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Eleftherios Venizelos

84 Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Venizelos served as prime minister of...

Alexander the Great

59 Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and...

Theodoros Kolokotronis

33 Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire.

Rigas Feraios

31 Rigas Feraios or Velestinlis, born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis, was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising...

Chrysostomos of Smyrna

30 Chrysostomos Kalafatis, also known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (İzmir) between 1910 and...

Saint George

28 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek...

Pavlos Melas

27 Pavlos Melas was a Greek revolutionary and artillery officer of the Hellenic Army. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and was amongst the first Greek officers to join the Macedonian...

Hermes

27 Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves, merchants, and...

Michalis Karaolis

26 Michalis Karaolis was a Cypriot public official and revolutionary. Born in the village of Palaichori Oreinis of Pitsilia, Karaolis worked as a government clerk and a member of EOKA. He was the first...

Ioannis Kapodistrias

25 Count Ioannis Antoniou Kapodistrias, sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe.

Konstantinos Kanaris

24 Konstantinos Kanaris, also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris, was a Greek statesman, an admiral, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).

Alexander Ypsilantis

24 Alexandros Ypsilantis was a Greek nationalist politician who was member of a prominent Phanariot Greek family, a prince of the Danubian Principalities, a senior officer of the Imperial Russian...

Aristotle

22 Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the...

Saint Nicholas

22 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Demetrius of Thessaloniki

21 Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica, also known as the Holy Great-Martyr Demetrius the Myroblyte, was a Greek Christian martyr of the early 4th century AD.

Socrates

21 Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of...

Andreas Papandreou

21 Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

Konstantinos Karamanlis

21 Konstantinos G. Karamanlis was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic, serving in the former role from 1955 to 1963 and...

Poseidon

20 Poseidon is one of the twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many...

Georgios Papandreou

20 Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to...

Nikolaos Plastiras

19 Nikolaos Plastiras was a Greek general and politician, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece. A distinguished soldier known for his personal bravery, he became famous as "The Black...

Georgios Karaiskakis

19 Georgios Karaiskakis, born Georgios Karaiskos, was a Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence.

Lord Byron

19 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known...

Pericles

19 Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the...

Charilaos Trikoupis

18 Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.

Alexandros Papanastasiou

18 Alexandros Papanastasiou was a Greek lawyer, sociologist and politician who served twice as the prime minister of Greece during the interwar period. He was a pioneer in the establishment of the...

Philip II of Macedon

17 Philip II of Macedon was the king (basileus) of Macedon from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. The rise of Macedon, from a kingdom initially at the periphery of classical Greek affairs, to a power...

Andreas Miaoulis

17 Andreas Vokos, better known by his nickname Miaoulis, was a Greek revolutionary, admiral, and politician who commanded Greek naval forces during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).

Homer

17 Homer was an ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Although his life and...

Markos Botsaris

17 Markos Botsaris was a Souliot chieftain, general of the Greek revolutionary army and hero of the Greek War of Independence. He played a key role in relieving the First Siege of Missolonghi in...

Kostis Palamas

16 Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian...

Artemis

15 In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis is the goddess of hunting, the wilderness, wild animals, transitions, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was often...

Xenophon

15 Xenophon of Athens was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been...

Achilles

15 In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the...

Laskarina Bouboulina

15 Laskarina Pinotsi, commonly known as Bouboulina, was a Greek naval commander in the Greek War of Independence in 1821, considered one of the first women to attain the rank of admiral.

Constantine the Great

14 Constantine I, also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of...

Dionysios Solomos

14 Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty, which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and...

Panagis Tsaldaris

14 Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece twice. He was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years (1922–1936) of the conservative People's...

Komnenos

14 The House of Komnenos, Latinized as Comnenus, was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. The first reigning member, Isaac I Komnenos, ruled from...

Thucydides

14 Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed...

Justinian I

14 Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565.                 

Yannis Makriyannis

14 Yiannis Makriyiannis, born Ioannis Triantaphyllou, was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author, best known today for his Memoirs. Starting from humble origins, he joined the Greek...

