography:...
- Elias KoteasElias KoteasElias Koteas is a Canadian actor of film and television, best known for his roles in The Prophecy, Fallen and the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.-Early life:...
- Giorgos KonstadinouGiorgos KonstadinouGiorgos Konstadinou, born October 27, 1934 in Athens is a popular Greek actor, writer, and director. His career was boosted after the 'profiterole' scene in the movie Ktipokardia sto thranio and reached its pinnacle with the comedy film The... Kopanoi in the 1980s...
- Lambros KonstantarasLambros KonstantarasLambros Konstantaras was a Greek stage and screen actor, one of the best actors in Greece. Konstantaras was born in Athens on March 13, 1913. He studied acting in Paris and graduated in 1933, making his theatre debut in France in 1937. He debuted in Greece the following year...
- Nikos KourkoulosNikos KourkoulosNikos Kourkoulos was a highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times...
- Ellie LambetiEllie LambetiEllie Lambeti was a Greek actress.-Family:Born in 1926 in Greece,her father owned a Greek tavern in the village of Vilia Attikis. She had six siblings. Her maternal grandfather was a Captain Stamatis who fought together with Kolokotronis against the Turks in 1821, when the modern Greek democracy...
- Marilita LambropoulouMarilita LambropoulouMarilita Lambropoulou , born July 15, 1974 in Athens, Greece is a Greek actress. She is very popular with home audiences for her work in films like Athens Blues , directed by Giorgos Panousopoulos and The King , directed by Nikos Grammatikos , for which she won the "Quality Award".Marilita trained...
- Zoe LaskariZoe LaskariZoe Laskari , is a Greek film and theatre actress, one of the most popular in Greece.-Life:Zoe Laskari was born Zoe Kouroukli in Thessaloniki, from a middle class family which had a long tradition of service to the Hellenic Army. At an early age she lost both her parents and was raised by her...
- Lakis LazopoulosLakis LazopoulosLakis Lazopoulos is a Greek playwright, actor and songwriter. His birth name is Apostolos Lazopoulos , Lakis being a diminutive. Lazopoulos was ranked 83rd by the public in Skai TV's Great Greeks in 2009...
- Thanos LeivaditisThanos LeivaditisThanos Leivaditis was a Greek actor and screenwriter. He studied drawing at the School of Fine Arts of the Athens Polytechnic School ....
- Stelios MainasStelios MainasStelios Mainas is a Greek actor. He graduated drama school in 1982 and has been working as a stage, cinema and television actor ever since. His first film role was in the 1984 movie Loafing and Camouflage. He became widely known in Greece from the comedy series Oi Men Kai Oi Den and the 1998 road...
- Demetri MartinDemetri MartinDemetri Martin is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.- Early life :Demetri Martin was born to a Greek...
- Melina MercouriMelina MercouriMelina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...
- Maria MenounosMaria MenounosMaria Menounos is a Greek-American actress, journalist, and television presenter known in America for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.-Early life and beauty pageants:Menounos, a...
- Panos MihalopoulosPanos MihalopoulosPanos Mihalopoulos is a Greek actor and 80's sex symbol, who has appeared during the last three decades in movies and television series.-Films:*Iphigenia *Enas kontos tha mas sosei *Garsoniera gia deka...
- Alexis MinotisAlexis MinotisAlexis Minotakis, known as Alexis Minotis , was born 8 August 1898 or 1899 in Deliana , Chania, Crete and died on 11 November 1990 in Athens, Greece....
- Sotiris MoustakasSotiris MoustakasSotiris Moustakas was a Greek/Cypriot comedy actor.- Career :One of the most significant comic actors of Greece and Cyprus, Moustakas graduated from the National Theater of Greece and was known for his portrayal of offbeat, neurotic yet likable characters. In many of his movies he portrayed...
- Sapfo NotaraSapfo NotaraSapfo Notara, was a Greek actress, known for supporting capabilities in acting. In Greek movies, she acted in comedies as an aunt or a housewife. Notara had a radio programme called I Kiria Kiriaki. One of her last theatre appearances was in the play Pornography .Notara never married...
- Anna-Maria PapaharalambousAnna-Maria PapaharalambousAnna-Maria Papaharalambous is a Greek stage, television, and film actress. She came into prominence by starring in the dramatic series by Manousos Manousakis Psithiroi Kardias...
- Dimitris PapamichaelDimitris PapamichaelDimitris Papamichael born 1934 in Athens; died 8 August 2004 in Athens 12pm at his house) was a famous Greek actor and director. He married Aliki Vougiouklaki, the national star of Greece for a decade,in 1965 and co-starred with her in films that marked the "golden era" of Greek cinema.-External...
- Tatiana PapamoschouTatiana PapamoschouTatiana Papamoschou is a Greek actress who has starred in numerous Greek theatrical, film and television productions. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1977 Oscar-nominated film Iphigenia , for which she earned the Best Leading Actress Award at the 1977 Thessaloniki Film...
- Keti PapanikaKeti PapanikaKeti Papanika , aka Ketty Papanika or Kaiti Papanika, is a Greek actress. She took part in many Greek films, television series, and various theatre performances in Greece and abroad, including the Canadian film Sex and the Single Sailor. Today, in her 60s, Papanika takes part in various television...
- Irene PapasIrene PapasIrene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...
- Katina PaxinouKatina PaxinouKatina Paxinou was a Greek film and theatre actress.-Early life:Born Aikaterini Konstantopoulou in Piraeus, Greece, she trained as an opera singer, and appeared in the operatic version of Maeterlinck's "Sister Beatrice," with a score by Dimitri Mitropoulos, but changed career and joined the Greek...
- Elizabeth PerkinsElizabeth PerkinsElizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night..., and Avalon...
- Dimitris PoulikakosDimitris PoulikakosDimitris Poulikakos is a Greek actor and rock singer. He hails from Mani, Greece.- Filmography :Dimitris Poulikakos participated in more than 60 movies*1972: Fonissa, I *1972: Aldevaran*1975: Kelli miden, To...
- Sakis RouvasSakis RouvasAnastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...
Angelique Rockas ( see www.hellenism.net)
- Chris SarandonChris SarandonChris Sarandon is an American actor who was married to actress Susan Sarandon between 1968 and 1979. He is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series,...
- Telly SavalasTelly SavalasAristotelis "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...
- Amy SedarisAmy SedarisAmy 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...
- Nikos SergianopoulosNikos SergianopoulosNikos Sergianopoulos , surname also spelled as Seryanopoulos or Seryiannopoulos, was a Greek actor.-Early life and career:Born in Drama, Greece, he graduated from the State Theater of Northern Greece and was a founding member of the Piramatiki Skini Tehnis artwork club in Thessaloniki...
- Marina SirtisMarina SirtisMarina Sirtis is a British-American actress of Greek descent. She played the role of the human/Betazoid Commander Deanna Troi, ship's counselor, on the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation.-Life:...
- Kostas SommerKostas SommerKostas Sommer is a Greek actor who has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows. In 2005, he appeared in the Hollywood film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo starring Rob Schneider as the Greek gigolo Assapopoulos Mariolis...
- John StamosJohn StamosJohn Phillip Stamos is an American actor, singer and musician best known for his work in television, especially in his starring role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the cancellation of that show in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous television films and series. From 2006...
- Mena SuvariMena SuvariMena Alexandra Suvari is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. Shortly after beginning her career as a model, she appeared in guest roles on 1990's television shows such as Boy Meets World and High Incident...
- Elias (Illya) Toufexis (Supernatural, Smallville)
- Corinna TsopeiCorinna TsopeiKiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.-Career:...
- Stratos TzortzoglouStratos TzortzoglouStratos Tzortzoglou is a Greek actor. He was born 5th of August 1965 in Athens. He studied at Karolos Koun's Art Theater school. He worked in theater with many directors, such as Karolos Koun, Minos Volanakis, Jules Dassin, Spyros Evangelatos and Roula Pateraki and in cinema with Theodoros...
- Nia VardalosNia VardalosAntonia 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:...
- Sofia MilosSofia MilosSofia Milos is an Italian/Greek actress. She is best known for her role as Yelina Salas on CSI: Miami.Milos was born in Zurich, Switzerland, to an Italian father and a Greek mother. In her teens she entered a local beauty pageant, and after winning first prize went on to win the provincial,...
- Thanassis VeggosThanassis VeggosThanasis Veggos, alternatively spelt Thanassis and/or Vengos, was a Greek actor and director born in Neo Faliro, Piraeus. He performed in more than 120 films, predominantly comedies in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...
- Rena VlahopoulouRena VlahopoulouIrene "Rena" Vlachopoulou was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu....
- Aliki VougiouklakiAliki VougiouklakiAliki Vougiouklaki was a Greek actress. She is considered as one of the most popular and successful actresses of Greek cinema.-Biography:...
- Andréas VoutsinasAndréas VoutsinasAndréas Voutsinas was a Greek actor and theater director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers , The Twelve Chairs and History of the World, Part I .CareerAndreas Voutsinas was born in Khartoum, Sudan on 22 August 1932 by parents...
- Rita WilsonRita 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....
- Nikos XanthopoulosNikos XanthopoulosNikos Xanthopoulos is a Greek actor, known for his roles in the sixties era Greek Drama Cinema. He was also a singer of Greek folk bouzouki, having released many albums and singles. He is known as "the child of the folk" mainly for his appeal in the lower working classes...
- Billy ZaneBilly ZaneWilliam George "Billy" Zane, Jr. is an American actor, producer and director. He is probably best known for his roles as Caledon Hockley in Titanic, The Phantom from The Phantom, John Wheeler in Twin Peaks and Mr...
- Lisa ZaneLisa ZaneElizabeth Frances "Lisa" Zane is an American actress and singer who has starred on stage, in film and television.-Personal life:...
- Voula ZouboulakiVoula ZouboulakiVoula Zouboulaki was a Greek actress . She attended the Dramatic School of the National Theatre, the School of the National Odeon and the Law School of the University of Athens.Zouboulaki began at the National Lyric Stage in 1952 and two years later appeared in prose...
Adventurers
- Constantine PhaulkonConstantine PhaulkonConstantine Phaulkon was a Greek adventurer, who became first counsellor to King Narai of Ayutthaya.Born on the Ionian island of...
(1648–1688), first counsellor of King Narai of SiamThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
Ancient period
- Alexander I of MacedonAlexander I of Macedon- Biography :Alexander was the son of Amyntas I and Queen Eurydice.According to Herodotus, he was unfriendly to Persia, and had the envoys of Darius I killed when they arrived at the court of his father during the Ionian Revolt...
– runner and Olympic winner - Astylos of CrotonAstylos of CrotonAstylos of Croton was an athlete from ancient Greece that starred in the ancient Olympics of the 5th century BC...
- Chionis of SpartaChionis of SpartaChionis of Sparta was an athlete of ancient Greece who was most notable for his jumping records in the ancient Olympics. Records suggest that in the 656 BC Olympics Chionis jumped a then record of 7 meters and 5 centimetres...
- CyniscaCyniscaCynisca or Kyneska was a Greek princess of Sparta. She became the first woman in history to win at the ancient Olympic Games.-Early life:...
- DioxippusDioxippusDioxippus was an ancient Greek pankratiast, renowned for his Olympic victories in the sport of pankration. His fame and skill were such that he was crowned Olympic champion by default in 336 B.C. when no other pankratiast dared meet him on the field...
pankration - HydnaHydnaHydna of Scione , was an ancient Greek swimmer and diver given credit for the destruction of the Persian navy around 480 BCE.According to Pausanias , during a critical battle with the Persians Hydna and her father volunteered to help in the war...
swimmer and diver - KleitomachosKleitomachos (athlete)Kleitomachos was a Theban athlete considered a formidable boxer. His achievements were recounted by Pausanias, who notes that he won the boxing and pankration at the 141 Olympiad in 216 BCE, the pankration at three Pythian Games, and the wrestling, boxing, and pankration at an Isthmian Games...
pankration - Leonidas of RhodesLeonidas of RhodesLeonidas of Rhodes was one of the most famous Olympic runners of antiquity. Competing in the Olympic Games of 164 BCE, he captured the crown in three separate foot races — the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos...
ancient runner and Olympic winner - Milo of CrotonMilo of CrotonMilo of Croton was a 6th century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton in southern Italy who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece...
pankration - Troilus of ElisTroilus of ElisTroilus of Elis was an ancient Greek athlete from Elis who participated at the ancient Olympic Games. He gained controversy by being a referee who won two equestrian events at the 372 BC Ancient Olympic Games. After that a law banned referees from competing...
- Diagoras of RhodesDiagoras of RhodesDiagoras of Rhodes was an ancient Greek boxer from the 5th century BC, who was celebrated for his own victories, as well as the victories of his sons and grandsons. He was a member of the Eratidae family at Ialysus in Rhodes. He descended from Damagetus, king of Ialysus, and, on the mother's side,...
Modern period
- Pano Skordi Professor
- Braith AnastaBraith AnastaBraith Anasta is a Greek-Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League...
rugby league player - Aristotle George (Harry) AgganisHarry AgganisAristotle George Agganis ' , nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was an American athletic star in two sports. His family origins were from Longanikos near Sparta, Greece. -Career:...
baseball and American football player - Nikolaos AggelakisNikolaos AggelakisNikolaos Aggelakis was a Greek football forward of the 1930s.-Career:Aggelakis played for Aris Thessaloniki and was a member of the 1932 side that won the Greek championship...
football player - Aristidis AkratopoulosAristidis AkratopoulosAristidis Akratopoulos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Akratopoulos won his first-round match in the singles tournament, defeating Edwin Flack of Australia. He met fellow Greek Konstantinos Paspatis in the second round, however, and Paspatis...
tennis player - Konstantinos AkratopoulosKonstantinos AkratopoulosKonstantinos Akratopoulos Akratopoulos had a bye in the first round of the singles tournament. He met Dionysios Kasdaglis of Egypt in the second round, losing to the eventual silver medallist. Akratopoulos finished in a three-way tie for fifth place....
tennis player - Nikos AlefantosNikos AlefantosNikolaos Alefantos also known with the nickname "Kyr-Nikos", is a Greek football coach. He is well-known in Greece as a cult figure, due to his temperamental style, frequent use of harsh language and controversial views on coaching...
football player and manager - Alexandros AlexiadesAlexandros AlexiadesAlexandros Alexiades , a Greek football player, was a star forward for Aris Thessaloniki F.C. during the period 1963–1975. He was second, behind Dinos Kouis, on the all-time scorers list for Aris, having found the mark 127 times in his 301 appearances for the club. In 1976, Alexiadis played for...
football player - Minas AlozidisMinas AlozidisMinás Alozídis is a Greek hurdler. He competes in the 200m and 400m hurdles events. He finished 7th in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.-References:...
hurdler - Fragiskos AlvertisFragiskos AlvertisFragiskos Alvertis is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was the captain of the Panathinaikos basketball team...
basketball player - Ioannis Amanatidis football player
- Yannis AnastasiouYannis AnastasiouYannis Anastasiou is a Greek football coach and former player who is currently Manager at Dutch club Ajax 2.As a player, Anastasiou played as a striker, and was active professionally in Greece, Belgium and the Netherlands; he also represented the Greek national side at senior international...
football player - Andreas AnastasopoulosAndreás AnastasópoulosAndreas Anastasopoulos is a Greek athlete in the shot put. From October 23, 2001 to October 22, 2003 he was suspended by the IAAF.-External links:...
shot putter - Nikos AnastopoulosNikos AnastopoulosNikos Anastopoulos is a Greek former football player, one of the most prolific strikers in the Greek league during the late 1970s and the 1980s. With 29 goals he is the all time highest scorer for the Greek national football team. Since retiring as a player he has become a football manager...
football player and manager - Georgios AnatolakisGeorgios AnatolakisGeorgios Anatolakis was a Greek football central defender, who last played for Atromitos in the Greek Super League. He is well known in Greece for his strength, passion and persistence. A strong aerial challenger, he also advances on set pieces to find himself scoring on several occasions...
football player - Anastasios AndreouAnastasios AndreouAnastasios Andreou was a Greek athlete from Cyprus. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Limassol in 1877. He studied at the Greek School of Limassol where he was declared Multi-victorious Champion....
sprinter/hurdler - Joannis AndreouJoannis AndreouIoannis Andreou was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Andreou competed in the 1,200 metres freestyle event. He placed second of the seven swimmers, with a time of 21:03.4. The winner, Alfréd Hajós, had finished in 18:22.2....
swimmer - Nikolaos AndriakopoulosNikolaos AndriakopoulosNikolaos Andriakopoulos was a Greek gymnast. He was a member of Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos, that merged in 1923 with Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.-Olympics performances:...
gymnast - Eleni AndriolaEleni AndriolaEleni Andriola is a Greek rhythmic gymnast.Born in Athens, she started rhythmic gymnastics in 1994, and she has been on the Greek National Team since 1998. Eleni's first international event was the 2001 World Championships in Madrid, Spain.Andriola was the top Greek rhythmic gymnast in 2004, as...
gymnast - Peter AngelosPeter AngelosPeter G. Angelos , is an American trial lawyer.Angelos is also the majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a baseball team in the American League East Division.-Career:...
, owner of the Baltimore OriolesBaltimore OriolesThe Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...
baseball team - Georgios AnninosGeorgios AnninosGeorgios Anninos was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Anninos competed in the 100 metres freestyle event. His time and place are unknown, though he did not finish in the top two....
swimmer - AntelothanasisAntelothanasisAntelothanasis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Antelothanasis competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Georgios AspiotisGeorgios AspiotisGeorgios Aspiotis was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Aspiotis competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back. He did not finish in the top three, though his exact place among the fourth through...
cyclist - Sotirios AthanasopoulosSotirios AthanasopoulosSpyridon Athanasopoulos was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Athanasopoulos was the team leader of the Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed second of the three teams in the event, giving him a silver medal.-References:*...
gymnast - Theodoros BaevTheodoros BaevTheodoros Baev is a Greek volleyball player, currently playing for Panathinaikos of Athens.From the beginning of his career in Greek championship as a player of Ethnikos Alexandroupolis , Todor Baev was the focal point of federal coaches' interest.He first joined the juniors' National Team in 1994...
volleyball player - Marcos BaghdatisMarcos BaghdatisAt the French Open, Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-6, 4-6.At Wimbledon, Baghdatis defeated British player Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis beat the 2002 champion and former world no. 1...
tennis player - Níki BakogiánniNiki BakogianniNiki Bakoyianni is a retired Greek high jumper. She was born in Lamia.-Career:She is best known for winning a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics after a tough competition with Stefka Kostadinova, who eventually became Olympic champion...
high jumper - Georgios BalakakisGeorgios BalakakisGeorgios Balakakis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 and 1906 Summer Olympics.Balakakis competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis, and Athanasios Vouros...
fencer - Hristos BanikasHristos BanikasHristodoulos Banikas is a distinguished Greek chess player. He is a resident of Salonica.-Achievements in chess :...
chess player - Kostas BantasKostas BantasKostas Badas is a professional football sweeper and defender currently playing for Anagennisi Karditsa F.C. in the Greek second division.-Career:...
football player - Nikos BarlosNikos BarlosNikolaos "Nikos" Barlos is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 2.03 m in height. He can play at both the small forward and power forward positions.-Pro career:Barlos won the Greek A2 League championship with Apollon Patras in 2003...
basketball player - Angelos BasinasAngelos BasinasAngelos Basinas is a Greek international footballer and the former captain of his country's national team. He played as a defensive midfielder for Arles-Avignon in the Ligue 1 until 22 October 2010.-Panathinaikos:...
football player - Batista wrestler
- Spiridon BelokasSpiridon BelokasSpyridon Belokas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.Belokas was one of 17 athletes to start the Olympic marathon race. He crossed the finish line in third place behind Spiridon Louis and Kharilaos Vasilakos, but was later found to have...
marathoner - Thomas BimisThomas BimisThomas Bimis is a Greek diver.-Career:Bimis competed in the synchronised 3 metre springboard competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. After a bizarre event where the Chinese, Russian and American teams failed, he won the gold medal together with Nikolaos Siranidis...
diver - Christos BourbosChristos BourbosChristos Bourbos is a Greek football player who plays for OFI Crete in the Beta Ethniki.-PAS Giannina:He played in PAS Giannina for three seasons playing as a striker.-AEK Athens:...
football player - Yiannis BourousisYiannis BourousisIoannis Bourousis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 7 ft 0 in , 280 lbs...
basketball player - Nikos BoutzikosNikos BoutzikosNikos Boutzikos is a young Greek footballer who plays for Panthrakikos F.C. in the Football League....
football player - Al CampanisAl CampanisAlexander Sebastian Campanis was an American executive in Major League Baseball. He had a brief Major League career as a second baseman, playing for both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' minor-league team...
, baseball player, later an executive with the Los Angeles Dodgers - Konstantinos ChalkiasKonstantinos ChalkiasKonstantinos "Kostas" Chalkias is a Greek footballer, born 30 May 1974 in Larissa, Greece. He stands 2.00 m tall and plays in the goalkeeper position. He currently plays for PAOK F.C..-Greece:...
football player - Angelos CharisteasAngelos CharisteasAngelos Charisteas was born on 9 February 1980 in Strymoniko, Serres, but originates from Mani. He is a Greek football player who currently plays as a striker for Panetolikos F.C....
football player - Spiridon ChasapisSpiridon ChasapisSpyridon P. Chazapis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chazapis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed second of the three swimmers....
swimmer - Chris CheliosChris CheliosChristos Kostas Tselios is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently the Executive Advisor to Ken Holland, the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings, a role that Steve Yzerman held before leaving to become general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning.Chelios played...
, hockey player - Dionisis ChiotisDionisis ChiotisDionisis Chiotis is a Greek goalkeeper who plays for APOEL in the Cypriot First Division.-Club career:He has played for the football club AEK Athens for more than 10 years. He joined the club in 1994 when he was 18. He was given on loan by AEK two times, for one season to Ethnikos Piraeus and for...
football player - Efstathios ChorophasEfstathios ChorophasEfstathios Choraphas was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Choraphas was the only swimmer to compete in all three of the open swimming events, as they were contested immediately after each other...
swimmer - Lampros ChoutosLampros ChoutosLampros Choutos is a Greek footballer who plays as a striker.During his career, he played equal periods of time in his country and Italy.-Early years:...
football player - Fanis ChristodoulouFanis ChristodoulouTheofanis Christodoulou, or Fanis Christodoulou , is a retired Greek professional basketball player...
basketball player - Anton ChristoforidisAnton ChristoforidisAnton Christoforidis was a Greek light heavyweight boxer.Christoforidis was born in Messenia prefecture, Greece. His first bout was against Francisco Garcia Lluch in Paris, France which he won by decision. He made his United States debut on January 5, 1940 in Madison Square Garden defeating...
boxer - Stephanos ChristopoulosStephanos ChristopoulosStephanos Christopoulos was a Greek wrestler. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, that merged in 1923 with Panachaikos Gymnastikos syllogos to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.Christopoulos competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens...
wrestler - Constantine IIConstantine II of Greece|align=right|Constantine II was King of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973, the sixth and last monarch of the Greek Royal Family....
former King of Greece, 1960 Olympic champion in sailing (Dragon class) - Peter CostaPeter CostaPeter Costa to Greek Cypriot parents is a British professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada.He is most well known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular Late Night Poker television series during his time living in the United Kingdom, where he defeated Austria's Jin Cai Lin in...
poker player - Bob CostasBob CostasRobert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.-Early life:...
television sportscaster - Ioannis ChrysafisIoannis ChrysafisIoannis Chrysafis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chrysafis was the team leader of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving the members of the team bronze medals....
gymnast - Nikos DabizasNikos DabizasNikolaos "Nikos" Dabizas is a retired Greek professional footballer and former Newcastle United, Leicester City, Olympiacos and Larissa defender . He was also in Greece's 2004 European Football Championship winning squad....
football player - Evangelos DamaskosEvangelos DamaskosEvangelos Damaskos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Damaskos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Ioannis Theodoropoulos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres....
pole vaulter - Nick "the Greek" DandolosNick the GreekNicholas Andreas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos was born in Rethymnon, Crete and was a professional gambler and high roller.-Early life:...
, gambler - Eleni DaniilidouEleni DaniilidouEleni Daniilidou is a Greek tennis player born in Chania, on the island of Crete.As of 2011, she has won five WTA singles titles and three doubles titles. In 2003, she reached the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Her highest singles ranking has been 14th...
tennis player - Filipos DarlasFilipos DarlasFilippos Darlas is a Greek footballer who most recently played for Atromitos in the Greek Superleague.-Superleague Greece:Darlas began his professional career 1999 in Panetolikos...
football player - Michael Diamond (sport shooter)Michael Diamond (sport shooter)Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta and Sydney . He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007...
