100 Notable alumni of
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is 95th in the world, 33rd in Europe, and 1st in Greece by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Constantine II of Greece
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- monarchsailor
- Biography
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Constantine II was the last king of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
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Queen Sofía of Spain
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Doña Sofía is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I until his abdication. She is the eldest child of King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederica.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with doctorate in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- translatorlexicographerwriterjournalistnovelist
- Biography
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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 different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.
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Eleftherios Venizelos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 1881-1886 graduated with law degree
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyerdiplomatjournalist
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Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. As leader of the Liberal Party, he held office as prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms between 1910 and 1933. During his governance, Venizelos entered into diplomatic cooperation with the Great Powers and profoundly influenced the internal and external affairs of Greece. Therefore, he has been labeled "The Maker of Modern Greece" and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".
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Andreas Papandreou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek economist, politician, statesman and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which he led from 1974 to 1996. He served three terms as the 3rd and 8th prime minister in the Third Hellenic Republic. His father, Georgios Papandreou, and his son, George Papandreou, have served as prime ministers of Greece.
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Katerina Sakellaropoulou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor of Laws in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- judgepresidentjurist
- Biography
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Katerina N. Sakellaropoulou is a Greek judge who has been the president of Greece since 13 March 2020. She was elected by the Hellenic Parliament to succeed Prokopis Pavlopoulos on 22 January 2020. Prior to her election as president, Sakellaropoulou served as president of the Council of State, the highest administrative court of Greece. She is the country's first female president.
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Makarios III
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1942 graduated with bachelor's degree in theology
- Occupations
- clericpoliticiandeacon
- Biography
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Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot clergyman and politician who served as Archbishop of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first President of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977.
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Odysseas Elytis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied chemistry
- Occupations
- writertranslatorpoetart critic
- Biography
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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 the second half of the twentieth century, with his Axion Esti "regarded as a monument of contemporary poetry". In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Georgios Papanikolaou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1904 graduated with bachelor's degree in medicine
- Occupations
- physiciangynecologistpathologistoncologist
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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 cancer.
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Nectarius of Aegina
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox monk
- Biography
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Nectarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, is one of the most renowned Greek saints, venerated both in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. On 20 April 1961, Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople canonized him as a saint. His feast day is celebrated every year on 9 November.
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Prokopis Pavlopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyeracademicianjurist
- Biography
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Prokopios "Prokopis" Pavlopoulos is a Greek retired politician, who served as the president of Greece from 2015 to 2020. A member of New Democracy, he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2009. He was succeeded by Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 13 March 2020, who became the first woman to serve as President of Greece.
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Konstantinos Mitsotakis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence, economics, and political science
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Konstantinos Mitsotakis was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Minister of Greece following the 2019 Greek legislative election.
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Konstantinos Karamanlis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Konstantinos G. Karamanlis was a Greek politician who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic. A towering figure of Greek politics, his political career spanned portions of seven decades, covering much of the latter half of the 20th century.
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Thodoros Angelopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- directorscreenwriterfilm producerfilm directorfilm critic
- Biography
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Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Αγγελόπουλος; (27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
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Anna Vissi
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- actorfilm actorsingerstage actorsongwriter
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Anna Vissi is a Greek Cypriot singer and songwriter. She studied music at conservatories and performed locally before moving to the professional scene in Athens, in 1973, where she signed with Minos and simultaneously collaborated with other musical artists and released promotional singles of her own while studying at the University of Athens. She has represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 and 2006, and Cyprus in 1982.
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Nikos Anastasiades
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with law degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nicos Anastasiades is a Cypriot politician and businessperson, who served as the seventh president of Cyprus from 2013 to 2023. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally between 1997 and 2013 and served as Member of Parliament from Limassol between 1981 and 2013.
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Georgios Papandreou
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- politicianeconomistlawyerdiplomat
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Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965). He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos. He served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades.
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Cornelius Castoriadis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 1937-1942 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics and jurisprudence
- Occupations
- psychologistpsychoanalystwritereconomistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.
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John Ioannidis
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
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John P. A. Ioannidis is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. Ioannidis studies scientific research itself - in other words, meta-research - primarily in clinical medicine and the social sciences.
