List of Famous people born in Greece
Alexis Georgoulis
Alexis Georgoulis is a Greek actor and politician.
Dora Bakoyannis
Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.
Nikos Koundouros
Nikos Koundouros was a Greek film director.
Christos Kakkalos
Christos Kakkalos was a Greek mountain guide. He led the 1913 expedition of the Swiss Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas and is considered the first climber to have ascended Mytikas, the highest peak of Mount Olympus in Greece.
Theophrastus
Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. His given name was Tyrtamus (Τύρταμος); his nickname Θεόφραστος was given by Aristotle for his 'divine style of expression'.
Fausta Cornelia
Fausta Cornelia was a daughter of the Roman Dictator Sulla.
Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark
Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark ; 11 June 1903 – 16 October 1997) was a Greek princess who became princess of Yugoslavia as the wife of Prince Paul, Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, styled in the UK as Lady Katherine Brandram from 1947 till her death, was the third daughter and youngest child of King Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia.
Thomas Strakosha
Thomas Fotaq Strakosha is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian club Lazio and the Albania national team.
Henry Ponsonby
Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was a British soldier and royal court official who served as Queen Victoria's Private Secretary.