100 Notable alumni of
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is 354th in the world, 123rd in Europe, and 2nd in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Xavier Bettel
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied canon law and admiralty law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish lawyer and politician who serves as the deputy prime minister of Luxembourg and as the minister for Foreign Affairs since 2023. He served as the prime minister of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2023. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1999 to 2013 and mayor of Luxembourg City from 2011 to 2013.
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Albert Bourla
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in veterinary medicine
- Occupations
- business executiveveterinarianpharmacologistexecutive
- Biography
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Albert Bourla is a Greek-American veterinarian and businessman known for serving as the chairman and chief executive officer of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. He joined the company in 1993 and has held several executive roles across Pfizer's divisions. Prior to becoming chief executive officer, Bourla was chief operating officer.
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Eva Kaili
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenterpoliticianarchitect
- Biography
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Eva Kaili is a Greek politician who was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2024. She served as one of fourteen vice presidents of the European Parliament from January 2022 until she was arrested in December 2022 and charged with corruption as part of the Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament.
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Despina Vandi
- Occupations
- singeractor
- Biography
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Despina Malea, known as Despina Vandi (Δέσποινα Βανδή), is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old.
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Marinella
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Kyriaki Papadopoulou, known by her stage name Marinella (Greek: Μαρινέλλα), is a Greek singer whose career has spanned several decades. She is well regarded due to her impressive vocal range. Since the beginning of her professional singing career in 1956, she has released 66 solo albums, and has also been featured on many albums by other musicians. She represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, becoming the second ever Greek entrant in the contest. (Nana Mouskouri represented Luxemburg in 1963).
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Pavlos Sidiropoulos
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied in 1967-1990
- Occupations
- singerguitaristsongwritercomposeractor
- Biography
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Pavlos Sidiropoulos was a Greek musician noted for combining rock music with Greek music. He is considered one of the pillars of Greek rock due to his involvement so early in its foundation. In particular, Flou (1976), an album produced with his band Spyridoula, had a major impact on the rock scene in Greece.
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Dionysis Savvopoulos
- Occupations
- singersongwriterlyricistcomposerpoet
- Biography
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Dionysis Savvopoulos was a Greek singer-songwriter. As a musician and songwriter, he made significant contributions to modern Greek music as part of the Greek New Wave.
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Peter Fitzgerald
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied in 1982-1983
- Occupations
- bankerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 1999 to 2005. Fitzgerald defeated Democratic incumbent Carol Moseley Braun in 1998, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in Illinois since Charles Percy twenty years earlier. He had previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1993 to 1998.
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Evangelos Venizelos
- Occupations
- lawyerdiplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Evangelos Venizelos is a Greek academic and retired politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Greece from 2011 to 2015, as well as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 June 2013 to 27 January 2015 and Minister for Finance of Greece from 17 June 2011 to 21 March 2012. He was a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) for the first electoral district of Thessaloniki. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Theodore II is the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa. He was previously a monk in the Agarathos Holy Monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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Natassa Theodoridou
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Natasa Theodoridou is a Greek singer. She is the only female Greek artist to have her first three albums achieve platinum status. She has been certified for a total of at least 432 thousand albums and 20 thousand singles sales by IFPI Greece. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Theodoridou the 12th best selling female singer in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960), with a total of ten platinum and three gold albums.
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Effie Achtsioglou
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Eftychia "Effie" Achtsioglou, is a Greek politician who served as Minister for Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity from 2016 to 2019. She is a member of the Hellenic Parliament since July 2019 and a leading figure of the New Left since December 2023. She was a member of SYRIZA and an MP for the party until she left in November 2023.
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Christos Sartzetakis
- Occupations
- presidentlawyerjudge
- Biography
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Christos Sartzetakis was a Greek jurist and a supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the president of Greece from 1985 to 1990.
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John X of Antioch
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Patriarch John X is primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East.
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Michalis Chrisochoidis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michalis Chrisochoidis is a Greek politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B2 constituency with New Democracy. He currently serves as Minister for Citizen Protection in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He had served in the same role on four occasions (1999–2003, 2009–2010, 2012 and 2019–2021), as a member of PASOK and an independent politician. He has also served as Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2010), Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness (2010–2011), Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping (2011–2012), Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2013–2015) and Minister for Health (2023–2024).
