Ienăchiţă Văcărescu

male, deceased (1797)
poet, historian, linguist, German, romanian, ancient greek…ModernGreek
Ienăchiţă Văcărescu was a Wallachian Romanian poet, historian, philologist, and boyar belonging to the Văcărescu family. A polyglot, he was able to...
John Varvatos

John Varvatos

male
Allen Park, barbados, Kephalonia, ModernGreek, Supergroup, Council of Fashion Designers of America…Greek-American
John Varvatos is an American contemporary menswear fashion designer. He grew up in the metro Detroit suburb of Allen Park, a downriver community...
Ioannis Psycharis

Ioannis Psycharis

male, deceased (1929)
writer, Educator, Philologist, lambda, ukrainian, linguistics…greek, ModernGreek, Modern Greek writer, Demotic Greek, Greek Now
Ioannis (or Yannis) Psycharis was a philologist, author and promoter of Demotic Greek. Psycharis was born to a Greek family in Odessa, Ukraine,...
Donald Swann

Donald Swann

male, deceased (1994)
quaker, Opera composer, russian revolution of 1917, composer, Russian, British…ModernGreek
Donald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and p...
Jeffrey Tayler

Jeffrey Tayler

male
Muslim, Siberian Dawn, Facing the Congo, River of No Reprieve, ModernGreek, Lena River
Jeffrey Tayler is a U.S. author and journalist. He is the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and a contributor to several other...

Michael Glycas

male
Astronomer, mathematician, Byzantine historian, poet, historian, 12th century…ModernGreek
Michael Glycas or Glykas (12th century) was a Byzantine historian, theologian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was probably from Corfu and...
May Ziade

May Ziade

female, deceased (1941)
Jewish, Ziadé, Ziadeh, lebanese, poem, ottoman…ModernGreek
May Ziade (neé Marie, with Ziade also written Ziadé or Ziadeh was an born in Nazareth in Ottoman Palestine to a Jewish Lebanese father (from the Ch...

Theodore Prodromus

male
monk, epigram, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, satirical, Byzantine writer…ModernGreek
Theodore Prodromus, also known as Ptochoprodromus (Πτοχοπρόδρομος = "Poor Prodromus"), was a Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poet...
Georg Sauerwein

Georg Sauerwein

male
linguist, poet, Polyglot, Sorbian language, Irish language, Lithuanian language…ModernGreek, ancient greek
Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein (born 15 January 1831 in Hannover, died 16 December 1904 in Christiania (now Oslo)) was a German publisher, polyglot,...