List of Famous people born in Attica Region, Greece
Yannis Behrakis
Yannis Behrakis was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.
Nikos Michaloliakos
Nikolaos G. Michaloliakos is a Greek politician. He is the founder and leader of the far-right party Golden Dawn. In October 2020, he and 67 other Golden Dawn leaders were found guilty of leading a criminal organisation by the Athens Appeals Court.
Marie Tsoni
Mary Tsoni was a Greek actress and singer. She was best known for her roles in the films Evil (2005), Dogtooth and Evil: In the Time of Heroes. For her role in Dogtooth, she won the award for Best Actress at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the motion picture itself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Maria Vassilakou
Maria Vassilakou is an Austrian Green Party politician originating from Lakonia. From 25 November 2010 until 26 June 2019 she served as Deputy Mayor and Deputy Governor of Vienna, as well as Executive Councillor for Urban Planning, Traffic & Transport, Climate Protection, Energy Planning and Public Participation. Her successor is Green Party politician Birgit Hebein.
Eleftherios Petrounias
Eleftherios Petrounias is a Greek artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic champion, three-time World champion and a five-time (2011/2015-18) European medalist on the still rings.
Kostas Voutsas
Kostas Voutsas (Greek: Κώστας Βουτσάς; born Konstantinos Savvopoulos was a Greek actor, director, and writer.
Aspasía Mánou
Aspasia Manos was a Greek aristocrat who became the wife of Alexander I, King of Greece. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled Madame Manos instead of Queen Aspasia, until recognized as HRH Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark after Alexander's death and the restoration of King Constantine I, on 10 September 1922.
Steve Angello
Steven Patrik Josefsson Fragogiannis, better known by his stage name Steve Angello, is a Greek-Swedish DJ, record producer, remixer and record label owner. He is a member of Swedish House Mafia, together with Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso.
Angélique Ionatos
Angélique Ionatos in a Greek-born singer, guitarist and composer. Much of her focus is on setting classical and modern Greek texts. She has lived as member of the Greek diaspora in France since 1981 or earlier, having originally left Greece, in order to be reunited with her family, as a fifteen-year-old in 1969. Her family's emigration the previous year had come in the context of the widespread political persecution that followed the Coup d'état of 21 April 1967, which had seen a far-right military junta take power in Athens. Between 1969 and 1981 she grew up with her parents and elder brother in Liege.
Takis
Panayiotis Vassilakis, also known as Takis, was a self-taught Greek artist known for his kinetic sculptures. He exhibited his artworks in Europe and the United States. Popular in France, his works can be found in public locations in and around Paris, as well as at the Athens-based Takis Foundation Research Center for the Arts and Sciences.