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List of people from Greece

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List of people from Greece

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This is a list of notable Greeks.

Actors/actresses

Main article: List of Greek actors

Ancient period

Adventurers

Athletes & sports figures

Ancient period

Modern period

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Leonidas Pyrgos, first modern Olympics Gold Medalist (Fencing)
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Sofoklis Schortsanitis

Clerics

Medieval period

Modern period

  • Jacob Palaeologus (c. 1520–1585), Dominican friar, later antitrinitarian theologian; (Greek father)

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Entrepreneurs

Explorers

Ancient period

Medieval period

Early Modern

Modern

Fashion designers

Fashion models

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Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Europe 1930

Filmmakers

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Elia Kazan, famous filmmaker most known for A Street Named Desire, Gentleman's Agreement, East of Eden and On the Waterfront

Military and political figures

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Alexander the Great, king of the city state of Macedon, tutored and personally mentored by Aristotle, first united the Greek city states, then conquered the Persian Empire as well as Egypt; named and founded the city of Alexandria

Ancient period

  • Agis III (r.338–?331 BCE), Spartan king who rebelled against Macedon in 331 BCE
  • Alcibiades (450–404 BCE), Athenian general and statesman
  • Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE) King of Macedon, and conqueror of the Persian Empire
  • Antiochus III the Great, (c. 241–187 BCE) Seleucid Monarch
  • Antipater (c.390–319 BCE), Macedonian noble and Alexander the Great's regent in Macedon
  • Aristides (530–468 BCE), Athenian statesman
  • Cimon (510–450 BCE), Athenian leader and statesman
  • Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, (c.68–30 BCE) Queen of Egypt, from the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty
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    Michelangelo's rendering of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
  • Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), politician and orator
  • Dionysius I (c.432–367), ruler of the Syracusan empire
  • Epaminondas (c.420–362), Theban general and statesman
  • Eucratides, ruler of the Bactrian Greeks
  • Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians
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    Bust of Leonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at the Battle of Thermopylae against a Persian invasion of the Greek city states, perhaps most famous for having told the Persian King Xerxes his "Molon labe", or "Come and take them", when ordered to surrender and to give up his weapons once his unit's position had been betrayed and surrounded
  • Lycurgus (9th century BCE), semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver
  • Lysander (d.395), Spartan general and hero during the Peloponnesian War
  • Memnon of Rhodes (d.333), Greek mercenary general in Persian army under Darius III
  • Miltiades, Athenian statesman and general
  • Nearchus, Alexander's naval commander
  • Peisistratus, Athenian tyrant
  • Pericles (495–429 BCE), Athenian leader and statesman
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    Pericles, strategos of the city state of Athens during the Peloponnesian War
  • Philip II of Macedon (382–336 BCE), Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great
  • Polycrates, Samian ruler
  • Ptolemy I (c.356–285), Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded a dynasty in Egypt
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus (c.318–272), invaded Italy, became known for victories of dubious value (Pyrrhic)
  • Seleucus I, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded dynasty in Persia
  • Solon (638–558 BCE), Athenian lawmaker and archon
  • Themistocles (c.514–449 BCE), Athenian statesman and admiral
  • Xenophon (430–c.354 BCE), mercenary general, led and recounted march from Persia
  • Saint George (AD c.275–303), soldier in the Roman army, venerated as a Christian martyr

Medieval period

Ottoman Empire period

Modern period

Greece

Northern Epirus

Canada

France

Romania

Spain

United Kingdom

Australia

United States

Musicians

See also: List of Greek composers and List of Greek musical artists

Ancient period

Modern period

Painters

Ancient period

Renaissance

Modern period

Philosophers

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Bust of Aristotle, the most influential and cited philosopher in history, student of Plato and teacher and tutor of Alexander the Great
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Plato, as painted by Michelangelo, whose The Republic and other works on morality and politics are listed as some of the most influential works in philosophy

Ancient period

Medieval period

Modern period

Scientists and Engineers

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Archimedes, ancient influential inventor and scientist; spearheaded insights into mathematical calculus.

Ancient period

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Constantin Carathéodory, acclaimed mathematician and scientist, mentor and teacher to Albert Einstein

Medieval period

Modern period

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Georgios Papanikolaou, scientist and inventor; developed the pap test, named after him, in order to treat and prevent ovarian cancer.

Sculptors

Ancient period

Modern period

Tycoons

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Aristotle Onassis in 1932, who later would create one of the largest shipping conglomerates of his day; married American first lady and widow Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Writers

Ancient period

Medieval period

Modern period

General

Academics

List of Greeks who were born outside modern Greece

Summarize
Perspective

This is a list of ethnic Greeks who were born after the Declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), outside the borders of the Greek state. The list does not include Greeks born in the diasporan communities or Greeks of Cyprus (after its independence in 1960), but only Greeks born in the traditional Greek homelands (the Balkans, Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean shores).

Actors/actresses

Athletes

Clerics

Entrepreneurs

Fashion designers

Filmmakers

Military and political leaders

Musicians

Painters

Philosophers

Scientists and engineers

Sculptors

Singers

Tycoons

Writers

General

See also

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    His origin is disputed, but there are estimates that he was either Illyrian,[1][2][3][4] Greek,[5][6] or Thracian[7]

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