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Dora Bakoyannis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.
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Manos Hatzidakis
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- film score composersongwriteraccordionistpianistviolinist
- Biography
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Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time. He was one of the main proponents of the "Éntekhno" form of music, along with Mikis Theodorakis, and he is credited as the founder of the Orchestra of Colours, an ensemble performing lesser-known works and the music of Greek composers, and influenced a broad swathe of Greek culture through his writings and radio broadcasts. With his theoretical and compositional work, he is considered to be the first to connect post-war the worded music with traditional music.
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Kostas Karamanlis
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Konstantinos A. Karamanlis, commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis (Greek: Κώστας Καραμανλής, pronounced [ˈkostas karamanˈlis]), is a Greek retired politician who served as the 10th prime minister of Greece from 2004 to 2009. He was also president of the centre-right New Democracy party, founded by his uncle Konstantinos Karamanlis, from 1997 to 2009, and as member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1989 to 2023.
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Fofi Gennimata
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fotini "Fofi" Gennimata was a Greek politician who served as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) from 2015 to 2021. During her tenure as party leader, she also co-founded and led the Democratic Alignment and the Movement for Change, two successive political alliances of centre-left parties formed around PASOK. She was the daughter of Georgios Gennimatas, a high-profile government minister during the PASOK administrations of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Patriarch Pavle of Serbia
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 1955-1957 studied theology
- Occupations
- priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pavle was the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1990 to his death. His full title was His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Pavle. Before his death, he was the oldest living leader of an Eastern Orthodox church. Because of poor health, he spent his last years in the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, while his duties were carried out by Metropolitan Amfilohije.
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Epiphanius I
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied in 2006-2007
- Occupations
- journalistChristian minister
- Biography
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Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
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Kostis Palamas
- Occupations
- poetliterary criticwriterjournalistplaywright
- Biography
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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 School (or Palamian School, or Second Athenian School) along with Georgios Drosinis and Ioannis Polemis.
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Porfirije Perić
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 2004 graduated with doctorate in theology
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox bishop
- Biography
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Porfirije is the current and 46th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was the Metropolitan Bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana from 2014 to 2021 and Titular Bishop of Jegra between 1999 and 2014. He is also a university professor and author of theological works.
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Karolos Papoulias
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianlegal counselorjuristdiplomat
- Biography
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Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
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Nicos Christodoulides
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with PhD in political science in political science
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Nikos Christodoulides is a Cypriot politician, diplomat, and academic who has served as the 8th President of Cyprus since 2023. He previously served as Government Spokesman from 2014 to 2018 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022, both under his predecessor Nicos Anastasiades. A former member of the Democratic Rally, he has been an independent since the party ejected him for entering the 2023 presidential race against their chosen candidate.
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Adonis Georgiades
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in archaeology and history
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpublisher
- Biography
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Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis, commonly known as Adonis Georgiadis, is a Greek politician, author, publisher and former telemarketer. Often described as being on the far right of the political spectrum, he currently serves as Vice President of New Democracy and Minister for Health in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
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Vasilis Kikilias
- Occupations
- basketball playerpolitician
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Vasilis Kikilias is a Greek politician who served as Minister for Tourism in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis from 2021 to 2023. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament for New Democracy in the Athens A constituency. He is also a retired professional basketball player who played for Panionios B.C., Ionikos Nikaias B.C., AEK B.C., Apollon Patras B.C. and the Greece men's national basketball team.
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Alexandros Papadiamantis
- Occupations
- translatorpoetcolumnistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Alexandros Papadiamantis was an influential Greek novelist, short-story writer and poet.
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Kostas Karyotakis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1917 graduated with law degree in law
- Occupations
- writertranslatorcivil servantpoet
- Biography
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Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
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Zoe Konstantopoulou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Zoe Konstantopoulou is a Greek politician of the political left, who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from February to October 2015. Since 2016 she has been the president of the Course of Freedom.
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Ion Dragoumis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Ion Dragoumis was a Greek diplomat, philosopher, writer and revolutionary.
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Mimis Plessas
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Dimitrios "Mimis" Plessas was a Greek musician, composer, conductor and pianist.
