List of Famous people born in Greece

Sotirios Sotiropoulos

First Name Sotirios
Born on January 1, 1820
Died on May 6, 1898 (aged 78)

Sotirios Sotiropoulos was a Greek economist and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece.

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Georgios Tsolakoglou

First Name Georgios
Born on March 31, 1886
Died on May 22, 1948 (aged 62)

Georgios Tsolakoglou was a Greek military officer who became the first Prime Minister of the Greek collaborationist government during the Axis occupation in 1941–1942.

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Cinaethon of Sparta

First Name Cinaethon
Born on November 30, -0801
Died on January 1, -0800 (aged 1)

Cinaethon of Sparta was a legendary Greek poet to whom different sources ascribe the lost epics Oedipodea, Little Iliad and Telegony. Eusebius says that he flourished in 764/3 BC.

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Dimitrios Gounaris

First Name Dimitrios
Born on January 5, 1866
Died on November 15, 1922 (aged 56)

Dimitrios Gounaris was the Prime Minister of Greece from 25 February to 10 August 1915 and 26 March 1921 to 3 May 1922. Leader of the People's Party, he was the main right-wing opponent of his contemporary Eleftherios Venizelos.

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Euphorion

Born on January 1, -0500
Died on January 1, -0500

Euphorion was the son of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, and himself an author of tragedies. In the Dionysia of 431 BCE, Euphorion won 1st prize, defeating both Sophocles and Euripides, who took 3rd prize with a tetralogy that includes the extant play Medea. He is purported by some to have been the author of Prometheus Bound—previously assumed to be the work of his father, to whom it was attributed at the Library of Alexandria,—for several reasons, chiefly that the playwright's portrayal of Zeus is far less reverent than in other works attributed to Aeschylus, and that references to the play appear in the plays of the comic Aristophanes. This has led historians to date it as late as 415 BCE, long after Aeschylus's death. If Euphorion wrote Prometheus Bound, there are as a result five ancient Greek tragedians with one or more fully surviving plays: Aeschylus, Euphorion, Sophocles, Euripides, and possibly the author of the tragedy Rhesus if its attribution to Euripides is incorrect.

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Hippocrates

Hippocrates was the father of Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens. According to Herodotus, he received an omen when he was at Olympia to see the ancient Olympic Games. Vessels filled with meat and water spontaneously boiled over after he offered the sacrifice, though the vessels were not placed over fire. Chilon the Lacedaemonian advised him that he should disown his son, or if he did not have one, send his wife away, or else if he was not married, not to marry a wife who could bear children. Hippocrates ignored his advice. Hippocrates claimed to be descended from the Homeric chief and legendary King of Pylos, Nestor.

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Hypatius

Born on January 1, 0340
Died on November 30, 0399 (aged 59)

Flavius Hypatius was a Roman Senator, who was the brother-in-law of the Roman emperor Constantius II.

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Asclepiades of Samos

First Name Asclepiades
Born on January 1, -0320
Died on January 1, -0300 (aged 20)

Asclepiades of Samos (Sicelidas) was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet who flourished around 270 BC. He was a friend of Hedylus and possibly of Theocritus. He may have been honoured by the city of Histiaea in about 263 BC.

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Aristotelis Zachos

Born on January 1, 1871
Died on January 1, 1939 (aged 68)
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Echecrates of Flius

First Name Echecrates
Born on January 1, -0500 (age 2526)

Echecrates was a Pythagorean philosopher from the ancient Greek town of Phlius.

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