, Australian Olympic sport shooter - Dimitrios DeligiannisDimitrios DeligiannisDimitrios Deligiannis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Stemnitsa, Gortynia.Deligiannis was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished sixth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Traianos DellasTraianos DellasTraianos Dellas is a Greek international footballer currently playing as a centre back for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League...
football player - Hrysopiyí DevetzíHrysopiyí DevetzíHrysopiyi "Pigi" Devetzi in Alexandroupoli is a former Greek athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with 15.25 and the triple jump bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with 15.23. At the 2004 Summer Olympics...
triple jumper and long jumper - Themistoklis DiakidisThemistoklis DiakidisThemistoklis Diakidis , was a Greek high jump athlete.Diakidis was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, that merged in 1923 with Panachaikos Gymnastikos syllogos to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi....
high jumper - Dimitris DiamantidisDimitris DiamantidisDimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...
basketball player - Georgios DiamantisGeorgios DiamantisGeorgios Diamantis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Diamantis competed in the two rifle events. In the military rifle event, he placed seventh with a score of 1,456. In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 384. His score and place in the free rifle...
shooter - Dimosthenis DikoudisDimosthenis DikoudisDimosthenis "Dimos" Dikoudis , is a Greek professional basketball player, currently playing for PAOK in Greek League. He is 2.08 m tall and he plays as a forward-center....
basketball player - Pyrros DimasPyrros DimasTotalTotalPyrros Dimas , born on 13 October 1971) is a retired Greek weightlifter, considered as one of the greatest of all time, having been three times Olympic champion and three times World Champion.- Background :...
three-time Olympic champion weightlifter - Stefanos DimitriosStefanos DimitriosStefanos Dimitrios was a Greek athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.He was born in Tripoli.Dimitrios finished fourth in his semifinal heat of the 1500 metres and did not advance further....
middle-distance runner - Zoi DimoschakiZoi DimoschakiZoi Dimoschaki is a Greek freestyle swimmer. Dimoschaki administered the Olympic Oath at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics....
swimmer - Mimis DomazosMimis DomazosDimitris "Mimis" Domazos , is a retired Greek footballer born in Ambelokipi, Athens. His nickname is "The General".Mimis Domazos is considered by many to be the best footballer that Greece has ever produced...
football player - Giorgos Donis football player
- Dimitrios DrivasDimitrios DrivasDimitrios Drivas was a Greek swimmer best known for competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Drivas competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed third of the three swimmers which, although winning him a medal, was still last....
swimmer - Kostas EleftherakisKostas EleftherakisKostas Eleftherakis is a former Greek association football midfielder. His nickname was "the deer" .He started his career playing for Fostiras. He later joined Panathinaikos in 1968. At age 21 he played for Panathinaikos at 1971 European Cup Final in Wembley Stadium against Ajax Amsterdam...
football player - Dimitrios EleftheropoulosDimitrios EleftheropoulosDimitrios Eleftheropoulos is a Greek goalkeeper who is currently playing for Panionios in Greek Super League. In the past he played for the Greek national team.-Greece:...
football player - Giannoulis FakinosGiannoulis FakinosGiannoulis Fakinos , also known as Yiannoulis Fakinos, is a Greek football player, who currently plays for Ebbsfleet United-Club career:...
football player - Panagiotis FasoulasPanagiotis FasoulasPanagiotis Fasoulas is a Greek politician and former professional basketball player...
basketball player - Alexios FetsiosAlexios FetsiosAlexios Fetsios was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Fetsios competed in the two rifle events. In the military rifle event, he placed eleventh with a score of 894. In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 272. His score and place in the free rifle event is...
shooter - Angelos FetsisAngelos FetsisAngelos Fetsis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Lefkada.Fetsis competed in the 800 metres event. He placed either fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat, though records do not indicate whether he was ahead or behind countryman Dimitrios Tomprof...
middle-distance runner - Giorgos FoirosGiorgos FoirosGiorgos Foiros is a retired Greek footballer and manager. He played center-back or sweeper. He was one of the very few players that was consistent in every game played. He played for the team of Aris Thessaloniki for many years and finished his career with Iraklis Thessaloniki. He made a total of...
football player and manager - Antonis FotsisAntonis FotsisAntonis Fotsis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 2.09 m power forward...
basketball player - D. FrangopoulosD. FrangopoulosD. Frangopoulos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Frangopoulos was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by Momcsilló Tapavicza of Hungary. This put him in a six-way tie for eighth place in the field of thirteen players. He did not...
tennis player - Takis FyssasTakis FyssasPanagiotis "Takis" Fyssas is a former Greek international footballer. He is currently technical director of the Hellenic Football Federation.-Panionios:...
football player - Nikos GalisNick GalisNikolaos Georgalis , commonly known as either Nikos Galis , or Nick Galis , is a retired Greek professional basketball player...
basketball player, MVP of Eurobasket 1987Eurobasket 1987The EuroBasket 1987 was held in Greece between June 3 and June 14, 1987. Twelve national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body... - Konstadinos GatsioudisKonstadinos GatsioudisKonstadinos Gatsioudis is a Greek javelin thrower.He was born in Didymoteicho.Gatsioudis set a world junior record in 1990, and eight national records during his career. His personal best throw is 91.69 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Kuortane.-Achievements:-External links:...
javelin thrower - Theofanis GekasTheofanis GekasTheofanis Gekas is a Greek football striker who currently plays for the German club Eintracht Frankfurt. He has been the top goalscorer of the Greek League and the Bundesliga in previous seasons...
football player - Georgios GennimatasGeorgios GennimatasGeorgios Gennimatas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Gennimatas placed fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat of the 100 metres competition and did not advance to the final.-External links:*...
sprinter - Nikolaos GeorgantasNikolaos GeorgantasNikolaos Georgantas /March 12, 1880 – November 23, 1958) was a Greek athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.He was born in Steno, Arcadia.He competed for a Greece in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St...
discus thrower - Grigorios GeorgatosGrigorios GeorgatosGrigoris Georgatos , also known as "Trelos Karaflos" , is a retired Greek footballer. He typically played as a defensive midfielder or attacking winger for Greek Championship club Olympiacos...
football player - Giorgios Georgiadis football player
- Ioannis GeorgiadisIoannis GeorgiadisIoannis Georgiadis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 1906 Intercalated Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris....
fencer - Evangelos GerakerisEvangelos GerakerisEvangelos Gerakeris was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Chalkida.Gerakeris was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished seventh of the nine athletes to have completed the race....
marathoner - Panagiotis GiannakisPanagiotis GiannakisPanagiotis Giannakis , nicknamed "The Dragon", is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. He is the former head coach of the pro club Olympiacos, and the Greek National Basketball Team. Under Giannakis' guidance, the Greek National team won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket...
basketball player, captain of Greek Eurobasket 1987 champion team - Stelios GiannakopoulosStelios GiannakopoulosStylianos "Stelios" Giannakopoulos , popularly known as Stelios, is a retired Greek footballer who is currently president of the Greek Professional Footballers Association...
football player - Kleopas GiannouKleopas GiannouKleopas Giannou is a Greek footballer.A graduate of the Athenian club's youth system, Giannou was loaned to Olympiakos Volou in summer 2000 until the end of the year, and spent the rest the campaign at Halkidona FC. Promoted to the senior Olympiacos squad on his return, he made his top-flight...
football player - Herodotos GiorgallasHerodotos GiorgallasHerodotos Giorgallas is a Gymnast from Cyprus who took gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Herodotos shared the gold with Steve Frew of Scotland. He won the bronze medal in the Gymnastics for Men's Rings at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.-External links:*...
gymnast - Andreas GlyniadakisAndreas GlyniadakisAndreas Glyniadakis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a , 280 lb. center...
basketball player - Spyros GogolosSpyros GogolosSpyros Gogolos is an experienced defender playing for PAS Giannina.He was born on 11 August 1978 in Kerkyra. His family origins are from Paramythia in Thesprotia, Epirus....
football player - Dimitrios GolemisDimitrios GolemisDimitrios P. Golemis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Golemis competed in the 800 metres. He finished second in his preliminary heat to advance to the final. There, he came in last of the three finalists who started the race, as Albin Lermusiaux of France...
middle-distance runner - Georgios GougouliasGeorgios GougouliasGeorgios "George" Gougoulias is a Greek football striker playing for Pierikos F.C. in the Beta Ethniki. He was born and spent his childhood in Schweinfurt, Germany where he started playing football at its academy...
football player - Yannis Goumas football player
- Anastasios GousisAnastásios GoúsisAnastasios "Tasos" Gousis is a Greek sprint athlete.He was born in Corfu.He competed in the 200 m and 400 m in the 2000 Olympics, but did not progress out of the heats in either event...
sprinter - Miltiadis Gouskos shot putter
- Georgios GrigoriouGeorgios GrigoriouGeorgios Grigoriou was a Greek athlete.He was born in Sozopol.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Grigoriou was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:...
marathoner - Efstratios GrivasEfstratios GrivasEfstratios Grivas is a Greek chess Grandmaster.-Early years:He was born in Egio, Achaia and grew up in Athens, in the neighbourhood of Kallithea, as his family moved to the Greek capital in 1970. His registration at the Kallithea Chess Club in 1979 was his first contact with chess...
chess player - Faní HalkiáFaní HalkiáFani Chalkia is a Greek hurdler.Chalkia won the gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. During the semifinals Halkia set an Olympic record of 52.77 seconds....
Olympic champion hurdler - Laird HamiltonLaird HamiltonLaird Hamilton is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality, and model...
(born Laird John Zerfas), surfer - Vassilis HatzipanagisVassilis HatzipanagisVassilis Hatzipanagis is a retired football attacking midfield. He played for Iraklis FC in Greek Alpha Ethniki and Pakhtakor Tashkent in the Soviet Top League...
football player - José HolebasJosé HolebasIosif Cholevas is a German-Greek footballer who plays for Olympiacos F.C. and the Greek national football team. Holebas was born in Germany to a Greek father who hails from Trikala and a Uruguayan mother.-1860 Munich:...
football player - Periklis IakovakisPeriklís IakovákisPeriklís Iakovákis is a Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder and nine times national champion in the event....
hurdler - Georgios IatridisGeorgios IatridisGeorgios Iatridis was a Greek fencer. He participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Iatridis competed in the sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, he lost all four of his matches. He was defeated by Ioannis Georgiadis, Adolf Schmal, Telemachos Karakalos and Holger...
fencer - Miltiades IatrouMiltiades IatrouMiltiades Iatrou was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Iatrou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back. He did not finish in the top three, though his exact place among the fourth through seventh...
cyclist - Takis Ikonomopoulos football player
- Giannis IoannidisGiannis IoannidisGiannis Ioannidis is a Greek New Democracy politician and a famous ex basketball coach. Ioannidis was born in Thessaloniki, and studied Agriculture in the Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...
basketball player and coach - Leonidas KabantaisLeonidas KabantaisLeonidas Kampantais is a Greek footballer, currently playing for OFI Crete. On 30 June 2009, Arminia Bielefeld did not renew Kampantais's contract and so he was released. On 7 July 2010, he signed a one-year contract with Olympiakos Volou.- Aris Thessaloniki FC :Kampantais began his professional...
football player - Pantelis KafesPantelis KafesPantelis Kafes is a Greek footballer currently playing as a deep-lying playmaker for AEK Athens in the Greek Super League...
football player - Ilias KafetzisIlias KafetzisIlias G. Kafetzis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Kafetzis was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Kakhi KakhiashviliKakhi KakhiashviliKakhi Kakhiashvili ,, a Georgian-Greek weightlifter, is one of only four weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games....
weightlifter - Michalis KakiouzisMichalis KakiouzisMichalis Kakiouzis is a Greek professional basketball player.-Pro career:...
basketball player - Nikos Kaklamanakis windsurfer
- Ioannis KalitzakisIoannis KalitzakisIoannis "Giannis" Kalitzakis is a retired Greek football defender.He started his career in Panelefsiniakos F.C., where he played three and a half season before eventually joining Panathinaikos FC. Panathinaikos's fans nicknamed him "ninja" as he made a name of his hard tackles and very strong...
football player - Georgios KalogiannidisGeorgios KalogiannidisGeorgios Kalogiannidis is an archer from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 54th overall....
archer - George KalovelonisGeorge KalovelonisGeorge Kalovelonis is a former tennis player from Greece, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There he was defeated in the first round by fellow lucky loser Bong-Soo Kim from South Korea...
tennis player - Marios Kaperonis boxer
- Michalis KapsisMichalis KapsisMichalis Kapsis is a Greek football player who currently plays for Ethnikos Piraeus F.C.. Kapsis played for the Greek national football team at the position of central defender...
football player - Alexandros KarageorgiouAlexandros KarageorgiouAlexandros Karageorgiou is an archer from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.Karageorgiou placed 33rd in the men's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 647...
archer - G. KaragiannopoulosG. KaragiannopoulosG. Karagiannopoulos was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karagiannopoulos competed in the military rifle event. His time and place are unknown, but he was not among the top 13 in the 42-man competition....
shooter - Giorgos KaragounisGiorgos KaragounisGiorgos Karagounis is a Greek footballer who currently plays for Panathinaikos . He is best remembered for scoring the first goal of UEFA Euro 2004, a very long range effort that helped his team to win the opening game of the tournament, in which the Greeks surprisingly emerged as champions.His...
football player - Telemachos KarakalosTelemachos KarakalosTelemachos Karakalos was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakalos competed in the men's sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, Karakalos won three of his four matches. He defeated Georgios Iatridis, Adolf Schmal, and Holger Nielsen but lost to...
fencer - KarakatsanisKarakatsanisKarakatsanis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakatsanis competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Konstantinos KarakatsanisKonstantinos KarakatsanisKonstantinos Karakatsanis was a Greek athlete.He was born in Athens.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakatsanis competed in the 1,500 metres. He placed in the bottom half of the eight runners who took part in the single race of the event, though his exact placing is...
middle-distance runner - Pantelis KarasevdasPantelis KarasevdasPantelis Karasevdas was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Karasevdas competed in the military rifle event. He dominated the field, hitting the target with all 40 of his shots for a total score of 2,350. His score in the first string of 10 shots was...
shooter - Hristos KaripidisHristos KaripidisChristos Karipidis is a Greek professional footballer currently playing for Marfin Laiki Championship club Omonia Nicosia.-Hearts:He joined Hearts from PAOK FC on 3 August 2006 for a fee of around £200,000...
football player - Alex KarrasAlex KarrasAlexander George "Alex" Karras , nicknamed "The Mad Duck", is a former football player, professional wrestler, and actor, best known for his stint with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League from 1958–1962 and 1964-1970 and for his role as Mongo in the film Blazing Saddles...
American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player - Filippos KarvelasFilippos KarvelasFilippos Karvelas was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karvelas competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars. He did not win a medal in the individual event, though his ranking is unknown...
gymnast - Michalis KasapisMichalis KasapisMichalis Kasapis is a former Greek football player and currently the football manager of Fokikos which competes in Greek Football League 2.-Club career:...
football player - Dionysios KasdaglisDionysios KasdaglisDionysios Kasdaglis was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events...
tennis player - Fanis KatergiannakisFanis KatergiannakisTheofanis "Fanis" Katergiannakis is a football player who plays as a goalkeeper.-Ethnikos Pylaias:...
football player - N. KartavasN. KartavasN. Kartavas was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Katravas competed in the 1,200 metres freestyle event. His time and place in the competition are unknown, though he did not finish in the top three.-References:...
swimmer - Kostas KatsouranisKostas KatsouranisKonstantinos "Kostas" Katsouranis is a Greek footballer who currently plays for Panathinaikos FC and the Greek national team as a defensive midfielder.-Panachaiki:...
football player - Anastasía KelesídouAnastasia KelesidouAnastasia Kelesidou is a retired Greek discus thrower best known for winning silver medals at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. During her career she set seven Greek records in discus throw, the best being 67.70 metres....
discus thrower - Konstantinos KenterisKonstantinos KenterisKonstandinos Kenderis, also spelled as Konstadinos Kederis is a former Greek athlete...
European, World and Olympic champion sprinter - Alexandros KhalkokondilisAlexandros KhalkokondilisAlexandros Chalkokondylis was a Greek athlete.He was born in Athens.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the long jump, placing fourth of the nine jumpers. His best jump was 5.74 metres....
sprinter and long jumper - Hatzidakis shooter
- Alexandros KhrisafosAlexandros KhrisafosAlexandros Chrysafos was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chrysafos competed in the 100 metres freestyle event. His time and place are unknown, though he did not finish in the top two....
swimmer - Dimitrios KhristopoulosDimitrios KhristopoulosDimitrios Christopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Christopoulos was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Vassilis KikiliasVassilis KikiliasVassilis Kikilias is a retired Greek professional basketball player. A 200 cm small forward, Kikilias started his career with Panionios BC and Ionikos Nikaias BC and then moved to AEK Athens BC...
basketball player - Michalis KlokidisMichalis KlokidisMichalis Klokidis is the all-time scorer in the top four divisions of Greek football. He was born on 23 December 1971. Has played with Levadeiakos, ILTEX Lykoi , Agersani Naxos FC, Leonidio FC, Kerkyra FC, Thrasivoulos Filis and in 2003–04 played with AS Rodos where he was the top scorer in the 3rd...
football player - Frank KlopasFrank KlopasFotios "Frank" Klopas is a retired Greek-American soccer forward and midfielder. Klopas is currently the Head Coach for the Chicago Fire...
, football player - Ekaterini Koffa sprinter
- Savvas KofidisSavvas KofidisSavvas Kofidis is a Greek football coach and former midfielder player.-Career:He started his career in Iraklis, debuting in 18 January 1981 when Iraklis was participating in the Beta Ethniki. In Iraklis's team he played seven seasons before heading to Olympiacos...
football player - Dimitrios KokotisDimitrios KokotisDimitrios Kokotis is a retired Greek high jumper.He finished thirteenth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, eighth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1998 European Championships....
high jumper - Georgios KolettisGeorgios KolettisGeorgios Kolettis was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kolettis competed in the 10 and 100 kilometres races. He finished second in the 100 kilometres, behind Léon Flameng of France. Kolettis and Flameng were the only two to finish. When Flameng crossed the...
cyclist - Georgios KoltsidasGeorgios KoltsidasGeorgios Koltsidas was a famous football player, defender, who had played for Aris Thessaloniki. Considered as a tough defender he had been sent-off many times during his career. In spite of his harshness he was the backbone of Aris Thessaloniki having served his team for almost 15 years.He started...
football player - Giorgos KoltzosGiorgos KoltzosGiorgos Koltzos is a footballer. He currently plays left back for Levadiakos F.C..-Career:Koltzos began playing football with the youth side of Athinaikos F.C. and joined the club's professional team in July 1993. He would spend five seasons in the Greek Superleague with Athinaikos before moving...
football player - Konstantinos Komninos-MiliotisKonstantinos Komninos-MiliotisKonstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the...
fencer - Aristidis KonstantinidisAristidis KonstantinidisAristidis Konstantinidis was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Olympic success in 1896:Konstantinidis competed in the 10 kilometres, 100 kilometres, and road races...
cyclist - Vasilis KonstantinouVasilis KonstantinouVasilis Konstantinou was a Greek football goalkeeper whose career spanned three decades: the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.Konstantinou was born in 1947 and played for Panathinaikos' youth team before becoming Takis Oikonomopoulos' backup and understudy...
football player - Konstantinos KonstantinouKonstantinos KonstantinouKonstantinos Konstantinou was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Konstantinou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back...
cyclist - Michalis KonstantinouMichalis KonstantinouMichalis Konstantinou is a Cypriot football striker. He plays for the Cyprus national football team, and is already the all-time leading scorer with 32 goals in 80 appearances....
football player - Dimitrious KonstantopolousDimitrious KonstantopolousDimitrios Konstantopoulos is a Greek football goalkeeper, who currently plays for AEK Athens.-Hartlepool United:...
football player - Georgios KorakakisGeorgios KorakakisGeorgios Korakakis is a Greek footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ethnikos Asteras F.C..-External links:*...
football player - Prodromos KorkizoglouProdromos KorkizoglouProdromos Korkizoglou is Greece's most prominent decathlete and competes for the Pelasgos Sports Club.He is the current holder of the national decathlon record and his highest distinction was the gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. He sustained an ankle injury in 2004, which failed to...
decathlete - Anastasia KostakiAnastasia KostakiAnastasia Kostaki is a Greek professional basketball player. She is 1.72 m in height and 65 kg in weight.-Biography:...
basketball player - Nikos KostakisNikos KostakisNiko Kostakis, , born 16 February 1973 in Athens, Greece, is a professional football goalkeeper, currently playing for Thrasivoulos Filis F.C. in the Greek second division...
football player - Yiorgos Kostikos football player
- Athanasios KostoulasAthanasios KostoulasAthanasios Kostoulas is a Greek football player, currently playing for Asteras Tripolis.A determined tackler with timing to match, Kostoulas prefers to operate as a defensive midfield player but has played in every position across the back line.Kostoulas stayed for a year at his first professional...
football player - Vasilios Kotronias chess player
- Ilias KotsiosIlias KotsiosIlias Kotsios is a football Defender currently playing for PAS Giannina. He was also playing for Panathinaikos during the seasons 2004–2007, in which he won a double .-References:*...
football player - Stefanos KotsolisStefanos KotsolisStefanos Kotsolis .Kotsolis joined Panathinaikos as an 18-year-old youth player in 1997 and made sporadic appearances over his first five seasons at Panathinaikos. The imposing form of first-choice keeper Antonios Nikopolidis kept Kotsolis at bay for most of that time...
football player - Giorgos KoudasGiorgos KoudasGiorgos Koudas is a retired attacking football midfielder. Nicknamed Μεγαλέξανδρος of Greek football, he is considered one of the best Greeks ever to play the game, and the last of a marvelous generation, including Mimis Domazos, Thomas Mavros and others.Koudas was a virtuoso of the ball, but...
football player - Dinos KouisDinos KouisDinos Kouis was a Greek footballer who some say, was the best player ever to wear the jersey of Aris Thessaloniki. Kouis was a football midfielder who starred at Harilaou Stadium between 1975 and 1991....
football player - Konstantinos KoukodimosKonstantinos KoukodimosKonstadinos "Kostas" Koukodimos with origin from Pieria, Makedonia is a retired Greek long jumper. He was born in Melbourne, Australia.-As athlete:Koukodimos is best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Championships...
long jumper - Efthimios KouloucherisEfthimios KouloucherisEfthimios Kouloucheris is a defender playing for Aris Thessaloniki. He started his career at Proodeftiki FC and later at Olympiakos. He was transferred to Aris Thessaloniki F.C. in January 2006.-References:...
football player - Yiannis KourosYiannis KourosYiannis Kouros is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Melbourne. He is sometimes called the "Running God" or the "Pheidippides Successor". He holds every men's outdoor road world record from 100 to 1,000 miles and every road and track record from 12 hours to 6 days...
multiple world record-holding ultramarathonUltramarathonAn ultramarathon is any sporting event involving running longer than the traditional marathon length of .There are two types of ultramarathon events: those that cover a specified distance, and events that take place during specified time...
er - Vaggelis KoutsouresVaggelis KoutsouresVaggelis Koutsoures was born in 2 February 1975 in Portaria Chalkidikis, Greece is a Greek football player who currently plays for Erani Filiatra. Koutsoures played for Panathinaikos F.C., OFI Crete and Kerkyra F.C. in the Greek Super League.- References :...
football player - Petros KravaritisPetros KravaritisPetros Kravaritis is a Greek goalkeeper, currently playing for Thrasyvoulos F.C. in the Beta Ethniki, on loan from Panathinaikos F.C....
football player - Ioannis KyrastasIoannis KyrastasIoannis Kyrastas was a Greek footballer and football manager.- Club career :Kyrastas was born in Piraeus and started his career in Olympiacos, where he played his first game in 10 December 1972 against Kavala...
football player - Sotirios KyrgiakosSotirios KyrgiakosSotirios Kyrgiakos is a Greek international footballer who plays for Wolfsburg as a centre back. He is known for his powerful heading.-Panathinaikos:...
football player - Anastasios KyriakosAnastasios KyriakosTasos Kyriakos is a Greek football defender and midfielder. He currently plays for PAS Giannina F.C..Kyriakos started his career at his hometown with Apollon Larissa and he later moved to the local giants Larissa, then playing in Beta Ethniki.Since 2002 he has been playing in the Greek First...
football player - Panagiotis LagosPanagiotis LagosPanagiotis Lagos is a Greek football player currently playing as a left wingback for AEK Athens F.C. in the Greek Super League.-Iraklis Thessaloniki:Lagos started his professional football career with Iraklis in 2002...
football player - Vassilis LakisVassilis LakisVasilis Lakis is a Greek footballer and he was named "Turbo" for his speed on the attacking wing and making great cross in the area for the strikers.-FAS Naussa:...
football player - Alexi LalasAlexi LalasPanayotis Alexander Lalas is a retired American soccer player who played mostly as a defender for the United States national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...
, football player - Leonidas LangakisLeonidas LangakisLeonidas Langakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Langakis participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition....
shooter - Ioannis LavrentisIoannis LavrentisIoannis Lavrentis was a Greek athlete who was likely the second runner to win a marathon. On March 12, 1896, Lavrentis was first in a field of 38 runners attempting to qualify for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece ....
marathoner - Sotiris LeontiouSotiris LeontiouSotiris Leontiou is a Greek defensive midfielder that can also play as a left full back. He currently plays for Panathinaikos FC.-Career:...
football player - Nikolaos LevidisNikolaos LevidisNikolaos Levidis , born August 25, 1868, date of death unknown) was a Greek shooter in the 1896 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born in Corfu.Levidis competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens in the free rifle event...
shooter - Kostas LinoxilakisKostas LinoxilakisKostas Linoxilakis is a former Greek footballer.Linoxilakis started his career at Asteras Athens and was centre back of Panathinaikos from the mid-1950s until the 1962-1963 season. He was capped a total of 28 times by the Greek national team during his career, scoring 1 goal...
football player - Spiros LivathinosSpiros LivathinosSpiros Livathinos is a former football player, coach and current scout of Panathinaikos. Livathinos was born on 8 January 1955 in Patras and started his football career in the Panathinaikos youth system. In 1975, he made it to the greens' first team where he played a total of 267 league games until...
football player and manager - Spiridon LouisSpiridon LouisSpyridon Louis was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero....
marathoner, winner of first modern Olympic marathon - Takis LoukanidisTakis LoukanidisTakis Loukanidis is a retired Greek footballer.He was born in Paranesti, a village in the broader area of Drama in 1937, he played with AEK-Komotini and Doxa-Drama. He was claimed by all Greek football teams, by some Italian teams, by Fenerbahçe and also by some Cypriot teams. Finally, Antonis...
football player - Konstantinos LoumpoutisKonstantinos LoumpoutisKonstantinos Louboutis is a Greek footballer who is currently unattached. He is a defender who plays as a fullback on the left side of the pitch....
football player - Dimitrios LoundrasDimitrios LoundrasDimitrios Loundras was a Greek gymnast who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Loundras competed in the team parallel bars event. In that competition, Loundras was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving him a bronze...
gymnast - Nikolaos LyberopoulosNikolaos LyberopoulosNikolaos "Nikos" Liberopoulos is a well known Greek international football player currently playing as a centre forward for AEK and Greek national football team in the Greek Super League. He is famous for his aim-to-goal shot, his innate in-play instincts, and his technical attacking skills...
football player - Nikos MachlasNikos MachlasNikolaos Machlas is a Greek retired footballer and now chairman of OFI Crete. He finished his career as a striker for Cypriot team APOEL.-Club career:...
football player - Ioannis MalokinisIoannis MalokinisIoannis Malokinis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. His home island was Spetses.Malokinis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed first of three swimmers, with a time of 2:20.4. This time was nearly a minute slower than the mark of...
swimmer - Miréla ManjaniMirela ManjaniMirela Manjani is a retired Greek javelin thrower. Prior to 1997 she represented Albania.She won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a personal best of 67.51 m, and the bronze medal in 2004. Manjani is also a European champion and double world champion. Her personal best throw of...
javelin thrower - Stelios ManolasStelios ManolasStylianos "Stelios" Manolas is a retired Greek football defender.Arguably the best football defender ever to come out of Greece, Manolas, a product of AEK Athens FC's youth academy...
football player - Vlasios MarasVlasios MarasVlasis Maras is a Greek gymnast. His hometown is Athens. In the 2004 Summer Olympics he was the local favorite in the men's bar competition, but failed to qualify for the final after finished 13th in the qualification.-External links:...
gymnast - Nick MarkakisNick MarkakisNicholas William Markakis is a Major League Baseball right fielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Of Greek and German descent , Markakis is known for his arm strength, stellar right field defense and smooth hitting....
baseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
player - Dimitris MarkosDimitris MarkosDimitris Markos is a retired Greek football midfielder. He now works as a scout for AEK Athens.-Career:Markos was born in Kilkis. He started his football career in Naoussa F.C., where he played three and a half season before joining the large Panathinaikos team...
football player - Tino MartinezTino MartinezConstantino "Tino" Martinez is a former Major League Baseball first baseman.Martinez was the first round draft pick for the Seattle Mariners in out of the University of Tampa where he starred during his time on campus. He began his Major League career in and has played for the Mariners, New...
