Famous People

Aristotelis Valaoritis

Greek poet (1824–1879)

Aleka Papariga

Greek politician

Vassilios Papandreou

Greek bishop (1936–2011)

Vassilios Xydas

Greek pole vaulter

Vassilios Kotronias

Greek chess player

Vassilios Skouris

Greek judge

Vassilios Meimarakis

Greek politician

Vassilios Zaharoff

Greek-born arms dealer and industrialist (1849-1936)

Nikitas Stamatelopoulos

Greek revolutionary and politician

Dionysios of Miletus

5th-century BC Greek historian

Dionysios the Renegade

ancient Greek philosopher

Dionysios Soter

indo-Greek king

Dionysios the Phocaean

early 5th century BC Phocaean Greek admiral

Dionysios of Byzantium

ancient Greek geographer

Dionysios Savvopoulos

Greek singer-songwriter (1944–2025)

Dionysios Periegetes

2nd century AD Greek travel writer

Dionysios Solomos

Greek poet (1798–1857)

Dionysios Thrax

ancient Greek grammarian

Dionysios I of Syracuse

Greek tyrant of Syracuse (c. 432 – 367 BC)

Dionysios the Areopagite

Greek bishop and saint

Dionysios the Areopagite

Greek philosopher

Dionysios of Halicarnassus

1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher

Sotiria Bellou

Greek singer (1921–1997)

Aristidis Rapanakis

Greek sailor

Aristidis Akratopoulos

Greek tennis player

Aristidis Quintilianus

ancient Greek musicologist

Aristidis of Thebes II

4th-century BC Greek painter

Aristidis Moraitinis

Greek politician (1806-1875)

Aristidis Konstantinidis

Greek racing cyclist

Aristidis of Athens

Greek Christian author

Stamatios Nikolopoulos

Greek racing cyclist

Fotios Fotios of Alexandria

Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (1853-1925)

Eleftherios Venizelos

Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864-1936)

Paraskevi Patoulidou

Greek former athlete

Sotirios Krokidas

Greek politician, lawyer and university professor (1852-1924)

Chrisoula Zacharopoulou

Greek-French gynecologist and politician

Olha Matskiv

Ukrainian Greek Catholic nun (1919–1944)

Ihor Vozniak

Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Liana Kanelli

Greek journalist and politician

Taras Senkiv

Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Stryi

Katina Paxinou

Greek actress (1900-1973)

Roza Eskenazi

Greek singer

Areta of Cyrene

4th-century BC Greek philosopher

Ugo Antetokounmpo

Greek basketball player

Olimpia II of Epirus

ancient Greek queen regnant

Constantine Metropolis

Greek American physicist (1915–1999)

Quincy Dorsey

American–Greek basketball player

Basil Poledouris

Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores (1945-2006)