List of Famous people born in Greece

Diodoros or Diodorus Greek: Διόδωρος; born Damianos G. Karivalis Greek: Δαμιανός Γ. Καρίβαλης was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 1980 to 2000.

Nicomachus was the son of Aristotle.

Yannis Spiteris, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia and apostolic administrator of Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki from 2003 to 2020. In 1968 he was ordained Catholic priest and on March 22, 2003 was appointed archbishop, being ordained Catholic bishop on May 18, 2003.

Antonis Nikopolidis is a Greek former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and former manager of the Greece national under-21 football team.

Zoi Dimoschaki is a Greek freestyle swimmer. Dimoschaki administered the Olympic Oath at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Alcaeus of Mytilene was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. He was a contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.