Constantine I of Greece

14 Constantine I was King of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and again from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922. The eldest son of George I of Greece, he succeeded to the throne following...

Grigoris Lambrakis

14 Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer. He participated in track and field sports and was a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of...

Athanasios Diakos

14 Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas or Grammatikos also known as Athanasios Diakos was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence, considered a venerable national hero in Greece.

Apollo

14 In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Apollo is one of the Olympian deities. His numerous functions include healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the...

Constantine XI Palaiologos

13 Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus was the last reigning Byzantine emperor from 23 January 1449 until his death in battle at the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453....

Alexandros Panagoulis

13 Alexandros Panagoulis was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate...

Gregory V of Constantinople

13 Gregory V of Constantinople, born Georgios Angelopoulos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808, and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much...

Adamantios Korais

13 Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the...

Asclepius

13 Asclepius is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the...

Paraskeva of the Balkans

13 Paraskeva of the Balkans, alternatively known as Petka, was an ascetic female saint of the 11th century. She was born in Epivates, near present-day Istanbul, and, according to legends, had visions of...

Plato

13 Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and...

George Averoff

12 George M. Averoff, alternately Jorgos Averof or Georgios Averof, was a Greek businessman and philanthropist. He is one of the great national benefactors of Greece. Born in the town of Metsovo,...

Herodotus

12 Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the...

Aphrodite

12 Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and...

Democritus

12 Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. Democritus wrote extensively on a wide...

Solon

12 Solon was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece and is credited with laying the foundations for Athenian democracy. Solon's...

Lycurgus

11 Lycurgus was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia, involving political, economic, and social reforms to produce a military-oriented Spartan society in...

Hephaestus

11 Hephaestus is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoes. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on...

George I of Greece

11 George I was King of Greece from 30 March 1863 until his assassination on 18 March 1913.           

Konstantinos Davakis

11 Konstantinos Davakis was a Greek military officer in World War II. He organized the Greek defensive lines during the Battle of Pindus that led to Italian defeat in the first stage of the...

Alexandros Papadiamantis

11 Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet.           

Alexander Fleming

11 Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its...

Nikos Kazantzakis

11 Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine...

Themistocles

11 Themistocles was an Athenian politician and general. He was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy. As a politician,...

Dimitrios Gounaris

10 Dimitrios Gounaris was a Greek politician who served as the prime minister of Greece from 25 February to 10 August 1915 and 26 March 1921 to 3 May 1922. The leader of the People's Party, he was the...

Germanos III of Old Patras

10 Germanos III of Old Patras, born Georgios Kontzias, was an Orthodox Metropolitan of Patras. He played an important role in the Greek Revolution of 1821, having diplomatic and political activity.

Odysseas Androutsos

10 Odysseas Androutsos was a Greek armatolos in eastern continental Greece and a prominent figure of the Greek War of Independence.

Euripides

10 Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient...

Demosthenes

10 Demosthenes was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide insight into the politics...

Athanasius of Alexandria

10 Athanasius I of Alexandria, also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of...

Theseus

10 Theseus was a divine hero in Greek mythology, famous for slaying the Minotaur. The myths surrounding Theseus, his journeys, exploits, and friends, have provided material for storytelling throughout...

Heracles

10 Heracles, born Alcaeus or Alcides, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a descendant of Perseus, another son of Zeus.

Hippocrates

9 Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, named after his grandfather Hippocrates I was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding...

Ion Dragoumis

9 Ion Dragoumis was a Greek diplomat, philosopher, writer and revolutionary.                         

Kostas Krystallis

9 Kostas Krystallis was an ethnic Aromanian, Greek author and poet, representative of 19th century Greek pastoral literature. He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being...

Diogenes

9 Diogenes the Cynic, also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Hera

9 In ancient Greek religion, Hera is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. In Greek mythology, she is queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount...

Sophocles

9 Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and...

Aeschylus

9 Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on...

Marinos Antypas

9 Marinos Antypas was a Greek lawyer, journalist, and critic who was one of the country's first socialists. He founded publications which were shuttered, was repeatedly arrested for his social...

Sofoklis Venizelos

9 Sofoklis Venizelos was a Greek politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece: in 1944, 1950 and 1950–1951.