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Sakis Tanimanidis
- Occupations
- businesspersontelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sakis Tanimanidis is a Greek TV host, producer and entrepreneur. Tanimanidis became known in his native country as the host, creator, producer and director of the travel show World Party that aired on Alpha TV from 2014 to 2016. In 2017, he became a household name as the Greek host and co-producer of Survivor 2017 (the adaptation of the international franchise for the Turkish and Greek television). He is also a serial entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Enthoosia that owns Museums in 7 countries around the world. He has invested/founded multiple start-ups in Greece and abroad.
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Yannis Boutaris
- Occupations
- oenologistbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Yiannis Boutaris was a Greek winemaker and politician who served as Mayor of Thessaloniki from 2011 to 2019. From 2003 tο 2011 he served as a municipal councilor of Thessaloniki, a position he held again from January 2024 and until his death in November.
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Thanasis Papakonstantinou
- Occupations
- composersongwriterrecording artistsinger
- Biography
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Athanasios "Thanasis" Papakonstantinou is a Greek singer-songwriter.
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Margaritis Schinas
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Margaritis Schinas is a Greek politician and former civil servant. He served as vice-president in the Von der Leyen Commission with the portfolio of European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life from 2019 to 2024. A member of the New Democracy party, he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 to 2009 and served as chief spokesperson of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019, and as a deputy director-general of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication between 2015 and 2019.
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Yianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
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- juristbusinesspersonpolitician
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Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is a Greek businesswoman and Ambassador-at-Large for the Hellenic Republic. She is best known for being the leader of the bidding and organizing committees for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In July 2019, she was appointed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to lead Greece 2021, a year-long initiative to both commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution and to introduce to the world a new Greece of effort and optimism.
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Andreas Loverdos
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andreas Loverdos is a Greek politician who was Minister for Education and Religious Affairs from 2014 to 2015.
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Vassilis Vassilikos
- Occupations
- journalistwriterprose writerpoetessayist
- Biography
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Vassilis Vassilikos was a Greek writer and diplomat. According to UNESCO data, he is the 9th-most translated Modern Greek author.
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Ioannis Ikonomou
- Occupations
- translator
- Biography
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Ioannis Ikonomou is a Greek translator who has been working for the European Commission in Brussels since 2002.
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Katerina Dalaka
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied physical education
- Occupations
- hurdlersprinter
- Biography
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Katerina Dalaka is a Greek hurdler. With origins from Katerini, currently representing A.E.K., Dalaka has won gold medals at the Panhellenic Games and the Balkan Games in 400 m hurdles as well as in 100 m, 200 m, the 100 m relay and the 400 m relay.
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Lakis Lazopoulos
- Occupations
- television presentercomedianscreenwriter
- Biography
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Apostolos Lazopoulos (Greek: Απόστολος "Λάκης" Λαζόπουλος; born 6 May 1956) is a Greek playwright, actor, comedian, script writer, producer, tv presenter, writer, columnist, songwriter and performer. He was ranked 83rd by the public in Skai TV's Great Greeks in 2009. In 2010, Forbes ranked Lazopoulos as the most powerful and influential celebrity in Greece.
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Auguste Corteau
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Auguste Corteau is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos (Πέτρος Χατζόπουλος).
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Anna Diamantopoulou
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Anna Diamantopoulou is a Greek civil engineer and politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) who currently serves as president of the Athens-based think tank "DIKTIO" Network for Reform in Greece and Europe.
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Sokratis Famellos
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied chemical engineering
- Occupations
- chemical engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Sokratis Famellos is a Greek politician and former chemical engineer who has been the president of Syriza since November 2024. He previously served as de jure Leader of the Official Opposition in the Hellenic Parliament from 2023 to 2024.
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Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilmmakerfilm directorfilm produceractor
- Biography
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Athina Rachel Tsangari is a Greek filmmaker. Her most notable works include her feature films, The Slow Business of Going (2000), Attenberg (2010) and Chevalier (2015) as well as the co-production of Yorgos Lanthimos' films Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), and Alps (2011). In her versatile work for cinema, she has also founded and been director of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. In 2014–2015, she was invited to Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies department as a visiting lecturer on art, film, and visual studies.
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Christos Yannaras
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with doctorate in philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianwriterphilosopherOrthodox theologian
- Biography
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Christos Yannaras was a Greek philosopher, Eastern Orthodox theologian and author of more than 50 books which have been translated into many languages. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.
