- Nick The Greek
Nicholas Andreas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos (born in Rethymnon, Crete 1883-December 25, 1966) was a professional gambler and high roller. Dandolos was the son of wealthy parents. He attended the Greek Evangelical College and earned a degree in philosophy. When he was 18 years old his grandfather sent him to the U.S.A. with an allowance of $150 per week. Although Dandolos settled down in Chicago he eventually moved to Montreal where he began gambling on horse races. - Maximus The Greek
Maximus the Greek, also known as Maximos the Greek or Maksim Grek His secular name was Michael Trivolis (c. 1475, Arta, Greece - 1556, Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, Sergiyev Posad) was a publicist, writer, scholar, humanist and translator of Greek origin, active in Russia. He is also sometimes called Maximos the Hagiorite, in Greek - Theophanes The Greek
Theophanes the Greek or Feofan Grek (ca. 1340-ca. 1410) was one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev. Theophanes was born in the Byzantine Empire and worked in Constantinople. In 1370 he moved to Novgorod, and in 1395 to Moscow. His style is considered unsurpassed in expression achieved by almost mono-colored painting. - Janet Greek
Janet Greek (born 1949 in Timmins, Ohio, USA) is an American television director, writer, and producer. She is sometimes credited as A. K. Allen. She directed multiple episodes of "Babylon 5" and "Melrose Place", among other shows. She has been active in the television industry since the early 1980s. - Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great (Greek:, "Megas Alexandros"; July 20 356 BC - June 10 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon (336-323 BC). He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By his death, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, … - Ecumenical Patriarch Of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the Archbishop of Constantinople — New Rome — ranking as "primus inter pares" (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. He has been historically known as the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, as distinct from the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. - Aristophanes
Aristophanes was a Greek Old Comic dramatist. He is also known as "the Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy". - Heracles
Heracles was the name of an illegitimate son born to Alexander III of Macedon by his mistress Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia in 327 BC. The first son to be born to Alexander, he was named after the Greek hero Heracles, from whom that royal family claimed its descent. At the time of his birth, there was no reason to consider Heracles a possible candidate for the throne. His father was still 29 years old and about to marry the princess Roxana, of Bactria, … - George Michael
Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou (born June 25, 1963), better known as George Michael, is an English singer-songwriter who performs soul influenced pop, and who (as a solo artist and half of the duo Wham!) has enjoyed global success since 1982. His biggest commercial success to date was in 1987 with his debut solo album "Faith" which has sold to date well over the 20 million mark worldwide. - Hesiod
Hesiod (Greek: "Hesiodos") was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often paired, have been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived since at least Herodotus's time ("Histories", 2.53). Historians have debated which lived first, and some authors have even brought them together in an imagined poetic contest. - John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (349- ca. 407,, "Ioannes Chrysostomos") was the archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom", and his ascetic sensibilities. After his death he was given the Greek surname "chrysostomos", "golden mouthed", rendered in English as Chrysostom. - Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee, is a Greek American rock musician. He is best known as the drummer for glam metal band Mötley Crüe and ex-husband of actresses Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear. - El Greco
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full name, Doménicos Theotokópoulos, underscoring his Greek descent. El Greco was born in Crete, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice; at 26 he traveled to Venice itself to study, then a common practice of young Greek men who wished to pursue a wider education. - Epicurus
Epicurus (Greek) (341 BC, Samos - 270 BC, Athens) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of Epicureanism, a popular school of thought in Hellenistic Philosophy that spanned about 600 years. Of his over 300 written works only a few fragments and letters survive; much of what we know about Epicureanism comes from later followers or commentators. For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, … - Origen
Origen (Greek: "Ōrigénēs", 185–ca. 254) was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church. He is thought to have been born at Alexandria. He taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School of Alexandria where Clement had taught. The patriarch of Alexandria at first supported Origen but later expelled him for being ordained without the patriarch's permission. - Plutarch
Mestrius Plutarchus, better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece], a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the "Parallel Lives" and the "Moralia". - William Smith
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College London he carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School, … - Democritus
Democritus (Greek:) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. 460 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable, indivisible elements which he called "atoma" (sg. "atomon") or "indivisible units", from which we get the English word atom. - Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate (Latin: Pontius Pilatus, Greek:) was the governor of the Roman Judaea Province from 26 until 36. In modern times he is best known as the man who, according to the canonical Christian Gospels, presided over the trial of Jesus and ordered his crucifixion. Pilate's biographical details before and after his appointment to Judaea are unknown, but have been supplied by tradition, … - Thucydides
Thucydides, Greek Θουκυδίδης, "Thoukudídēs") was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the "History of the Peloponnesian War," which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides is considered by many to be a scientific historian because of his efforts in his "History" to describe the human world in terms of cause and effect, his strict standards of gathering evidence, … - Louis Segond