, baseball player - Stamatios MasourisStamatios MasourisStamatios Masouris was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Masouris was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished eighth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Dimitris MavrogenidisDimitris MavrogenidisDimitris Mavrogenidis is a retired Uzbek-born Greek football right-back.Mavrogenidis is best known as Olympiacos' first-choice right-back for a long stretch of the club's dominance of Greek football in the late 1990s and early 2000s.-Aris:...
football player - Loukas MavrokefalidisLoukas MavrokefalidisLoukas Mavrokefalidis is a Greek professional basketball player...
basketball player - Thomas MavrosThomas MavrosThomas Mavros is a retired Greek international football player who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best players to play club football in Greece having scored a record number of goals there....
football player - Hristos MeletoglouHristos MeletoglouHristos Meletoglou is a Greek triple jumper.He was born in Heinsberg, West Germany.His personal best jump is 17.19 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Bremen. This ranks him fourth among Greek triple jumpers, only behind Dimitrios Tsiamis, Konstadinos Zalaggitis and Stamatios...
triple jumper - Angelos MessarisAngelos MessarisAngelos Messaris was a Greek footballer. He played for Panathinaikos and he is widely regarded as the best Greek player of the pre-war era. This is probably also due to the myth that for decades followed his sudden and mysterious early leaving from football. He made his last appearance in the...
football player - Anastasios MetaxasAnastasios MetaxasAnastasios Metaxas was a Greek architect and shooter.Metaxas is best known for being the architect chosen by George Averoff to restore the Panathinaiko Stadium for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the birth of the modern Olympic movement, while the design was from Ernst Ziller. He also competed...
shooter - Athanasios MichalopoulosAthanasios MichalopoulosAthanasios Michalopoulos is an Olympic beach volleyball player from Greece. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.In 2004, Michalopoulos and his partner Pavlos Beligratis were eliminated in the first round of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament....
volleyball player - Nikolaos MichopoulosNikolaos MichopoulosNikolaos "Nick" Michopoulos was a Greek professional football player. During his career he played for PAOK Salonika and Burnley, as well as a short loan spell at Crystal Palace and short period to Omonia Nicosia...
football player - Zenon MikhailidisZenon MikhailidisZinon Michailidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Michailidis competed in the free rifle event and military pistol event. His place and score in those competitions are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Ioannis MitropoulosIoannis MitropoulosIoannis Mitropoulos was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Mitropoulos competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first gold medal in gymnastics...
gymnast - Tasos MitropoulosTasos MitropoulosAnastassios "Tasos" Mitropoulos is a Greek politician and retired football midfielder.Mitropoulos was born in Volos, and started his football career at local team Aris Petroupoli. In 1976 he joined Ethnikos Piraeus, where he played five seasons...
football player - Georgios MitsibonasGeorgios MitsibonasGeorgios Mitsibonas was a famous Greek football player during the 1980s and 1990s. He was born in 1962 in the village of Tsaritsani in the prefecture of Larissa. He started his football career as a centre forward in Ikonomos Tsaritsanis and in 1981 he signed with Larissa where he played one year...
football player - Antonis MiyiakisAntonis MiyiakisAntonis Migiakis was a star forward for Greek football team Panathinaikos in the 1930s. He is probably best remembered for his memorable performance in his team's 8-2 victory over Olympiakos. During his career he was capped 17 times, scoring 3 goals, for the national football team of...
football player - Vaggelis MorasVaggelis MorasVangelis Moras is a Greek international footballer who plays for Swansea City.-Club career:Moras started his career at the Greek club Larissa and moved to Proodeftiki at the age of 20...
football player - Leonidas MorakisLeonidas MorakisLeonidas Morakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Morakis participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the free pistol event. He placed fourth, though his score is unknown....
shooter - Nikolaos MorakisNikolaos MorakisNikolaos Morakis Morakis competed in the military pistol event. He scored 205 points, finishing in third behind the American brothers John and Sumner Paine....
shooter - Andreas MouratisAndreas MouratisAndreas Mouratis was a legend for Olympiakos, Mouratis was nicknamed "Mourat Aslan" by the Turks because being Greek he would play aggressively like a lion in front of thousands of Turk supporters in their home ground without any fear....
football player - MoustakopoulosMoustakopoulosMoustakopoulos was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Moustakopoulos competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Apostolos NanosApostolos NanosApostolos Nanos is an archer from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery.He was defeated in the first round of elimination, placing 57th overall....
archer - Evangelos Nastos football player
- Konstantinos NebeglerasKonstantinos NebeglerasKonstantinos Nempegleras is a Greek central midfielder playing for Larissa.- Career :Having played in several teams as Larissa, Paniliakos, Iraklis and Aris Thessaloniki F.C., where he was team captain, Nebe was signed by Atromitos mid-season, in January 2009.Nebegleras competed for Greece at the...
football player - Kostas NegrepontisKostas NegrepontisKonstantinos Negrepontis was a Greek football forward of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Constantinople in 1897, he started his football career in Turkey, playing for the Pera-based Pera Club. He also played in France and Fenerbahçe S.K. for a time before eventually settling in Greece to play for...
football player - Kostas NestoridisKostas NestoridisKostas Nestoridis , is a Greek former footballer. He debuted for the Greek National Football Team in 1951 and won 17 caps for his country, scoring 3 goals. Born in Athens of Pontian Greek heritage in 1930, his football career started at Panionios where he played until 1955...
football player - Apostolos Nikolaidis football and volleyball player
- Demis NikolaidisDemis NikolaidisThemistoklis "Demis" Nikolaidis was the forty second president of AEK Athens F.C., and is considered one of the finest footballers Greece has ever produced. In his early childhood and teenage years he lived in the city of Alexandroupoli, in the north-east part of Greece...
football player - Alexandros NikolopoulosAlexandros NikolopoulosAlexandros Nikolopoulos was a Greek weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the one-handed event now known as the snatch, Nikolopoulos finished third out of the four lifters...
weightlifter - Stamatios NikolopoulosStamatios NikolopoulosStamatios Nikolopoulos was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Nikolopoulos competed in the 333 metres and the 2 kilometres races, placing second in each to Frenchman Paul Masson. Nikolopoulos's time in the 2 kilometres was 5:00.2...
cyclist - Antonios NikopolidisAntonios NikopolidisAntonios Nikopolidis , is a former Greek football player, that played as goalkeeper. He's regarded as the best Greek goalkeeper of all time having been awarded the most caps in the national team and playing an integral part in the UEFA Euro 2004 triumph....
football player - Sotiris NinisSotiris NinisSotiris Ninis is a Greek footballer currently playing for Panathinaikos. Ninis is of Greek descent, and a member of the Greek national team. He was born in Albania to Greek parents...
football player - Nikos NiopliasNikos NiopliasNikolaos "Nikos" Nioplias , born on 17 January 1965 is a Greek football manager and former international footballer. He currently manages the Cyprus national football team.-Club career:...
football player - Georgios OrphanidisGeorgios OrphanidisGeorgios Orphanidis was a Greek sports shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....
shooter - Alexandros PagalisAlexandros PagalisAlexandros Pagalis is a young football defender who began his career in the Panathinaikos FC youth academy and played there until June 2006. He had also played for Niki Volou, Fostiras F.C. and FK AS Trenčín. Now he plays for AEK Larnaca in Cyprus....
football player - Alketas Panagoulias football player and manager
- Loukas PanourgiasLoukas PanourgiasLoukas Panourgias was a Greek footballer.At the age of 12 he went to Athens and a year later he formed an unofficial team called Niki. Soon he found himself in Panathinaikos, that was still then called Panellinios Podosfairikos Omilos . Although he was also a track and field champion, Panourgias...
football player - PantazidisPantazidisPantazidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Pantazidis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Anastasios PantosAnastasios PantosAnastasios “Tasos” Pantos is a Greek footballer who currently plays for PAS Giannina. He was born 5 May 1976. His Height is 1,70m and his weight is 71 kg. He primarily plays the right back position, but he can also operate as a left back. Over the years, Pantos has become famous for his speed,...
football player - Alexandros PapadimitriouAlexandros PapadimitriouAlexandros Papadimitriou is a Greek hammer thrower. His personal best throw is 80.45 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Athens. This is the current Greek record. He was born in Larissa.-Achievements:-References:**...
hammer thrower - Avraam PapadopoulosAvraam PapadopoulosAvraam Papadopoulos is a Greek footballer, currently playing for Olympiacos F.C. and the Greek national football team as a central defender.-Aris Thessaloniki:...
football player - Dimitrios PapadopoulosDimitrios PapadopoulosDimitrios Papadopoulos is a Greek footballer, currently playing for Celta Vigo.-Akratitos FC:He started his career from the youth academies of Greek minnows Akratitos, and made his debut in 1999, contributing to the team's promotion to Alfa Ethniki in 2001 for its first time in...
football player - Lazaros PapadopoulosLazaros PapadopoulosLazaros Papadopoulos , is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 7 ft 280 lbs. and he plays at the center position.-Personal:...
basketball player - Antonios PapaigannouAntonios PapaigannouAntonios Papagiannou was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Papaigannou competed in the parallel bars and horizontal bar individual events. He did not win medals in either competition, though his exact ranking is unknown....
gymnast - Mimis PapaioannouMimis PapaioannouDimitris "Mimis" Papaioannou was one of the star football players of AEK Athens FC. He was born in 1942 and began his career at Nea Genea in the town of Nea Nikomedia , Imathia Prefecture. He joined AEK in time for the 1963 season for the paltry sum of 140,000 drachmas...
football player - Lambros PapakostasLambros PapakostasLambros Papakostas is a retired Greek high jumper who won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in 1995 and 1997. His personal best, achieved in Athens in 1992, was 2.36 metres. He is an eight-time national champion for Greece in the men's high jump event.-Achievements:-External links:...
high jumper - Theodoros PapaloukasTheodoros PapaloukasTheódoros "Teó" Papaloukás is a Greek professional basketball player. He currently plays as a point guard for the Israeli League, Adriatic League and Euroleague club Maccabi Tel Aviv....
basketball player - Manolis PapamakariosManolis PapamakariosEmmanouil "Manolis" Papamakarios is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 1.92 m tall point guard-shooting guard.-Pro career:...
basketball player - Christos PapanikolaouChristos PapanikolaouChristos Papanikolaou is a retired Greek pole vaulter.He was born in Trikala. At a young age he joined the Sports Club of Trikala. After completing his high school education he enrolled in the Sports Academy of Athens...
pole vaulter - Georgios PapasiderisGeorgios PapasiderisGeorgios Papasideris was a Greek athlete and weightlifter.-Career:Papasideris was born in Koropi.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the shot put, placing third...
weightlifter - Eleitherios PapasimeonEleitherios PapasimeonEleftherios Papasymeon was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Papasimeon was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished fifth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Athina PapayianniAthina PapayianniAthina Papayianni is a Greek race walker. She was born in Preveza.-Achievements:-External links:...
race walker - Charilaos PappasCharilaos PappasCharilaos Pappas, is a Greek footballer currently playing for Panetolikos.-Club career:He began his career in Panserraikos, Greece. In January 2003, he moved to Thessaloniki signed for Apollon Kalamarias FC. In 2003/04, Pappas' ten goals were a major factor in Kalamaria's winning promotion to the...
football player - Tom PappasTom PappasTom Pappas is an American track & field decathlete.Pappas won the gold medal at the 2003 World Championships held outside Paris, France, and was rated number 1 in the world that year by Track & Field News. He is a four-time US champion and was the 1999 NCAA champion while attending the University...
, world champion decathlete - Georgios ParaskevopoulosGeorgios ParaskevopoulosGeorgios Paraskevopoulos was a Greek cyclist. He participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Paraskevopoulos competed in the 12 hour race and the road race. He did not finish the 12 hours. In the road race, he was not among the top three out of the seven cyclists to compete....
cyclist - Panagiotis ParaskevopoulosPanagiotis ParaskevopoulosPanagiotis Paraskevopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Gortynia and died in Corfu....
discus thrower - Mikhail PaskalidesMikhail PaskalidesMikhail Paskalides was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.In the 100 metres, Paskalides took fourth place in his first round heat and was eliminated from further competition...
sprinter - Konstantinos PaspatisKonstantinos PaspatisKonstantinos Paspatis was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Born in Liverpool, England 5 June 1878 and died in Athens 14 March 1903....
tennis player - Petros PassalisPetros PassalisPetros Passalis is a former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He started his career at Edessaikos and transferred as a great talent at Olympiakos in 1994 were he starred for some years before joining Aris FC in 2001. He retired in 2007....
football player - George PatisGeorge PatisGeorge Patis is a male badminton player from Greece.Patis competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Theodoros Velkos. They were defeated in the round of 32 by Chan Chong Ming and Chew Choon Eng of Malaysia.-References:***...
badminton player - Voula PatoulidouVoula PatoulidouParaskevi Patoulidou was born in Tripotamo . A prolific athlete, Patoulidou throughout her athletics career competed in the 100 metres, 100 metres hurdles and in the long jump events. Patoulidou became a Greek sporting legend in 1992, when she was the surprise winner of the Women's 100 m hurdles...
hurdler - Christos PatsatzoglouChristos PatsatzoglouChristos Patsatzoglou is a Greek international football who plays for PAS Giannina F.C. in the Greek Super League.-Early career:...
football player - PatsourisPatsourisPatsouris was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Patsouris competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Pavlos Pavlidis shooter
- Antonios PepanosAntonios PepanosAntonios Pepanos was a Greek swimmer. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, which merged with Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos in 1923 to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi....
swimmer - Ioannis PersakisIoannis PersakisIoannis Persakis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.Persakis competed in the triple jump, taking third place. His best jump was 12.52 metres.-External links:*...
triple jumper - Petros PersakisPetros PersakisPetros Persakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Persakis competed in the individual rings and team parallel bars events. He placed third in the rings event...
gymnast - Aristovoulos PetmezasAristovoulos PetmezasAristovoulos Petmezas was a Greek gymnast and shooter. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Petmezas entered the pommel horse event. He did not earn a medal, though beyond that his placement in the competition is unknown....
gymnast and shooter - Demetrios PetrokokkinosDemetrios PetrokokkinosDemetrios Petrokokkinos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Petrokokkinos was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by fellow Greek Evangelos Rallis. This put him in a six-way tie for eighth place among the thirteen man field.In the...
tennis player - Ioannis PhrangoudisIoannis PhrangoudisIoannis Frangoudis was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of Lt General. He also competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a shooter....
shooter - Mimis PierrakosMimis PierrakosMimis Pierrakos, a Greek footballer, was a co-player of Angelos Messaris and the top goalscorer for Panathinaikos in 1936, with 18 goals in 10 games. Beside his excellent technique he was also distinguished for his morals. During the Italian invasion in 28 October 1940, he found himself at the...
football player - Perikles Pierrakos-MavromichalisPerikles Pierrakos-MavromichalisPeriklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis , also known as Mavromichalis-Pierrakos, was a Greek officer and politician.He was the son of general Antonios Mavromichalis, of the famed Maniot Pierrakos clan...
fencer - Stiliani PilatouStiliani PilatouStiliani "Stella" Pilatou is a Greek long jumper.Her personal best jump is 6.75 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Volos. This places her fourth in the all-time Greek performers list, behind Niki Xanthou, Paraskevi Tsiamita and Hrysopiyi Devetzi. Pilatou has a better indoor personal best with 6.80...
long jumper - PlatisPlatisPlatis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Platis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Hristos PolihroniouHristos PolihroniouHristos Polihroniou is a Greek hammer thrower.He was born in Athens.His personal best throw is 80.08 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Athens. This ranks him second among Greek hammer throwers, only behind Alexandros Papadimitriou. He was suspended by the IAAF from May 2005 to May 2007...
hammer thrower - Ioannis PoulosIoannis PoulosIoannis Poulos was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Poulos competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Henri Callot, Henri Delaborde, and Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis...
fencer - Evangelia PsarraEvangelia PsarraEvangelia Psarra is an archer from Greece. She represented Greece at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics....
archer - Leonidas PyrgosLeonidas PyrgosLeonidas Pyrgos was a Greek fencer.-Career:Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics on 7 April 1896...
fencer - Evangelos RallisEvangelos RallisEvangelos Rallis was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Rallis defeated fellow Greek Demetrios Petrokokkinos in the first round of the singles tournament. In the second round, though, he faced John Pius Boland of Great Britain and Ireland. He lost to the...
tennis player - Kurt RambisKurt RambisDarrell Kurt Rambis is a retired American professional basketball player and former head coach for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves.-Biography:...
(Kyriakos Rambidis) basketball player, won 4 NBA championships with the Los Angeles LakersLos Angeles LakersThe Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association... - Flora RedoumiFlora RedoumiFlora Redoumi is a Greek hurdler.She was born in Athens.She finished fifth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, seventh at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2006 IAAF World Cup....
hurdler - Dimitrios RegasDimítrios RégasDimítrios Régas is a Greek sprint athlete.He finished 8th in the 200m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg....
sprinter - Efthimios RentziasEfthimios RentziasEfthimios Rentzias is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was most notably a member of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers...
basketball player - Dusty Rhodes, baseball player
- Elpida RomantziElpida RomantziElpida Romantzi is an archer from Greece.She placed 34th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 624 at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In the first round of elimination, she faced 11th-ranked Bérengère Schuh of France. Romantzi defeated Schuh, winning 151-143 in the 18-arrow...
archer - Nicolas RossolimoNicolas RossolimoNicolas Rossolimo was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster. He was many times champion of Paris, France, and after relocating to the United States won the 1955 U.S. Open Championship...
chess player - Georgios RoubanisGeorgios RoubanisGeorgios Roubanis is a Greek athlete. At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in thepole vault, as he scored 4.50m .In order to attend the Melbourne event, Roubanis lost a semester...
pole vaulter - Sakis RouvasSakis RouvasAnastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...
pole vaulter (later became famous as a musician/entertainer) - Dusan SakotaDusan SakotaDušan Šakota is a Greek professional basketball player of Serbian descent, the son of former player and coach Dragan Šakota.A cornerman who possesses the height of a center and the shooting ability of a guard, Šakota has enjoyed two triple crowns despite his relatively young age...
basketball player - Dimitris SalpigidisDimitris SalpigidisDimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis Dimitris Salpigidis (Greek: Δημήτρης Σαλπιγγίδης, (born 18 August 1981, Thessaloniki) is a Greek football striker. He plays for PAOK FC and the Greek national team.-Playing career:...
football player - Georgios SamarasGeorgios SamarasGeorgios Samaras is a Greek footballer who plays for Scottish Premier League club Celtic and the Greek national football team. He is predominantly a left winger but can also play as a striker....
football player - Pete SamprasPete SamprasPete 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; winner of 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles - SanidisSanidisSanidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Sanidis competed in the military pistol event. He did not finish the competition....
shooter - Miltiadis SapanisMiltiadis SapanisMiltiadis Sapanis is a Greek football player, who now plays for Agrotikos Asteras.-Club career:Sapanis previously played for Paniliakos, Panathinaikos FC and AEK Athens in the Greek Super League. He won the double with Panathinaikos in season 2003-04. He also played for Cypriot side APOEL where he...
football player - Dimitris SaravakosDimitris SaravakosDimitrios "Dimitris" Saravakos , nicknamed O Μικρός is a Greek former football player, considered to be one of the best Greek football players of all time. He started his career in Panionios and later he moved on to Panathinaikos FC, where Saravakos gained fame and matured as a footballer,...
football player - Nikos SarganisNikos SarganisNikos Sarganis is a legendary Greek retired football goalkeeper.Born on 15 January 1954, in Rafina, Attica, Sarganis started his football career as a fullback at Ilisiakos...
football player - Georgios SaridakisGeorgios SaridakisGeorgios Saridakis was a Greek athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre walk.He competed for a Greece in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the 3000 metre walk where he won the bronze medal.-External links:*...
race walker - Sofoklis SchortsanitisSofoklis SchortsanitisSofoklis Schortsanitis is a Greek professional basketball player. He was born in Tiko, Cameroon, to a Greek father and a Cameroonian mother.He is listed at and...
basketball player - Yourkas SeitaridisYourkas SeitaridisGeorgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis is a Greek footballer who plays as a defender. He is currently playing for Panathinaikos and is a member of the Greek national football team...
football player - Giorgos SiderisGiorgos SiderisGiorgos Sideris is a retired Greek football striker and is considered one of the greatest forwards in Olympiacos and Greek soccer history. An inside-right forward that no-one or nothing could stand in his way . Very quick with the ball on his feet and a player that had the instinct and charisma to...
football player - Nikolaos SiranidisNikolaos SiranidisNikolaos Siranidis is a Greek diver who competed in the synchronised 3 metre springboard competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. After a bizarre event where the Chinese, Russian and American teams failed, Siranidis won the gold medal together with Thomas Bimis...
diver - Athanasios SkaltsogiannisAthanasios SkaltsogiannisAthanasios Skaltsogiannis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Aitolikon.Skaltsogiannis competed in the 110 metres hurdles. His time and place in the preliminary heat is not recorded, but it is known that he finished third or fourth and did not...
- Giannis SkopelitisGiannis SkopelitisGiannis Skopelitis is a Greek football player. He plays for Cypriot football club AEK Larnaca.-Premier League:...
football player - Georgios SkoutaridesGeorgios SkoutaridesGeorgios Skoutarides was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens and at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.In 1906 he was eliminated in the first round of the 110 metre hurdles competition....
sprinter and hurdler - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder (Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos), TV sports commentator and bookie
- George SotiropoulosGeorge SotiropoulosGeorge Sotiropoulos is an Australian mixed martial artist who is currently fighting in the UFC in the lightweight division. He is well known for appearing as a fighter on the TV show The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra, fighting on Team Serra...
mixed martial artist - Vasileios Spanoulis basketball player
- Konstantinos Spetsiotis race walker
- Spiridon StaisSpiridon StaisSpiridon Stais was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Theofilakis competed in the military rifle event. He tied for twelfth place with Eugen Schmidt at 845 points....
shooter - Andreas StamatiadisAndreas StamatiadisAndreas Stamatiadis is a retired footballer who played as a right winger for AEK Athens F.C. from 1950 until 1969, captain of the team in the latter years. During his career, he made 267 league appearances and scored 60 goals for AEK Athens...
football player - Ieroklis StoltidisIeroklis StoltidisIeroklis Stoltidis , also known as "Iéro", is a retired Greek footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder. He's well known as a passionate, determined anchorman with tremendous mental and physical courage....
football player - Aryiro StratakiAryiro Strataki-Achievements:-Personal bests:-External links:...
heptathlete - Dimosthenis TampakosDimosthenis TampakosDimosthenis Tampakos is a Greek gymnast.He won gold in the men's rings at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a score of 9.862. He had also won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 2003 he tied for first place with Yordan Yovchev at the World Championships.-External links:*...
gymnast - Giannis TaralidisGiannis TaralidisGiannis Taralidis is a Greek football defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Glyfada F.C. in the Football League 2.-External links:***...
football player - Alexandros TatsisAlexandros TatsisAlexandros Tatsis or Alekos Tatsis is a Greek football player.He signed his first professional contract with PAS Giannina. He joined Proodeftiki F.C...
football player - Efstathios TavlaridisEfstathios TavlaridisEfstathios Tavlaridis , commonly known as Stathis Tavlaridis, is a Greek football defender currently playing for Greek Super League club Larissa F.C...
football player - Irini TerzoglouIrini TerzoglouIrini Terzoglou is a Greek shot putter. Her personal best put is 19.10 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Trikala. This is the current Greek record.-Achievements:-External links:*...
shot putter - Ekateríni Thánou sprinter
- Stefanos TheodoridisStefanos TheodoridisStefanos Theodoridis ; born 1950) was a Greek football defender of the 1970s era.Theodoridis played with AEK Athens FC from 1970 until 1979 and was considered one of the top defenders to have played for the club...
football player - Georgios Theodoridis sprinter
- Ioannis TheodoropoulosIoannis TheodoropoulosIoannis Theodoropoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Evrytania.Theodoropoulos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Evangelos Damaskos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres.-External links:*...
pole vaulter - Alexandros TheofilakisAlexandros TheofilakisAlexandros Theofilakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Theofilakis competed at the Summer Olympics in 1896, 1908, 1912 and 1920.At the 1906 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal at 25 m army pistol event....
shooter - Ioannis TheofilakisIoannis TheofilakisIoannis Theofilakis was a Greek shooter who competed at five Olympic games, and one unofficial Olympic Games...
shooter - Dimitrios TomprofDimitrios TomprofDimitrios Tomprof was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tomprof, of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire, placed either fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat of the 800 metres, though records do not indicate whether he was ahead or behind countryman Angelos Fetsis...
middle-distance runner - Vasilis TorosidisVasilis TorosidisVasilios Torosidis is a Greek international footballer. He currently plays for the Greek Super League club Olympiacos F.C. and the Greek national football team.-Skoda Xanthi:...
football player - Nicolaos Trikupis shooter
- A. Tryfiatis-TripiarisA. Tryfiatis-TripiarisA. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tryfiatis-Tripiaris competed in the 12 hour race, but did not finish.-External links:*...
cyclist - Jake TsakalidisJake TsakalidisIakovos "Jake" Tsakalidis is a Georgian, naturalized Greek professional basketball player.Tsakalidis, a , center, holds dual citizenship in Georgia, where he was born, and in Greece, where he was raised and became famous.- Greece :...
basketball player - Kostas TsartsarisKostas TsartsarisKonstantinos "Kostas" Tsartsaris , is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 10 ¾ in tall 115.4 kg power forward, who can also play at the center position if needed...
basketball player - Loúis TsátoumasLouis TsatoumasLouis Tsatoumas is a Greek long jumper.He won his first major senior medal in 2007 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, where he claimed the silver medal behind an Italian record-breaking Andrew Howe. On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata Tsatoumas jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal...
long jumper - Dimitrios TsiamisDimitrios TsiamisDimitrios Tsiamis is a Greek triple jumper.He finished eighth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow.- Personal bests :-Achievements:-External links:...
triple jumper - Paraskeví TsiamítaParaskevi TsiamitaParaskevi Tsiamita is a former track and field athlete from Greece who competed in long jump and triple jump. In 1998 she improved her personal best in triple jump by approximately one metre, and became world champion in 1999 with a personal best jump of 15.07 metres...
triple jumper - Nikos TsiantakisNikos TsiantakisNikolaos "Nikos" Tsiantakis is a retired Greek football midfielder.He most prominently played for Panionios NFC and Olympiacos. His appearance at the 1994 World Cup rounded off his national team career, which lasted from 1988 to 1994, giving him 47 caps and 2 international goals...
football player - Vassilis TsiartasVassilis TsiartasVassilios Tsiartas is a retired Greek international football player who played as an attacking midfielder. Although he was famed for his lackadaisical playing style, his ability was never in question and he was in many ways the epitome of a player who wears the number 10 shirt...
football player - Konstantinos TsiklitirasKonstantinos TsiklitirasKonstantinos Tsiklitiras was a Greek athlete and Olympic champion.Born in Pylos, he moved to Athens to study commerce. Tsiklitiras soon took up sports. He practiced soccer and water polo, but is best remembered for winning four Olympic medals in standing long jump and standing high jump...