George II of Greece

8 George II was King of Greece from 27 September 1922 until 25 March 1924, and again from 25 November 1935 until his death on 1 April 1947.

Joachim II of Constantinople

8 Joachim II of Constantinople was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1860 to 1863 and from 1873 to 1878.

Papaflessas

8 Grigorios Dimitrios Dikaios-Flessas, popularly known as Papaflessas (Παπαφλέσσας), was a Greek priest and government official who became one of the most influential figures during the Greek War of...

Andreas Syggros

8 Andreas Syggros was a Greek banker from Constantinople, now known as Istanbul. and a philanthropist. Born in Istanbul to Chiot parents who left the island due to the Massacre of Chios, Syggros was...

Cimon

8 Cimon or Kimon was an Athenian strategos and politician.                                           

Athanasios Tsakalov

8 Athanasios Tsakalov was a member of the Filiki Eteria, or a Greek patriotic organization against Ottoman rule.

Georgios Gennimatas

8 Georgios Gennimatas was a Greek politician and founding member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He occupied...

Agesilaus II

8 Agesilaus II was king of Sparta from c. 400 to c. 360 BC. Generally considered the most important king in the history of Sparta, Agesilaus was the main actor during the period of Spartan hegemony...

Orpheus

8 In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a Thracian bard, legendary musician and prophet. He was also a renowned poet and, according to legend, travelled with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden...

Nikitaras

8 Nikitaras was the nom de guerre of Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, a Greek revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence. Due to his fighting prowess, he was known as Turkofagos or Turkophagos, literally...

Archimedes

7 Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his...

Olof Palme

7 Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until...

Praxiteles

7 Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue....

Melina Mercouri

7 Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and...

Themistoklis Sofoulis

7 Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist and liberal Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, with the Liberal Party, which he led...

Aristophanes

7 Aristophanes was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic...

Antigone

7 In Greek mythology, Antigone was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or,...

Charles Nicolas Fabvier

7 Charles Nicolas Fabvier was an ambassador, general and French member of parliament who played a distinguished role in the Greek War of Independence.

Patroclus

7 Patroclus was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and close companion of the hero Achilles in Greek mythology. Patroclus is an important character in Homer's Iliad. Although Homer does not explicitly...

Dionysus

7 In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus is the god of wine-making, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known...

Nikolaos Skoufas

7 Nikolaos Skoufas was a founding member of the Filiki Eteria, a Greek conspiratorial organization against the Ottoman Empire that prepared the Greek War of Independence.

Nikolaos Votsis

7 Nikolaos Votsis was a Greek naval officer who distinguished himself during the Balkan Wars and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral.

Kostas Varnalis

7 Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet and writer.                                                       

Lambros Katsonis

7 Lambros Katsonis was a Greek naval commander of the 18th century who would ultimately sail under the Russian flag with the rank of colonel. He became a knight of the Russian Empire and was awarded...

Ptolemy

7 Claudius Ptolemy, better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of...

Dimitrios Papanikolis

7 Dimitrios Papanikolis was a naval hero of the Greek Revolution, famous for being the first to successfully employ a fireship to destroy an Ottoman ship of the line.

Jason

6 Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He...

Basil of Caesarea

6 Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was an early Christian prelate of the who served as Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia from 370 until his death in 379. He was an...

Nikolaos Kriezotis

6 Nikolaos Kriezotis was a Greek soldier who served as a leader during the Greek War of Independence in Euboea.

Olga Constantinovna of Russia

6 Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.

Giorgos Seferis

6 Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiadis, was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.

Iphigenia

6 In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae.

Cybele

6 Cybele is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. Greek colonists in Asia Minor adopted and adapted her Phrygian cult and spread it to...

Paul the Apostle

6 Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is...

Grigoris Afxentiou

6 Grigoris Pieris Afxentiou was a Greek-Cypriot insurgent leader who led campaigns against the British colonial government as a member of EOKA. He was second-in-command to general Georgios Grivas and...

Gregory Orologas

6 Saint Gregory (Orologas) of Kydonies the Ethno-Hieromartyr, also Gregory of Cydoniae, 1864–1922, was a Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop in the early 20th century in northwest Anatolia, in the...