Louis Segond was a Swiss theologian who translated the Bible in French from the original texts in Hebrew and Greek. He was born in Plainpalais, near Geneva. After studying theology in Geneva, Strasbourg and Bonn, he was pastor of the Geneva National Church in Chêne-Bourgeries, then from 1872 on, Professor of Old Testament in Geneva. The translation of the Old Testament, commissioned by the "Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève", … - Maimonides
Moses Maimonides and his Arabic name was أبو عمران موسى بن ميمون بن عبد الله القرطبي الإسرائيلي ("Abu Imran Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Qurtubi al-Israili"). However, he is most commonly known by his Greek name, Moses Maimonides (Μωυσής Μαϊμονίδης), which literally means, "Moses, son of Maimon", like his name in Hebrew and Arabic. Several Jewish works call him Maimoni, מימוני. - Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean region in many fields. He is noted for devising a system of latitude and longitude, and for being the first known to have calculated the circumference of the Earth. He also made what he thought was a map of the Earth. - Oedipus
Oedipus ("'"' - "Oidĭpous" [<font/>pronounce ], most likely meaning "swollen-footed") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta and became king of Thebes after killing his father, solving the riddle of the Sphinx and unknowingly marrying his mother. After Oedipus is king, his sons fight over the throne and kill each other. - Porphyry
Porphyry of Tyre (Greek: ", c. A.D. 233-c. 309) was a Neoplatonic philosopher. He is important in the history of mathematics because of his "Life of Pythagoras", and his commentary on Euclid's Elements, used by Pappus when he wrote his own commentary. Porphyry's "Isagogue, or "Introduction" to Aristotle's "Categories", in Latin translation, was the standard textbook on logic for at least a millennium after his death - Polybius
Polybius (ca. 203-120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called "The Histories" or "The Rise of the Roman Empire," covering in detail the period of 220-146 BC. He is also renowned for his ideas of political balance in the government, which was later used in the drafting of the United States Constitution. - Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life, and where he died. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word "epiktetos" in Greek simply means "acquired." - Paris
Paris (Greek: ; also known as Alexander or Alexandros, c.f. "Alaksandus of Wilusa"), mythological son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his abduction of, or elopement with, Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War. Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow, as foretold by Achilles' mother, Thetis. - Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: "Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus") was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History". He is almost exclusively known for writing "The Histories", … - Protagoras
Protagoras (Greek:) (ca. 490- 420 BC) 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. Protagoras was born in Abdera, Thrace, in Ancient Greece. "In Plato's "Protagoras", before the company of Socrates, Prodicus, and Hippias, he states that he is old enough to be the father of any of them. - Herod The Great
Herod (Greek:), also known as Herod I or Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Judaea (ca. 74 BC – ca. 4 BC in Jerusalem). Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple. - Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (Arabic: يوسف إسلام, who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. Under the name "Cat Stevens," he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. - Appian
Appian ("c." 95 – "c." 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he repaired to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, … - Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus flourished in 49 BC ("Chronica", s.a. Abraham 1968); this date is supported by Diodorus' own statements. The earliest date Diodorus mentions is his visit to Egypt in the 180th Olympiad (between 60 and 56 BC). - John Of Damascus
John of Damascus (Greek: Ιωάννης Δαμασκήνος/Ioannês Damaskinos; Arabic: Yaḥyā ibn Manṣūr; Latin: "Iohannes Damascenus" or "Johannes Damascenus" also known as "John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας/Chrysorrhoas," "streaming with gold"-i.e., "the golden speaker") (c. 676 - December 5, 749) was a Syrian monk and presbyter. He was born and raised in Damascus and died (in all probability) at the monastery of Mar Saba, … - George Papandreou
George Papandreou (18 February 1888 - 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician. He was born at Kalentzi, in Achaea in southern Greece. As a young man, he became involved in politics as a supporter of the Liberal leader Eleftherios Venizelos, who made him Governor of Lesbos after the Balkan War of 1912. He married a Polish woman, Sofia Mineyko, and their son Andreas Papandreou was born at Chios in 1919. - Dora Bakoyannis
Dora Bakoyannis (née Mitsotakis) is a Greek politician, the current Greek Foreign Affairs Minister and former Mayor of Athens. She was the first woman mayor of Athens and is the first woman to serve as Greek Foreign Affairs Minister which makes her the first woman ever appointed to a senior cabinet position in Greece. She is currently the highest ranking woman in the history of the Greek Government. - Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian (Greek) philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions to mathematics or natural philosophy. His name led him to be associated with Pythian Apollo; Aristippus explained his name by saying, … - Hipparchus
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey), and probably died on the island of Rhodes. He is known to have been a working astronomer at least from 147 BC to 127 BC. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity. - J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer (born July 22, 1926 in Gloucester, England) is a British-born Canadian Christian theologian in the Calvinistic Anglican tradition. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered to be one of the most important evangelical theologians of the late 20th century. The son of a clerk for the Great Western Railway, Packer won a scholarship to Oxford University.
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