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Sofia Sakorafa
- Occupations
- politicianjavelin thrower
- Biography
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Sofia Sakorafa is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25, having formerly sat for Syriza and before that served, from June 2012 to July 2014, as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament. She served as a deputy speaker in the Hellenic Parliament for the MeRA25 party. She is the president of Association hellénique d'athlétisme amateur (SEGAS).
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Ntinos Christianopoulos
- Occupations
- poetliterary critictranslatoressayistpublisher
- Biography
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Konstantinos Dimitriadis, better known by his pen name Dinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar. He was also a music scholar who wrote about rebetiko.
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Christos Stylianides
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Dental Surgery in oral surgery
- Occupations
- dentistpolitician
- Biography
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Christos Stylianides or Christos Stylianidis is a Greek Cypriot politician serving as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy of Greece since 2023. From September 2021 to May 2023 he served as Greece's first Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection. On June 26 he was elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament with the governing New Democracy Party (ND). He has previously served as the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (Cyprus) from 2014 until 2019. In 2014, he was also appointed by the European Council as the European Union's Ebola Coordinator. He was also elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the May 2014 European elections where he served until 31 October 2014.
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Ioannis Zizioulas
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied theology
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianChristian minister
- Biography
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John Zizioulas was a Greek Orthodox bishop who served as the Metropolitan of Pergamon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1986 until his death in 2023. He was one of the most influential Orthodox Christian theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Manolis Andronikos
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologistart historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Manolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Haris Doukas
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- mechanical engineerscientistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Haris Doukas is a Greek mechanical engineer and Professor of energy policy and management at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Doukas is the Mayor of Athens, having assumed office on 1 January 2024, succeeding Kostas Bakoyannis.
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Theodora Tzakri
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Theodora Tzakri is a Greek lawyer, politician, member of parliament and former deputy minister of Industry.
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Sakis Arnaoutoglou
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- weather presenterpolitician
- Biography
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Sakis Arnaoutoglou (Greek: Σάκης Αρναούτογλου; born 13 December 1969 in Samos) is a Greek politician who was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for PASOK – Movement for Change in the 2024 European Parliament election.
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Elpidophoros
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied in 1991
- Occupations
- Greek Orthodox bishop
- Biography
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Elpidophoros of America is a bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and a professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 22 June 2019, he has served as the archbishop and primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
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Natasa Pazaïti
- Occupations
- wifephysician
- Biography
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Anastasia Pazaiti-Karamanli (Greek: Αναστασία Παζαΐτη-Καραμανλή (Anastasía Pazaïti-Karamanlí) (born April 14, 1966), is the wife of Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece. She is a resident general surgeon.
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Andreas D. Mavroyiannis
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andreas D. Mavroyiannis is a Cypriot diplomat and politician who served as Cyprus' ambassador and representative to the United Nations, European Union, France, and Ireland. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
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Konstantinos Zervas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Konstantinos Zervas is a Greek civil engineer and politician who served as Mayor of Thessaloniki from 2019 to 2023 being defeated in the 2023 Thessaloniki municipal election.
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Yannis Ragousis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Giannis Ragousis is a Greek economist and politician of SYRIZA who had previously served in the government of Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
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Zoi Dimitrakou
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Zoi Dimitrakou, is a Greek former professional basketball player who last played Greece women's national basketball team. She has represented national team in several Eurobasket Women and in 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women. In 2016, she played for Washington Mystics in the WNBA.
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Maria Spyraki
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Maria Spyraki is a Greek journalist, politician, and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for New Democracy.
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Maria Houkli
- Occupations
- television presenterlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Maria Houkli is a Greek journalist and presenter. Houkli has served as the main anchorwoman for the main newscast on various TV stations in Greece, most recently ANT1. Prior to this, she was the editor in chief of the central news program on the New Hellenic Television of the Greek public television.
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Thanasis Pafilis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Athanasios Pafilis is a Greek communist politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament and member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Greece. He is also the General Secretary of the World Peace Council and was briefly also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
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Stelios Papathemelis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stelios Papathemelis is a Greek politician and lawyer. He studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Haris Kastanidis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Haris Kastanidis is a Greek politician who served as Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights and Minister for the Interior under George Papandreou. A former member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, he is now a member of the splinter Movement of Democratic Socialists within the Movement for Change.
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Theano Fotiou
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- university teacherarchitectpolitician
- Biography
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Theano Fotiou is a Greek architect and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 to July 2019, she served as Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity in the First and Second Tsipras Cabinets.