Amalia of Oldenburg

6 Amalia of Oldenburg was a Oldenburg princess who became Queen of Greece from 1836 to 1862 as the wife of King Otto Friedrich Ludwig. During her tenure as queen, she was dedicated to social...

Hadrian

6 Hadrian was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in southern Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his gens Aelia...

Saint Barbara

6 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.

Paul of Greece

6 Paul was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964.                         

Priam

5 In Greek mythology, Priam was the legendary and last king of Troy during the Trojan War. He was the son of Laomedon. His many children included notable characters such as Hector, Paris, and Cassandra.

Alexandros Papagos

5 Alexandros Papagos was a Greek military officer who led the Hellenic Army in World War II and in the later stages of the subsequent Greek Civil War. Afterwards, he served as Prime Minister of Greece...

Emmanouel Pappas

5 Emmanouel Pappas was a prominent member of Filiki Eteria and leader of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia.

Lucian

5 Lucian of Samosata was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition,...

John I Tzimiskes

5 John I Tzimiskes was the senior Byzantine emperor from 969 to 976. An intuitive and successful general who married into the influential Skleros family, he strengthened and expanded the Byzantine...

Plutarch

5 Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a...

Prometheus

5 In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan responsible for creating or aiding humanity in its earliest days. He defied the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form...

Basil II

5 Basil II Porphyrogenitus, given the epithet the Bulgar Slayer, was the senior Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025. He and his brother Constantine VIII were crowned before their father Romanos II died...

Eusebius

5 Eusebius of Caesarea, also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the...

Angelos Sikelianos

5 Angelos Sikelianos was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother...

Odysseus

5 In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in...

Petros Protopapadakis

5 Petros Protopapadakis was a politician and Prime Minister of Greece from May to September 1922.     

John the Apostle

5 John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament....

Anaxagoras

5 Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae at a time when Asia Minor was under the control of the Persian Empire, Anaxagoras came to Athens. In later life he was charged with...

Demeter

5 In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although Demeter is mostly...

Μαριανίνα Κριεζή

5 Η Μαριανίνα Κριεζή ήταν Ελληνίδα στιχουργός, παραγωγός του ραδιοφώνου, συγγραφέας και μεταφράστρια. 

Nikephoros II Phokas

5 Nikephoros II Phokas, Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. His career, not uniformly successful in matters of statecraft or of war, nonetheless greatly contributed...

Otto of Greece

5 Otto was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 7 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.

Saint Spyridon

5 Spyridon, also Spyridon of Tremithus, is a saint honoured in both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions.

Pluto (mythology)

5 In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto was the ruler of the underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents...

Pythagoras

5 Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and...

Theodoros Deligiannis

5 Theodoros Deligiannis was a Greek politician, minister and member of the Greek Parliament, who served as Prime Minister of Greece five times from 1885 until his assassination.

Theophrastus

5 Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of...

El Greco

4 Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a...

Menelaus

4 In Greek mythology, Menelaus was a Greek king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta. According to the Iliad, the Trojan War began as a result of Menelaus's wife, Helen, fleeing to Troy with the Trojan...

Cassander

4 Cassander was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 305 BC until 297 BC, and de facto ruler of southern Greece from 317 BC until his death.

Helena, mother of Constantine I

4 Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was a Greek Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great as well as a...

Αθανάσιος Νικομηδείας

4 Ο Αθανάσιος Νικομηδείας, ή Αθανάσιος Καρύδης, ήταν Κύπριος επίσκοπος αρχικά Λιβύης, αργότερα μητροπολίτης Νικομηδείας και εθνομάρτυρας του 1821.

Thetis

4 Thetis is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.

Γεώργιος Σουρής

4 Ο Γεώργιος Σουρής ήταν Έλληνας σατιρικός ποιητής και ένας από τους σπουδαιότερους της νεότερης Ελλάδας, έχοντας χαρακτηριστεί «σύγχρονος Αριστοφάνης». Κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής του προτάθηκε για...

