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The first instance of the endonym "Hellenes" in Homer's Iliad, here in a Byzantine manuscript from 10th century AD.
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This is alist of notableGreeks.

Actors/actresses

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Main article:List of Greek actors

Ancient period

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Adventurers

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Athletes & sports figures

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Ancient period

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Phidippides, acclaimed runner and 'inspirator' of the OlympicMarathon race, who had run back and forth between Athens and Sparta in order to relay news of theBattle of Marathon, resulting in his death from ultimate exhaustion, when in his last breath he yelled out "We (the Greeks) won". Painting byLuc-Olivier Merson, 1869.

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Panagiotis Giannakis, former 1987 EuroBasket team captain and former Olympiacos head coach
Leonidas Pyrgos, first modern Olympic gold medalist in fencing
Sofoklis Schortsanitis
Theodoros Zagorakis,Greece national football team captain during Greece'sUEFA Euro 2004 victory

Clerics

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Medieval period

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Modern period

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  • Jacob Palaeologus (c. 1520–1585), Dominican friar, later antitrinitarian theologian; (Greek father)

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Entrepreneurs

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Explorers

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Ancient period

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Medieval period

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Early Modern

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Modern

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Fashion designers

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Fashion models

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Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Europe 1930

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Military and political figures

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Alexander the Great, king of the city state of Macedon, tutored and personally mentored byAristotle, first united the Greek city states, then conquered thePersian Empire as well as Egypt; named and founded the city ofAlexandria

Ancient period

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  • Agis III (r.338–?331 BCE), Spartan king who rebelled against Macedon in 331 BCE
  • Alcibiades (450–404 BCE), Athenian general and statesman
  • Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE) King of Macedon, and conqueror of the Persian Empire
  • Antiochus III the Great, (c. 241–187 BCE) Seleucid Monarch
  • Antipater (c.390–319 BCE), Macedonian noble and Alexander the Great's regent in Macedon
  • Aristides (530–468 BCE), Athenian statesman
  • Cimon (510–450 BCE), Athenian leader and statesman
  • Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, (c.68–30 BCE) Queen of Egypt, from the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty
    Michelangelo's rendering ofCleopatra VII Thea Philopator
  • Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), politician and orator
  • Dionysius I (c.432–367), ruler of the Syracusan empire
  • Epaminondas (c.420–362), Theban general and statesman
  • Eucratides, ruler of the Bactrian Greeks
  • Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians
    Bust ofLeonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at theBattle of Thermopylae against a Persian invasion of the Greek city states, perhaps most famous for having told the Persian King Xerxes his "Molon labe", or "Come and take them", when ordered to surrender and to give up his weapons once his unit's position had been betrayed and surrounded
  • Lycurgus (9th century BCE), semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver
  • Lysander (d.395), Spartan general and hero during thePeloponnesian War
  • Memnon of Rhodes (d.333), Greek mercenary general in Persian army under Darius III
  • Miltiades, Athenian statesman and general
  • Nearchus, Alexander's naval commander
  • Peisistratus, Athenian tyrant
  • Pericles (495–429 BCE), Athenian leader and statesman
    Pericles,strategos of the city state of Athens during thePeloponnesian War
  • Philip II of Macedon (382–336 BCE), Macedonian king and father of Alexander the Great
  • Polycrates, Samian ruler
  • Ptolemy I (c.356–285), Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded a dynasty in Egypt
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus (c.318–272), invaded Italy, became known for victories of dubious value (Pyrrhic)
  • Seleucus I, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, founded dynasty in Persia
  • Solon (638–558 BCE), Athenian lawmaker andarchon
  • Themistocles (c.514–449 BCE), Athenian statesman and admiral
  • Xenophon (430–c.354 BCE), mercenary general, led and recounted march from Persia
  • Saint George (AD c.275–303), soldier in the Roman army, venerated as a Christian martyr

