List of Famous people born in Epirus Region, Greece

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha

First Name Pargalı
Born on November 30, 1492
Died on March 15, 1536 (aged 43)

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha, Makbul Ibrahim Pasha, which later changed to Maktul Ibrahim Pasha after his execution in the Topkapı Palace, was the first Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire appointed by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Nikos Tsoumanis

First Name Nikos
Born on June 8, 1990
Died on October 5, 2021 (aged 31)

Nikolaos Tsoumanis was a Greek professional footballer who played as a left-back.

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Olympias

Born on January 1, -0375
Died on January 1, -0316 (aged 59)

Olympias was the eldest daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the sister of Alexander I of Epirus, the fourth wife of Philip II, the king of Macedonia and the mother of Alexander the Great. She was extremely influential in Alexander's life and was recognized as de facto leader of Macedon during Alexander's conquests. After her son's death, she fought on behalf of Alexander's son Alexander IV, successfully defeating Adea Eurydice. After she was finally defeated by Cassander, his armies refused to execute her, and he finally had to summon family members of those Olympias had previously killed to end her life. According to the 1st century AD biographer, Plutarch, she was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and he suggests that she slept with snakes in her bed.

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Reşid Akif Pascha

First Name Reşid
Born on January 1, 1863
Died on January 1, 1920 (aged 57)

Reshid Akif Pasha, was an Ottoman statesman during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Throughout his career as a politician, Reshid Akif Paşa served as governor, minister of the interior, and in the Council of State. He is also noted for providing important testimony in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide.

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Mehmed Ferid Pasha

First Name Mehmed
Last Name Pasha
Born on January 1, 1851
Died on December 7, 1914 (aged 63)

Mehmed Ferid Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 January 1903 until 22 July 1908, at the time when the Sultan restored the 1876 Constitution following the Young Turk Revolution. Other than Ottoman Turkish he spoke the Albanian, Arabic, French, Italian, and Greek languages.

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Mehmet Esat Bülkat

First Name Mehmet
Last Name Bülkat
Born on October 18, 1862
Died on November 2, 1952 (aged 90)

Mehmed Esad Pasha, known as Mehmet Esat Bülkat after the 1934 Surname Law, was an Ottoman general active during the First Balkan War, where he led the Yanya Corps, and in World War I, where he was the senior Ottoman commander in the Dardanelles Campaign.

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Alexandros Karapanos

First Name Alexandros
Born on January 1, 1873
Died on November 8, 1946 (aged 73)

Alexandros Karapanos was a Greek politician and diplomat. He was born in Arta (Epirus) and died in Athens.

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Konstantinos Carapanos

First Name Konstantinos
Born on March 4, 1840
Died on March 22, 1914 (aged 74)
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Thomas Preljubović

First Name Thomas
Last Name Preljubović
Died on December 23, 1384

Thomas Preljubović was ruler of the Despotate of Epirus in Ioannina from 1366 to his death on December 23, 1384. He also held the title of Albanian-slayer after receiving aid from the Ottoman Empire to capture Ioannina from Albanian ruler of the Despotate of Arta, Gjin Bua Shpata, after failing to do so independently. The Albanian Slayer (Ἀλβανοκτόνος).

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Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople

Αριστοκλής Σπύρου
First Name Patriarch
Died on July 7, 1972 (aged 2)

Athenagoras I, born Aristocles Matthew Spyrou, initially the Greek archbishop in North America, was the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, from 1948 to 1972.

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