Olympic champion standing long jumper - Leonidas TsiklitirasLeonidas TsiklitirasLeonidas Tsiklitiras was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tsiklitiras competed in the horizontal bar event. He did not win a medal, though his exact placement is unknown....
gymnast - Aggeliki TsiolakoudiAggeliki TsiolakoudiAggeliki Tsiolakoudi is a Greek javelin thrower.Her personal best throw is 63.14 metres, achieved at the 2002 European Championships in Munich.-Achievements:-External links:*...
javelin thrower - Chris TsiprailidisChris Tsiprailidis"Syracuse" Christos Tsiprailidis is a professional poker player, based in Syracuse, New York.Before turning to poker as his career, Tsiprailidis worked as a chef and as a soccer player....
poker player - Georgios TsitasGeorgios TsitasGeorgios Tsitas was a Greek wrestler. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the first round of the wrestling competition, held in a roughly Greco-Roman format, Tsitas had a bye to guarantee a top three finish before he even had a match. The semifinal pitted Tsitas against fellow...
wrestler - Athanasia TsoumelekaAthanasia TsoumelekaAthanasia Tsoumeleka is a Greek race walker, who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Until 2003 Tsoumeleka was a largely unknown athlete, and she only finished seventh at the World Championships that year...
race walker - Tryfon TzanetisTryfon TzanetisTryfon Tzanetis was a Greek football player and coach. Born in 1918 in Izmir, he was a best known as a forward for AEK Athens FC during the 1930s and 1940s, partnering Kleanthis Maropoulos in AEK's front line...
football player - Alexandros TziolisAlexandros TziolisAlexandros Tziolis is a Greek international footballer who plays for Racing de Santander.-Early club career:...
football player - Stavros TziortziopoulosStavros TziortziopoulosStavros Tziortziopoulos born 15 August 1978 in Athens is a Greek football defender currently playing for Kalloni F.C.. In 2006–07 he played for AEK Athens FC....
football player - Alexandros TzorvasAlexandros TzorvasAlexandros Tzorvas is a Greek goalkeeper currently playing for Palermo and Greece national football team.-Early career:...
football player - Danai VarveriDanai VarveriDanai Varveri is a Greek free diver, mostly known for her world record dive in 1999 to 40 meters without a mask, fins or suit, in the discipline of constant weight without fins, in 71 seconds...
free diver - Olga VasdekiOlga VasdekiOlga Vasdeki is a Greek triple jumper.She was the most successful Greek triple jumper and Greek record holder until 1998, when she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Budapest, being at the time just the second female Greek athlete to be crowned European Champion after Anna Verouli...
triple jumper - Spyridon Vasdekis long jumper
- Kharilaos VasilakosKharilaos VasilakosCharilaos Vasilakos was a Greek athlete, and the first man to win a marathon race. He also won a silver medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Tripoli.On March 10, 1896, Greece held the first modern Panhellenic Games...
marathoner - Panagiotis VasilopoulosPanagiotis VasilopoulosPanagiotis "Panos" Vasilopoulos is a Greek professional basketball player. He measures 203 cm tall...
basketball player - Kostas VassiliadisKostas VassiliadisKonstantinos "Kostas" Vasileiadis , is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 2.00 m tall swingman.-Pro career:...
basketball player - Fotini VavatsiFotini VavatsiFotini Vavatsi is an archer from Greece. She represented Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics.She placed 51st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 609. In the first round of elimination, she faced 15th-ranked Tetyana Berezhna of Ukraine...
archer - VavisVavisVavis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vavis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....
shooter - Theodoros VelkosTheodoros VelkosTheodoros Velkos is a male badminton player from Greece.Velkos competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner George Patis. They were defeated in the 32nd round by Chan Chong Ming and Chew Choon Eng of Malaysia...
badminton player - Stylianos VenetidisStylianos VenetidisStylianos "Stelios" Venetidis is a football defender who currently plays for Larissa. He is a very constant and composed player, attributes that gave him the chance to play for top class Greek football teams and be an important member for the Greek national football team, playing also in 3 games...
football player - Tassos VenetisTassos VenetisAnastasios "Tassos" Venetis is a Greek footballer. He currently plays in defence and midfield for Kerkyra F.C. in the Beta Ethniki.-Club career:...
football player - Anna VerouliAnna VerouliAnna Verouli is a retired Greek javelin thrower. She was born in Kavala.She won the gold medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics, and a bronze medal at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics....
javelin thrower - Sotirios VersisSotirios VersisSotirios Versis was a Greek athlete and weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Versis competed in the discus throw. He placed third behind American Robert Garrett and fellow Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Versis's best throw was 27.78 metres.In weightlifting, Versis...
weightlifter - Kleanthis Vikelides football player
- Ekateríni VóggoliEkaterini VoggoliEkaterini Voggoli is a retired Greek discus thrower.She is the 2002 European champion and 2003 World Championship bronze medallist. In June 2004 she beat Anastasia Kelesidou's Greek record by 2 centimetres, throwing 67.72 metres in Athens....
discus thrower - Ioannis VourakisIoannis VourakisIoannis Vourakis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vourakis competed in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition....
shooter - Athanasios VourosAthanasios VourosAthanasios Vouros was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vouros competed in the foil event. He placed second of four in his preliminary group after winning his match against Georgios Balakakis, losing to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and winning by forfeit against...
fencer - Ian Vouyoukas basketball player
- Ioannis VrettosIoannis VrettosIoannis Vrettos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vrettos was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished fourth of the nine athletes who completed the race.-External links:*...
marathoner - Zisis VryzasZisis VryzasZisis Vryzas is a former football player, and had been the vice president of PAOK FC for the past 3 years. He was born 9 November 1973 in Kavala, city of northern Greece, located in the region of Macedonia . He played as a striker for various teams in Greece and abroad, as well as the Greek...
football player - Loukas VyntraLoukas VyntraLoukas Vyntra is a Czech-Greek football player. He currently plays for Panathinaikos.-Career:...
football player - Charalambos XanthosCharalambos XanthosCharalambos "Bambos" Xanthos is a Greek Cypriot hotel and restaurant owner based in London, England. Following on from being a backgammon player, he became a semi-professional poker player in 1993.Xanthos learnt poker from his father in 1960....
poker player - Níki XánthouNiki XanthouNiki Xanthou is a Greek long jumper.Xanthou set nine national record in long jump during her career. Her personal best, and national record, is 7.03 metres, achieved in August 1997 in Bellinzona...
long jumper - Thomas XenakisThomas XenakisThomas Xenakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Greece and died in Orange, California, United States....
gymnast - Vasilios XydasVasilios XydasVasilios Xydas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.In 1896 Xydas competed in the pole vault...
pole vaulter - Theodoros ZagorakisTheodoros 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, captain of Greek team that won 2004 European Championship - Akis ZikosAkis ZikosAndreas Vassilis "Akis" Zikos is a retired Greek international football player who played as a defensive midfielder...
football player - Nikos ZisisNikos ZisisNikolaos "Nikos" Zisis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is currently with the pro club Montepaschi Siena.-Player profile:...
basketball player - Khristos ZoumisKhristos ZoumisChristos Zoumis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Chalcis.Zoumis placed either sixth or seventh in the triple jump, with Fritz Hofmann having the other place. There were seven athletes in the event....
triple jumper - Michael KatsidisMichael KatsidisMichael Alan Katsidis is an Australian professional boxer of Greek descent. He is a former two-time WBO interim lightweight titleholder whose crowd-pleasing, all-action fighting style has often drawn comparisons with the late Arturo Gatti.-Amateur career:In an amateur career which began at the...
Professional Boxer
Medieval period
- Saints Cyril and MethodiusSaints Cyril and MethodiusSaints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
, monks and scholars, inventors of the Cyrillic alphabetCyrillic alphabetThe Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School... - Michael Cerularius (c. 1000 – 1059), Patriarch of ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
- John ChrysostomJohn ChrysostomJohn 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...
(347–407), Christian bishop and orator - Photios I of Constantinople (820–891), Patriarch of Constantinople and writer
- Pope EvaristusPope EvaristusPope Saint Evaristus is accounted the fifth Pope, holding office from c. 99 to 107 AD or from 99 to 108. He was also known as Aristus....
(c. 98 – 105), fourth Pope - Pope Stephen IPope Stephen IPope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to 2 August 257.Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he became bishop of Rome in 254, having served as archdeacon of Pope Lucius I, who appointed Stephen his successor....
(254–257) - Pope AgathoPope Agatho-Background and early life:Little is known of Agatho before his papacy. A letter written by St. Gregory the Great to the abbot of St. Hermes in Palermo mentions an Agatho, a Greek born in Sicily to wealthy parents. He wished to give away his inheritance and join a monastery, and in this letter...
(678–681) - Pope John VIPope John VIPope John VI was a Greek pope from Ephesus who reigned during the Byzantine Papacy from October 30, 701 to January 11, 705. His papacy was noted for military and political breakthroughs on the Italian peninsula. He succeeded to the papal chair two months after the death of Pope Sergius I, and his...
(701–705) - Pope John VIIPope John VIIPope John VII was pope from 705 to 707. The successor of John VI, he was of Greek ancestry. He is one of the popes of the Byzantine captivity.-Biography:...
(706–709) - Pope Alexander V (1409–1410), Roman Catholic Antipope in the Pisan line
See also:
- List of Constantinople patriarchs
- List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem
- List of Archbishops of Athens
- List of Archbishops of Cyprus
Entrepreneurs
- Leo FenderLeo FenderClarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short...
Clarence Leonidas Fender: Inventor and founder of Fender Musical Instrument Company - Evangelis and Konstantinos ZappasKonstantinos ZappasKonstantinos Zappas was a Greek entrepreneur and national benefactor. Together with his cousin Evangelis Zappas he played an essential role in the revival of the Olympic Games....
, entrepreneurs and forefathers of modern Olympics - Georgios Zarifis, banker
- Christakis ZografosChristakis ZografosChristakis Zografos - 1896, Paris, France) was a Greek banker holding Ottoman citizenship, benefactor and one of the distinguished personalities of the Greek community of Constantinople .-Early years-Career:...
, banker - Ioannis PangasIoannis PangasIoannis Pangas or Bangas , was a Greek benefactor and merchant from Ottoman Korce, in modern Albania. His father Georgios Pangas was also a notable merchant and philanthropist....
, merchant and philanthropist - Georgios SinasGeorgios SinasGeorgios Sinas was a Greek entrepreneur, banker and national benefactor. He was the founder of the Athens National Observatory.- Biography :Georgios Sinas was born in Niš in 1783 of Greek or possibly Vlach origin, to Northern Epirotian parents. At an early age Sinas lost his mother and was grown...
, banker, diplomat and philanthropist - Simon SinasSimon Sinas- Biography :Simon Sinas was born in 1810 in Vienna. He was of Greek origin, while his family originated from Moscopole. He served as Greek Consul in Vienna, and later as Minister to Austria, the Kingdom of Bavaria, and Germany. The son of Georgios Sinas, also a benefactor and diplomat, Sinas...
, banker, diplomat and philanthropist - Yiannis CarrasYiannis CarrasJohn Constantine Carras was a Greek shipping magnate, grandson of captain and sailing-ship owner Ioannis I. Carras from Kardamyla of Chios. In the late 1960s the fleet of the J. C. Carras group of companies attained its zenith, with 34 ships of an overall capacity some 640,000 dwt...
, ship-owner, creator of Porto CarrasPorto CarrasPorto Carras , known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, is one of northern Greece's largest and most famous hotels and holiday resorts. It is located on Sithonia, Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. It is about 120 km away from Greece's second biggest city, Thessaloniki.Porto Carras was created...
Resort - John D. ChandrisJohn D. ChandrisJohn D. Chandris was a Greek shipping magnate.Chandris was born in Chios, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, after years of experience in the shipping industry, he bought his first ship, the S/S Dimitrios. By World War I, Chandris' fleet was made up of four ships, including steamships...
and family, shipping industry, cruises - Yiannis Dritsas, Giannis inventor of FrappeFrappé coffeeFrappé coffee is a Greek foam-covered iced coffee drink made from instant coffee . It is very popular in Greece and Cyprus, especially during the summer, but has now spread to other countries...
- Sir Stelios Haji-IoannouStelios Haji-IoannouSir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds...
, entrepreneur - Socrates Kokkalis, telecommunications magnate, owner of OlympiacosOlympiacosOlympiacos F.C. , also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name Olympiacos C.F.P. , Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a Greek association football club, part of Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus....
- Sir Eddie KulukundisEddie KulukundisSir Eddie Kulukundis OBE is a member of a Greek shipping family whose professional career has spanned shipping and the theatre....
, entrepreneur and arts patron - George LivanosGeorge LivanosGeorges P. Livanos was born in 1926 in New Orleans. His father was Peter Livanos. During the World War II, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan....
, shipping magnate - John Latsis, shipping magnate
- Spiro LatsisSpiro LatsisDr. Spiro J. Latsis is a Greek businessman with a fortune of US$9.1 billion . He ranked 51st on Forbes's 2006 World's Billionaires list. He is the son of the Greek shipping magnate, John Latsis, who died in 2003....
, banking and shipping magnate - Stavros NiarchosStavros NiarchosStavros Spyros Niarchos was a Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as "The Golden Greek." In 1952, Stavros Niarchos built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil, and subsequently earned millions of dollars as global demand for his ships increased.- Early life :He...
, shipping magnate - Aristotle OnassisAristotle OnassisAristotle Sokratis Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a prominent Greek shipping magnate.- Early life :Onassis was born in Karatass, a suburb of Smyrna to Socrates and Penelope Onassis...
, shipping magnate - Christina OnassisChristina Onassis-See also:*Christina, a song dedicated to her by artist - Patty Griffin*Christina O - the Onassis family yacht, named after Christina by her father-External links:...
, shipping magnate - Athina Onassis-MirandaAthina RousselAthina Onassis Roussel is a French competitive show jumper and heiress. She is the only surviving descendant of her grandfather Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate, and is of half Greek and half French descent.- Early life :...
, granddaughter of Aristotle OnassisAristotle OnassisAristotle Sokratis Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a prominent Greek shipping magnate.- Early life :Onassis was born in Karatass, a suburb of Smyrna to Socrates and Penelope Onassis... - Basil ZaharoffBasil ZaharoffBasil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE , born Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff, was an arms dealer and financier...
, arms trader and financier - Mike LazaridisMike LazaridisMihalis "Mike" Lazaridis , OC, O.Ont is a Greek Canadian businessman. He is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion , which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He is also a former chancellor of the University of Waterloo, and an Officer of the Order of Canada...
, founder and co-CEO of Research In MotionResearch In MotionResearch In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...
(RIM) - George P. MitchellGeorge P. MitchellGeorge Phydias Mitchell is an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas.-Biography:He was born to Greek immigrant parents in the port city of Galveston, Texas. Mitchell earned a degree from Texas A&M University with an emphasis in geology and petroleum engineering...
, businessman, real estate developer
Ancient period
- ColaeusColaeusColaeus was an ancient Samian explorer and silver merchant from, who according to Herodotus was the first Greek to arrive at Tartessos circa 640 B.C. He was richly endowed by the city's king Arganthonios and returned him to Greece....
- Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c. 484 – c. 420 BCE)
- NearchusNearchusNearchus was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica....
(360–312 BCE) - PytheasPytheasPytheas of Massalia or Massilia , was a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony, Massalia . He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe at about 325 BC. He travelled around and visited a considerable part of Great Britain...
(380–310 BCE) - Scylax
- XenophonXenophonXenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...
(c. 435 – c. 355 BCE)
Fashion designers
- Sophia KokosalakiSophia KokosalakiSophia Kokosalaki is a Greek fashion designer with her own label based in London. A graduate of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, she was chosen to design the opening and closing ceremonial outfits for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, which were staged in her home town of...
, haute couture, women, designer for the 2004 Summer Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team... - Panagiotis PapadopoulosPanagiotis PapadopoulosPanagiotis Papadopoulos is a Greek wrestler who specializes in Greco-Roman wrestling.He was a competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the super-heavyweight division, losing in his opening bout to Liu Deli from China.-References:...
, swimwear designer for Panos EmporioPanos EmporioPanos Emporio AB was founded by Panos Papadopoulos who is also the head of design. The company is today represented in over 30 countries throughout Europe and the Caribbean. Panos markets swimwear and accessories under the brand name Panos Emporio...
(based in Sweden) - John VarvatosJohn VarvatosJohn Varvatos is an American contemporary high fashion menswear designer.- Biography :The Varvatos family are originally from the small village of Poulata on the Greek island of Cefalonia. John Varvatos was born in Detroit and grew up in Allen Park, a Downriver community situated south of the city...
, haute couture – men - Peter SpeliopoulosPeter SpeliopoulosPeter Speliopoulos, born in 1961 in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a Greek American fashion designer.-Life as a designer:Speliopoulos studied fashion at Parsons School of Design in New York and graduated with a BFA in 1981. Speliopoulos is best friends with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi who also...
, vice President, DKNY design - James GalanosJames GalanosJames Galanos is an American fashion designer, widely considered to be one the world's foremost 20th century couturiers.-Early life:James Galanos was born September 20, 1924 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only son of Greek-born parents...
- Patricia FieldPatricia FieldPatricia Field is an American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer.-Life and career:Field was born in 1941 in New York City to Greek and Armenian parents, who emigrated from Lesvos, Greece. She was raised in Astoria, Queens and has claimed credit for inventing the modern legging for...
- Nick VerreosNick VerreosNick Verreos is an American fashion designer and contestant on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway.-Early life and education:...
- Jean DessesJean DessesJean Dessès , was a world leading fashion designer in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs reflected the influences of his travels, specializing in creating draped evening gowns in chiffon and mousseline, based on early Greek and Egyptian robes.-Biography:Born Jean Dimitre Verginie in...
, fashion designer in the 1940s to 1960s - Elena VotsiElena VotsiElena Votsi is a Greek jewelry designer. She worked for Gucci for three years before opening her own boutique in Athens.In 2003 she designed the Athens 2004 Olympic Medal...
, jewelry designer
Fashion models
- Alexandra Spiliakos
- Marios LekkasMarios LekkasMarios Lekkas is a male model. He was born in Athens, Greece on April 5, 1979, and started modeling when he was 23 years old. Most recently, Lekkas walked the runway for Frankie Morello, Gazzarini, Giorgio Armani and Versace during Milan Fashion week...
- Evi AdamEvi AdamEvi Adam is one of Greece's top fashion models. She has appeared in many Greek and international fashion magazines and events. In 1999 she married Greek pop star Labis Livieratos on the island of Ios. They have two daughters; the elder is called Nefeli and the younger Danai...
model - Julia AlexandratouJulia AlexandratouJulia Alexandratou is a Greek socialite, media personality, glamour model, singer, actress, and pornographic actress. In 2002, at age 16, she won the beauty pageant title "Miss Young" in Greece. Four years later, Alexandratou won the title "Miss Greece International 2006" at the Miss Star Hellas...
- Evagelia AravaniEvagelia AravaniEvangelia Aravani also spelled Evagelia Aravani, born 1985 in Lefkada, is a Greek fashion model. At the Miss Star Hellas pageant, she won the title of Miss Star Hellas in 2005 and was chosen to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2005 pageant, coming in as a top 15 semifinalist...
- Elena Asimakopoulou
- Marietta ChrousalaMarietta ChrousalaMarietta Chrousala also spelled Marieta Chrousala, Marieta Hrousala, born 1983 in Rizari, Edessa, is a Greek fashion model and television presenter.-Career:...
- Isavella DaraIsavella DaraIsavella Dara is a Greek andFrench model and beauty contestant. She won the title of Miss Europe in 1997.-Career:In 1997 the then 19-year-old was crowned 'B Miss Hellas' in the Miss Star Hellas Pageant, sponsored by ANT1. A few months later, in Kiev, Ukraine, she won the title of Miss Europe...
– Miss EuropeMiss EuropeMiss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established in 1928 and re-established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr...
1997 and winner of Elite Model Look contest 1995 - Mara DarmousliMara DarmousliMara Darmousli, in Greek: Μάρα Δαρμουσλή, is a Greek fashion model.She has appeared in many international fashion events and magazines, her face appearing on the covers of such magazines as Vogue, Marie Claire and Bazaar...
– winner of Elite Model Look contest 1998 - Valentini DaskaloudiValentini DaskaloudiValentini Daskaloudi, born 1979 in Athens, is one of Greece's top fashion models. During the 2001 Miss Star Hellas pageant she won the title Miss Hellas and was chosen to represent Greece at the Miss World pageant which was held in Sun City, South Africa; 93 contestants participated. Valentini...
- Aliki DiplarakouAliki DiplarakouAliki Diplarakou, Lady Russell, was the first Greek contestant to win the Miss Europe title after winning the "Miss Hellas" title at the Miss Star Hellas Pageant. Her name has been spelled in various ways, from Alice Diplarakou to Aliki Diplearakos and Aliki Diplarakos.-Family:She was a daughter...
– Miss EuropeMiss EuropeMiss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established in 1928 and re-established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr...
1930 - Daniela EleftherakiDaniela EleftherakiDaniela Eleftheraki, , once known as the Lolita of the Greek fashion world, is a top Greek fashion model represented by Ace Models Agency. Her modeling career started at age 13 when Takis Diamandopoulos, a well-known fashion photographer in Greece, saw her potential and started to use Daniela in...
- Katerina GeorgiadouKaterina GeorgiadouKaterina Georgiadou is a former Miss Greece and fashion model who has appeared in numerous fashion magazines and international events.-Background:...
- Jenny HiloudakiJenny HiloudakiJenny Hiloudaki is a transsexual Greek former model and brothel keeper who regularly attracted the attention of the Greek media...
- Olympia HopsonidouOlympia HopsonidouOlympia Hopsonidou is a Greek model and beauty contestant. She won the Miss Star Hellas title in April 2006, and went on to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant, which was held in Los Angeles, California in July. Hopsonidou is the second of four children...
- Valia KakoutiValia KakoutiValia Kakouti, born 1981 in Athens, won the Miss Star Hellas 2004 title and was chosen to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Quito, Ecuador...
- Katerina KanonidouKaterina KanonidouKaterina Kanonidou is one of Greece's top fashion models. She has appeared in many Greek and international fashion magazines and events. In 2001 she was voted as one of the most Beautiful People in the world. She is famous for her involvement in the Greek human rights society and the...
- Irini KarraIrini KarraEirini Karra is a Greek model who took part in the Miss Star Hellas pageant in April 2006, and represented her country in the Miss World 2006 pageant, held in Warsaw, Poland. She is currently represented by Ace Models and is also well known for her large participation in the IrchaLovesToby...
- Alex Kavadias
- Vicky KayaVicky KayaVicky Kaya born July 4, 1978, is a Greek model, television presenter and occasional actress who has appeared on the covers of numerous international fashion magazines such as Vogue, Esquire, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Elle.She is currently hosting the Greek equivalent of America's Next Top...
model - Demetres Koutsavlakis
- Olga KypriotouOlga KypriotouOlga Kypriotou is a model and beauty pageant contestant. At the Miss Star Hellas 2004 pageant, she won the B Star Hellas title , where she went on to represent Greece at the Miss International pageant in 2004 in Beijing, China. She showed a strong standing in the event, placing as 2nd runner-up...
- Christina LekkaChristina LekkaChristina Lekka is a model from Greece who became the first and only woman from her country to win the Miss International pageant.-B Miss Hellas:...
– Miss InternationalMiss InternationalMiss International is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960.The current Miss International is Fernanda Cornejo, from Ecuador...
1994 - Katia MargaritoglouKatia MargaritoglouKatia Marie Margaritoglou, in Greek: Κάτια Μαργαρίτογλου, is a Greek fashion model and beauty contestant. In 1998 she won the title Miss Hellas at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and represented Greece at the Miss World 1998 pageant event which took place in the Seychelles...
- Maria MenounosMaria MenounosMaria Menounos is a Greek-American actress, journalist, and television presenter known in America for her appearances as a correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.-Early life and beauty pageants:Menounos, a...
- Katerina MichalopoulouKaterina MichalopoulouKaterina Michalopoulou, in Greek: Κατερίνα Μιχαλοπούλου, was the winner of the "B Miss Hellas" title in the Miss Star Hellas Pageant in 1991. She went on to compete in Dakar, Senegal for the 1991 Miss Europe beauty pageant and came in 1st runner-up...
– Miss EuropeMiss EuropeMiss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established in 1928 and re-established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr...
1991 - Anna NanousiAnna NanousiAnna Nanousi is a Greek fashion model and television host. She has appeared in many Greek and international fashion magazines and events. Aside from modelling she has also acted in a few Greek movies. Currently Anna is represented by Action Management, appearing on the covers of numerous fashion...
- Nikos PapadakisNikos PapadakisNikos Papadakis is a Greek male model and television presenter. He was born on the island of Crete in 1971A former naval petty officer he was the winner of the Manhunt International 1994. Papadakis was the co-presenter, alongside with the Greek fashion model Niki Kartsona, of the weekly television...
– winner of Manhunt InternationalManhunt InternationalManhunt International is an international male beauty pageant which began in 1993, though the roots of the pageant go back a few years more to when one single national preliminary was held in Singapore...
1994 - Evelina PapantoniouEvelina PapantoniouEvelina Papantoniou, born June 7, 1979 in Athens, is a Greek fashion model and actress. She started modeling at the age of 15, and worked as a bartender and waitress before winning the title Miss Star Hellas in 2001 and representing Greece at the Miss Universe 2001 pageant, where she placed as 1st...
- Lena PaparigopoulouLena PaparigopoulouLena Paparigopoulou, also Lena Paparrigopoulou, in , is a Greek fashion model. In 2002, she won the Miss Star Hellas title , and went on to represent Greece at the May 24, 2002 Miss Universe pageant . She has a degree in theology from the University of Athens...
- Anastasia PerrakiAnastasia PerrakiAnastasia Perraki, also spelled Anastasia Peraki, is a Greek model. She has appeared on the covers of fashion magazines such as Madame. Perraki was a Playboy Playmate in the Greek edition of Playboy for August 2005. She is married to Olympic athlete Michail Mouroutsos.-External links:...
- Chrissoula RodiChrissoula RodiChrissoula Rodi won the Miss Star Hellas title in 1931 and went on to represent Greece at the Miss Europe beauty pageant in Paris. She was featured in a collage of portraits of various "Queens of Europe" shown in an old American pictorial magazine, who competed in the Miss Europe 1931 contest with...
- Panayiotis SimopoulosPanayiotis SimopoulosPanayiotis Simopoulos is one of Greece's top male fashion models. He has appeared in numerous fashion magazines and events promoting Greek and international products and appearing on ad campaigns for department stores such as JC Penney. He booked the campaign for the Dolce & Gabbana catalogue...
- Suzi Simpson
- Irene SklivaIrene SklivaIrene Skliva is a Greek woman who was crowned Miss World 1996.-Miss World:...
– Miss WorldMiss WorldThe Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
1996 - Maria SpiridakiMaria SpiridakiMaria Spiridaki , born and raised on the island of Crete, is a Greek fashion model, actress and television presenter. In 2004 she won the title Miss Hellas at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and went on to represent Greece at the Miss World pageant held in Sanya, China in December 2004...
- Katerina StikoudiKaterina StikoudiKaterina Stikoudi won the 2005 title "Miss Hellas" at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and had the chance to represent Greece at the Miss World pageant....
- Marina TsintikidouMarina TsintikidouMarina Tsintikidou is a Greek fashion model and presenter who has appeared on the covers of numerous Greek fashion magazines such as MAX. She won the title of "Star Hellas" in the Miss Star Hellas pageant in 1992. She also carries the honor of being the third Greek contestant to win the title of...
– Miss EuropeMiss EuropeMiss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established in 1928 and re-established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr...
1992 - Katia ZygouliKatia ZygouliEkaterini Zygouli , born July 4, 1978, is a Greek fashion model and occasional actress.-Career:Zygouli is considered as one of the highest-paid Greek models...
– winner of Elite Model Look contest 1996 - Doukissa NomikouDoukissa NomikouDoukissa Nomikou , is a Greek model who represented her country in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant on May 28, 2007 in Mexico City. At 20 years of age, she was crowned Miss Star Hellas on May 3, 2007....
- Zeta Makrypoulia
Filmmakers
- Theo AngelopoulosTheo AngelopoulosTheodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...
, writer and director (Ulysses' GazeUlysses' GazeUlysses' Gaze is a 1995 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The actor Gian Maria Volonté died during the filming. He was replaced by Erland Josephson.-Plot:...
, Eternity and a DayEternity and a DayEternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
) - Michael Cacoyannis, writer, producer and director (Zorba the Greek, Electra, IphigeniaIphigenia (film)Iphigenia is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was ordered by the goddess Artemis to be sacrificed...
) - John CassavetesJohn CassavetesJohn Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen...
, actor (The Dirty DozenThe Dirty DozenThe Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...
, Rosemary's BabyRosemary's Baby (film)Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin...
), writer and director (HusbandsHusbands (film)Husbands is a 1970 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. This ensemble film, which describes three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis, stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk and Cassavetes....
, A Woman Under the InfluenceA Woman Under the InfluenceA Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It focuses on a woman whose psychotic behavior leads her husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment and the effect this has on their family. It received two Academy Award nominations for Best...
, The Killing of a Chinese BookieThe Killing of a Chinese BookieFor the 1974 film of the same name see Dynamite BrothersThe Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 gangster film directed and written by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara....
)- Alexandra CassavetesAlexandra CassavetesAlexandra Cassavetes , nicknamed "Xan", is an American actress and director. She is the daughter of Greek actor-director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is the granddaughter of actress Katherine Cassavetes...
(daughter of John), documentary director - Nick Cassavetes (son of John), actor (Face/OffFace/OffFace/Off is a 1997 action thriller film directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another....
, The Astronaut's WifeThe Astronaut's WifeThe Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 science fiction/thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich. It stars Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron.-Plot:...
), writer (BlowBlow (film)Blow is a 2001 biopic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real...
) and director (John QJohn QJohn Q is a 2002 film directed by Nick Cassavetes starring Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it...
, The NotebookThe Notebook (film)The Notebook is a 2004 romance film directed by Nick Cassavetes, based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during the early 1940s...
)
- Alexandra Cassavetes
- Constantinos HilasConstantinos HilasConstantinos Hilas is a Greek film director and actor. He was born in Athens, Greece, on March 18, 1991.-Βiography:...
- George P. Cosmatos
- Costa-Gavras (Constantinos Gavras)Costa-GavrasCosta-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...
, writer, producer and director (ZZ (film)Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek...
, State of SiegeState of SiegeState of Siege is a 1972 French film directed by Costa Gavras starring Yves Montand and Renato Salvatori.-Summary:...