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Dimitris Lignadis
- Occupations
- television actorstage actordirectoractor
- Biography
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Dimitris Lignadis is a Greek actor and stage director, who served as the Artistic Director of the National Theater of Greece from August 2019 until he resigned on February 6, 2021. Lignadis resigned from his position after sexual abuse statements by minors against him became public. Shortly after, he was arrested, charged and convicted with serial rape of minors but let free due to alleged high connections with government officials.
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Evgenios Trivizas
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writercriminologistsociologist
- Biography
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Eugene Trivizas is a Greek sociologist and writer of children's books. For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, Trivizas was a finalist for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.
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Dimitris Koutsoumpas
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dimitris Koutsoumpas is a Greek communist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) since 14 April 2013.
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Nikos Karvelas
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- composersongwritertalent managersinger
- Biography
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Nikos Karvelas is a Greek musician, composer, singer, songwriter, record producer and author. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his four-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Tolis Voskopoulos and Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple personal studio albums that have had mild to big success. In 2012, Alpha TV ranked Karvelas as the 13th top-certified composer in Greece in the phonographic era.
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Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theology, philosophy, and archaeology
- Occupations
- clergymanhistorianpriest
- Biography
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Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.
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Grigor Parlichev
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied philosophy and medicine
- Occupations
- writertranslatorpoetteacher
- Biography
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Grigor Stavrev Parlichev, also known as Grigorios Stavridis (Greek: Γρηγόριος Σταυρίδης), was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and translator. He received acclaim as a "second Homer" in Greece for his poem O Armatolos. Afterward, he became a Bulgarian national activist. Other notable of his works include the poems Skenderbeg, 1762 leto and his autobiographical work Autobiography. In North Macedonia and Bulgaria, he is regarded as a pioneer of national awakening, but his national identity has been also disputed between both countries.
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Aggelos Sikelianos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1900 studied law
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightpoetdramaturge
- Biography
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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 of God, and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla, Daedalus in Crete, Christ in Rome, The Death of Digenis, The Dithyramb of the Rose and Asklepius. Although occasionally his grandiloquence blunts the poetic effect of his work, some of Sikelianos finer lyrics are among the best in Western literature. Every year from 1946 to 1951, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Thanos Mikroutsikos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in mathematics
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Athanasios "Thanos" Mikroutsikos was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene.
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Harilaos Trikoupis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.
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Vasiliki Thanou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied law
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Vasiliki Thanou-Christophilou, also known as just Vasiliki Thanou, is a Greek judge who served as caretaker prime minister of Greece from 27 August to 21 September 2015, in the run-up to the September 2015 legislative election. She was the first-ever female Greek prime minister and the 98th officeholder since 1822.
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Demy
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- actorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Dimitra Papadea, known professionally as Demy, is a Greek singer. She is signed with the Greek independent label Panik Records. She has released two studio albums, "#1" in 2012, which became platinum and "Rodino Oniro" in 2014, which became gold. In 2017, she released "Demy", a collection of all of her English songs and later she released the album "Kontra" including two new songs and older songs and collaborations that had not been included in an album up to that time. Demy has achieved 8 No.1 songs and 2 No.1 EPs (Extended Plays) at the Greek charts so far. She also combined music and acting by having taken part in 5 musicals from 2012 to 2017.
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Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theology
- Occupations
- priestChristian minister
- Biography
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Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (Greek: Πατριάρχης Ιεροσολύμων Θεόφιλος Γ'; Arabic: غبطة بطريرك المدينة المقدسة اورشليم وسائر أعمال فلسطين كيريوس كيريوس ثيوفيلوس الثالث, romanized: Ghabṭat baṭrīark al-madīnat al-muqaddasa Urshālim wa sā'ir A'māl Filasṭīn Kiryūs Kiryūs Thiyūfīlūs al-thālith; (born 4 April 1952) is the current Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem since 2005. He is styled Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Holy Zion.
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Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priesttheologianmetropolitan
- Biography
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Christodoulos was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, from 1998 until his death, in 2008.
