List of Famous people born in Greece

Philotheos Kokkinos was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods from November 1353 to 1354 and 1364 to 1376, and a leader of the Byzantine monastic and religious revival in the 14th century. His numerous theological, liturgical, and canonical works received wide circulation not only in Byzantium but throughout the Slavic Orthodox world.

Giorgos Kalafatis was a Greek football pioneer, player, coach, track and field athlete and the founder of Panathinaikos football club.

Asclepiades of Phlius was a Greek philosopher in the Eretrian school of philosophy. He was the friend of Menedemus of Eretria, and they both went to live in Megara and studied under Stilpo, before sailing to Elis to join Phaedo's school. His friendship with Menedemus was said to have been hardly inferior to the friendship of Pylades and Orestes. As impoverished young men living in Athens, they were one day summoned before the Areopagus, to explain how they could spend all day with the philosophers if they had no visible means of support. They summoned a miller to the court to explain that they threshed grain at night for 2 drachmas, whereupon the Areopagites were so astonished that they awarded the two men 200 drachmas as a reward.

Anastasios Metaxas was a Greek architect and shooter.

Konstantinos Demertzis was a Greek politician. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Greece from November 1935 to April 1936. Demertzis died during his mandate, of a heart attack, on April 13, 1936.

Dimitrios Kiousopoulos was an important Greek jurist and a politician, and caretaker Prime Minister of Greece in 1952. He was born on November 17, 1892 in the town of Andritsaina, Elis, Peloponnese.

Ioannis Malokinis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. His home island was Spetses. Malokinis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed first of three swimmers, with a time of 2:20.4. This time was nearly a minute slower than the mark of 1:22.2 set by Alfréd Hajós in the open 100 metres event.

Thomas, surnamed Magister or Magistros, also known by the monastic name Theodoulos Monachos, was a native of Thessalonica, a Byzantine scholar and grammarian and confidential adviser of Andronikos II Palaiologos.