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Yannis Maris
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterfilm criticnovelistcrime fiction writer
- Biography
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Yannis Tsirimokos was a Greek left-wing journalist, better known under the pen name Yannis Maris (Γιάννης Μαρής) as a writer of detective fiction. From 1953, Maris wrote over forty short and well-plotted novels that at the time were looked down on in Greece as pulp fiction, but have in later years come to be regarded as classics of the crime genre. Many of the novels feature Inspector Bekas (Αστυνόμος Μπέκας), the title figure of a contemporary Greek TV series. Maris was noted for the humorous and coded names of his book's characters.
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Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia
- Occupations
- archbishop
- Biography
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Theodosios of Sebastia (born Nizar Hanna; 1965) is a Palestinian Christian prelate who has served as Archbishop of Sebastia for the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem since 2005. He is colloquially known as Atallah Hanna (Arabic: عطالله حنا). He is the second Palestinian archbishop in the history of the diocese.
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Maria Spiropulu
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Maria Spiropulu is a Greek particle physicist. She is the Shang-Yi Ch'en Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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Filippos Petsalnikos
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Filippos Petsalnikos was a Greek politician of the Movement of Democratic Socialists. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament. Before, he was a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1985 to 2012.
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Zéta Aimilianídou
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- civil servantlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Zeta Emilianidou was a Cypriot lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of Labour and Social Security of Cyprus from 4 April 2013 until her death on 6 June 2022.
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Eleni Theocharous
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Bachelor's degree in medicine in medicine
- Graduated with Bachelor of Philosophy in philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherpediatric surgeonsurgeon
- Biography
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Eleni Theocharous is a Cypriot paediatric surgeon and politician who leads the political party Solidarity Movement. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2009, re-elected in 2014 and served until 2019. Between 2001 and 2009, Theocharous was a member House of Representatives of Cyprus for the Limassol constituency.
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Matthew J. Kacsmaryk
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump in 2017 and sworn in for the position in 2019.
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Leila Ismailava
- Occupations
- television presentermodeljournalist
- Biography
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Leila Ryzvanauna Ismailova is a Belarusian journalist, TV presenter, and model of Azerbaijani ancestry. In particular, she was the host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010, which was held in Minsk (together with Dzianis Kurian). Leila was the spokesman of the Belarusian voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, and hosted the national selection in Belarus for Eurovision 2012.
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Andreas Xanthos
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Andreas Xanthos is a Greek medical doctor and politician, and Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno on Crete for Syriza. From 2015 to 2019 he served as the Minister of Health in the Second Tsipras Cabinet. He previously served as an Alternate Minister of Health in the First Tsipras Cabinet and is a member of the Central Committee of Syriza.
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Dimitris Sioufas
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dimitris Sioufas was a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician.
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Arcibiskup Rastislav
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priestarchbishop
- Biography
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Metropolitan Rastislav is a Slovak Eastern Orthodox bishop and the Primate of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. His full title is His Beautitude Rastislav, Archbishop of Prešov, Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
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Hierotheos Vlachos
- Occupations
- Christian ministertheologian
- Biography
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Hierotheos Vlachos is a Greek Orthodox metropolitan and theologian.
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Dimitris Mardas
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Dimitris Mardas is a Greek economist and politician who served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He previously served as the Alternate Minister of Revenue in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He was a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 2015 until 2019, representing Thessaloniki B.
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Konstadinos Koukodimos
- Occupations
- politicianathletics competitor
- Biography
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Konstandinos "Kostas" Koukodimos is a retired Greek long jumper and New Democracy politician, who served as the mayor of Katerini, Macedonia from 2019 to 2023. He was named the 1991 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. His family has hails from Agios Dimitrios, Pieria.
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Nektaria Karantzi
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- singerjuristcantor
- Biography
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Nektaria Karantzi is a Byzantine and traditional singer from Greece.
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Kostas Chrysogonos
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Kostas Chrysogonos is a Greek professor of constitutional law and a former Member of the European Parliament, sitting as an independent within the group of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL).
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Tasos Kourakis
- Occupations
- physiciangeneticistpolitician
- Biography
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Anastasios Kourakis (Greek: Αναστάσιος (Τάσος) Κουράκης; 1948 − 10 October 2021) was a Greek pediatrician, geneticist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 until July 2019 he served as Alternate Minister of Education.
