List of Famous people born in Attica Region, Greece

Ariane Labed

First Name Ariane
Born on May 8, 1984 (age 41)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Ariane Labed is a Greek-French actress and film director. She is known for her feature film debut in Attenberg, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and appearing in Helen Edmundson's film Mary Magdalene in 2018.

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Leonidas Kavakos

First Name Leonidas
Last Name Kavakos
Born on October 30, 1967 (age 58)

Leonidas Kavakos is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation scholar. He has also recorded for record labels such as Sony/BMG and BIS. As a conductor, he was an artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg and has been a guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Ioánnis Paleokrassás

First Name Ioánnis
Born on March 27, 1934
Died on October 2, 2021 (aged 87)

Ioannis Palaiokrassas was a Greek politician.

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Antiphon

Born on November 30, -0501
Died on January 1, -0409 (aged 92)

The name Antiphon the Sophist is used to refer to the writer of several Sophistic treatises. He probably lived in Athens in the last two decades of the 5th century BC, but almost nothing is known of his life.

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Irene of Athens

First Name Irene
Born on January 1, 0752
Died on August 9, 0803 (aged 51)

Irene of Athens, surnamed Sarantapechaina (Σαρανταπήχαινα), was Byzantine empress by marriage to Emperor Leo IV from 775 to 780, regent during the minority of their son Constantine VI from 780 until 790, co-regent from 792 until 797, and finally sole ruler and first empress regnant of the Byzantine Empire from 797 to 802. A member of the politically prominent Sarantapechos family, she was selected as Leo IV's bride for unknown reasons in 768. Even though her husband was an iconoclast, she harbored iconophile sympathies. During her rule as regent, she called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which condemned iconoclasm as heretical and brought an end to the first iconoclast period (730–787).

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Haruna Ikezawa

First Name Haruna
Last Name Ikezawa
Born on December 15, 1975 (age 50)

Haruna Ikezawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. She was formerly affiliated with 81 Produce and Oscar Promotion, but as of 2014, she is affiliated with Across Entertainment. Her major roles in anime include: Gō Seiba in Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!!, Haruna Hiroko in Hamtaro, Yoshino Shimazu in Maria-sama ga Miteru, Momoka Nishizawa in Sgt. Frog. In video games, she has voiced Athena Asamiya in King of Fighters since 1998, and voiced Coco Bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot series. She announced her marriage on July 1st, 2020.

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Emmanouil Karalís

First Name Emmanouil
Born on October 20, 1999 (age 26)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Emmanouíl Karalís, born 20 October 1999 in Athens, is a Greek pole vaulter. He is the son of a Greek father and an Ugandan mother. He won the silver medal at the 2019 and 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships and placed fourth at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Barnabas

Born on November 30, 0000
Died on November 30, 0060 (aged 60)

Barnabas, born Joseph, was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Named an apostle in Acts 14:14, he and Paul the Apostle undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts against the Judaizers. They traveled together making more converts, and participated in the Council of Jerusalem. Barnabas and Paul successfully evangelized among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in various Hellenized cities of Anatolia.

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Georges Garvarentz

First Name Georges
Last Name Garvarentz
Born on April 1, 1932
Died on March 19, 1993 (aged 60)

Georges Diran Garvarentz was an Armenian-French composer, noted for his music for films and Charles Aznavour's songs.

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Demy

Born on August 21, 1991 (age 34)

Dimitra Papadea, known professionally as Demy, is a Greek singer who is signed with the Greek independent label Panik Records. Until today Demy has released 2 Studio albums. "#1" in 2012, which became Platinum album and "Rodino Oniro" in 2014, which became Gold album. 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 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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