Ajax the Great

4 Ajax or Aias is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role in the Trojan War, and is portrayed as a towering figure...

Hector

4 In Greek mythology, Hector was a Trojan prince, a hero, and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's Iliad, where he leads the Trojans and their allies...

Spyridon Louis

4 Spyridon Louis, commonly known as Spyros Louis, was a Greek water carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Following his victory, he was celebrated as a...

Electra

4 In Greek mythology, Electra, also spelt Elektra, is a princess of Mycenae and the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Famously, Electra and her brother Orestes attack and kill Clytemnestra to...

Alcibiades

4 Alcibiades was an Athenian statesman and general. The last of the Alcmaeonidae, he played a major role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, military commander, and...

Pausanias

4 Pausanias may refer to:Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC Pausanias of Sicily, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles Pausanias of Athens,...

Heraclitus

4 Heraclitus was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and...

Hesperides

4 In Greek mythology, the Hesperides are the nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They were also called the Atlantides...

Dimitris Plapoutas

4 Dimitris 'Koliopoulos' Plapoutas was a Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Daedalus

4 In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix, and possibly also the father of...

Epimenides

4 Epimenides of Knossos was a semi-mythical 7th- or 6th-century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet, from Knossos or Phaistos.

Phanourios the Newly-Revealed

4 Phanourios also known as Phanourios the Newly Revealed is venerated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. He is commemorated on August 27.

Miltos Sachtouris

4 Miltos Sachtouris was a Greek poet. He was a descendant of Georgios Sachtouris, whose origins were the Island of Ydra. When he was young he abandoned his law studies to follow his real passion,...

Georgios Papanikolaou

4 Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou was a Greek physician, zoologist and microscopist who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the pap smear for detection of cervical...

Medea

4 In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress, an accomplished pharmakís, a worker in pharmakeía, and is often depicted as a high...

Saint Pantaleon

4 Saint Pantaleon, counted in Western Christianity as among the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Late Middle Ages, and in Eastern Christianity as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of...

Οικογένεια Παπαστράτου

4 Η Οικογένεια Παπαστράτου είναι παλιά οικογένεια βιομηχάνων της Ελλάδας, και μεγάλοι ευεργέτες του Αγρινίου, της Αθήνας και του Πειραιά όπου και η ιδιαίτερη συνοικία.

Phocion

4 Phocion, nicknamed The Good, was an Athenian statesman and strategos, and the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

Persephone

4 In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone, also called Kore or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by her uncle Hades, the...

Cleanthes

4 Cleanthes, of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he came to...

Pindar

4 Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far...

Manto Mavrogenous

4 Manto Mavrogenous was a Greek princess and heroine of the Greek War of Independence. An extremely wealthy aristocrat, she contributed her fortune to the Hellenic cause. Under her encouragement, her...

Isocrates

4 Isocrates was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education...

Epameinondas Zymvrakakis

4 Epameinondas Zymbrakakis or Pamikos Zymbrakakis was a Greek Lieutenant General who fought in World War I.

Aspasia

4 Aspasia was a metic woman who lived in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles. According to the traditional historical narrative,...

Tantalus

4 Tantalus, also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for either revealing many secrets of the gods, for stealing ambrosia from them, or for trying...

Amphitrite

4 In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was the goddess of the sea, the queen of the sea, and her consort is Poseidon. She was a daughter of Nereus and Doris. Under the influence of the Olympian...

Anthony the Great

4 Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of...

Asimakis Fotilas

4 Asimakis Fotilas was a Greek politician and revolutionary leader.                                   

Telemachus

4 Telemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope in Greek mythology, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering...

Nectarios of Aegina

4 Nectarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, is one of the most renowned Greek saints, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. On 20 April 1961, Patriarch Athenagoras...

Kosmas the Aetolian

4 Kosmas the Aetolian, sometimes Cosmas the Aetolian or Patrokosmas "Father Kosmas" was a monk, who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is recognized as one of the originators of...

Codrus

4 Codrus was the last of the semi-mythical Kings of Athens. He was an ancient exemplar of patriotism and self-sacrifice. He was succeeded by his son Medon, who it is claimed ruled not as king but as...