, MissingMissing (film)Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule...
) - Peter KambasisPeter KambasisPeter Kambasis is a Canadian-born writer/director. He graduated from Ryerson University in June 1999, where he received his Bachelor of Applied Arts in Film Production...
, writer, producer and director of internet-based films - Milton KatselasMilton KatselasMilton Katselas was an American film director and famous Hollywood coach for The Beverly Hills Playhouse...
, acting teacher and director (Butterflies Are FreeButterflies Are FreeButterflies Are Free is a 1972 film based on a play by Leonard Gershe. The 1972 film was produced by M.J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe. It was released on 6 July, 1972 in the USA.Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert starred...
, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? is a play by Mark Medoff.The setting is Foster's Diner, a New Mexico rest stop that lost most of its clientele when a new highway bypass opened. Employees include restless cook Stephen , mousy waitress Angel, and their no-nonsense boss Clark...
) - Elia KazanElia KazanElia 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...
director in theatre and film (Gentleman's AgreementGentleman's AgreementGentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to conduct research for an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut...
, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the WaterfrontOn the WaterfrontOn the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...
, East of Eden, A Face in the Crowd) - Ana KokkinosAna KokkinosAna Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...
- Nikos KoundourosNikos KoundourosNikos Koundouros , is a Greek film director, born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete in 1926.He studied painting and sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and was later exiled because of his political beliefs to the Makronissos island. At the age of 28 he decided to follow a career in cinematography...
- Gregory MarkopoulosGregory MarkopoulosGregory J. Markopoulos was a Greek-American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan...
- George MillerGeorge Miller (producer)George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet and "Babe" family films.Miller is the older brother...
, producer and director (Mad MaxMad MaxMad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and revised by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland. The film stars Mel Gibson, who was unknown at the time. Its narrative based around the traditional western genre, Mad Max tells a story...
, Babe: Pig in the CityBabe: Pig in the CityBabe: Pig in the City is a 1998 sequel to the 1995 film Babe. It occurs in the fictional city of Metropolis. Due to the unexpected darker and more mature subject matter , the film was not received as well as the first Babe film was, as it flopped at the box office and reviews were generally...
, Happy FeetHappy FeetHappy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released...
) - Alexander PayneAlexander PayneAlexander Payne, born Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos is an American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.- Early life :...
, writer, producer and director (ElectionElection (1999 film)Election is a 1999 American comedy film adapted from a 1998 novel of the same title by Tom Perrotta. The plot revolves around a three-way election race in high school, and satirizes both suburban high school life and politics...
, About SchmidtAbout SchmidtAbout Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, starring Jack Nicholson in the title role. It is loosely based on the 1996 novel of the same title by Louis Begley. Many of the scenes were filmed on location, especially in Omaha, Nebraska and Denver, Colorado...
, SidewaysSidewaysSideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to...
) - Andy SidarisAndy SidarisAndrew W. "Andy" Sidaris was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.-Early life:...
- Penelope SpheerisPenelope SpheerisPenelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
, writer, producer and director (SuburbiaSuburbia (film)Suburbia, also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side, is a 1984 film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris about suburban punks who run away from home. The kids take up a minimalist, punk lifestyle by squatting in abandoned suburban tract homes...
, Wayne's WorldWayne's World (film)Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Mike Myers in his film debut as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based Public-access television cable TV show Wayne's World...
, The Decline of Western CivilizationThe Decline of Western CivilizationThe soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the...
) - Dean TavoularisDean TavoularisDean Tavoularis is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.-Biography:...
, production designerProduction designerIn film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...
(Little Big ManLittle Big ManLittle Big Man is a 1970 American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 comic novel by Thomas Berger. It is a picaresque comedy about a Caucasian boy raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century...
, The GodfatherThe GodfatherThe Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...
, Apocalypse NowApocalypse NowApocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
, BulworthBulworthBulworth is a 1998 American film co-written, co-produced and directed by the film's star, Warren Beatty. It was loosely based on the life of Beatty's friend, Tennessee political figure John Jay Hooker. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah...
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Ancient period
- Agis IIIAgis IIIAgis III , son of Archidamus III, was the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta.He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea...
(r.338-?331 BCE), Spartan king who rebelled against Macedon in 331 BCE - AlcibiadesAlcibiadesAlcibiades, son of Clinias, from the deme of Scambonidae , was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War...
(450–404 BCE), Athenian general and statesman - Alexander the Great, (356 – 323 BCE) Macedonian king, and conqueror
- Antiochus IIIthe Great, (c241-187 BCE) Seleucid Monarch
- AntipaterAntipaterAntipater was a Macedonian general and a supporter of kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. In 320 BC, he became Regent of all of Alexander's Empire. Antipater was one of the sons of a Macedonian nobleman called Iollas or Iolaus and his family were distant collateral relatives to the...
, (c.390 – 319 BCE), Macedonian noble and Alexander the Great's regent in Macedon - AristidesAristidesAristides , 530 BC – 468 BC was an Athenian statesman, nicknamed "the Just".- Biography :Aristides was the son of Lysimachus, and a member of a family of moderate fortune. Of his early life, it is only told that he became a follower of the statesman Cleisthenes and sided with the aristocratic party...
(530–468 BCE), Athenian statesman - Cimon, Athenian leader and statesman
- Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, (c.68–30 BCE) Queen of Egypt, from the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty
- DemosthenesDemosthenesDemosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...
(384–322 BCE), politician and orator - Dionysius IDionysius I of SyracuseDionysius I or Dionysius the Elder was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, in what is now Sicily, southern Italy. He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies...
, (c.432-367) ruler of the Syracusan empire - EpaminondasEpaminondasEpaminondas , or Epameinondas, was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek politics...
, (c.420-362) Theban general and statesman - Eucratides, ruler of the Bactrian Greeks
- LeonidasLeonidas ILeonidas I was a hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery...
, (d.480 BCE) Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians - LycurgusLycurgus (Sparta)Lycurgus was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, who established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi...
, (9th century BCE) semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver - LysanderLysanderLysander was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC...
, (d395)Spartan general and hero during the Peloponnesian WarPeloponnesian WarThe Peloponnesian War, 431 to 404 BC, was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases... - Memnon of RhodesMemnon of RhodesMemnon of Rhodes was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC. He commanded the mercenaries at the Battle of the Granicus River, where his troops were massacred by the victorious Macedonians...
, (d.333) Greek mercenary general in Persian army under Darius III - MiltiadesMiltiades the YoungerMiltiades the Younger or Miltiades IV was the son of one Cimon, a renowned Olympic chariot-racer. Miltiades considered himself a member of the Aeacidae, and is known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon; as well as his rather tragic downfall afterwards. His son Cimon was a major Athenian...
, Athenian statesman and general - NearchusNearchusNearchus was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica....
, Alexander's naval commander - PeisistratusPeisistratos (Athens)Peisistratos was a tyrant of Athens from 546 to 527/8 BC. His legacy lies primarily in his institution of the Panathenaic Festival and the consequent first attempt at producing a definitive version for Homeric epics. Peisistratos' championing of the lower class of Athens, the Hyperakrioi, can be...
, Athenian tyrant - PericlesPericlesPericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars...
(495–429 BCE), Athenian leader and statesman - Philip II of MacedonPhilip II of MacedonPhilip II of Macedon "friend" + ἵππος "horse" — transliterated ; 382 – 336 BC), was a king of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was the father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.-Biography:...
, (382–336 BCE)Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great - PolycratesPolycratesPolycrates , son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC.He took power during a festival of Hera with his brothers Pantagnotus and Syloson, but soon had Pantagnotus killed and exiled Syloson to take full control for himself. He then allied with Amasis II, pharaoh of Egypt, as...
, Samian ruler - Ptolemy I, (c356-285) Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded a dynasty in Egypt
- Pyrrhus of EpirusPyrrhus of EpirusPyrrhus or Pyrrhos was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house , and later he became king of Epirus and Macedon . He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome...
, (c318-272)invaded Italy, became known for victories of dubious value (Pyrrhic) - Seleucus I, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded dynasty in Persia
- SolonSolonSolon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens...
, (638–558 BCE) Athenian lawmaker and archonArchonArchon is a Greek word that means "ruler" or "lord", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem ἀρχ-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as monarch, hierarchy, and anarchy.- Ancient Greece :In ancient Greece the... - ThemistoclesThemistoclesThemistocles ; c. 524–459 BC, was an Athenian politician and a general. He was one of a new breed of politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy, along with his great rival Aristides...
, (c.514–449 BCE) Athenian statesman and admiral - XenophonXenophonXenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...
, (430-c.354 BCE) mercenary general, led and recounted march from Persia
Medieval period
- Alexius I Comnenus (1048–1118), Byzantine Emperor
- Basil IIBasil IIBasil II , known in his time as Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young to distinguish him from his ancestor Basil I the Macedonian, was a Byzantine emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025.The first part of his long reign was dominated...
(963–1025), Emperor, known as the 'Bulgar-slayer' - Constantine LascarisConstantine LascarisConstantine Lascaris was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian peninsula, born at Constantinople....
, promoters of the revival of Greek learning in the Italian peninsulaItalian PeninsulaThe Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula is one of the three large peninsulas of Southern Europe , spanning from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. The peninsula's shape gives it the nickname Lo Stivale... - Constantine VIIConstantine VIIConstantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...
, Byzantine Emperor and scholar, 'born in the (Imperial) purple' (Porphyrogenitus) - Constantine XIConstantine XIConstantine XI Palaiologos, latinized as Palaeologus , Kōnstantinos XI Dragasēs Palaiologos; February 8, 1404 – May 29, 1453) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor from 1449 to his death as member of the Palaiologos dynasty...
(1405–1453), last Byzantine Emperor - Gemistus PlethoGemistus PlethoGeorgius Gemistus — later called Plethon or Pletho — was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy. He was one of the chief pioneers of the revival of Greek learning in Western Europe...
, one of the chief pioneers of the revival of learning in Western EuropeWestern EuropeWestern Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
. - HelenaHelena of ConstantinopleSaint Helena also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I...
, Christian mother of Constantine I - Irene, Byzantine Empress, instrumental in the restoration of icons, later sanctified
- Johannes Bessarion, Bishop and CardinalCardinal (Catholicism)A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
- Manuel ChrysolorasManuel ChrysolorasManuel Chrysoloras was a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages....
, one of the pioneers in introducing Greek literature to western Europe. - Manuel I Comnenus (1143–1180),Byzantine Emperor, was responsible for a distinct revival of Byzantine fortunes until his defeat at Myriokephalon
- Michael VIII Palaeologus (1159–1182)- Byzantine (before 1261 Nicene) Emperor, recaptured Constantinople from the Franks.
- Marcus MusurusMarcus MusurusMarcus Musurus was a Greek scholar and philosopher born in Retimo, Castello, Venetian Crete . The son of a rich merchant, he became at an early age a pupil of John Lascaris in Venice....
, professor of Greek languageGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
at the University of PaduaUniversity of PaduaThe University of Padua is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law and was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe. It is among the earliest universities of the world and the second...
. - Nicephorus II Phocas (963–969),Byzantine Emperor and general
- Romanus IV (1068–1071), lost the fateful battle of Manzikert
- Saint CyrilSaints Cyril and MethodiusSaints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
(827–869), Byzantine monk, developed the Glagolitic alphabetGlagolitic alphabetThe Glagolitic alphabet , also known as Glagolitsa, is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ "utterance" . The verb glagoliti means "to speak"... - Theodora, wife of Justinian I, actress, courtesan, Empress.
Ottoman Empire period
- Atik SinanAtik SinanSinan-i Atik, also known as Azadlı Sinan and Atik Sinan , born in Istanbul, was an Ottoman architect for Sultan Mehmed II during the 15th century...
, architect for Mehmed IIMehmed IIMehmed II , was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from...
and Mustafa IIIMustafa IIIMustafa III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III and was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I . He was born in Edirne... - BarbarossaArujAruj or Arouj was the elder brother of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Ottoman Bey of Algiers and Beylerbey of the West Mediterranean...
(1473–1518), famous privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
, older brother of Khair ad Din; (Greek mother) - İbrahim Ethem Pasha, Greek-born Grand VizierGrand VizierGrand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam , deriving from the Arabic word vizier , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself...
- Khair ad Din (1475–1546), Greek-born Ottoman Turkish Admiral, also known as Barbarossa; (Greek mother)
- Pargalı İbrahim PashaPargali Ibrahim PashaPargali Ibrahim Pasha , also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha , Makbul Ibrahim Pasha , and referred to him as Maktul Ibrahim Pasha after his murder in the Topkapı Palace, was the first Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent...
, Suleyman the Magnificent's first appointed Grand Vizier, who left an important landmark on his reign. - Alexandra MavrokordatouAlexandra MavrokordatouAlexandra Mavrokordatou was a famous Greek intellectual and salonist.A member of one of the most famous families in Greece, she was raised in Constantinople, where she was given a good education...
(1605–1683), salonist and intellectual. - Mimar Sinan, architect for Suleyman the Magnificent
- Kosem Sultan
- İshak PashaIshak Pashaİshak Pasha was a Croatian or Greek who became an Ottoman general, statesman and later Grand Vizier.His first term as a grand vizier was during the reign of Mehmet II...
Grand Vizier - Turgut ReisTurgut ReisTurgut Reis was an Ottoman Admiral and privateer who also served as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey, later Pasha, of Tripoli. Under his naval command the Ottoman Empire maritime was extended across North Africa...
Ottoman Admiral
Greece
- Ioannis Capodistrias (1776–1831), first President of the free and unified Greek state, last President of the first Greek republic
- Georgios HatzianestisGeorgios HatzianestisGeorgios Hatzianestis was a Greek general. He was born in Athens. From May 1922 to the end of the war that September, he was Commander-in-Chief of the Greek armies during the last months of the Greco-Turkish War .Following the Trial of the Six, Hatzianestis was executed for...
(1863–1922), General - Constantine KanarisConstantine KanarisConstantine Kanaris or Canaris was a Greek Prime Minister, admiral and politician who in his youth was also a freedom fighter, pirate, privateer and merchantman.-Early life:...
(c. 1794 – 1877), freedom fighter, politician, and later Prime Minister - Constantine IConstantine I of GreeceConstantine I was King of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, in which Greece won Thessaloniki and doubled in...
(1868–1923), King of Greece - Constantine IIConstantine II of Greece|align=right|Constantine II was King of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973, the sixth and last monarch of the Greek Royal Family....
, (born 1940), King of Greece - George IIGeorge II of GreeceGeorge II reigned as King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.-Early life, first period of kingship and exile:George was born at the royal villa at Tatoi, near Athens, the eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia...
(1890–1947), King of Greece - PaulPaul of GreecePaul reigned as King of Greece from 1947 to 1964.-Family and early life:Paul was born in Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. He was trained as a naval officer....
(1901–1964), King of Greece - Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907–1998), President of GreecePresident of GreeceThe President of the Hellenic Republic , colloquially referred to in English as the President of Greece, is the head of state of Greece. The office of the President of the Republic was established after the Greek republic referendum, 1974 and formally by the Constitution of Greece in 1975. The...
and four-time Prime Minister - Kostas Karamanlis (born 1956), Prime Minister of GreecePrime Minister of GreeceThe Prime Minister of Greece , officially the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Greek cabinet. The current interim Prime Minister is Lucas Papademos, a former Vice President of the European Central Bank, following...
and leader of the New Democracy party – Greek-Macedonian - Dimitris PlapoutasDimitris PlapoutasDimitris Koliopoulos Plapoutas was a Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire....
(1786–1864), Greek General in the Greek War of IndependenceGreek War of IndependenceThe Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...
against the rule of the Ottoman EmpireOttoman EmpireThe Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
and later a Politician - Theodoros KolokotronisTheodoros KolokotronisTheodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek Field Marshal and one of the leaders of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire....
(1770–1843), Greek general in the Greek War of IndependenceGreek War of IndependenceThe Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...
against the rule of the Ottoman EmpireOttoman EmpireThe Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries... - Pavlos KountouriotisPavlos KountouriotisPavlos Kountouriotis was a Greek admiral and naval hero during the Balkan Wars and the first and third President of the Second Hellenic Republic.-Family Background:The Kountouriotes was a prominent Arvanite family from the island of Hydra...
(1855–1935), admiral, war hero and later President of GreecePresident of GreeceThe President of the Hellenic Republic , colloquially referred to in English as the President of Greece, is the head of state of Greece. The office of the President of the Republic was established after the Greek republic referendum, 1974 and formally by the Constitution of Greece in 1975. The... - Alexander MavrocordatosAlexander MavrocordatosAlexander Mavrocordato was a member of the Greek family Mavrocordatos, a doctor of philosophy and medicine of the University of Bologna, and dragoman to Sultan Mehmed IV in 1673 - notably employed in negotiations with the Habsburg Monarchy during the Great Turkish War.Alexander Mavrocordatos was...
- Pavlos MelasPavlos MelasPavlos Melas was an officer of the Hellenic Army, and he was among the first who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia....
(1870–1904), hero of Greek Struggle for MacedoniaGreek Struggle for MacedoniaThe Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts between Greeks and Bulgarians in the region of Ottoman Macedonia between 1904 and 1908... - Ioannis MetaxasIoannis MetaxasIoannis Metaxas was a Greek general, politician, and dictator, serving as Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941...
(1871–1941), dictator of Greece before and during the first part of its participation in World War II - Andreas PapandreouAndreas PapandreouAndreas 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...
(1919–1996), economist, politician, and three-time Prime Minister - George Andreas PapandreouGeorge Andreas PapandreouGeorgios A. Papandreou , commonly anglicised to George and shortened to Γιώργος in Greek, is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece following his party's victory in the 2009 legislative election...
(born 1952), current leader of the PASOK political party and former Foreign Minister of Greece (1999–2004). - Aleka PaparigaAleka PaparigaAlexandra "Aleka" Papariga is a communist Greek politician who has served the Communist Party of Greece as its General Secretary since 1991. She is the first woman to head a political party in Greece.- Early years :...
(born 1945), current General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) (1991–) - Karolos PapouliasKarolos Papoulias-Honours:*Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic *Knight Grand Cross of the Grand Order of King Tomislav *Knight of the Order of the Elephant- External links :*...
(born 1929), current President of Greece (2005–) - Kostas Simitis (born 1936), former Prime Minister of Greece (1996–2004)
- Kostis Stephanopoulos (born 1926), former President of Greece (1995–2005)
- Aris VelouchiotisAris VelouchiotisAris Velouchiotis , the nom de guerre of Athanasios Klaras , was the most prominent leader and chief instigator of the Greek People's Liberation Army , the military branch of the National Liberation Front , which was the major resistance organization in occupied Greece from 1942 to 1945...
(27 August 1905 – 16 June 1945) , born Athanasios (Thanasis) Klaras, leader of Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS), the communist segment of Greek guerrilla resistance during World War II - Eleftherios VenizelosEleftherios VenizelosEleftherios 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...
(1864–1936), Prime Minister - Nikos Zachariadis (1903–1973), former Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) (1931–1957)
Northern Epirus
- Apostolos ArsachisApostol ArsacheApostol Arsache or Apostolos Arsakis was a Greek-Romanian politician and philanthropist, born in Northern Epirus. In the Cabinet of Barbu Catargiu , he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and following Catargiu's assassination on 20 June, Arsache briefly served as interim Prime Minister of...
(1792–1874) Greek-Vlach politician and philanthropist, born in Northern EpirusNorthern EpirusNorthern Epirus is a term used to refer to those parts of the historical region of Epirus, in the western Balkans, that are part of the modern Albania. The term is used mostly by Greeks and is associated with the existence of a substantial ethnic Greek population in the region... - Pyrros DimasPyrros DimasTotalTotalPyrros Dimas , born on 13 October 1971) is a retired Greek weightlifter, considered as one of the greatest of all time, having been three times Olympic champion and three times World Champion.- Background :...
(1971– ) retired weightlifter, considered as one of the greatest of all times having been three times OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
champion and three times World ChampionWorld Weightlifting ChampionshipsWorld Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by International Weightlifting Federation .It has been held since 1891. In March 1891, competing against champions from Brussels, Hamburg, England, Vienna, Italy, and Berlin in a three-day event, Edward Lawrence Levy of England won the first...
. - Dimitris NanopoulosDimitri NanopoulosDimitri Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science....
(1948– ) world renowned physicistPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, of a Northern EpirotianNorthern EpirusNorthern Epirus is a term used to refer to those parts of the historical region of Epirus, in the western Balkans, that are part of the modern Albania. The term is used mostly by Greeks and is associated with the existence of a substantial ethnic Greek population in the region...
descent - Georgios SinasGeorgios SinasGeorgios Sinas was a Greek entrepreneur, banker and national benefactor. He was the founder of the Athens National Observatory.- Biography :Georgios Sinas was born in Niš in 1783 of Greek or possibly Vlach origin, to Northern Epirotian parents. At an early age Sinas lost his mother and was grown...
(1783–1856) entrepreneur, banker and national benefactor. Founder of the Athens National Observatory - Evangelos ZappasEvangelos ZappasEvangelis or Evangelos Zappas was a Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist. He is recognized today as a founder of the Olympic Games, who sponsored the Olympic Games of 1859, 1870, and 1875, and preceded the Olympic Games that came under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee...
(1800–1865) businessman and philanthropist. He is recognized today as the founder of the modern Greek Olympic Games - Georgios Christakis-ZografosGeorgios Christakis-ZografosGeorgios Christakis-Zografos was a Greek politician, minister of foreign affairs and president of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus .-Studies & early career:...
(1863–1920), politician, president of the Autonomous Republic of Northern EpirusAutonomous Republic of Northern EpirusThe Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived, self-governing entity founded on February 28, 1914, in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, by the Greeks living in southern Albania ....
Romania
- Iannis Pharmakis (died 1821), revolutionary fighter
- Michael von MelasMichael von MelasMichael Friedrich Benedikt Baron von Melas was a Transylvanian-born field marshal of Greek descent for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars....
, field-marshal for Austrian Empire - Cantacuzene governors of Bessarabia and Walachia (1678–1688)
Spain
- Queen Sofía of SpainQueen Sofía of SpainQueen Sofía of Spain is the wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.-Early life and family:Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika , a former princess of Hanover...
(born 1938), wife of Spain's king Juan Carlos
United Kingdom
- Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....
(born 1921), husband of UK's queen Elizabeth IIElizabeth II of the United KingdomElizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
, born on the island of Corfu. - Norman St.John-Stevas, British politician
- Lord Adonis, British politician
Australia
- Petro GeorgiouPetro GeorgiouPetro Georgiou , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.-Early life:...
, Federal Politician - John HatzistergosJohn HatzistergosJohn Hatzistergos is a former Australian politician who was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council representing the Australian Labor Party between 1999 and 2011...
, Attorney GeneralAttorney GeneralIn most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...
, NSW - Jenny MikakosJenny MikakosJenny Mikakos is an Australian politician for the Australian Labor Party. She is currently the Victorian Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, and a Member of the Legislative Council for Northern Metropolitan Region....
, politician, VIC - Sophie MirabellaSophie MirabellaSophie Mirabella is an Australian federal politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Division of Indi, Victoria...
, federal politician - Sophie Panopoulos, federal politician
- Arthur Sinodinos, Prime Minister's Chief of Staff
- Maria VamvakinouMaria VamvakinouMaria Vamvakinou , is an Australian politician. She has been member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Calwell, Victoria for the Australian Labor Party...
, politician
United States
- Spiro AgnewSpiro AgnewSpiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...
, Governor of Maryland (1967–69) and Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon (1969–73) - Art Agnos, Mayor of San Francisco, California (1988–92)
- Phil AngelidesPhil AngelidesPhilip Nicholas "Phil" Angelides is an American politician who was California State Treasurer and the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Governor of California in the 2006 elections...
, California State Treasurer (1999–2007) - George ArgyrosGeorge ArgyrosGeorge Leon Argyros is the former United States Ambassador to Spain. He is also a successful real estate investor, and was the owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners from 1981 to 1989.-Early and personal life:...
, U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra (2001–04) - Shelley BerkleyShelley BerkleyRochelle "Shelley" Berkley is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1999, and a candidate for U.S. Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education, and legal career:...
, Congresswoman, Nevada 1st District (1999– ) - Mike Bilirakis, Congressman, Florida 9th District (1983–2007)
- Gus BilirakisGus BilirakisGus Michael Bilirakis is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives.- Early life, education and career :...
(son of Mike), Congressman, Florida 9th District (2007– )
- Gus Bilirakis
- John BrademasJohn BrademasJohn Brademas is an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives...
, Congressman, Indiana 3rd District (1959–81) - George Christopher, Mayor of San Francisco, California (1956–64)
- Charlie CristCharlie CristCharles Joseph "Charlie" Crist, Jr. is an American politician who was the 44th Governor of Florida. Prior to his election as governor, Crist previously served as Florida State Senator, Education Commissioner, and Attorney General...
, Governor of Florida (2007– ) - Michael DukakisMichael DukakisMichael 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...
, Governor of Massachusetts (1975–79, 1983–91) and 1988 Democratic Party presidential candidate - Nick GalifianakisNick GalifianakisNick 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...
, Congressman, North Carolina 5th/4th District (1967–73) - George GekasGeorge GekasGeorge 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:...
, Congressman, Pennsylvania 17th District (1983–2003) - Arianna HuffingtonArianna HuffingtonArianna Huffington is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s...
(née Arianna Stassinopoulos), liberal pundit and blogger - Ron KlinkRon KlinkRonald "Ron" Klink is a Democratic politician and former United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Klink was born in Canton, Ohio, and graduated from Meyersdale High School in Pennsylvania in 1969. Klink originally worked behind the scenes at WTAJ-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania...
, Congressman, Pennsylvania 4th District (1993–2001) - Tom C. Korologos, Republican organiser and US ambassador to Belgium (2004–07)
- Andrew ManatosAndrew ManatosAndy Manatos was a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He was the youngest sub-cabinet official in the administration and led the effort that moved the Foreign Commercial Service from the State Department to the Commerce Department...
, Assistant Secretary of Commerce during the Carter administration - Nicholas MavroulesNicholas MavroulesNicholas James Mavroules was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who was jailed after pleading guilty to corruption charges....
, Congressman, Massachusetts 6th District (1979–93) - Markos Moulitsas, blogger and political columnist, founder of the influential liberal blog Daily KosDaily KosDaily Kos is an American political blog that publishes news and opinions from a progressive point of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of netroots activists, whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the Democratic Party...
- John NegroponteJohn NegroponteJohn Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. He is currently a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs...
, United States Director of National Intelligence, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - Peter George PetersonPeter George PetersonPeter G. Peterson is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973 under Richard Nixon. He is most well known currently as...
, Secretary of Commerce under Richard Nixon (1972–73), first Greek American cabinet officer - John PodestaJohn PodestaJohn David Podesta was the fourth and final White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton, from 1998 until 2001. He is the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., and is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law...
, White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, head of Obama transition team - Paul SarbanesPaul SarbanesPaul 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...
, Senator from Maryland (1977–2007)- John SarbanesJohn SarbanesJohn Peter Spyros Sarbanes is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the state capital of Annapolis, central portions of the city of Baltimore, and parts of Anne Arundel, Howard and Baltimore counties.-Early life, education...
(son of Paul) Congressman, Maryland 3rd District (2007– )
- John Sarbanes
- Olympia SnoweOlympia SnoweOlympia 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,...
, Senator from Maine (1995– ) - Zack SpaceZack SpaceZachary T. "Zack" Space is an American politician and the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2007 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...
, Congressman, Ohio 18th District (2007– ) - George StephanopoulosGeorge StephanopoulosGeorge 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...
, former political adviser to President Bill Clinton, television commentator - George TenetGeorge TenetGeorge 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....
, director of the CIA (1997–2004) - Dina TitusDina TitusAlice Costandina "Dina" Titus is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She previously served in the Nevada Senate and was that body's minority leader from 1993 to 2009....