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Nikos Dendias
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nikolaos "Nikos" Dendias is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party who has been serving as Minister for National Defence in the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis since 2023. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens, and previously served as Minister for National Defence from November 2014 to January 2015 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from July 2019 to May 2023.
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Panagiotis Pikrammenos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Panagiotis Pikrammenos is a Greek judge and politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece from 2019 to 2023.
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Makis Voridis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mavroudis Voridis (Greek: Μαυρουδής (Μάκης) Χρήστου Βορίδης; born 23 August 1964) is a Greek politician and lawyer. His previous involvement with far-right rhetoric and past association with dictator Georgios Papadopoulos has made him a controversial figure in Greek politics.
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Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- swimmerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Konstantinos "Kostis" Stephanopoulos was a Greek conservative politician who served two consecutive terms as the president of Greece from 1995 to 2005.
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Olga Kefalogianni
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1997 graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Olga Kefalogianni is a Greek politician who served as Minister of Tourism of the Greek Government from 2012 to 2015 and again since 27 June 2023. She was appointed in this position by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in June 2012. She is a Member of Parliament, representing the New Democracy party. She has been elected two times in the Cretan prefecture of Rethymno in the 2007 and 2009 general elections. In the 6 May 2012 elections, she was voted in the first position as Member of Parliament for the important District A of Athens constituency. She was re-elected in the same position in the 17 June 2012 elections, and again in January 2015. She is the daughter of former minister and member of parliament, the late Ioannis Kefalogiannis. She was married to Greek businessman Manos Pentheroudakis from 2010 to 2020. On 3 May 2021 she married composer Minos Matsas in Spetses. On 8 May she announced that she is pregnant with twins.
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Dimitris Avramopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Dimitris Avramopoulos is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party, and former career diplomat. He has served in various high-level cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for National Defence, and was Mayor of Athens from 1995 to 2002. He served as EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker Commission between 2014 and 2019.
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Dimitrios Gounaris
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 1884-1889 graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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 main right-wing opponent of his contemporary Eleftherios Venizelos.
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Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou
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- Eastern Orthodox bishophead of governmentarchbishopEastern Orthodox priestpolitician
- Biography
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Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, born Dimitrios Papandreou (Greek: Δημήτριος Παπανδρέου; 3 March 1891 – 20 May 1949) was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King George II to Greece in 1946. His rule was between the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War.
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Theodoros Pangalos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied in 1956-2023
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek politician and leading member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He served as the deputy prime minister of Greece, responsible for the coordination of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) and the new Economic & Social Policy Committee from 2009 to 2012.
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M. Karagatsis
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitrios Rodopoulos (Δημήτριος Ροδόπουλος). The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya, which is the Russian diminutive of Dimitris (his real name). The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree karagatsi under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.
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Ioannis Rallis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Ioannis Rallis was the third and last collaborationist prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, holding office from 7 April 1943 to 12 October 1944, succeeding Konstantinos Logothetopoulos in the Nazi-controlled Greek puppet government in Athens.
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Georgios Rallis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Georgios Ioannou Rallis, anglicised to George Rallis, was a Greek conservative politician and Prime Minister of Greece from 1980 to 1981.
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Vangelis Meimarakis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Evangelos-Vasileios "Vangelis" Meimarakis is a Greek politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy and Leader of the Opposition in Greece from 5 July to 24 November 2015, competing as the challenger to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the September 2015 Greek legislative election. He lost in the run-off of the New Democracy leadership election, 2015–16. Since 2019, he has been a Member of the European Parliament.
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Xenophon Zolotas
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomistbanker
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Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas was a Greek economist and served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.
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Andreas Embirikos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- writerpsychoanalystpoet
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Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts. As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is considered one of the most important representatives of Greek surrealism. He studied psychoanalysis in France and was the first to practice it as a profession in Greece in the years 1935–1951. Out of his entire literary work, his first collection of poetry, titled Ypsikaminos, stands out as the first purely surrealist Greek text. Among his prose works, his bold erotic novel The Great Eastern was completed over a period of several decades becoming the lengthiest modern Greek novel. Described as Embirikos' "lifework", It was received with both praise and criticism for its libertine nature and highly erotic content. A large part of Embirikos' work was published well after his death.
