List of Famous people born in Attica Region, Greece
Nikos Kaklamanakis
Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Nikos Pateras
Nikos Pateras is a Greek major shipowner, president and shareholder of Panathinaikos FC.
Tonia Sotiropoulou
Tonia Sotiropoulou is a Greek actress.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra Pantazi is a Greek singer. She is best-known for having represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 in Sweden.
Stavros Xarchakos
Stavros Xarchakos is a Greek composer and conductor.
Stereo Mike
Mihalis Exarchos, known professionally by his stage name Stereo Mike, is a Greek hip hop artist. He is the first MTV EMA Award winner in the "Best Greek Act" category. Stereo Mike represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 alongside singer Loucas Yiorkas with the song "Watch My Dance", placing seventh with 120 points.
Katy Garbi
Katerina "Katy" Garbi is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus, with some popularity in Turkey. Her career has spanned over 30 years with over 1.5 million records sold in Greece and abroad. Garbi's discography is marked by several multi-platinum releases, including Arhizo Polemo (1996) and Evaisthisies (1997), two of the best-selling albums of the decade. Garbi represented Greece in the annual Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 with the song "Ellada, Hora Tou Fotos", taking ninth place. She later struck her biggest commercial success with To Kati (2000) in terms of unit sales. Over the years, Garbi has won 11 Pop Corn Music Awards, including three for Album of the Year, and one Arion Music Award. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked her among the top-certified female artists in Greece's phonographic era, at 8th place.
Kristi Stassinopoulou
Chrisavgi (Kristi) Stassinopoulou is a Greek singer, lyricist, and fiction writer. A native Athenian, she is an internationally known artist of the world music circuit. She is accompanied by composer, arranger, co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Stathis Kalyviotis. Their music combines traditional Greek rhythms and sounds, Byzantine vocal lines, rebetiko music, psychedelic rock, ambience and electronica.
Takis Biniaris
Panayiotis (Takis) Biniaris is a Greek singer who represented his country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985, in which he sang Miazoume. He earned 15 points and finished in 16th place. Biniaris also participated in the Greek national selection for Eurovision in 1991 with the song Opou ke na’ssai which was unplaced.