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Dimitrios Pandermalis
- Occupations
- archaeologist
- Biography
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Dimitrios Pandermalis was a Greek archaeologist. He was professor of archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, supervisor of the Archaeological site of Dion, Pieria and curator of the new Acropolis Museum.
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Marinos Sizopoulos
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- In 1983 graduated with Bachelor's degree in medicine in medicine
- Occupations
- venereologistdermatologistpolitician
- Biography
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Marinos Sizopoulos is a Cypriot politician, who is President of the Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) since 2015, and serves as a member of the House of Representatives since 2016, having previously served in the same role from 2003 to 2011.
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María Kóllia-Tsarouchá
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Maria Kollia Tsaroucha is a Greek politician from Serres. She was Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace and later Deputy Minister for National Defence between 2015 and 2019 in the First and Second Cabinets of Alexis Tsipras. She was also a Member of Parliament with New Democracy and the Independent Greeks from 2000 to 2019, during which she was Deputy Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from 2012 to 2015.
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Alexandros Rosios
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Alexandros Rosios, also known by the nom de guerre Ypsilantis (Υψηλάντης), was a member of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) and officer of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), and later the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). On the night of 30 March 1946, he led the attack on the Greek Gendarmerie station in Litochoro, an event traditionally regarded as the starting point of the Greek Civil War.
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Neoklis Sarris
- Occupations
- juristwriteruniversity teacheropinion journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Neoklis Sarris was a Greek academic, jurist and politician. He was born in Istanbul on 5 May 1940, and died in Athens on 19 November 2011 from cancer. His great-grandfather Alexandros as a grain merchant moved to Istanbul from Makrinitsa, thus Neoklis Sarris' origin was Greek.
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Andreas Demetriou
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Bachelor of Psychology in psychology
- Graduated with PhD in Psychology in psychology
- Occupations
- professorpsychologistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Andreas Demetriou is a Greek Cypriot developmental psychologist and former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus. He is a founding fellow and former president of The Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.
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Konstantinos Floros
- Occupations
- musicologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Constantin Floros is a Greek-German musicologist. Among the leading German musicologists, his output includes "pioneering research" on the Second Viennese School, especially Alban Berg as well as György Ligeti.
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Nektarios Tavernarakis
- Occupations
- geneticistbiologistneuroscientistmolecular biologist
- Biography
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Nektarios N. Tavernarakis is a Greek bioscientist, who studies Ageing, Cell death, and Neurodegeneration. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Molecular Systems Biology at the Medical School of the University of Crete, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, and President of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC). He is also Distinguished Member of the Foundation for Research and Technology, and the founder and first Director of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics of the University of Crete Medical School. He has served as Chairman of the board of Directors at the Foundation for Research and Technology, and Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, where he is heading the Neurogenetics and Ageing laboratory. He was elected Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2020, and Chairman of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) governing board and executive committee in 2022.
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Vangelis Apostolou
- Occupations
- politician
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Evangelos Apostolou is a Greek Syriza politician who served as the Minister of Agricultural Development and Food in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from September 2015 to August 2018. From January to August 2015, he served as the Alternate Minister of Agricultural Development and Food in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.
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Dorotheos Dbar
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied in 2007-2014
- Occupations
- Christian minister
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Archimandrite Dorotheos is the archimandrite of Holy Metropolis of Goumenissa, Aksiupol and Policastro under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and a chairman of the Holy Metropolis of Abkhazia (HMA).
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Vasiliki Kalogera
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- astrophysicistastronomerphysicist
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Vassiliki Kalogera is a Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at Northwestern University and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics. She is a leading member of the LIGO Collaboration that observed gravitational waves in 2015.
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Loukas Fourlas
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science in economics and political science
- Occupations
- television presenterpoliticianjournalist
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Loukas Fourlas is a Cypriot journalist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Rally since 2019.
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Miltiadis Papaioannou
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Miltiadis Papaioannou is a Greek politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).
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Nikolaos Stampolidis
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied archaeology
- Occupations
- archaeologistuniversity teacher
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Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis ⟨Greek: Νικόλαος (Νικόλας) Χρ. Σταμπολίδης; born 1951 Chania⟩ is a Greek archaeologist who specializes in Geometric and Archaic early Greek history.
