William Jones

William Jones

male, deceased (1794)
Westminster, persian, linguist, Philologist, British, princess diana…greek
Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 - April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his...
William Jones

William Jones

male, deceased (1749)
Isle of Anglesey, Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos, Anglesey, greek, edmund halley, navigation
Sir William Jones (1675 - 3 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician. William Jones was born in the village of Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, on the...
Karolos Papoulias

Karolos Papoulias

male, 80 years old
Panhellenic Socialist Movement politician, Hellenic Republic, Greek military junta of 1967-1974, Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Ioannina, George Papadopoulos…greek
Karolos Papoulias was sworn in as President of Greece on 12 March 2005, after having been elected by an unprecedented 279 votes in the country's...
Xenophanes

Xenophanes

male
poet, wikt athleticism, satirized, Gods, pantheon, anthropomorphic…greek, ancient greek
Xenophanes of Colophon was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Our knowledge of his views comes from his surviving poetry,...

Parmenides

male
ancient greek, School of Elea, Hellenic Greece, Pederasty in ancient Greece, ELEA, philosophy…greek
Parmenides of Elea (Greek:, early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Hellenic city on the southern coast of Italy....
George Berkeley

George Berkeley

male, deceased (1753)
Anglican bishop of Cloyne, objects, sense, Irish spiritual writer, from County Kilkenny, University of California, Berkeley…greek
George Berkeley (12 March 1685 - 14 January 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical...

Chrysippus

male
Seneca, fatal hilarity, died of laughter, Stoicism, stoic philosophy, Stoic philosopher…greek
Chrysippus of Soli (Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς) was Cleanthes' pupil and the eventual successor as the head of stoic philosophy. Honoured as the second fou...
Sakis Rouvas

Sakis Rouvas

male, 37 years old
Musician templates, Anastasios 'Sakis' Rouvas, from the Ionian Islands, great, corfu, greek
Anastasios 'Sakis' Rouvas (born January 5, 1972 in the island of Corfu) is a very popular Greek singer and athlete, as well as an actor, and a...
Gorgias

Gorgias

male
ancient greek, Sophism, Leontini, Attica, Attic Greek, pre-Socratic…greek
Gorgias, Greek sophist, pre-socratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first...
Anna Vissi

Anna Vissi

female, 51 years old
singer, expatriate in the United States, Dance musician, Eurovision composer, cypriot, greek…Greek Cypriot
Anna Vissi is a Cypriot-Greek singer, famous mainly in Greece, and her home country Cyprus, with success in the United States as well.