- Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (born Ioanna Mouskouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a singer of Greek origin. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She recorded many of her songs in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Portuguese and Japanese among others. She is noted for her trademark squarish black-rimmed eyeglasses and straight black hair parted in the middle, …
- Alekos Alavanos
Alekos (Alexandros) Alavanos is a Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament, former member of the European Parliament and president of the Synaspismos party of the radical left since 2004. Born in 1950 in Athens, Alavanos has been politically active since his youth.
- Antonis Samaras
Antonis Samaras, also spelt, Adonis Samaras (born May 23, 1951 in Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party. He was Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs in the New Democracy government of Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1989-1992). A hardliner on the "Macedonian Question" and on other issues, he was removed from his post in 1992.
- Christos Verelis
Christos Verelis in Athens was the Greek Minister for Transport and Communications from April 13 2000 to March 10 2004. Graduating from the German School of Athens, Christos Verelis studied chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and later on completed his Ph.D. in the chemistry of natural products in Germany. Christos Verelis speaks English, German and French. In the general elections of 1996 and 2000, he was elected MP (PASOK) for Aitolo-Akarnania.
- Pyrros Dimas
Pyrros Dimas ; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion for Greece. Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek descent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991. He first competed for Greece in the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 82.5 kg class. His birthplace gave rise to his nickname "The Lion of Himara".
- Manolis Mavrommatis
Manolis Mavrommatis (born August 15 1941) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy, belonging to the European People's Party. Born in Platanias, Crete, he studied sociology in the University of Rome, as well as Cinema, Theater and Radio techniques. He started off as a director for short-films and documentaries and moved on directing theatrical acts for the radio as well as for the stage. In 1975 he started working as a sports journalist, …
- Ioannis Varvitsiotis
Ioannis Varvitsiotis (b. August 2, 1933 in Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.
- Georgios Papastamkos
Georgios Papastamkos (b. March 5, 1955, Kozani Prefecture) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.
- Marietta Giannakou
Minister Marietta Giannakou, born 1951) is a Greek politician, Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece from March 2004. Minister Marietta Giannakou Date of Birth: 05/06/1951 Place of Birth: Geraki Lakonias Tel No.: ++3010/7247555-7247531 Fax No: ++3010/7238788 Postal Address (Office): 4, Herodotou Street, 3dh floor Postcode: 10675 City: Athens Country: Greece Curriculum Vitae Current functions: Member of the Greek Parliament.
- Stavros Lambrinidis
Stavros Lambrinidis (b. February 6, 1962, Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement; part of the Party of European Socialists. His parliamantary assistants are Sofia Asteriadi and Tina Panagiotou. More infos Here
- Nikolaos Kaklamanakis
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Athens on August 19, 1968. One of the most popular athletes in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is a three-time Mistral class windsurfing world champion and a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Sailing. He won silver in the event at the 2003 World Championships in Cadiz, Spain, …
- Liana Kanelli
Liana Kanelli(1954 -) is a Greek journalist and politician. In 1975, at 21, starting her career in journalism, and was proclaimed by the then Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis to be the "Girl of New Democracy". New Democracy being the conservative party that was created, after the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. In the next decade Kanelli evolved into a kind of a Greek "Barbara Walters" and often played the role of media polemic and sensationalist.
- Alexandros Nikolaidis
Alexandros Nikolaidis (born October 17, 1979) is an Olympic taekwondo athlete from Greece. Initially the favorite, he eventually won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics held in Athens after being knocked out by a reverse roundhouse kick (Jump Spinning Hook Kick) from his opponent and gold medalist, Dae Sung Moon of South Korea.
- Panagiotis Beglitis
Panagiotis Beglitis (b. February 25, 1958, Corinth) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement; part of the Party of European Socialists.
- Voula Patoulidou
Paraskevi ("Voula") Patoulidou was born on 29 March 1965, in Tripotamo, near Florina. 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 race at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
- Spiridon Louis
Spiridon "Spiros" Louis was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero. Louis was born in the town of Marousi, which is now a suburb to the north of Athens, into a poor farmer's family. His name is transcribed from the Greek in various ways; his given name is also seen as Spyridon (Spyros) and his family name as Loues.
- Fani Halkia
Fani Halkia (born 2 February 1979 in Larissa) is a Greek hurdler. She 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.
- Ekaterini Thanou
Ekaterini Thanou ; born February 1, 1975) is a Greek sprinter. Thanou won the silver medal in the women's 100 m at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In 2002 she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich.
- Hrysopiyi Devetzi
Hrysopiyi Devetzi (born January 2, 1976) is a Greek athlete competing in the triple jump and also long jump. She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with a personal best of 15.32 metres. She won another silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Pavlos Pavlidis
Pavlos Pavlidis (? - 1968) was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Pavlidis placed second in the military rifle competition with a score of 1,978. He had hit the target 38 times out of 40 shots, trailing the champion Pantelis Karasevdas by 2 hits and 372 points. Pavlidis also competed in the free rifle and military pistol competitions, …
- Dj Alx
ALX (born 1975 in Detroit, Michigan, USA), pronounced Alex, is one of Greece's most influential hip hop producers. He was perhaps the first producer in Greece to compose using a sampler. He was a member of the hip hop group Terror X Crew and produced all of their albums. ALX is also known for his work on music videos. From 1997 to 2001 he directed and edited a number of videos for Terror X Crew, Ihokratoria, FFC, Razzastar and other hip hop artists.
