List of Famous people born in Greece

Andreas Michalakopoulos was an important liberal politician in the inter-war period who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 7 October 1924 to 26 June 1925.

Konstantinos Karamitroudis, better known as Gus G, is a Greek heavy metal guitarist. He currently plays with his band Firewind. He has also played in Mystic Prophecy, Nightrage, Arch Enemy, Dream Evil and for Ozzy Osbourne.

Christos Faloutsos is a Greek computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), 22 best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 300 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance.

Mihalis Rakintzis is a Greek singer. He was born in Athens, on 3 April 1957, and studied Mechanical Engineering in Great Britain. From 1982 to 1985, he participated at a rock group called Scraptown. After three albums & a maxi-single Scraptown split up and Rakintzis started a solo career.

Marianna Zorba is a Greek singer and a music teacher. She loves ethnic and folk music. In 1997 she represented Greece in the 42nd Eurovision Song Contest. She was engaged to Manolis Manouselis, a composer, the week before the grand finale in Dublin. A few weeks after the contest they married. Marianna and the song, "Horepse" scored 39 points and reached 12th place. Marianna and Manolis decided to move to Crete in 2002. He works as an architect and she as a music teacher. Together they formed the duo Notios Anemos and they perform in music festivals, concerts and theatrical plays in Crete. They published a record together in 2005.

Sophia Ralli is an alpine skier from Greece. She competed for Greece at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was 47th place in the slalom.

Grigoris Bithikotsis was a popular Greek folk singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades.

Leonidas Vokolos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was the manager of Cypriot First Division club Olympiakos Nicosia.

Fani Chalkia, also transliterated as Halkia or Khalkia, is a retired Greek hurdler.