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Linda Zervakis
Linda Zervakis is a German-Greek television presenter as well as newsreader and journalist in the editorship of ARD-Aktuell in Hamburg. She is the first Tagesschau presenter with an immigrant background.
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Mary Dukakis is an American actress. She started her career in theater and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man. She later moved to film acting, and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Moonstruck. She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City, and Joan of Arc.
Zach Galifianakis
Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American actor, comedian, musician and writer who came to prominence with his Comedy Central Presents special in 2001 and presented his own show called Late World with Zach on VH1 the following year. He has also starred in films, such as The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Due Date (2010), The Campaign (2012), Birdman or (2014) and Masterminds (2016). He has also had starring voice roles in Puss in Boots (2011), The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and Missing Link (2019).
Andy Milonakis
Andrew Michael Milonakis is an American actor, writer, rapper, comedian, and streamer, best known for his work on The Andy Milonakis Show, a sketch comedy series that aired on MTV and MTV2 from 2005 to 2007. Other notable films and TV series Milonakis has appeared in include Kroll Show, Waiting..., and Adventure Time.
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, since he founded it in 2018. A former member of Syriza, he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis was a member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B from January to September 2015; he regained a parliamentary seat in July 2019.
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis is a retired American politician and lawyer who served as the 65th governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Gabriella Papadakis
Gabriella Maria Papadakis is a French ice dancer. With her partner, Guillaume Cizeron, she is the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World champion, a five-time consecutive European champion (2015–2019), the 2017 and 2019 Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time French national champion (2015–2020). They have won ten gold medals on the Grand Prix series. Earlier in their career, they won silver at the 2012 Junior Grand Prix Final and at the 2013 World Junior Championships.
Athanasios Kokkinakis
Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakis is an Australian professional tennis player. In the second round of the 2018 Miami Open, Kokkinakis defeated then World Number 1 Roger Federer.
Mikis Theodorakis
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis is a Greek composer and lyricist who has contributed to contemporary Greek music with over 1000 works.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis is an American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science.
Stefania Liberakakis
Stefania Liberakakis, known simply as Stefania, is a Greek-Dutch singer, (voice) actress and YouTuber. She is a former member of the girl group Kisses, which represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016. In 2020, she was internally selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Supergirl", but this edition of the contest was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Greek broadcaster ERT decided that Liberakakis will represent Greece in the 2021 contest instead.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician, and Prime Minister of Greece since 8 July 2019. A member of New Democracy, he has been its president since 2016. Mitsotakis previously was Leader of the Opposition from 2016 to 2019, and Minister of Administrative Reform from 2013 to 2015.
Nicole Malliotakis
Nicole Malliotakis is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 11th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, she represents Staten Island and South Brooklyn in the United States House of Representatives. She is the only Republican representing a significant portion of New York City in Congress, and the only female Republican elected official in New York City. As the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrants, Malliotakis is one of the first two Greek-American women elected to office in New York State. She was the Republican nominee in New York City's 2017 mayoral election against incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Evangelos Marinakis
Evangelos Marinakis is a Greek media mogul, shipowner, lyricist and member of the Piraeus city council. He is the owner of the football clubs Olympiacos in Greece and Nottingham Forest in England.
Nick Markakis
Nicholas William Markakis is an American professional baseball right fielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves. Markakis was the Orioles' first-round draft pick, seventh overall, in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft. He made his MLB debut in 2006. Markakis is a three-time Gold Glove Award winner, and he won a Silver Slugger Award and was named an MLB All-Star in 2018. Markakis holds the MLB record for consecutive games by an outfielder without making an error (398).
Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis
Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis is an American politician, businesswoman and former diplomat serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman elected to the office.
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
Konstantinos Mitsotakis was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Minister of Greece following the 2019 Greek legislative election.
Giorgos Giakoumakis
Giorgos Giakoumakis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Greece national team.
Tasos Kourakis
Anastasios ("Tasos") Kourakis was a Greek pediatrician, geneticist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). From January 2015 until July 2019 he served as Alternate Minister of Education.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years.
Giorgos Kalaitzakis
Georgios Kalaitzakis is a Greek professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). At a height of 2.03 m (6'8") tall and a weight of 93 kg (205 lbs.), he can play as a combo guard, and he can also operate as a point forward. As a youth, Kalaitzakis was regarded as one of the top young prospects in Europe, in his age range.
Kostas Georgakis
Kostas Georgakis was a Greek student of geology, who, in the early hours of 19 September 1970, set himself ablaze in Matteotti square in Genoa in a fatal protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
Karina Canellakis
Karina Canellakis is an American conductor and violinist.
Joti Polizoakis
Panagiotis "Joti" Polizoakis is a German ice dancer and choreographer. He is a three-time German national champion (2016–2018) and has finished 16th at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Yannis Behrakis
Yannis Behrakis was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.
Achilleas Kallakis
Achilleas Michalis Kallakis is responsible for the UK's largest ever mortgage fraud, of over £760 million, and has been called "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster". By making a slight change to his name, purporting to be related to an oil and property tycoon and using a corrupt lawyer, he was able to defraud banks into giving him mortgages on offices with inflated valuations. He and his accomplice Alexander Williams were successfully prosecuted by the UK's Serious Fraud Office in 2013. Kallakis and Williams succeeded in bypassing fraud and due diligence checks by the banks despite having a previous convictions for fraud in 1995 and warning being raised about their lawyer who escaped prosecution.
Grigoris Lambrakis
Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, track and field athlete, and member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens. A member of the Greek resistance to Axis rule during WWII, he later became a prominent anti-war activist. His assassination by right-wing zealots provoked mass protests and led to a political crisis.
Françoise Xenakis
Françoise Xenakis was a French novelist and journalist, born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher. She started her literary career in the early 1960s, and became better known during the 1980s, when she started working at Le Matin de Paris, a daily newspaper, and for Télématin, a breakfast television news show. She chaired the judging panel for the literary prize 30 Million Friends.
Takis
Panayiotis Vassilakis, also known as Takis, was a self-taught Greek artist known for his kinetic sculptures. He exhibited his artworks in Europe and the United States. Popular in France, his works can be found in public locations in and around Paris, as well as at the Athens-based Takis Foundation Research Center for the Arts and Sciences.