, Congresswoman, Nevada 3rd District (2009– ) - Frances TownsendFrances TownsendFrances M. Fragos Townsend is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush and TV personality. Townsend was appointed to this position by President Bush on May 28, 2004. Her resignation was announced November 19, 2007...
, Homeland Security Adviser to President George W. Bush (2004–07) - Paul TsongasPaul TsongasPaul 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...
, Senator from Massachusetts (1979–85), candidate for the 1992 Democratic Party presidential nomination - Gus YatronGus YatronConstantine "Gus" Yatron was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Yatron represented the 6th congressional district of Pennsylvania for twelve terms, from 1969 until his retirement in 1993...
, Congressman, Pennsylvania 6th District (1969–93)
Modern period
- Rita AbatziRita AbatziRita Abatzi was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s.She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s...
musician - Maurice AbravanelMaurice AbravanelMaurice Abravanel was aSwiss-American Jewish conductor of classical music. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years.-Life:...
conductor - Art AlexakisArt AlexakisArthur Paul "Art" Alexakis is best known as the American singer, composer, and lead guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several notable bands, in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other artists...
guitarist and singer (EverclearEverclear (band)Everclear is a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1992 best known for their radio hits spanning more than a decade. For most of its existence, Everclear has consisted of Art Alexakis , Craig Montoya , and Greg Eklund . Eklund replaced original drummer Scott Cuthbert in 1994...
) - Louis Demetrius AlvanisLouis Demetrius AlvanisLouis Demetrius Alvanis is a classical pianist. He is of Greek origins.Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which...
(born 1960), pianist - Costas AndreouCostas AndreouCostas Andreou is a musician from Athens, Greece. He processes the sounds of fretted and fretless electric bass in real time, creating multi-level soundscapes. The organic instrument sound is processed with analog and digital effects and looped in real time, using various live looping techniques...
composer and musician - Theodore AntoniouTheodore AntoniouTheodore Antoniou , is a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he also holds the position of professor of composition at Boston University...
composer, conductor - Grigoris AsikisGrigoris AsikisGrigoris Asikis was a Greek singer and songwriter of urban Greek music, Rembetiko. He wrote lyrics for most of the songs he recorded and played the outi .-Personal life:...
singer and lyricist - Nikolas AsimosNikolas AsimosNikolas Asimos was a Greek composer and singer. His real surname was Asimopoulos . Asimos was a very special case of a counter-culture artist, mostly because of his choice of lifestyle. His behaviour and songs were often received as provocatory by the general public. He was a person with strong...
singer and composer - Gina BachauerGina BachauerGina Bachauer , was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe....
pianist - ArionArionArion was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth...
semi-legendary figure - Yiorgos BatisYiorgos BatisYiorgos Batis was one of the first rebetes influential to rebetiko music. His real name was Yiorgos Tsoros although he was known as Yiorgos Ampatis...
musician - Grigoris BithikotsisGrigoris BithikotsisGrigoris Bithikotsis was a popular Greek folk singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades.-Biography:...
popular singer and lyricist - Miltiades CaridisMiltiades CaridisMiltiades Caridis was a German-Greek conductor.Caridis was born in Gdańsk, then Free City of Danzig. His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father was a merchant from Greece. His family moved to Weimar Germany and he was raised in Dresden, but his family moved to Greece in 1938,...
conductor - Pavlos CarrerPavlos CarrerPavlos Carrer was a Greek composer.Carrer was born in Zakynthos. He studied in Zakynthos and in Corfu. In the early 1850s he moved to Milan, where his first operas and ballets were performed at the stages of the Teatro Carcano and the Teatro alla Canobbiana. In the same city he published some of...
composer - Petros ChristoPetros ChristoPetros Christodoulidis , born March 4, 1975 in Greece, is the current bass player of the Power metal band Firewind. He has also played in Breaking Silence. He is the owner of Emerald Cafe, named after the Thin Lizzy song, in his home town, Thessaloniki....
guitarist - Nikos ChristodoulouNikos ChristodoulouNikos Christodoulou is a Greek conductor and composer. Among other symphonic works he conducts Skalkottas, which he has recorded. He also conducts opera.-External links:*...
composer and conductor - Jani ChristouJani ChristouJani Christou was a Greek composer.He was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, of Greek parents. He was educated at the English School in Alexandria and he took his first piano lessons from various teachers and from the important Greek pianist Gina Bachauer...
composer - Kelly ClarksonKelly ClarksonKelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.In 2003,...
pop singer, winner of first American Idol season - Christos DantisChristos DantisChristos Dantis , is a Greek singer, songwriter, and musician best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for composing and co-writing the song "My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece.- Early music career...
singer and musician - Dionysios DemetisDionysios DemetisDionysios Demetis is a Greek composer, born in 1979 in Athens. He studied piano at the Ethnikon Odion in Athens. He is best known for two of his compositions, "Moonlight" and "Abyss". He released his first CD of piano compositions in 2000, The Heart Wreck on SpinRecords, a California record...
composer - Odysseas DimitriadisOdysseas DimitriadisOdysseas Dimitriadis was a Greek and at the same time Soviet classical music conductor. During his 70 year career, Odysseas had conducted a number of the world's leading orchestras, as well as being a main conductor of Georgia, USSR state orchestra and the Bolshoy Theatre orchestra...
(1908–2005), conductor - Marina Diamandis, singer for Marina and the Diamonds
- Dimitris DragatakisDimitris DragatakisDimitris Dragatakis was a Greek composer of classical music.He was born in Platanousa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens...
composer - Antiochos EvangelatosAntiochos EvangelatosAntiochos Evangelatos was a Greek composer and conductor. He was born in Lixouri, Cefalonia on 25 December 1903. He studied composition and conducting in Leipzig, Basel and Vienna with Ludwig, Kofler and Felix Weingartner. From 1933 on he taught composition and counterpoint at the Hellenic...
composer and conductor - Kostas ExarhakisKostas ExarhakisKostas "Konstantine" Exarhakis is a Greek heavy metal musician. After playing bass for the unsuccessful thrash metal band Medieval Death in the late 1980s and early 1990s he gained minor recognition by playing on the first album by the power metal band Firewind. He played on this record effectively...
musician - Leo FenderLeo FenderClarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short...
Clarence Leonidas Fender guitarist/inventor and founder of Fender Musical Instrument company - Yorgos FoudoulisYorgos FoudoulisYorgos Foudoulis is a Greek classical guitarist and composer. His professional activities include performing, master classes, editing, and recording....
(born 1964) guitarist and composer - Alexander FreyAlexander FreyAlexander 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 - Gus G.Gus G.Kostas Karamitroudis aka Gus G., born September 12, 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece is a heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne...
guitarist - Katy GarbiKaty GarbiKaterina 'Katy' Garbi is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus, with some popularity in Turkey. Her career has spanned over 20 years and is marked by several multi-platinum releases. Garbi was one of the most successful artists of the 1990s...
singer - Michalis GenitsarisMichalis GenitsarisMichalis Genitsaris was a Greek singer and composer of the rebetiko genre. He was known as the last pre-war rebetiko singer. Born in Piraeus, he composed songs such as Ego maggas fainomouna....
singer and composer - Christos GovetasChristos GovetasChristos Govetas was born in the village of Proti, Serres in the province of Serres in Greek Macedonia. After emigrating to Boston in 1978 he joined the Greek rebetiko band Taximi as a bouzouki player and their main vocalist...
musician - Kostas Grigoreas guitarist and composer
- Manos HadjidakisManos HadjidakisManos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of the Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the "Éntekhno" song ....
(1925–1994) composer - Alkinoos IoannidisAlkinoos IoannidisAlkinoos Ioannidis is a Greek-Cypriot composer, lyricist, singer and orchestrator.He was born in Nicosia on 19 September 1969. His artistic family, with a painter father and poet brother was a source of inspiration for him. He first wanted to study drums, but couldn't due to the lack of a drum...
singer and composer - Sotiris KakisisSotiris KakisisSotiris Kakisis is a contemporary Greek poet. He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry . He has had a long career in journalism, excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted several films, notably director George Panousopoulos' "Love Me...
poet - George KallisGeorge KallisGeorge Kallis is a highly regarded and prolific film composer, renowned for his memorable lyrical melodies and ethnomusicological traits to his scores. He has been described as “the new Jerry Goldsmith” during recent conducting sessions with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra...
composer - Manolis KalomirisManolis KalomirisManolis Kalomiris ), was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music.-Biography:Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov he settled in...
(1883–1962), composer - Iakovos KambanelisIakovos KambanelisIakovos Kambanelis or Kampanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist. Born 2 December 1922 in Hora in the island of Naxos, Kambanelis appears as one of the most prominent Greek artists of the 20th century...
poet and lyricist - Alex KapranosAlex KapranosAlexander Paul Kapranos Huntley , commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a United Kingdom-based musician who is the lead singer and the guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.-Early life:...
, frontman of the pop group Franz Ferdinand - Eleni KaraindrouEleni KaraindrouEleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in Teichio. She studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion in Athens. She is best known for scoring the films of Theo Angelopoulos...
composer - Herbert von KarajanHerbert von KarajanHerbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years...
(Herbert Karajannis) (1908–1989) (Austrian of Greek origin) - Nikos KarvelasNikos KarvelasNikos Karvelas is a Greek songwriter, producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple...
composer - Georgios KasassoglouGeorgios KasassoglouGeorgios Kasassoglou was a Greek classical musician.-External links:*...
musician - Antonios KatinarisAntonios KatinarisAntonios Katinaris was born in Chania, Crete, the first son of a refugee family from Asia Minor. Since his earliest years, he demonstrated his interest and his talent in music. He was already a music professional at the age of 16...
musician - Bob KatsionisBob KatsionisBabis "Bob" Katsionis , born on February 17, 1977 in Athens, Greece, is the rhythm guitarist and keyboard player for the heavy metal/power metal bands Firewind, Revolution Renaissance and Outloud.-Appearances:...
musician - Leonidas KavakosLeonidas KavakosLeonidas Kavakos is a Greek virtuoso violinist .-Beginnings:Born in Athens into a musical family, Kavakos began studying violin at five years old and continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris. An Onassis Foundation scholarship enabled him to attend master classes...
(born 1967), violinist - Stelios KazantzidisStelios KazantzidisStylianos Kazantzidis was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.-Biography :...
singer - Areti KetimeAreti KetimeAreti Ketime , born July 26, 1989, is a singer and a santouri player from Greece who performs a broad spectrum of Greek traditional music....
musician - Panayiotis KokorasPanayiotis KokorasPanayiotis Kokoras is a Greek composer, musician, teacher, writer and Vice President of HELMCA -Studies:Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi, K. Varotsi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at...
musician and composer - Iakovos KolanianIakovos KolanianIakovos Kolanian is a Greek classical guitarist born in Piraeus, Greece and is best known for his performances and transcriptions of ethnic folk music for the classical guitar.-Biography:Kolanian was born in 1960, to an Armenian father and a Greek mother...
guitarist - Stavros KoujioumtzisStavros KoujioumtzisStavros Kouyioumtzis, also Kougioumtzis, Kouyoumtzis, or Koujioumtzis, is one of the most significant Greek music composers of the 20th century....
(1932–2005), composer and lyricist - Akis KatsoupakisAkis KatsoupakisAkis Katsoupakis is a Greek musician, arranger and record producer.-Biography:Born and raised in the city of Thessaloniki, Katsoupakis got into music from the age of 11. He studied piano, classical harmony, and counterpoint. He also took lessons in jazz theory and Jazz piano and seminars on...
(born 1972), musician, composer, and record producer - Rena KyriakouRena KyriakouRena Kyriakou was a pianist and composer born in Herakleion, Crete, Greece.-Education:Rena Kyriakou revealed an early aptitude for the piano and for composition, and gave her first public performance at the age of six in Athens, performing twelve original piano pieces...
pianist - Andreas LagiosAndreas LagiosAndreas Lagios plays bass in the black metal band Rotting Christ and in the stoner rock band Nightstalker.-References:...
guitarist - Alexandre LagoyaAlexandre LagoyaAlexandre Lagoya was a classical guitarist. His early career included boxing and guitar, and as he cites on the sleeve of his 1981 Columbia album, his parents hoped he would outgrow his predilection for both....
guitarist - Tim LambesisTim LambesisTim Lambesis is an American musician, best known as the founding member, lead vocalist of American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. He also has a solo/side project in tribute to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Death Machine, in which he performs all the required instruments...
singer - Leo LeandrosLeo LeandrosLeo Leandros , is a Greek musician, composer and producer. Born in Astakos, Greece, Leandros left in the 1950s for Germany to pursue a career in singing and composing. He had some success, but shifted his focus to his daughter, Vicky, who had been singing from a very early age and turned out to be...
musician and composer - Manos LoizosManos LoïzosManos Loïzos was considered to be one of the most important Greek music composers of the 20th century.-Biography:...
(1937–1982), composer - Sokratis MalamasSokratis MalamasSokratis Malamas is a Greek singer and songwriter.One of the great songwriters of his generation with a very personal and identifiable musical style in his narrative songs....
singer and musician - Nikolaos MantzarosNikolaos MantzarosNikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros was a Greek composer born in Corfu and the major representative of the so called Ionian School of music...
composer - Giannis Markopoulos composer
- Kostas MartakisKostas MartakisKonstantinos "Kostas" Martakis is a Greek singer, who rose to fame after appearing on Greek talent show Dream Show aired by Alpha TV in 2006. Following his participation, he went on to release three studio albums and also participated in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008...
singer - Thanos MikroutsikosThanos MikroutsikosAthanasios Mikroutsikos was born in Patras, Greece and is one of the leading composers of popular and classical music in his home country. He studied music theory and piano at the Patras Philharmonic Society and at the Greek Conservatory and continued under Yiannis A. Papaioannou...
composer - Dimitris MitropoulosDimitris MitropoulosDimitri 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 - Kostas MountakisKostas MountakisKostas Mountakis was a Greek musician who popularized the traditional music of the island of Crete, primarily with the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra. His parents came from the village Kallikratis in Sfakia, Crete...
musician - Georges MoustakiGeorges MoustakiGiuseppe Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki , is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...
(Greek-French) singer and lyricist - Tony OrlandoTony OrlandoMichael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis , better known as Tony Orlando, is an American show business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to...
– singer - Tommy LeeTommy LeeThomas Lee Bass , best known as Tommy Lee, is an American musician and founding member of glam metal band Mötley Crüe. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects...
, drummer - Orianthi Panagaris, singer
- Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (George Michael) singer-songwriter (English of Greek ancestry)
- Tzimis PanousisTzimis PanousisTzimis Panousis is a Greek musician and stand-up comedian born in Athens on February 12, 1954, where he has spent most of his life. His fans often refer to him as “Tzimakos”...
, musician - Lefteris PapadimitriouLefteris Papadimitriou-Biography:He was born in Volos, Greece and lives in Athens. He studied composition with Iannis Ioannidis and has written many compositions for live instruments and electronic media....
, compoer and performer - Lefteris PapadopoulosLefteris PapadopoulosLefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935. He is the son of Greek refugees from the Asia Minor and Russia. He enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but he stopped during the third year in...
poet and lyricist - Thanassis PapakonstantinouThanassis PapakonstantinouAthanasios Papakonstantinou is a Greek singer-songwriter.-Short biography:He is married, with two children. Papakonstantinou studied Mechanical Engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practices as well as being a musician...
singer and lyricist - Elena PaparizouElena PaparizouEleni "Elena" Paparizou , usually referred to abroad as Helena Paparizou, is a Greek-Swedish singer and occasional songwriter, who was born and raised in Sweden by Greek parents. She began her career there in 1999 as a member of the duo Antique, while she also worked briefly as a model for a...
singer, winner of the Eurovison Song Contest 2005 - Apostolos ParaskevasApostolos ParaskevasApostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist. He was born in Volos, Greece.Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award winning Film Director/Producer...
composer and classical guitarist - Pavlos PavlidisPavlos Pavlidis (musician)Pavlos Pavlidis is a Greek singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the band Mora sti Fotia and as the frontman of the alternative rock band Xylina Spathia . He is the leader of the band Pavlos Pavlidis & The B-Movies ....
, singer-songwriter - Stelios PerpiniadisStelios PerpiniadisStelios Perpiniadis , better known as Stellakis , was a Greek folk musician who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the rebetiko style. He was the father of another well-known Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis....
musician - PhivosPhoebus (songwriter)Phoebus sometimes spelled Phivos or Fivos , is a well-known songwriter in both Greece and Cyprus. Phoebus is mostly known for his music through Despina Vandi and Katy Garbi, although he has composed albums for many other artists in Greece and Cyprus...
lyricist - SadahziniaSadahziniaSadahzinia is a Greek rapper, regarded by many as the first woman that entered the hip-hop scene in Greece. Her name is a made up play on the words: "sad" + "jah"+ the flower "zinia". Since 1994 she had been working in the studio and live shows in Greece and Europe with the successful hip-hop/low...
musician - Sakis RouvasSakis RouvasAnastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...
singer and guitarist - Spyros Samaras composer
- Dionysis SavvopoulosDionysis SavvopoulosDionysis Savvopoulos is a Greek music composer, lyricist and singer.He was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963 he moved to Athens, terminating his law studies in favour of his career in music...
singer, composer and lyricist - Kyriakos SfetsasKyriakos SfetsasKyriakos Sfetsas is a Greek composer. His body of work consists of a large number of compositions: symphonic, choral, ballet and theatre music, chamber, electronic, film scores, pieces for solo instruments, pieces in jazz and fusion style, songs in Greek and world poems.-Early life:Sfetsas was...
composer - Dimitris SgourosDimitris SgourosDimitris Sgouros is a Greek classical pianist. He began playing the piano at a young age, and received formal training in Athens, London, and New York. Widely acclaimed for his prodigious musical talent as a boy, Sgouros is one of the world's leading concert pianists...
pianist - Pavlos SidiropoulosPavlos SidiropoulosPavlos Sidiropoulos was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics.- Art :...
musician - Nikolaos SkalkottasNikolaos SkalkottasNikos Skalkottas was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition....
composer - Kostas SkarvelisKostas SkarvelisKostas Skarvelis was a Greek composer of popular music, οf the genre of rembetiko in particular. He also wrote the lyrics for his songs and was an excellent guitar player, having participated in many recordings.-Life:...
composer - Camille-Marie StamatyCamille-Marie StamatyCamille-Marie Stamaty was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies . Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris...
Greek-French composer-pianist - Mikis TheodorakisMikis TheodorakisMikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...
(born 1925), composer - Giorgos Theofanous composer
- Marios TokasMarios TokasMarios Tokas Greek composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. In the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish invadors. In 1975 he went to Athens in order to study in the philosophical school. At the same time, he studied in the Ethniko Odio because he wanted to...
, composer of CypriotCyprusCyprus , 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...
origin - Sakis TolisSakis TolisSakis Tolis is a Greek musician best known as the vocalist and guitarist of Rotting Christ. He is also known as Necromayhem. He has recently produced some of the band's albums and contributed as session keyboardist...
musician - Michalis TravlosMichalis TravlosMichalis Travlos was born in 1950 in Piraeus, Greece. He started his musical studies at Athens National Conservatory in 1970 with Professor Michalis Vourtsis. In 1975, he was accepted to the Hochschule das Künste Berlin, where he studied composition with Professor Isang Yun until 1980, when he...
composer - Tatiana TroyanosTatiana TroyanosTatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent.-Early life:...
mezzo-soprano - Iovan TsaousIovan TsaousIovan Tsaous , , was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko songs from Pontus. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis .-Biography:...
musician and composer - Vassilis TsitsanisVassilis TsitsanisVassilis Tsitsanis was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetika. Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary bouzouki...
popular composer - Markos VamvakarisMarkos VamvakarisMarkos Vamvakaris , was a rebetiko musician. He is universally referred to by rebetiko writers and fans simply by his first name, Markos...
popular composer of rebetikoRebetikoRebetiko, plural rebetika, , occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early... - Despina VandiDespina VandiDespina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...
singer - VangelisVangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
(born 1943), New Age-musician and composer - Marios VarvoglisMarios VarvoglisMarios Varvoglis was a Greek composer of the Modern Era. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Schola Cantorum with Leroux, Georges Caussade, d'Indy and others...
composer - Anna VissiAnna VissiAnna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress...
singer - Haris XanthoudakisHaris XanthoudakisHaris Xanthoudakis is a Greek composer.A native of Piraeus, Xanthoudakis studied with, among others, Iannis Xenakis. Besides music, he has worked in the fields of philology, glottology, semiotics, and art history...
composer - Stavros XarhakosStavros XarhakosStavros Litras is a Greek composer and conductor.Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema...
composer and MEP - Iannis XenakisIannis XenakisIannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
(1922–2001), composer - Nikos XilourisNikos XilourisNikos Xylouris , nicknamed Psaronikos , was a Greek composer and singer from thevillage of Anogeia in Crete and also the older brother of two other great musicians of Cretan music, Antonis Xylouris or Psarantonis and Yiannis Xylouris or...
singer and composer - Nikos XydakisNikos XydakisNikos Xydakis, in Greek Νίκος Ξυδάκης) is a Greek composer, pianist and singer. Born in Cairo, Egypt, he immigrated with his family to Greece in 1963. Much of his music has its root in theatrical music....
pianist and singer - Spyridon XyndasSpyridon XyndasSpyridon Xyndas or Spiridione Xinda was a Greek composer and guitarist, whose last name has also been transliterated as "Xinta", "Xinda", "Xindas" and "Xyntas".-Biography:...
composer and guitarist - Mirka YemendzakisMirka YemendzakisMirka Yemendzakis is a Greek actress, musician, voice coach and director based at the National Theatre of Greece in Athens.She has collaborated with Peter Brook, Peter Oskarson and Robert Wilson, as well as eight years with Peter Stein at the Berliner Schaubühne.- References :...
musician - YanniYanniYanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
(born 1954) Composer, pianist, keyboardist - Savvas YsatisSavvas Ysatis-Early life:Ysatis was born in Athens, Greece, and developed an interest in the synthesizer through exposure to electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk and Jean Michel Jarre in the late 1970s. At age 15, he left Greece to move to New York City, where he acquired some musical equipment and...
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Ancient period
- ApellesApellesApelles of Kos was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists...
- AetionAetionAetion was an ancient Greek sculptor of Amphipolis, mentioned by Callimachus and Theocritus, from whom we learn that at the request of Nicias, a famous physician of Miletus, he executed a statue of Asclepius in cedar wood. He flourished about the middle of the 3rd century BC. There was an...
(4th century BCE) - Berlin PainterBerlin PainterThe Berlin Painter is the conventional name given to an Attic Greek vase-painter who is widely regarded as a rival to the Kleophrades Painter, among the most talented vase painters of the early 5th century BCE .The Berlin Painter along with the Kleophrades Painter was educated by a member of the...
- Euphronius
- ExekiasExekiasExekias was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. Most of his vases, however, were exported to other regions of the Mediterranean, such as Etruria, while some of his other works remained in Athens. Exekias worked mainly with a...
- Parrhasius
- PolygnotusPolygnotusPolygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son and pupil of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship....
- Zeuxis
Modern period
- Theophilos HatzimihailTheophilos HatzimihailTheophilos Hatzimihail , known simply as Theophilos, was a major folk painter of Neo-Hellenic art...
(19th century) - Demetrios GalanisDemetrios GalanisDemetrios Galanis was an early twentieth century Greek artist and contemporary and friend of Picasso. In 1920, the year he completed his `Seated Nude', he exhibited alongside such major figures of modern art as Matisse and Braque, while from 1921 on he also exhibited alongside Juan Gris, Dufy,...
(19th century) - Nicholaos GysisNicholaos GysisNikolaos Gyzis was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928...
(19th century) - Nikos Hadjikyriakos-GhikasNikos Hadjikyriakos-GhikasNikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, iconographer, writer and academic...
(20th century) - Aris KalaizisAris KalaizisAris Kalaizis is a German-Greek painter.-Early life:Aris Kalaizis grew up, as the son of a Greek political immigrants , in Leipzig. He began studying art at the "Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst" in 1992 under Prof. Arno Rink and his former assistant Neo Rauch, and graduated with distinction in...
(21st century) - Christos KapralosChristos KapralosChristos Kapralos was a Greek artist of the 20th century. He was born in Panaitolto in the municipality of ThestiesHe studied drawing at a school with the help of the Agrinian Papastratou Bros...
- Nikiphoros LytrasNikiphoros LytrasNikiphoros Lytras was a nineteenth century Greek painter. He was born in Tinos, and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860 he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held...
(19th century) - Nikos NikolaouNikos NikolaouNikos Nikolaou was a major figure in Greek art during the 20th century.In 1929 Nikolaou is admitted into the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied under Konstantinos Parthenis and Umbertos Argyros....
(20th century) - Konstantinos ParthenisKonstantinos ParthenisKonstantinos Parthenis born in Alexandria, Egypt was a distinguished Greek painter. Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and introduced modern elements together with traditional themes, like the figure of Christ, in his art.-External links:*...
(20th century) - Marie SpartaliMarie Spartali StillmanMarie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman , was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement...
(19th century) - Yannis TsarouchisYannis Tsarouchis-Early life:Born in Piraeus, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts . He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs...
(20th century) - Odysseus YakoumakisOdysseus YakoumakisOdysseus Yakoumakis is a Stuckist artist, painter and illustrator, based in Athens, Greece. He is the founder of the first Greek Stuckist group, The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship, and organiser of the first international Stuckist group show in Greece, Under the Cover of Romantic Anonymity...
(21st century) - Vasilis ZenetzisVasilis ZenetzisVasilis Zenetzis is a modern Greek painter. Born in Alikarnassos, Heraklion, Crete in 1935.He painted seascapes, landscapes by a style he invented and named quadrature....
Ancient period
- AnaxarchusAnaxarchusAnaxarchus was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus. Together with Pyrrho, he accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia. The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics.-Life:...
of AbderaAbdera, ThraceAbdera was a city-state on the coast of Thrace 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. The site now lies in the Xanthi peripheral unit of modern Greece. The municipality of Abdera, or Ávdira , has 18,573 inhabitants... - AnaximanderAnaximanderAnaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales...
(c. 610 – c. 546 BCE) - Anaximenes of MiletusAnaximenes of MiletusAnaximenes of Miletus was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC. One of the three Milesian philosophers, he is identified as a younger friend or student of Anaximander. Anaximenes, like others in his school of thought, practiced material monism...
- ArchimedesArchimedesArchimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an...
- AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
(384–322 BCE) - Athenagoras of AthensAthenagoras of AthensAthenagoras was a Father of the Church, a Proto-orthodox Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian , a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. In his writings he styles himself as "Athenagoras, the...
(c. 133 – 190), early Christian apologist - CelsusCelsusCelsus was a 2nd century Greek philosopher and opponent of Early Christianity. He is known for his literary work, The True Word , written about by Origen. This work, c. 177 is the earliest known comprehensive attack on Christianity.According to Origen, Celsus was the author of an...
- DemocritusDemocritusDemocritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece. He was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos....
(born 460 BCE) - Diogenes of SinopeDiogenes of SinopeDiogenes the Cynic was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes of Sinope , he was born in Sinope , an Ionian colony on the Black Sea , in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure...
(412–323 BCE) - EmpedoclesEmpedoclesEmpedocles was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for being the originator of the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements...
(490–430 BCE) - EpictetusEpictetusEpictetus was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia , and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses...
(55 – c. 135) - EpicurusEpicurusEpicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works...
(341–270 BCE) - EpimenidesEpimenidesEpimenides of Knossos was a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet. While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy...
- EratosthenesEratosthenesEratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist.He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it...
- Gregory of NazianzusGregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the patristic age...
- Gregory of NyssaGregory of NyssaSt. Gregory of Nyssa was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity...
- HecataeusHecataeus of AbderaHecataeus of Abdera was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.-Biography:Diogenes Laertius relates that he was a student of Pyrrho, along with Eurylochus, Timon the Phliasian, Nausiphanes of Teos and others, and includes him among the "Pyrrhoneans"...
- HeraclitusHeraclitusHeraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom...
- Hypatia of AlexandriaHypatia of AlexandriaHypatia was an Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy...
(died 415) - IrenaeusIrenaeusSaint Irenaeus , was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology...
- LeucippusLeucippusLeucippus or Leukippos was one of the earliest Greeks to develop the theory of atomism — the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms — which was elaborated in greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus...
- ParmenidesParmenidesParmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides...
- PherecydesPherecydes of SyrosPherecydes of Syros was a Greek thinker from the island of Syros, of the 6th century BC. Pherecydes authored the Pentemychos or Heptamychos, one of the first attested prose works in Greek literature, which formed an important bridge between mythic and pre-Socratic thought.- Life :Very little is...
- PlatoPlatoPlato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
(c. 427 – c. 347 BCE) - Plethon,(c. 1355 – 1452)
- PlotinusPlotinusPlotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world. In his system of theory there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition...
- ProtagorasProtagorasProtagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue...
- PythagorasPythagorasPythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him...
(582–496 BCE) - SocratesSocratesSocrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
(470–399 BCE) - Thales of MiletusThalesThales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition...
(c. 624 – 547 BCE) - TheagenesTheagenes of PatrasTheagenes of Patras, was a Cynic philosopher and close friend of Peregrinus Proteus.He is known principally as a character who appears in Lucian's The Death of Peregrinus , where he is introduced as praising Peregrinus' desire to kill himself by self-immolation:"Proteus," he cried, "Proteus...
- TheophrastusTheophrastusTheophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...
- XenophanesXenophanesof Colophon was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes life was one of travel, having left Ionia at the age of 25 he continued to travel throughout the Greek world for another 67 years. Some scholars say he lived in exile in Siciliy...
- Zeno of CitiumZeno of CitiumZeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher from Citium . Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in...
(333–264 BCE) - Zeno of EleaZeno of EleaZeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".- Life...
(c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
Modern period
- Adamantios KoraisAdamantios KoraisAdamantios Korais or Coraïs was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as...
- Anthimos GazisAnthimos GazisAnthimos Gazis was a scholar, a philosopher during the Greek Enlightenment, a cartographer and one of the heroes of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Milies in Ottoman Greece in 1758 and died in 1828...
- Nikos KazantzakisNikos KazantzakisNikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...
- Kostas Axelos
- Cornelius CastoriadisCornelius CastoriadisCornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...
- Michail PapageorgiouMichail PapageorgiouMichail Papageorgiou was a Greek philosopher.He was born in Siatista in 1727. He studied philosophy in the Maroutsaia School of Ioannina under Eugenios Voulgaris. Later he visited Germany where he studied philosophy and medicine. He taught in his birthplace Siatista, and also in Selitsa, Meleniko,...
- Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
- Ioannis TheodorakopoulosIoannis TheodorakopoulosIoannis Theodorakopoulos was a Greek philosopher. In 1920 Theodoracopoulos moved to Vienna to study Classical Philology and Philosophy. Subsequently, he continued his studies of philosophy in Heidelberg and receives in 1925 his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Heidelberg.In 1929,...
- Christos YannarasChristos YannarasChristos Yannaras is an important Greek philosopher and writer of more than 50 books, translated into many languages.- Biography :Christos Yannaras is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens...
Ancient period
- AnaximanderAnaximanderAnaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales...
- Apollonius of PergaApollonius of PergaApollonius of Perga [Pergaeus] was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections. His innovative methodology and terminology, especially in the field of conics, influenced many later scholars including Ptolemy, Francesco Maurolico, Isaac Newton, and René Descartes...
- ArchimedesArchimedesArchimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an...
- ArchytasArchytasArchytas was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist. He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics, as well as a good friend of Plato....
- Aristarchos of Samos
- AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
- Autolycus of PitaneAutolycus of PitaneAutolycus of Pitane was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. The lunar crater Autolycus was named in his honour.- Life and work :Autolycus was born in Pitane, a town of Aeolis within Western Anatolia...
- CtesibiusCtesibiusCtesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. He wrote the first treatises on the science of compressed air and its uses in pumps...
- DiophantusDiophantusDiophantus of Alexandria , sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost...
- EratosthenesEratosthenesEratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist.He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it...
- EuclidEuclidEuclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
- Eudoxus of CnidusEudoxus of CnidusEudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy...
- EupalinosEupalinosEupalinos or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island in the 6th century BC....
- GalenGalenAelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamon , was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher...
- Heron of Alexandria
- Hipparchos
- HippocratesHippocratesHippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles , and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine...
- Hypatia of AlexandriaHypatia of AlexandriaHypatia was an Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy...
- Meton of AthensMeton of AthensMeton of Athens was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He is best known for calculations involving the eponymous 19-year Metonic cycle which he introduced in 432 BC into the lunisolar Attic calendar.The metonic calendar assumes...
- ParmenidesParmenidesParmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides...
- Posidonios
- PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
(possibly) - Pythagoras of Samos
- Sostratus of CnidusSostratus of CnidusSostratus of Cnidus , was a Greek architect and engineer. He designed the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World , on the island of Pharos off Alexandria, Egypt.-External links:*...
- StraboStraboStrabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...
- Thales of Miletus
- TheonTheon of SmyrnaTheon of Smyrna was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were strongly influenced by the Pythagorean school of thought. His surviving On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is an introductory survey of Greek mathematics.-Life:Little is known about the life of Theon of...
- TheopompusTheopompusTheopompus was a Greek historian and rhetorician- Biography :Theopompus was born on Chios. In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on account of his Laconian sympathies...
Medieval period
- Anthemius of TrallesAnthemius of TrallesAnthemius 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...
, was involved in the construction of the Haghia Sophia - Isidore of MiletusIsidore of MiletusIsidore of Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine architects that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537A.D.-Summary:...
, 6th-century polymath, principally in charge of design and construction of the Haghia Sophia - Leon the MathematicianLeo the MathematicianLeo the Mathematician or the Philosopher was a Byzantine philosopher and logician associated with the Macedonian Renaissance and the end of Iconoclasm. His only preserved writings are some notes contained in manuscripts of Plato's dialogues. He has been called a "true Renaissance man" and "the...
, 9th-century geometer, subject of a bidding war between the Emperor and Caliph al-Mamun - Callinicus of Heliopolis, engineer, inventor of Greek fireGreek fireGreek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to great effect as it could continue burning while floating on water....
Modern period
- Georgios PapanikolaouGeorgios PapanikolaouGeorgios Nicholas Papanikolaou was a Greek pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".-Life:...
, doctor, Pap smearPap smearThe Papanicolaou test is a screening test used in to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the endocervical canal of the female reproductive system. Changes can be treated, thus preventing cervical cancer...
inventor - Constantin CarathéodoryConstantin CarathéodoryConstantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
, mathematician - Ioannis Argyris, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, Finite Element MethodFinite element methodThe finite element method is a numerical technique for finding approximate solutions of partial differential equations as well as integral equations... - Dimitrios NanopoulosDimitri NanopoulosDimitri Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science....
, astrophysicist - Fotis KafatosFotis KafatosFotis Constantine Kafatos is a Greek molecular entomologist. Between 2005-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council and member of its Scientific Council...
, biologist, current director of the European Research CouncilEuropean Research CouncilThe European Research Council is the independent body that funds investigator-driven frontier research in the European Union . It is part of the Seventh Research Framework Programme .... - Christos PapadimitriouChristos PapadimitriouChristos Harilaos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, United States...
, computer scientist - Manolis AndronikosManolis AndronikosManolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born on October 23, 1919 at Bursa . Later, his family moved to Thessaloniki....
, archaeologist - Spyridon MarinatosSpyridon MarinatosSpyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century.- Career :...
, archaeologist - Athanassios S. Fokas, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, integrableIntegrability conditions for differential systemsIn mathematics, certain systems of partial differential equations are usefully formulated, from the point of view of their underlying geometric and algebraic structure, in terms of a system of differential forms. The idea is to take advantage of the way a differential form restricts to a...
nonlinear partial differential equations - Michael L Dertouzos, former Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
- Nicholas NegroponteNicholas NegroponteNicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ....
, Greek-American founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
's Media LabMIT Media LabThe MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a... - John IliopoulosJohn IliopoulosJohn Iliopoulos is a Greek physicist and the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Luciano Maiani...
, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole... - Panayiotis ZavosPanayiotis ZavosPanayiotis Michael Zavos is a Greek Cypriot biologist from Cyprus. He is also an American citizen who currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.-Biography:...
, geneticist - Joseph SifakisJoseph SifakisJoseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking....
, computer scientist - George P. ChrousosGeorge P. ChrousosGeorge P. Chrousos is professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Athens University Medical School. He was previously Senior Investigator, Director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Section and Training Program, and Chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch of the...
, clinical investigator in pediatrics
(See Academics).
Ancient period
- AgesandrosAgesander of RhodesAgesander was a sculptor from the island of Rhodes. His name occurs in no author except Pliny, and until very recently we have known of only one work which he executed, albeit one very highly renowned work...
, Athanadoros and Polidoros,composed the LaocoonLaocoönLaocoön the son of Acoetes is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology.-History:Laocoön is a Trojan priest of Poseidon , whose rules he had defied, either by marrying and having sons, or by having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary...
group - AgasiasAgasias, son of DositheusAgasias , son of Dositheus, was an ancient Greek sculptor of Ephesus. One of the productions of his chisel, the statue known by the name of the Borghese Gladiator, is still preserved in the gallery of the Louvre. This statue was discovered among the ruins of a palace of the Roman emperors on the...
- Callicrates, relief artist, worked on the Parthenon under the direction of Pheidias
- Lysippus
- MyronMyronMyron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....
- PhidiasPhidiasPhidias or the great Pheidias , was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World...
, sculptor of the colossal statue of ZeusZeusIn the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the "Father of Gods and men" who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart is Tinia.Zeus was the child of Cronus...
, one of the Seven Wonders of the World - Polyclitus
- Polyeuctes
- Pheidias
- PraxitelesPraxitelesPraxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue...
- ScopasScopasScopas or Skopas was an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect, born on the island of Paros. Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and he sculpted parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, especially the reliefs. He led the building of the new temple of Athena Alea at Tegea...
Modern period
- Constantine AndreouConstantine AndreouConstantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades...
(20th century) - Jannis KounellisJannis KounellisJannis Kounellis was born on March 23, 1936 in Piraeus, Greece. He studied in art college in Athens until 1956 and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome....
- Memos MakrisMemos MakrisMemos Makris was a prominent Greek sculptor. He spent his early childhood in Patras but his family moved to Athens in 1919. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and soon became involved in the artistic and cultural life of the 1930s. During the German Occupation Makris joined the National...
- Thodoros PapadimitriouThodoros PapadimitriouThodoros Papadimitriou also known as Thodoros is a Greek sculptor with international importance.-Biography:...
- Nikolaos PavlopoulosNikolaos PavlopoulosNikolaos Pavlopoulos was a Greek sculptor and writer. His education in his years in Volos, he learned himself with calligraphy, music and theatre. When he finished at the Practical Lyceum at Volos, he moved to Athens where he became a sculptor at the school where his teacher was Thomas...
- Panayiotis Vassilakis
- Lydia VenieriLydia VenieriLydia Venieri is a major Greek artist, and a descendant of the Greek branch of the Venier family. Born in Athens, she studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and later lived in Paris. She is currently living in New York...
- Constantin XenakisConstantin XenakisConstantin Xenakis is a European artist based in France. His work often includes written script, in particular the Hebrew alphabet.-Life:...
- TakisTakisVassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...
Singers
- Hrysoula StefanakiHrysoula StefanakiHrysoula Stefanaki is a Greek singer and musician, born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, best known for her performances on Greek and international retro / Jazz songs such as "Tango Noturno", "Blue Haven", "The last Waltz", "Regretting for Wasted Years" and other.Stefanaki started playing piano very...
- Chronis AidonidisChronis AidonidisChronis Aidonidis is a Greek singer born on December 23, 1928 in Karoti, a village now belonging to Didymoteicho, in Greece. His parents were Christos and Chrysanthi Aidonidis...
- Haris AlexiouHaris AlexiouHaris Alexiou is a Greek singer. She is considered one of the most popular singers in Greece and has been commercially successful since the 1970s. She has worked with important Greek songwriters and composers, has performed at top musical theatres all over the world and has received several awards...
- Giorgos AlkaiosGiorgos AlkaiosGiorgos Alkaios is a Greek recording artist. His career began in 1989 after appearing on a Greek reality show. Following a brief period of stage acting, Alkaios dedicated himself to music. His first single, "Ti Ti", made him popular in Greece. His distinctive musical style fuses Greek and Oriental...
- Peter AndréPeter AndréPeter James Andrea , better known by the stage name as Peter Andre, is an English-born Australian musician, singer-songwriter, television personality and businessman. As a recording artist, he has achieving four top 10 UK albums and ten top 10 singles.-Early life:Andre was born at Northwick Park...
, English-born CypriotCyprusCyprus , 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...
-Australian - Lisa AndreasLisa AndreasLisa Andreas is an English singer of Cypriot descent. At age 16, she represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and came fifth with her performance of "Stronger Every Minute". Andreas was the youngest singer taking part in the competition that year.-2001 - 2003:Andreas won a...
, represented Cyprus in the Eurovision 2004 - Marlen AngelidouMarlen AngelidouMarlain Angelidou sometimes spelt Marlen Angelidou , is a Greek singer and actress. She is best known for being former member of Greece's first ever manufactered girl band, Hi-5, as well as representing Cyprus in 1999's Eurovision Song Contest with Tha 'Ne Erotas...
, pop singer, was with Greek pop group Hi-5Hi-5 (Greek band)Hi-5 was a Greek - Cypriot pop girl band consisting of female vocalists Marlen Angelidou, Irini Psichrami, Frosso Papacharalambous, Shaya and Nancy Stergiopoulou, who were the winners of the Greek version of the popular talent show Popstars. The band had a large fanbase in Greece and Cyprus. They... - Lindsay Armaou, was part of the girl band B*Witched (half GreekGreeksThe Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
half Irish) - Annette ArtaniAnnette ArtaniAnnet Artani is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for representing Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Why Angels Cry", as well as co-writing worldwide hit "Everytime" with Britney Spears.Artani is currently signed to Ultra Records and is pursuing a career...
- Eleftheria ArvanitakiEleftheria ArvanitakiEleftheria Arvanitaki is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria...
- Agnes BaltsaAgnes BaltsaAgnes Baltsa is a leading Greek mezzo-soprano.Baltsa was born in Lefkada. She began playing piano at the age of six, before moving to Athens in 1958 to concentrate on singing...
, mezzo-soprano - Maria CallasMaria CallasMaria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...
, soprano - Aris ChristofellisAris ChristofellisAris Christofellis is a sopranist who was born in Athens on 5 February 1960. After studying piano in Athens and Paris, he decided to concentrate on developing his singing voice.He made his debut in Bordeaux in 1984...
, sopranist - Constantinos ChristoforouConstantinos ChristoforouConstantinos Christoforou, Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου , is a very famous Cypriot singer. He has sung for Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, in 1996, 2002 and 2005.-The Years In Cyprus:...
, represented Cyprus in the Eurovision - CleopatraCleopatra (Greek band)Cleopatra Pantazi was born in Athens in 1963, is a Greek singer with a strong, emotional performance. She is known for having represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, in Sweden. The musician Christos Lagos composed for her the song "Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida"...
- George DalarasGeorge DalarasGeorge Dalaras , also possibly spelled as Yorgos or Giorgos Dalaras, is a Greek singer. He is of international fame and has recently been selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. He was born in Nea Kokinia, Piraeus. His father was Loukas Daralas, a singer of rebetiko.-Early...
, renowned contemporary Greek singer - Loukas DaralasLoukas DaralasLoukas Daralas was born in Athens and is perhaps best known as the father of contemporary singer George Dalaras. He was a performer of Rebetiko music in Greece during the 1950s and early 1960s and is famous for the song "To Vouno" , a well-known rebetiko song...
, famous singer of rebetiko and father of George DalarasGeorge DalarasGeorge Dalaras , also possibly spelled as Yorgos or Giorgos Dalaras, is a Greek singer. He is of international fame and has recently been selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. He was born in Nea Kokinia, Piraeus. His father was Loukas Daralas, a singer of rebetiko.-Early... - Angela DimitriouAngela DimitriouAngela Dimitriou is a Greek pop folk singer.She is also famous in the Arab countries across the Middle East, with her song "Margarites" hitting the top of the charts in Lebanon, among other places...
- Diamanda GalasDiamanda GalásDiamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...
- Giorgos PerrisGiorgos PerrisGeorge Perris is a half Greek-half French international singer. Multilingual, he sings in Greek, French, English and Spanish, in all of which he is fluent. As well as singing, he also composes music and writes lyrics to some of his songs. He has studied the piano for 12 years in Athens...
- Mariana EfstratiouMariana EfstratiouMarianna Efstratiou is a Greek singer, connected on several occasions with the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1987 she appeared as a backing singer for the duo Bang. Efstratiou won the Greek national song contest in 1989, overcoming Greek superstar Anna Vissi, and represented Greece in Lausanne with...
- Elpida
- EvridikiEvridikiEvridiki Theokleous , known professionally as simply Evridiki, is a Cypriot rock, pop, and electro pop singer. She is best known in Europe for representing her home country, Cyprus, in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1994 and 2007 with the songs Teriazoume, Eimai Anthropos Ki Ego and Comme...
- Maria FarantouriMaria FarantouriMaria Farantouri was born in Athens on 28 November 1947. She is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with prominent Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the score for Pablo Neruda's Canto General, which Farantouri performed...
- Mario FrangoulisMario FrangoulisMario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò". He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek; he is fluent in all 5 languages.-Early life:...
, tenor - Keti Garbi, famous singer
- Sevas HanumSevas HanumSevas Hanum , was a Greek singer. Her real name was Sevasti Papadopoulou and she became popular in the 1950s and 1960s by singing oriental songs.She was engaged to Stelios Kazantzidis, with whom she worked....
- Thanos KallirisThanos KallirisThanos Kalliris is a Greek singer who was born in Athens. His father is a guitarist and composer, Titos Kalliris. In the 1980s, he was a part of the pop music band Bang alongside Vassilis Dertilis. In the 1990s he wrote and sung pop songs and ballads, making a successful solo career for himself....
- Nektaria KarantziNektaria KarantziNektaria Karantzi is a Byzantine and traditional singer from Greece.- Legal studies :Nektaria Karantzi studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and also obtained a postgraduate degree in criminal law from the University of Athens...
- Vasilis KarrasVasilis KarrasVasilis Karras is a Greek folk singer, in 2010 he celebrated his 30th year as a recording artist.-Biography:...
- Prodromos KathiniotisProdromos KathiniotisProdromos Kathiniotis is a Greek reality-TV celebrity and singer. His fame is largely attributed to the Greek version of Big Brother. His first album, "The first game" has elements of traditional Greek music. He appeared as a panel member in a daily TV show called H Ellada Paizei hosted by...
- Stelios KazantzidisStelios KazantzidisStylianos Kazantzidis was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.-Biography :...
popular singer considered by many as the greatest of Greek popular music. - Panos KiamosPanos KiamosPanos Kiamos is a Greek laiko/pop singer, known for his distinctive voice and on-stage energy.-Early career:His early career began with appearances in major nightclubs alongside well-established names in the Greek music scene, such as Tolis Voskopoulos, Makis Christodoulopoulos, Eleni Dimou and...
- Elli KokkinouElli KokkinouElli Kokkinou is a Greek singer who was born in Athens, Greece. Kokkinou is among the most popular singers in Greece today. She has performed together with Greek music stars such as Anna Vissi, Glykeria, Paschalis Terzis, Sakis Rouvas, Tolis Voskopoulos, Thanos Petrelis, Natassa Theodoridou,...
- Stelios KonstantasStelios KonstantasStylianos Konstantas is a Cypriot-born singer. He participated in two Cypriot national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, coming second in 1997 with I grammitis ntropi, and fourth in 1999 with Methysmeno feggari. In 2003, he performed the song "Feeling Alive" as the Cypriot entry for the...
- Stavros KonstantinouStavros KonstantinouStavros Konstantinou is a Greek Cypriot singer who rose to popularity after winning Super Idol, the Greek version of Pop Idol, shown by MEGA TV in 2004, in its only season under that name...
, winner of Super Idol, the Greek version of Pop IdolPop IdolPop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003... - Demetres Koutsavlakis
- Tim LambesisTim LambesisTim Lambesis is an American musician, best known as the founding member, lead vocalist of American metalcore band As I Lay Dying. He also has a solo/side project in tribute to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Death Machine, in which he performs all the required instruments...
- Vicky LeandrosVicky LeandrosVicky Leandros is a Greek singer with a long international career. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou...
- Labis LivieratosLabis LivieratosHaralambos Livieratos who was born in Athens on April 3 19??, is a Greek singer.-Early life and career:In 1987 Lambis graduated from the dramatic school of G. Theodosiadis. His first theatrical performance was during the winter of 1988 in a play called Xenodohio O Paradisos...
- MandoMando (singer)Mando , born Adamantia Stamatopoulou , is a popular Greek singer. She was born in Piraeus on April 13 and raised in Athens by her jazz pianist father, Nikos Stamatopoulos and a classic soprano opera mother Mary Apergi. From a young age she began to develop her talent and interest in music, and was...
- Kostas MartakisKostas MartakisKonstantinos "Kostas" Martakis is a Greek singer, who rose to fame after appearing on Greek talent show Dream Show aired by Alpha TV in 2006. Following his participation, he went on to release three studio albums and also participated in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008...
, finalist in Greek Eurovision choice of 2008 - Giorgos MazonakisGiorgos MazonakisGiorgos Mazonakis is a Modern Laika and pop Greek singer.-Biography:Giorgos Mazonakis born and raised in the neighbourhood of Nikaia, Athens. He grew up listening to traditional folk songs of Stratos Dionysiou, Yiannis Parios, Marinella and Haris Alexiou. Very quickly, at the age of 15, he...
- Irini Merkouri
- Cat StevensCat StevensYusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
- George MichaelGeorge MichaelGeorge 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...
(Georgios Panayiotou), Greek-British pop singer - Sarbel MichaelSarbelSarbel Michael known professionally as Sarbel, is a Greek Cypriot pop singer of partial Cypriot and Lebanese ancestry. He is well known in Cyprus, Greece and parts of the Arab world for his debut single, "Se pira sovara", and his subsequent albums Parakseno sinesthima, Sahara and Kati san esena...
, represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007Eurovision Song Contest 2007The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It was won by first-time appearance as an independent country Serbia and was held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from 10 May to 12 May. The host broadcaster was YLE.Finland earned the right to host... - Dimitri MinakakisDimitri MinakakisDimitri Minakakis grew up in Morristown, New Jersey. Minakakis is the original singer and founding member of the band The Dillinger Escape Plan. Minakakis left the band in 2001 to focus more on Graphic Arts/Design...
, former vocalist of The Dillinger Escape PlanThe Dillinger Escape PlanThe Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The group originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie. The band's current line-up consists of guitarist Ben Weinman,... - Vicky MoscholiouVicky MoscholiouVicky Moscholiou , born in Metaxourgeio in Athens, was a Greek singer. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Moscholiou the 13th top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era ....
- Nana MouskouriNana MouskouriNana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
- Argyris NastopoulosArgyris NastopoulosArgyris Nastopoulos was born in Germany in 1979 but he grew up in Athens. He worked as a magician as a teenager. In 1999 he was chosen by the Cypriot composer, Georges Theofanous, to be one of the members in the first boy-band of Greece, ONE. ONE became very popular and commercially successful in...
- Apostolos NikolaidisApostolos Nikolaidis (singer)Apostolos Nikolaidis was a Greek singer whose career spanned four decades. He was born in Drama, Greece and grew up in Thessaloniki...
- Marika NinouMarika NinouMarika Ninou , was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, born Evangelia Atamian .-Biography:...
- Froso Papaharalambous, of the Greek pop group Hi-5Hi-5 (Greek band)Hi-5 was a Greek - Cypriot pop girl band consisting of female vocalists Marlen Angelidou, Irini Psichrami, Frosso Papacharalambous, Shaya and Nancy Stergiopoulou, who were the winners of the Greek version of the popular talent show Popstars. The band had a large fanbase in Greece and Cyprus. They...
- Vasilis PapakonstantinouVasilis PapakonstantinouVasilis Papakonstantinou is a Greek singer known mostly for his work in Greek rock. Most of his songs have gained considerable popularity, mainly in Greece and Cyprus.- Early life :...
- Giannis PoulopoulosGiannis PoulopoulosGiannis Poulopoulos is a Greek singer-songwriter who had many prominent hits in the Greek music world during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
, popular singer - Elena PaparizouElena PaparizouEleni "Elena" Paparizou , usually referred to abroad as Helena Paparizou, is a Greek-Swedish singer and occasional songwriter, who was born and raised in Sweden by Greek parents. She began her career there in 1999 as a member of the duo Antique, while she also worked briefly as a model for a...
(aka Helena Paparizou), winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005Eurovision Song Contest 2005The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the 50th Eurovision Song Contest, which was held at the Palace of Sports, Kiev, Ukraine. The winner was Greece's My Number One, written by Christos Dantis and Natalia Germanou and performed by Swedish-born Greek singer Elena Paparizou, who scored 230 points,...
representing GreeceGreece in the Eurovision Song ContestGreece has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 32 times since 1974, with the exception of 1975, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999 and 2000. Greece won for the first time in 2005 with "My Number One" song by Elena Paparizou. Following the introduction of a semi-final round for the 2004 contest, Greece... - Apollo PapathanasioApollo PapathanasioApostolos "Apollo" Papathanasio is a Swede of Greek descent heavy metal vocalist, who is currently with the bands Firewind, Spiritual Beggars and Evil Masquerade. He has also sung for Meduza, Gardenian, and Richard Andersson's projects Majestic and Time Requiem.In 2007, Papathanasio had to opt...
- Giannis Ploutarxos
- Irini Psyhramiof the Greek pop group Hi-5Hi-5 (Greek band)Hi-5 was a Greek - Cypriot pop girl band consisting of female vocalists Marlen Angelidou, Irini Psichrami, Frosso Papacharalambous, Shaya and Nancy Stergiopoulou, who were the winners of the Greek version of the popular talent show Popstars. The band had a large fanbase in Greece and Cyprus. They...
- Michalis RakintzisMichalis RakintzisMichalis Rakintzis is a male Greek singer. He was born in Athens and studied Mechanical Engineering in Great Britain. From 1982 to 1985, he participated at a rock group called Scraptown...
- Antonis RemosAntonis RemosAntonis Remos , is a Greek laïko singer.-Early life:Antonis Remos was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany. He was raised there by his Greek parents, and later his family moved back to their native Thessaloniki, Greece, where he finished school. During his childhood he got involved with music and...
- Kostas RoukounasKostas RoukounasKonstantinos Roukounas was a Greek singer. His repertoire included both "traditional" and "popular" songs . Most notable is his contribution to the subgenre of rebetiko...
- Demis RoussosDemis RoussosArtemios Ventouris Roussos is a Greek singer and performer, best known for being the main musical partner of movie soundtrack composer Vangelis and a string of international hit records as a solo performer in the 1960s and 1970s...
, pop singer, formerly with VangelisVangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
in Aphrodite's ChildAphrodite's ChildAphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou , Demis Roussos , Loukas Sideras , and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris . Their band's name was derived from the title of a track from another Mercury act, Dick Campbell, from his Sings Where It's At album... - Sakis RouvasSakis RouvasAnastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...
, World Music Award-winning pop/rock singer and entertainer - SabrinaSabrina (Greek singer)Sabrina is a Greek pop singer born in Zimbabwe to Greek immigrant parents. Her grandparents fled during the Greek-Turkish War and settled in Africa as many Greek refugees did so back then. The family moved back to Greece and Sabrina began her pop career....
