List of Famous people born in South Aegean

Yannis Philippakis is the lead singer and guitarist of the British indie rock band Foals.

Emmanuil Xanthos was a Greek merchant. He was one of the founders of the Filiki Eteria, a Greek conspiratorial organization which opposed the Ottoman Empire.

Antonios Varthalitis, AA was from 1962 to 2003 Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia.

Giorgos Kontogeorgis was a Greek economist who became a civil servant and politician. He played a crucial role in planning Greece's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1981, and the became Greece's first European Commissioner.

Ieronymos I was a Greek monk and theologian, who served as the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece in 1967–1973, during the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.

Nikitas M. Kaklamanis is a Greek New Democracy (ND) politician and former Mayor of Athens. He is also a former Minister for Health and Social Solidarity. In the Greek local elections of 2010 he lost the position of mayor after being defeated by Giorgos Kaminis.

Petros Protopapadakis was a Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece in May–August 1922.

Franco Fantasia was an Italian film actor, stuntman and fencing master. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1951 to 2002. He was the brother of actor Andrea Fantasia.