- Ilias Iliadis
Ilias Iliadis was born in Georgia 10 October 1986. He is a Greek judoka. He won a gold medal in the half-middleweight (81 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
- Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstantinos Kenteris, also spelt as Konstadinos Kederis is a Greek athlete. (In modern Greek, "ντ" is pronounced like the English "d".) Born in Mytilene, Kenteris, a student of physical education, started practising athletics at age 10, and started running seriously about ten years later, when he moved to Thessaloniki. Kenteris specialised in the 200 m and 400 m races.
- Georgios Karatzaferis
Georgios Karatzaferis (born August 11, 1947) is a Greek politician and leader of the LA.O.S. party (Popular Orthodox Rally). Previously, Karatzaferis was a member of parliament of the liberal-conservative New Democracy party, from which he was expelled in 2000. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament and vice-president of the Independence and Democracy group.
- Antonios Trakatellis
Dr. Antonios Trakatellis (born September 4, 1931 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek Member of the European Parliament, and an academic biochemist. He was elected on the New Democracy ticket and sits with the European People's Party group. He has been leader of the ND parliamentary group since 2000. Dr. Trakatellis has been a lecturer at several Greek and American universities, and was Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1988-1994.
- Kakhi Kakhiashvili
Kakhi Kakhiashvili (born July 13 1969), a Georgian-Greek weightlifter, is one of only four weightlifters to have won three consecutive gold medals at Olympic Games. He won his first at Barcelona 1992, competing with the Unified Team, and later as a citizen of Greece at Atlanta 1996 and in Sydney 2000. He won three Senior World Championships (1995, 1998, 1999), was twice a silver medalist at the Senior World Championships (1993 and 1994), …
- Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou
Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (born April 15, 1953) is a Greek politician. Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou was born in Zakynthos. She is a member of the European Parliament for New Democracy and is part of the European People's Party. In January 2007 she was elected first vice-President of the European Parliament.
- Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (b. September 18, 1952, Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy ; part of the European People's Party.
- Thomas Bimis
Thomas Bimis (born June 11, 1975 in Athens) 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, Bimis won the gold medal together with Nikolaos Siranidis. This was Greece's first-ever gold medal in diving and the hosts' first gold of the 2004 Athens Olympics, and the diver pair therefore became very popular in Greece.
- Konstantinos Hatzidakis
Konstantinos Hatzidakis (b. April 20, 1965, Rethymno) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for New Democracy; part of the European People's Party.
- Thanasis Pafilis
Thanasis Pafilis (born November 8 1954) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece; part of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left. He was born in Pitsio Fthiotidas.
- Anastasia Kelesidou
Anastasia Kelesidou (born November 28, 1972 in Hamburg, Germany) 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. Her only international victory came at the 1997 Mediterranean Games.
- Athanasia Tsoumeleka
Athanasia Tsoumeleka (born January 2, 1982) 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. To great surprise, she won the Olympic gold medal race held in her own country ahead of Russian Olimpiada Ivanova (silver) and Australian Jane Saville (bronze).
- Dimosthenis Tampakos
Dimosthenis Tampakos is a gymnast from Greece. He won gold in the men's rings at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a score of 9.862.
- Ioannis Phrangoudis
Ioannis Phrangoudis (born in Limassol, Cyprus) was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Phrangoudis competed in four of the five shooting events as well as serving as secretary of the Sub-Committee for Shooting. He began his sole rifle event, the free rifle, with a lead in the competition after the first string of 10 shots.
- Ioannis Mitropoulos
Ioannis Mitropoulos (1874 -?) 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. He did not win a medal in the individual parallel bars event, though his ranking is unknown.
- Mirela Manjani
Mirela Manjani is a Greek javelin thrower. She won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with a personal best of 67.51 m, and the bronze medal in 2004. She is also a European champion and double world champion. Her personal best throw of 67.51 metres is the current Greek record. Born in Albania, she is of Albanian origin and she represented her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Dimitrios Papadimoulis (b. March 21, 1955, Athens) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament for Synaspismos; part of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left.
- Niki Bakoyianni
Niki Bakoyianni (born June 9, 1968 in Lamia) is a former Greek high jumper. 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. This was Bakogianni's second silver medal that year, as she had placed second in the European Indoor Championships. Her personal best jump of 2.03 metres is the current Greek record.
- Spiridon Belokas
Spiridon Belokas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Belokas was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He crossed the finish line in third place behind Spiridon Louis and Kharilaos Vasilakos, but was later found to have covered part of the course of the race by carriage rather than on foot. Belokas was therefore disqualified, and Gyula Kellner was awarded third place.