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Bishop Kyrillos Katerelos
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- historianChristian ministercanon law juristuniversity teacher
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Kyrillos Katerelos is the Eastern Orthodox Christian Metropolitan Bishop of Krini (Çesme) and exarch of Malta (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople). A theologian, church historian, and canonist, he is currently a professor of theology at the University of Athens.
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Georgios Vafopoulos
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- playwrightjournalistpoetliterary criticessayist
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Georgios Vafopoulos was a Greek poet, author, teacher, and journalist.
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Michalis Tremopoulos
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Michalis Tremopoulos is a Greek lawyer, journalist, environmentalist and politician. He was a Member of European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until Feb 2012.
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Georgios Petalotis
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- politician
- Biography
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George S. Petalotis is a Greek politician of the Movement of Democratic Socialists. Under the former Greek prime minister George Papandreou he served as government spokesman and as Deputy Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.
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Dimitrios Spandidos
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- researchervirologist
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Demetrios A. Spandidos is a Greek virologist and cancer researcher. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Crete where he was professor of virology from 1989 till 2015. He is also the founder of Spandidos Publications and the editor-in-chief of all eight of its journals.
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Ionas Nicolaou
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with law degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Ionas Nicolaou is a Cypriot lawyer and former Democratic Rally politician. He served as Minister of Justice and Public Order during two governments, but left office on 1 June 2019 following his resignation.
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Mercouri Kanatzidis
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- chemist
- Biography
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Mercouri Kanatzidis is a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University and Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Konstantinos Varotsos
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in atmospheric physics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
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Costas Varotsos is a Greek physicist known from his contribution to the global climate-dynamics research and remote sensing.
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Panos Prevedouros
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- writeruniversity teacher
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Panos D. Prevedouros, is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, subcommittee chair of the Transportation Research Board (a unit of the National Academy of Engineering), co-author of the textbook Transportation Engineering and Planning, published by Prentice Hall in 1993 and 2001. He was a two-time unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, running on a program of absolute opposition to mass transit.
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Giorgos Perdikis
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
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Giorgos Perdikis is a Cypriot politician who was the leader of the Cyprus Green Party from 2014 to 2020 and is a Member of the House of Representatives since 2001.
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Sophocles Sophocleous
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with law degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sophocles Sophocleous is a Cypriot Movement for Social Democracy politician. He sat as a Member of the European Parliament for Cyprus between 2012 and 2014. He was the Cypriot Minister of Justice and Public Order from 2006 to 2008. He is the current mayor of Lefkara, his hometown.
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Lefteris Christoforou
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration in business administration
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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Lefteris Christoforou is a Greek Cypriot politician. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 to 2022, where he was head of national delegation in the European People's Party. He is a member of the Democratic Rally (DISY) and he served as vice president from 2003 to 2013 and also as deputy chairman from 2013 to 2019. He was a member of the Cyprus Parliament from 1996 to 2014 and represented Famagusta.
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Petros Vassiliadis
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- university teachertheologian
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Petros B. Vassiliadis is a Greek biblical scholar and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), honorary president of the Center of Ecumenical, Missiological and Environmental Studies “Metropolitan Panteleimon Papageorgiou” (CEMES) and the World Conference of Associations and Theological Institutions and Educators (WOCATI).
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Nestor Courakis
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Studied economics and political science
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Nestor Courakis is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Penology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law and a full-time Professor at the University of Nicosia.
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Ioannis Tassias
- Enrolled in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- In 1982 studied theology
- Occupations
- Greek Orthodox bishopChristian minister
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Ioannis Tassias was a Greek Orthodox bishop, Metropolitan of Langadas as Ioannis of Langada from 2010 until his death in 2020.
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Georgios Papastamkos
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Georgios Papastamkos is a Greek politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014 for New Democracy, part of the European People's Party.
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Metropolitan Michael of Austria
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
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Metropolitan Michael Staikos was the second Eastern Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Austria; he held the position from 1991 until his death in 2011. He was succeeded by Metropolitan Arsenius.
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Floros Konstantinou
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- historianeconomistpolitician
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Floros Konstantinou was a Greek politician, historian and economist, who served as a Member of the Parliament and Deputy Minister of Agriculture with PASOK. He was a graduate of Political Sciences and a holder of two doctoral degrees, the first with the rural economy and the second in history of Hellenism in Romania.
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Aggeliki Kalaitzi
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Aggeliki Kalaitzi is a Greek model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Hellas 2008. She represented Greece at the Miss World 2008 pageant.