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Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1919 graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwriterphilosopher
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Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.
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Liana Kanelli
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied law
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Garyfallia Kanelli (Greek: Γαρυφαλλιά (Λιάνα) Κανέλλη; born 20 March 1954), also sometimes credited as Liana K. or simply Liana, is a Greek journalist and Member of the Greek Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece since 2000.
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Alkinoos Ioannidis
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- composeractorsingerguitaristsongwriter
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Alkinoos Ioannidis is a Greek Cypriot composer, lyricist, singer, and orchestrator.
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Aleka Papariga
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in philosophy
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Alexandra "Aleka" Papariga is a Greek retired politician who served the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) as its General Secretary from 1991 to 2013. She is the first woman to be General Secretary of KKE, and thus the first woman to head a major political party in Greece.
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Panagiotis Lafazanis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied mathematics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Panagiotis Lafazanis is a Greek politician. He served as the leader of a new Greek left-wing political party, Popular Unity, from 21 August 2015 until his resignation on 2 June 2019.
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Eleonora Meleti
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- radio producertelevision presenterpoliticianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Eleonora Meleti is a Greek journalist who was elected as MEP for the New Democracy party in 2024 European Parliament election.
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Kostis Chatzidakis
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- politicianeconomistlawyer
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Konstantinos Hatzidakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος (Κωστής) Χατζηδάκης; born 20 April 1965 in Rethymno) is a Greek politician of New Democracy who has been serving as Minister for Νational Economy and Finance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Within his party, he serves as vice president under Mitsotakis' leadership.
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Tasos Livaditis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied law
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Tasos Leivaditis was a Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who belonged to the postwar generation that was deeply marked by the struggles and failures of the communist movement. His early and politically committed poetry travelled through the ‘fire and sword’ of history, transforming in the end into powerful and paradoxical prose-poems, and displaying an erotically charged form of ‘neo-romanticism’ mixed with ‘melancholic minimalism’ where “genuine humility offers obeisance to the magic of language.”
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Dimitris Tzanakopoulos
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- politiciancivil servantlawyer
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Dimitris Tzanakopoulos is a Greek politician and a lawyer. He was a Minister of State & the Government Spokesperson of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras between 2016 and 2019. In the snap general election of 7 July 2019 he was elected Member of Parliament for Athens (A).
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Konstantinos Tsatsos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1929 graduated with doctorate in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticiandiplomatpoetwriter
- Biography
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Konstantinos D. Tsatsos was a Greek diplomat, professor of law, scholar and politician. He served as the second President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1975 to 1980.
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Georgios Babiniotis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied in 1962
- Occupations
- lexicographeruniversity teacherpoliticianphilologistlinguist
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Georgios Babiniotis is a Greek linguist and philologist and former Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of Greece. He previously served as rector of Athens University. As a linguist, he is best known as the author of a Dictionary of Modern Greek (Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας), which was published in 1998.
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Christos Yannaras
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied theology
- Occupations
- Orthodox theologianuniversity teachertheologianwriterphilosopher
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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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Georgios Vizyinos
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- short story writerprose writerwriterhigh-school teacherplaywright
- Biography
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Georgios Vizyinos was a Greek short story writer and poet. He is considered highly influential in Greek literature.
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Lina Mendoni
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in archaeology
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Lina Mendoni is a Greek politician who has been serving as Minister of Culture of Greece since 2023, having previously served as Minister of Culture and Sports from 2019 to 2023, in the first and second cabinets of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
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Katerina Didaskalou
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Katerina Didaskalou is a Greek theatre, stage, television and film actress. She studied dramatic arts and philosophy in Athens and went on to study cinema and theater at Columbia University, on an Onassis Foundation scholarship. In 2005, she starred in Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent, as "Arsinoe", the Greek wife of a retired general of the Tsarist army. She was in the 1st and 4th seasons of the Greek soap opera Erotas ("Love"), and in the US-produced film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
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Kostas Varnalis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in philology
- Occupations
- translatorprose writerwriterplaywrightjournalist
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Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.
