List of people from Greece

Famous Greeks or Greek-speaking/writing people: In alphabetical order.

Actors

• Olympia Dukakis
• Melina Mercouri
• Irene Papas
• Katina Paxinou

Athletes

• Nikos Galis
• Konstantinos Kenteris
• Spiros Louis
• Nikos Machlas

Enterpreneurs

• Aristotle Onassis

Filmmakers

• Elia Kazan
• Spyros P. Skouras

Military and Political Leaders(ancient)

• Alcibiades
• Alexander the Great
• Aristides
• Cimon
• Leonidas
• Miltiades
• Pericles
• Solon

Musicians

• Maria Callas
• Manos Hadjidakis
• Demis Roussos
• Nikos Skalkottas
• Mikis Theodorakis
• Vangelis

Painters

• Aetion
• El Greco

Politicians

• Konstantinos Karamanlis
• Andreas Papandreou
• Eleftherios Venizelos

Philosophers

• Anaximander
• Anaximenes of Miletus
• Aristotle
• Democritus
• Diogenes
• Empedocles
• Epictetus
• Epicurus
• Epimenedes
• Leucippus
• Parmenides
• Plato
• Protagoras
• Pythagoras
• Socrates
• Thales of Miletus
• Zeno of Citium
• Zeno of Elea

Sculptors

• Pheidias

Scientists

• Archimedes
• Eratosthenes
• Euclides
• Eudoxus of Cnidus
• Georgios Papanikolaou
• Pythagoras

Writers

• Aristophanes
• Aeschylos
• Odysseas Elytis
• Euripides
• Homer
• Nikos Kazantzakis
• Giorgos Seferis
• Sophocles

See also: Biographical Listing