- Kalomoira Saranti, Greek AmericanGreek AmericanGreek Americans are Americans of Greek descent also described as Hellenic descent. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions that around 3,000,000 Americans claim to be of Greek descent...
singer who represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008Eurovision Song Contest 2008The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008... - Elena SouliotisElena SouliotisElena Souliotis was an operatic soprano."-Biography:Elena Souliotis was born in Athens, Greece of Greek and Russian parents but moved with her family to Argentina at an early age...
, soprano - Nansy Stergiopoulou, if the Greek pop group Hi-5Hi-5 (Greek band)Hi-5 was a Greek - Cypriot pop girl band consisting of female vocalists Marlen Angelidou, Irini Psichrami, Frosso Papacharalambous, Shaya and Nancy Stergiopoulou, who were the winners of the Greek version of the popular talent show Popstars. The band had a large fanbase in Greece and Cyprus. They...
- Paschalis TerzisPaschalis TerzisPaschalis Terzis is a popular Greek singer.-Biography:Terzis was born in Pylaia, a suburb of Thessaloniki in the region of Northern Greece. In his early teens he began to sing with friends, some of whom helped him in his career...
- Natassa TheodoridouNatassa TheodoridouNatassa Theodoridou , born October 24, 1970 in Thessaloniki, is a well-known Greek singer and the only female Greek artist to have her first three albums achieve platinum status. She has been certified for a total of at least 432 thousand albums and 20 thousand singles sales by IFPI Greece...
- Marios TokasMarios TokasMarios Tokas Greek composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. In the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish invadors. In 1975 he went to Athens in order to study in the philosophical school. At the same time, he studied in the Ethniko Odio because he wanted to...
, composer - Panos Tserpes
- Babis TsertosBabis TsertosHaralambos Tsertos was born in Tropea of Arcadia, Greece on October 27, 1956. He is brother of the singer Nadia Karagianni. His father was a musician too, and he was playing the Mandolin...
- Despina VandiDespina VandiDespina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...
, first Greek artist with a #1 in Billboard (Dance charts-USA); World Music Award winner in 2002 - Alex Varkatzas, Lead singer of metalcore band Atreyu
- Anna VissiAnna VissiAnna Vissi , known as Anna Vishy in Cypriot Greek, is a Greek-Cypriot recording artist and actress...
- Lia VissiLia VissiOlympia Vissi is a Greek Cypriot singer, songwriter, composer and politician, most notable for her two participations in the Eurovision Song Contest and being older sister of Greek Cypriot singer Anna Vissi.-Career:...
- Tolis VoskopoulosTolis VoskopoulosApostolos Voskopoulos is one of the legends of modern Greek music. He also starred in many films and played in the Theatre in Athens....
- Peggy ZinaPeggy ZinaKalliopi Zina , known professionally as Peggy Zina, is a Greek singer. Peggy Zina made her discographic debut in 1995 with her self-titled album. She has since released ten studio albums and is a high-profile artist in the Greek music industry...
- Marianna ZorbaMarianna ZorbaMarianna Zorba, in greek alphabet: Μαριάννα Ζορμπά is a Greek singer and a music teacher. She loves ethnic and folk music. In 1997 she represented Greece in the 42nd Eurovision Song Contest. She was engaged to the composer of her song, Manolis Manouselis, the week before the grand finale in...
- Theodosia TsatsouTheodosia TsatsouTheodosia Tsatsou is a Greek singer, known for her songs with the band "Ble", and also for her solo career.- Biography :...
Tycoons
- Socratis KokkalisSocratis KokkalisSokratis Kokkalis is a Greek businessman who has been a member of the Forbes 500 list of the world's 500 richest people. He is the Chairman, CEO and majority shareholder of Intracom Holdings, one of the largest multinational technology groups in South-Eastern Europe, and the Chairman and majority...
Telecommunications. - Yiannis LatsisYiannis LatsisYiannis Latsis , also John Spyridon Latsis, was a Greek shipping tycoon notable for his great wealth, influential friends, and charitable activities.-Biography:...
Shipping. - George LivanosGeorge LivanosGeorges P. Livanos was born in 1926 in New Orleans. His father was Peter Livanos. During the World War II, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan....
Shipping. - Stavros NiarchosStavros NiarchosStavros Spyros Niarchos was a Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as "The Golden Greek." In 1952, Stavros Niarchos built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil, and subsequently earned millions of dollars as global demand for his ships increased.- Early life :He...
Shipping. - Aristotle OnassisAristotle OnassisAristotle Sokratis Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a prominent Greek shipping magnate.- Early life :Onassis was born in Karatass, a suburb of Smyrna to Socrates and Penelope Onassis...
Shipping. - Paris LatsisParis LatsisParis Latsis is a Greek shipping heir and socialite. He is the grandson of Yiannis "John S." Latsis. He is also the former boyfriend of American socialite Paris Hilton.-Biography:...
Shipping. - John Paul PapanicolaouJohn Paul PapanicolaouJohn Paul Papanicolaou was a Greek businessman active in the shipping industry. A family friend of the Onassis family, he is best known for his purchase and restoration of the Onassis family yacht, now known as the Christina O, which he operated as a charter yacht...
Shipping.
Ancient period
- AeschylusAeschylusAeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
- AlcaeusAlcaeus (comic poet)Alcaeus, the son of Miccus, was an Athenian comic poet whose comedies marked the transition between Old Comedy and Middle Comedy. In 388 BC, his play Pasiphae was awarded the fifth place prize...
- AlcmanAlcmanAlcman was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the nine lyric poets.- Family :...
- AnacreonAnacreonAnacreon was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.- Life :...
- ApollodorusApollodorusApollodorus of Athens son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace...
- Apollonius Rhodius
- AristophanesAristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
- CallimachusCallimachusCallimachus was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian–Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes...
- Cassius Dio
- EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
- Eusebius of CaesareaEusebius of CaesareaEusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
- Hecataeus of Miletus
- Hecataeus of AbderaHecataeus of AbderaHecataeus of Abdera was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.-Biography:Diogenes Laertius relates that he was a student of Pyrrho, along with Eurylochus, Timon the Phliasian, Nausiphanes of Teos and others, and includes him among the "Pyrrhoneans"...
- HesiodHesiodHesiod was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and...
- HomerHomerIn the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
- LongusLongusLongus, sometimes Longos , was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos during the 2nd century AD...
- Marcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus LucanusMarcus Annaeus Lucanus , better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period...
, frequently called Lucan - MenanderMenanderMenander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso...
- PausaniasPausanias (geographer)Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical...
- PindarPindarPindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...
- PlutarchPlutarchPlutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
- PolybiusPolybiusPolybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...
- PolycarpPolycarpSaint Polycarp was a 2nd century Christian bishop of Smyrna. According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp, he died a martyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him...
- SapphoSapphoSappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life...
- SophoclesSophoclesSophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
- TheocritusTheocritusTheocritus , the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.-Life:Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems commonly attributed to him have little claim to...
- ThucydidesThucydidesThucydides was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC...
Medieval period
- Anna Comnena
- Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
- Isaac of NinevehIsaac of NinevehIsaac of Nineveh also remembered as Isaac the Syrian and Isaac Syrus was a Seventh century bishop and theologian best remembered for his written work. He is also regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church...
- John of DamascusJohn of DamascusSaint John of Damascus was a Syrian monk and priest...
- Michael PsellosMichael PsellosMichael Psellos or Psellus was a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian...
- ProcopiusProcopiusProcopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History...
- ZozimusZozimusMichael J. Moran , popularly known as Zozimus, was an Irish street rhymer. He was a resident of Dublin and also known as the "Blind Bard of the Liberties" and the "Last of the Gleemen".-Biography:...
Modern period
- Aris AlexandrouAris AlexandrouAris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional , he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among the classic modern Greek works in the second half of the 20th...
- Manolis AnagnostakisManolis AnagnostakisManolis Anagnostakis was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s. Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries and influenced the generation of poets immediately after him...
- Iason AthanasiadisIason AthanasiadisIason Athanasiadis is a writer, photographer, political analyst, and television producer who has contributed to a range of media, including the BBC, al-Khenzeera, and Channel 4...
- Constantine P. CavafyConstantine P. CavafyConstantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes was a renowned Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant...
- Athanasios ChristopoulosAthanasios ChristopoulosAthanasios Christopoulos , Greek poet, was born at Kastoria in Macedonia.He studied at Buda and Padua, and became tutor to the children of Alexander Mourousis, Prince of Wallachia...
- Kiki DimoulaKiki DimoulaKiki Dimoula is an acclaimed Greek poet. She worked as a clerk for the Bank of Greece. She was married to the poet Athos Dimoulas , with whom she had two children...
- Maro DoukaMaro DoukaMaro Douka is an acclaimed Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens...
- Odysseus Elytis Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1979
- Andreas EmbirikosAndreas EmbirikosAndreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.-Life:...
- Nikos EngonopoulosNikos EngonopoulosNikos Engonopoulos was a modern Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of the Greek Generation of the '30s as well as a major representative of the surrealistic movement in Greece...
- Jeffrey EugenidesJeffrey EugenidesJeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
- Rigas FeraiosRigas FeraiosRigas Feraios or Rigas Velestinlis was a Greek writer and revolutionary of Aromanian origin, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.-Early...
- Nikos GatsosNikos Gatsos-Biography:Nikos Gatsos was born in 1911 in Asea in Arcadia, a district of the Peloponnese, where he finished primary school . He attended high school in Tripoli, where he became acquainted with literature and foreign languages. Afterwards, he moved to Athens, where he studied literature,...
- Kostis GimossoulisKostis GimossoulisKostis Gimossoulis is a Greek poet and novelist. He read Law at the University of Athens. He is also a draughtsman and watercolorist, and Μαύρος Χρυσός , a book he published in 2001, contains poems, stories and watercolors he produced.-Poetry:*Ο ξυλοκόπος πυρετός ,1983*Η Αγία Μελάνη , 1983*Το στόμα...
- Demetris Th. GotsisDemetris Th. GotsisDemetris Th. Gotsis is a Greek poet and author residing in Cyprus. He was born on October 26, 1945 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received musical education since his parents were trained opera singers.-Background:He specialized in...
- Sotiris KakisisSotiris KakisisSotiris Kakisis is a contemporary Greek poet. He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry . He has had a long career in journalism, excelling as an interviewer, has written song lyrics, and has scripted several films, notably director George Panousopoulos' "Love Me...
- Andreas KalvosAndreas KalvosAndreas Kalvos was a contemporary of Dionysios Solomos and one of the greatest Greek writers of the 19th century. Paradoxically enough, no known portrait of his survives today.-Biography:...
- Iakovos KambanelisIakovos KambanelisIakovos Kambanelis or Kampanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist. Born 2 December 1922 in Hora in the island of Naxos, Kambanelis appears as one of the most prominent Greek artists of the 20th century...
- M. KaragatsisM. KaragatsisM. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya,...
- Nikos KarouzosNikos KarouzosGiannakis 'Ioannis' Okkas is a Cypriot football striker. He currently plays for Anorthosis Famagusta FC. He is also the captain of the Cyprus national football team.- International career :...
- Kostas KaryotakisKostas KaryotakisKostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism...
- Nikos KavvadiasNikos KavvadiasNikos Kavvadias was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who used his travels around the world as a sailor, and life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.- Early life and...
- Nikos KazantzakisNikos KazantzakisNikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum opus...
- Antigone KefalaAntigone KefalaAntigone Kefala is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council....
- Yannis KondosYannis KondosYannis Kondos is an award winning Greek poet. He read Economics at the University of Piraeus . He founded the bookshop Ηνίοχος in 1971, along with Thanassis Niarchos. Since 1975, he has been working for Kedros publishers...
- Menis Koumantareas
- Dimitris P. KraniotisDimitris P. KraniotisDimitris P. Kraniotis is a contemporary Greek poet. Born in 15 July 1966 in Stomio - Larissa, a coastal town in central Greece.- Biography :...
- Napoleon LapathiotisNapoleon LapathiotisNapoleon Lapathiotis was a Greek poet. A native of Athens, he began writing and publishing poetry when he was eleven. In 1907, along with others, he established the Igiso magazine, in which he published his works...
- Christoforos LiontakisChristoforos LiontakisChristoforos Liontakis is an award winning Greek poet and translator. He read Law at the University of Athens and Philosophy of Law at Sorbonne, Paris...
- Dimitris LyacosDimitris LyacosDimitris Lyacos is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He was born and raised in Athens where he studied Law. From 1988-1991 he lived in Venice, then moved to London, studied philosophy at University College London and stayed there for thirteen years...
- Jenny MastorakiJenny MastorakiJenny Mastoraki is a Greek poet and translator. She read Philology at the University of Athens.She belongs to the Genia tou 70, which is a term used to describe Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and...
- Stratis MyrivilisStratis MyrivilisStratis Myrivilis , a major figure in the literary history of 20th Century Greece, is the pseudonym of Efstratios Stamatopoulos. He wrote mostly fiction: novels, novellas, and short stories.- Biography :...
- Kostis PalamasKostis PalamasKostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioanis Polemis.-Biography:Born in Patras, he...
- Alexandros PanagoulisAlexandros PanagoulisAlexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture that he was subjected to during his...
- Alexandros PapadiamantisAlexandros PapadiamantisAlexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer.-His life:Papadiamantis was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean Sea. The island would figure prominently in his work. His father was a priest...
- George PavlopoulosGeorge PavlopoulosGeorge Pavlopoulos was a Greek poet, relatively unknown outside Greece, but admired within his own country by fellow poets such as George Seferis....
- George PelecanosGeorge PelecanosGeorge P. Pelecanos is a Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer...
- Maria PolydouriMaria PolydouriMaria Polydouri was a Greek poet.Polydouri was born in Kalamata. She was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis, with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair...
- Lefteris PouliosLefteris PouliosLefteris Poulios is a Greek poet.He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the...
- Ioannis PsycharisIoannis PsycharisIoannis Psycharis was a French philologist of Greek origin, author and promoter of Demotic Greek.- Biography :...
- Yannis Ritsos
- Miltos SachtourisMiltos SachtourisMiltos Sachtouris or Miltos Sahtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Giorgos Sachtouris. When he was young he adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis...
- David SedarisDavid SedarisDavid Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor....
- Giorgos SeferisGiorgos SeferisGiorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs . He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate...
- Angelos SikelianosAngelos SikelianosAngelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance...
- Takis SinopoulosTakis SinopoulosTakis Sinopoulos was a Greek poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets...
- Giannis SkarimpasGiannis SkarimpasGiannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.-Biography:...
- Dionysios SolomosDionysios SolomosDionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty , of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek national anthem in 1865...
- Alexandros SoutsosAlexandros SoutsosAlexandros Soutsos was a Greek poet from a prominent Phanariote family. He founded the Greek Romantic school of poetry. Soutsos was born in Istanbul in 1803 from Chian parentage. At the time of the Greek Revolution, he was a young, liberal partisan. He wrote poems to encourage the insurgents....
- Alexis StamatisAlexis StamatisAlexis Stamatis is a well known Greek novelist, and poet born in Athens, Greece. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and took postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London. He has published nine novels...
- Theodore StephanidesTheodore StephanidesTheodore Stephanides was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist. He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell, featuring in Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and Fillets of Plaice, Durrell's brother Lawrence's Prospero's Cell, and Henry Miller's...
- Vassilis SteriadisVassilis SteriadisVassilis Steriadis was a Greek poet and critic. He read Law at the University of Athens and Italian at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy...
- Nanos ValaoritisNanos ValaoritisNanos Valaoritis is one of the most distinguished writers in Greece today. He has been widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939, and his correspondence with George Seferis has been a bestseller...
- Kostas VarnalisKostas VarnalisKostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.-Life:Varnalis was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 1884. As his name suggests, his family originated from Varna. He completed his elementary studies in the Zariphios Greek high school in Plovdiv and then moved to Athens to study literature at the National and...
- Vassilis VassilikosVassilis Vassilikos-Biography:A native of the northern Greek island of Thasos, Vassilikos grew up in Thessaloniki, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist....
- Haris VlavianosHaris VlavianosHaris Vlavianos , is a contemporary Greek poet.-Biography:He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol and Politics and History at the University of Oxford...
General
- Manolis AndronikosManolis AndronikosManolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born on October 23, 1919 at Bursa . Later, his family moved to Thessaloniki....
(1919–1992), archaeologist, discovered the MacedonMacedonMacedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south....
ian tombs in VerginaVerginaVergina is a small town in northern Greece, located in the peripheral unit of Imathia, Central Macedonia. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Veroia, of which it is a municipal unit... - ChristodoulosChristodoulosChristodoulos was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, from 1998 until his death, in 2008.- Early life and career :...
, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece (1998–2008) - Gianna Angelopoulos-DaskalakiGianna Angelopoulos-DaskalakiGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is a Greek business woman. She is best known for being the president of the bidding and organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
, President of organising committee, Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Patriarch Athenagoras, former Patriarch of Constantinople
- Patriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinoplePatriarch Bartholomew I of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991...
, Greek-Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch - George BizosGeorge BizosGeorge Bizos is a distinguished human rights advocate who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa, most notably during the Rivonia Trial.-Early life:...
, Greek-South African human rights advocate - Moisis Michail BourlasMoisis Michail BourlasMoisis Michail Bourlas was a Greek Jewish member of the World War II resistance.-Biography:He was born Moisis Bourlas on May 9, 1918 in Cairo. His parents were both Greek Jews, his father from the city of Volos and his mother from the island of Khios. Moisis was the fourth child of a large family...
, member of World War II Greek resistance - Cornelius CastoriadisCornelius CastoriadisCornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...
, economist and philosopher - Zoe CruzZoe CruzZoe Cruz is a Greek-born American senior banking executive and former co-president of Morgan Stanley. In 2006, she was on the list of Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women of the World and ranked the #10 spot. She was known as the highest paid and most powerful woman on Wall Street.-Early life:Cruz was...
, co-president of Morgan StanleyMorgan StanleyMorgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000.... - Michael Dertouzos, internet pioneer
- Nikos DimouNikos DimouNikos Dimou, born in 1935 in Athens, is a Greek writer. He has worked in advertising and as a columnist for magazines and newspapers.- Biography :...
, writer and philosopher - Odysseas ElytisOdysseas ElytisOdysseas Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:...
, poet and Nobel prizewinner - Mario FrangoulisMario FrangoulisMario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò". He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek; he is fluent in all 5 languages.-Early life:...
, opera singer - Manolis GlezosManolis GlezosManolis Glezos is a Greek left wing politician and writer, worldwide known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance.- 1939 - 1945 :...
, World War II veteran, grassroots democracy activist and politician - Nikos HadjinikolaouNikos HadjinikolaouNikos Hatzinikolaou , , also spelled as Hatzinicolaou and Chatzinikolaou is a Greek journalist. He studied at Panteion University without receiving his university degree...
(born 1962), television news anchor, journalist - Iakovos, Archbishop of AmericaIakovos, Archbishop of AmericaArchbishop Iakovos , born Demetrios Koukouzis was the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from 1959 until his resignation in 1996...
(died 2005), late primate of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese of America - Sir Alec Issigonis, British-Greek creator of the MiniMiniThe Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...
car - Eleni KonsolakiEleni KonsolakiEleni Konsolaki, also Eleni Konsolaki-Giannopoulou or Eleni Konsolaki-Yannopoulou is a Greek archaeologist who is renowned internationally and excavated in areas including Troezen, Poros and Methana....
, archaeologist who researched MethanaMethanaMethana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....
and the TroezenTroezenTroezen is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....
area in 1990 - Vissarion KorkoliacosVissarion KorkoliacosVissarion Korkoliacos , also spelled as Visarion or Vissarion Korkoliakos, , was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece...
(1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose... - Polyvios Kossivas, bystander who became famous in the 2004 Olympic Games for helping a runner
- Makarios IIIMakarios IIIMakarios 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 ....
, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus - Spyridon MarinatosSpyridon MarinatosSpyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century.- Career :...
, archaeologist - Melina MercouriMelina MercouriMelina Mercouri , born as Maria Amalia Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer and politician.As an actress she made her film debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi and Promise at Dawn...
, actress, singer and politician - Dimitri NanopoulosDimitri NanopoulosDimitri Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science....
, quantum physicist - Lefteris PapadopoulosLefteris PapadopoulosLefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935. He is the son of Greek refugees from the Asia Minor and Russia. He enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but he stopped during the third year in...
(born 1935), lyricist and journalist - Dimitris PapaioannouDimitris PapaioannouDimitris Papaioannou is a Greek avant-garde stage director, choreographer and visual artist who drew international media attention and acclaim with his creative direction of the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games...
, director and choreographer ; creator of the 2004 Summer Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
ceremonies - Saint Philomena, Patron saint of the Children of Mary and Catholic Saint & Martyr
- Nicos PoulantsasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
, political theorist - Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, world known magician and illusionist that created Mindfreak; also known as Criss Angel
- George SavaGeorge SavaGeorge Sava was a British surgeon and prolific writer of Russian origin, described as a "Russian exile", born George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane on October 15, 1903. He wrote approximately 120 books under the pseudonyms George Sava, George Bankoff, George Borodin, George Braddon, Peter Conway,...
, entertainment lawyer - Giorgos SeferisGiorgos SeferisGiorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs . He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate...
, poet and Nobel prizewinner - Angelos SikelianosAngelos SikelianosAngelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance...
, poet - Spyros SkourasSpyros SkourasSpyros Panagiotis Skouras was an American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962...
, Greek-American movie mogul, president of 20th Century Fox20th Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios... - Alex SpanosAlex SpanosAlexander Gus Spanos is an American real estate developer and self-made billionaire of Greek origin who founded the A. G. Spanos Companies and owns the San Diego Chargers.-Early life:...
, Greek-American magnate - Iannis XenakisIannis XenakisIannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, modernist composer - Panayiotis ZavosPanayiotis ZavosPanayiotis Michael Zavos is a Greek Cypriot biologist from Cyprus. He is also an American citizen who currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.-Biography:...
, geneticist - Adamantios VassilakisAdamantios VassilakisAdamantios Vassilakis , is a distinguished Greek diplomat and negotiator.Adamantios Vassilakis is a graduate of the Commercial High School of Chios, Greece, and holds a Licence in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Free University of Brussels....
, diplomat
Academics
- Constantin CarathéodoryConstantin CarathéodoryConstantin Carathéodory was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory...
, mathematician (1920s) - Chris ArgyrisChris Argyris-Bibliography:* Chris Argyris: Personality and Organization, 1957* Chris Argyris: Some Limitations of the Case Method: Experiences in a Management Development Program.” Academy of Management Review 5: 291–298, 1980...
, organisational theorist - Konstantinos AxelosCostas AxelosKostas Axelos was a Greek philosopher.-Biography:Axelos was born in Athens to a doctor and a woman from an old Athenian bourgeois family, and attended high school at the French Institute and the German School of Athens...
, 1960s Situationist - Apostolos AthanassakisApostolos AthanassakisApostolos N. Athanassakis is a classical scholar and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Professor Athanassakis, or "Professor A" as he is often referred to by students, currently serves as the faculty in residence in Manzanita Village....
, classicist - Phaedon AvourisPhaedon AvourisPhaedon Avouris is a Greek American chemical physicist. He is an IBM Fellow and the group leader for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.-Education and Research Interests:...
, nanotechnologist - Demetrios ChristodoulouDemetrios ChristodoulouDemetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime...
, mathematical physicist - George ConstantinidesGeorge ConstantinidesGeorge M. Constantinides is a financial economist, known for his work on portfolio management, asset pricing, derivatives pricing, and capital markets behavior. He is the Leo Melamed Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a board member of Dimensional Fund...
, economist - Dimitrios GalanosDimitrios GalanosDimitrios Galanos was the earliest recorded Greek Indologist. His translations of Sanskrit texts into Greek made knowledge of the philosophical and religious ideas of India available to many Europeans....
, SanskritSanskritSanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
translator and IndologistIndologyIndology is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent , and as such is a subset of Asian studies.... - Fotis KafatosFotis KafatosFotis Constantine Kafatos is a Greek molecular entomologist. Between 2005-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council and member of its Scientific Council...
, biologist - Jannis KallinikosJannis KallinikosJannis Kallinikos is an organization and communication scholar and intellectual. He was born in the town of Preveza, western Greece. He is also a citizen of Sweden. Kallinikos is currently a professor in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management at the London School...
, organisational theorist - Dimitri KitsikisDimitri KitsikisDimitri Kitsikis is a Greek Turkologist, Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics. He has also published poetry in French and Greek.-Life:D...
, historian, poet - Dimitri NanopoulosDimitri NanopoulosDimitri Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science....
, quantum physicist - Nicholas NegroponteNicholas NegroponteNicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ....
, author, IT evangelist and head of MIT Media Lab - Irena PapadopoulosIrena PapadopoulosProfessor Irena Papadopoulos is a prominent Greek Cypriot transcultural nursing researcher and now resides in the United Kingdom....
, author, professor of transcultural nursing - Christos PapakyriakopoulosChristos PapakyriakopoulosChristos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos, commonly known as "Papa" , was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology. He worked in isolation at Athens University being awarded a Ph.D on the recommendation of Carathéodory...
, mathematician - Christos PapadimitriouChristos PapadimitriouChristos Harilaos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, United States...
, Computer Scientist - George PapanicolaouGeorgios PapanikolaouGeorgios Nicholas Papanikolaou was a Greek pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".-Life:...
, biologist - John S. ParaskevopoulosJohn S. ParaskevopoulosJohn Stefanos Paraskevopoulos was a Greek/South African astronomer. He was born in Piraeus, Greece and graduated from the University of Athens. He served in the Greek army during the Balkan Wars and World War I. In 1919, he went to America for two years, spending part of that time working at...
, astronomer - Nicholas A. PeppasNicholas A. PeppasNicholas A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has led to numerous biomedical products or devices.-Education and work:He was educated in...
, Chaired Professor in EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin... - Vladimir Triandafillov (Triantafyllidis)Vladimir TriandafillovVladimir Kiriakovitch Triandafillov was a Soviet military commander and theoretician.-Biography:He was born on March 14, 1894 in Magaradzhik in Kars of Pontic Greek parents. The family name derives from triantáfyllo, Modern Greek for the rose flower. His family moved to Russia...
, Military strategist - Haridimos TsoukasHaridimos TsoukasHaridimos Tsoukas is a Greek professor of organization studies.Tsoukas holds the Columbia Shipping Company Chair of Organization and Management at the University of Cyprus, and Professor of Organization Studies at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is editor-in-chief of...
, organisational theorist - George VithoulkasGeorge VithoulkasGeorge Vithoulkas is a teacher and practitioner of homeopathy.He studied homeopathy in South Africa and received a diploma in homeopathy from the Indian Institute of Homeopathy in 1966...
, teacher of Homeopathic medicine - Xenophon ZolotasXenophon ZolotasXenophon Zolotas , was a Greek economist and served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.-Early life and career:Born in Athens in 1904, Zolotas studied economics at the University of Athens, and later studied in Leipzig and Paris. He came from a wealthy family of goldsmiths with roots...
, economist - Dionisis VitsosDionysis VitsosDionysis Vitsos is a Greek writer, publisher, and translator with Periplous, a publishing company.-Translations:Sophocles, Words of Eros, Periplous Aristotle, Prophesy in Dreams, Periplous Plato, Symposium, Periplous...
, publisher, writer, translator
See also
- List of ancient Greeks
- List of Greek Americans
- List of Greek AustraliansGreek AustralianGreeks are the seventh-largest ethnic group in Australia, after those declaring their ancestry simply as "Australian". In the 2006 census, 365,147 persons declared having Greek ancestry, either alone or in conjunction with another ethnicity....
- List of Greek CanadiansGreek CanadiansGreek Canadians are Canadian citizens of Greek origin, also known as Hellenic origin. According to the 2006 Canadian census, there were 242,685 Canadians who claimed Greek ethnicity.- Authors :...
- List of Greek Jews
- List of people by nationality