Napoleon Zervas

3 Napoleon Zervas was a Hellenic Army officer and resistance leader during World War II. He organized and led the National Republican Greek League (EDES), the second most significant, in terms of size...

Aikaterini Laskaridou

3 Aikaterini Laskaridou (1842–1916) was a Greek feminist and educator who created the kindergarten system in Greece and introduced physical exercise into the girls' schools.

Zeno of Elea

3 Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that...

Galen

3 Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all...

Νίκος Σβορώνος

3 Ο Νίκος Σβορώνος ήταν σημαντικός Έλληνας ιστορικός με ιδιαίτερη επιρροή στη σύγχρονη ιστοριογραφία στην Ελλάδα.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus

3 Antigonus I Monophthalmus was a Macedonian Greek general and successor of Alexander the Great. A prominent military leader in Alexander's army, he went on to control large parts of Alexander's former...

Saint Stephen

3 Stephen is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. According to the Acts of the Apostles, he was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who angered members of...

Polybius

3 Polybius was an ancient Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second...

Zeus

3 Zeus is the chief deity of the Greek pantheon. He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

Georgios Drossinis

3 Georgios Drosinis was a Greek author, poet, scholar and an editor. He is considered to be a co-founder of the New Athenian School.

Antonis Katsantonis

3 Antonis Katsantonis, born Antonis Makriyannis, was a notable Greek klepht who lived in the era before the Greek War of Independence.

Alexandros Mavrokordatos

3 Alexandros Mavrokordatos was a Greek statesman, diplomat, politician and member of the Mavrokordatos family of Phanariots.

Δημήτριος Μπισκίνης

3 Ο Δημήτριος Α. Μπισκίνης ήταν Έλληνας ζωγράφος της ακαδημαϊκής σχολής.                             

Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance

3 Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance (1785–1854) was a French noblewoman, known as an important figure in Greek high society the first decades after Greek independence. She was born in...

Aesop

3 Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous...

Pandora

3 In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by Hephaestus on the instructions of Zeus. As Hesiod related it, each god cooperated by giving her unique gifts. Her other name—inscribed...

Alcyone and Ceyx

3 In Greek mythology, Alcyone and Ceyx were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus for their romantic hubris.

Georgios Grivas

3 Georgios Grivas, also known by his nickname Digenis, was a Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X...

Constantine Paparrigopoulos

3 Constantine Paparrigopoulos was a Greek historian, who is considered the founder of modern Greek historiography. He is the founder of the concept of historical continuity of Greece from antiquity to...

Odysseas Elytis

3 Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of...

Νικηφόρος Μανδηλαράς

3 Ο Νικηφόρος Μανδηλαράς ήταν Έλληνας νομικός, δημοσιογράφος και εκδότης εφημερίδας. Είναι περισσότερο γνωστός ως δικηγόρος υπερασπίσεως στη δίκη για την υπόθεση ΑΣΠΙΔΑ που ποτέ δεν ολοκληρώθηκε....

Menas of Egypt

3 Menas of Egypt, a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas...

Saint Kyriaki

3 Saint Kyriaki, also known as Saint Kyriaki the Great Martyr, is a Christian saint who was martyred under the Roman emperor Diocletian.

Ambrosios Pleianthidis

3 Ambrosios Pleiathidis also known as Ambrosios of Moschonisia was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Moschonisia, in modern Turkey, from February to September 1922. He was executed by the...

Mary, mother of Jesus

3 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Agamemnon

3 In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War. He was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of...

Diagoras of Rhodes

3 Diagoras of Rhodes was an Ancient Greek boxer from the 5th century BC, who was celebrated for his own victories, as well as the victories of his sons and grandsons. He was a member of the Eratidea...

Emmanouil Benakis

3 Emmanouil Benakis was a Greek merchant and politician, considered a national benefactor of Greece. 

Periander

3 Periander was the second tyrant of the Cypselid dynasty that ruled over ancient Corinth. Periander's rule brought about a prosperous time in Corinth's history, as his administrative skill made...