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Georgios Gerapetritis
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherjurist
- Biography
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Giorgos Gerapetritis is a Greek politician, professor and lawyer serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic since June 2023.
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Maria Polydouri
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1921 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Maria Polydouri was a Greek poet who belonged to the school of Neo-romanticism.
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Chrysostomos II of Cyprus
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in theology
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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Chrysostomos II, was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 2006 to 2022.
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Stratis Myrivilis
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Efstratios Stamatopoulos was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis. He is associated with the "Generation of the '30s". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times (1960, 1962, 1963).
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Alexandros Koryzis
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- politicianbankereconomist
- Biography
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Alexandros Koryzis was a Greek politician who served briefly as the prime minister of Greece in 1941.
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Elena Kountoura
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- politicianmodelathletics competitor
- Biography
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Elena Kountoura is a Greek politician, Member of the European Parliament, ex-Minister of Tourism (resigned in 2019 in order to participate in the European Parliament's elections) in the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, and Member of Parliament for Athens A, for the Independent Greeks, and earlier for New Democracy. Before her entrance into politics, she was an international model, director of a women's magazine and a track-and-field athlete.
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Yannis Stournaras
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomistbanker
- Biography
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Yannis Stournaras (Greek: Γιάννης Στουρνάρας; born 10 December 1956) is a Greek economist who has been the Governor of the Bank of Greece since June 2014.
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Monika Christodoulou
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- composersingerguitarist
- Biography
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Monika Christodoulou also known by her stage name Monika, is a Greek singer-songwriter. Her debut album Avatar was released in 2008 and her second album Exit followed in 2010. Both albums achieved platinum status in her native Greece and were met with critical acclaim. Her third album, Secret in the Dark, was the first to be given an international release, in 2015. It was recorded in New York in collaboration with musicians from the Dap-Kings, and sees Christodoulou moving away from the folk, singer-songwriter style of her earlier albums towards a disco and funk sound.
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Nikos Konstantopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nikos Konstantopoulos is a Greek politician, former member of the Hellenic Parliament and former president of the left-wing Synaspismos. His daughter, Zoe Konstantopoulou, until September 2015, was the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament.
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Alexandros Zaimis
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- politicianbankerlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Alexandros Zaimis was a Greek politician who served as Greece's Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Justice, and High Commissioner of Crete. He served as prime minister six times. Although he was a leader of the monarchist faction, Zaimis was the third and last President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
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Grigorios Xenopoulos
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1883 studied physics and mathematics
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightprose writerjournalist
- Biography
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Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and playwright from Zakynthos.
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Konstantinos Kyranakis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Konstantinos Kyranakis is a Greek politician, serving as the current Deputy Minister of Digital Governance for Greece, and as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B3, as a member of New Democracy party. He is regarded as a member of the right-wing faction within New Democracy, while some of his views are frequently deemed controversial.
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Dimitri Nanopoulos
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Dimitri V. Nanopoulos is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 48,500 times across a number of separate branches of science.
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Alekos Alavanos
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Alexandros 'Alekos' Alavanos is a Greek politician, former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. From 2004 until 2008 he was president of the Coalition of the Left of Movements and Ecology, commonly known as Synaspismos. He was parliamentary leader of the wider Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
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Konstantinos Tasoulas
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Konstantinos Tasoulas is a Greek politician and lawyer, who served as President of the Hellenic Parliament from 2019 to 2025. A member of the New Democracy party, he has been an MP for Ioannina from 2000 to 2025.
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Nikos Filis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Nikos Filis is a Greek politician and journalist. He held the office of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece from 23 September 2015 to 5 November 2016.
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Mina Adamaki
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Mina Adamaki was a Greek actress.
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Rena Dourou
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in pedagogy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Irene "Rena" Dourou is a Greek political scientist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From 2014 to 2019, she served as the Regional Governor of Attica. She lost re-election to New Democracy (Greece) Candidate Giorgios Patoulis on 7 July 2019.
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Christos Chomenidis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Christos Chomenidis is a Greek novelist. He studied Law at the University of Athens and in Moscow and Communication Studies in Leeds. He worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer.
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Theodoros Deligiannis
- Enrolled in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- In 1843 graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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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.