Dionysios of Zakynthos

3 Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos was a 16th-century Orthodox Christian Bishop of Aegina. He was born on the Greek island of Zakynthos in 1547. He is the patron saint of Zakynthos and is celebrated on...

Romanos the Melodist

3 Romanos the Melodist was a Byzantine hymnographer and composer, who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music. Called "the Pindar of rhythmic poetry", he flourished during the sixth...

Panagiotis Danglis

3 Panagiotis Danglis was a Greek military officer and politician. He is particularly notable for inventing the Schneider-Danglis mountain gun, his service as chief of staff in the Balkan Wars, and...

Ioannis Velissariou

3 Ioannis Velissariou was a Hellenic Army officer and hero of the Balkan Wars. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the military history of modern Greece. He had a decisive role...

Epaminondas

3 Epaminondas was a Greek general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent position in Greek...

Sappho

3 Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was...

Idomeneus (son of Deucalion)

3 In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well as a comrade of the...

Three Holy Hierarchs

3 The Three Hierarchs of Eastern Christianity refers to Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. They were highly influential bishops of the early church who played pivotal roles in...

Andromache

3 In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled. The name means "man...

Pisistratus

3 Pisistratus was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death. His unification of Attica, the triangular peninsula of Greece...

Ιωάννης Γρυπάρης (λογοτέχνης)

3 Ο Ιωάννης Γρυπάρης ήταν Έλληνας μεταφραστής, λογοτέχνης και εκπαιδευτικός, ενώ διετέλεσε επίσης στέλεχος του Υπουργείου Παιδείας και διευθυντής του Εθνικού Θεάτρου. Στα κατάλοιπα του λογοτέχνη,...

Aris Velouchiotis

3 Athanasios Klaras, better known by the nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis, was a Greek journalist, politician, member of the Communist Party of Greece, the most prominent leader and chief instigator of...

Eleutherius and Antia

3 Eleutherius, also written as Eleutherus, Eleuterus and Eleftherios ; and his mother Antia, or Anthia are venerated as Christian saints and martyrs in Albania, Greece and Cyprus, and Italy.

Makarios III

3 Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a...

Marcus Junius Brutus

3 Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, which...

Κιθαιρών (μυθολογία)

3 Στην ελληνική μυθολογία ο Κιθαιρών (Κιθαιρώνας) ήταν ένας βασιλιάς των Πλαταιών, από τον οποίο κατά την μυθολογία πήρε το όνομά του, το γειτονικό ομώνυμο βουνό Κιθαιρώνας. Ο Κιθαιρών βασίλευσε πριν...

Andreas Laskaratos

3 Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia, representative of the Heptanese school. He was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church because his satire...

Demetrios I of Constantinople

3 Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972 to 2 October 1991, serving as the...

Anthimos Gazis

3 Anthimos Gazis or Gazes was a Greek scholar, revolutionary and politician. He was born in Milies (Thessaly) in Ottoman Greece in 1758 into a family of modest means. In 1774 he became an Eastern...

Constantine P. Cavafy

3 Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major...

Georgios Vizyinos

3 Georgios Vizyinos was a Greek short story writer and poet. His poems, which are considered influential in Greek literature, focus on ethnography and he was referred to as a "painter of souls". Most...

Ιωάννης Κονδυλάκης

3 Ο Ιωάννης Κονδυλάκης (1861−1920) ήταν Έλληνας λογοτέχνης, διηγηματογράφος, δημοσιογράφος και χρονογράφος. Ήταν ο πρώτος πρόεδρος της ΕΣΗΕΑ και από τα γνωστότερα έργα του είναι ο Πατούχας και «Όταν...

Seleucus I Nicator

3 Seleucus I Nicator was a Macedonian Greek general, officer and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the Seleucid dynasty. Initially a secondary...

Elijah

3 Elijah or Elias was a prophet and miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab, according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.

Andreas Kalvos

3 Andreas Kalvos was a Greek poet of the Romantic school.                                             

Iro Konstantopoulou

3 Iro Konstantopoulou was a member of the Greek resistance during World War II. She worked with the resistance in Greece to oppose the Axis occupation of the country for three years before being...

Margaret the Virgin

3 Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July by the Eastern...