Medieval period

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Ottoman Empire period

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Modern period

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Greece

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Northern Epirus

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Canada

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France

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Romania

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Spain

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United Kingdom

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Australia

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United States

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Musicians

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See also:List of Greek composers andList of Greek musical artists

Ancient period

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Modern period

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Franz Ferdinand vocalist and guitaristAlex Kapranos
Mötley Crüe drummerTommy Lee
Marinella in 2006, classical Greek singer and songwriter
Yanni, Kalamata native world-famous Greek composer, pianist and keyboardist

Painters

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Ancient period

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Renaissance

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Modern period

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Philosophers

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Bust ofAristotle, the most influential and cited philosopher in history, student ofPlato and teacher and tutor ofAlexander the Great
Plato, as painted by Michelangelo, whoseThe Republic and other works on morality and politics are listed as some of the most influential works in philosophy

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Medieval period

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Scientists, engineers, and academics

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Ancient period

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Archimedes, ancient influential inventor and scientist who spearheaded insights into mathematical calculus
Euclid, mathematician and inventor, famous still today for hisElements

Medieval period

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Modern period

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Constantin Carathéodory, acclaimed mathematician and scientist, mentor and teacher toAlbert Einstein
Georgios Papanikolaou, scientist and inventor; developed thepap test, named after him, in order to treat and prevent ovarian cancer

Sculptors

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Ancient period

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Modern period

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Tycoons

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Aristotle Onassis in 1932, who later would create one of the largest shipping conglomerates of his day; married American first lady and widowJacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Writers

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Ancient period

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Aesop, accredited with theFables
Bust ofHomer, composer and writer of theIliad andOdyssey, the oldest poetry of Western civilization
Bust ofSophocles, writer ofOedipus Rex, one of the three most recomposed Greek playwrights of antiquity alongsideEuripides andAeschylus

Medieval period

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Modern period

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Odysseus Elytis in 1974, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature
Greek-American authorDavid Sedaris in June 2008, author best known for hisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames
George Seferis, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature

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List of Greeks who were born outside modern Greece

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This is a list ofethnic Greeks who were born after the Declaration of theGreek War of Independence (1821), outside the borders of theGreek state. The list does not include Greeks born in thediasporan communities orGreeks of Cyprus (after its independence in 1960), but only Greeks born in the traditional Greek homelands (theBalkans,Anatolia and theEastern Mediterranean shores).

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General

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Notes

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  1. ^His origin is disputed, but there are estimates that he was eitherIllyrian,[1][2][3][4]Greek,[5][6] orThracian[7]

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  1. ^Treadgold, Warren T. (1997).A history of the Byzantine state and society. Stanford University Press. p. 246.ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-6. Retrieved12 October 2010.
  2. ^Barker, John W. (1966).Justinian and the later Roman Empire. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 75.ISBN 978-0-299-03944-8. Retrieved28 November 2011.
  3. ^History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the death of Justinian volume 2, by J. B. Bury p. 56
  4. ^Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle by Brian Croke, p. 75
  5. ^Carey, Brian Todd; Allfree, Joshua B.; Cairns, John (2012).Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527–1071. Casemate Publishers. p. 210.ISBN 978-1-84884-916-7.
  6. ^"The Rise of Byzantium".War. Vol. 1. London:Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2009. p. 62.ISBN 978-1-4053-4778-5.
  7. ^Tucker, Spencer C. (2010).Battles that changed history : an encyclopedia of world conflict (1st ed.). Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p. 88.ISBN 978-1-59884-429-0.
  8. ^Από τη Βόρειο Ηπειρο στο Σύμπαν: (in Greek) «Οχι, δεν είμαι Πελοποννήσιος. Γεννήθηκα και μεγάλωσα στην Αθήνα, αλλά είμαι Βορειοηπειρώτης και μάλιστα Βλάχος. Νάκας ήταν το αυθεντικό επώνυμο του παππού μου προτού φύγουμε από την Αλβανία»
  9. ^[1] "Greek conductor and composer"
  10. ^"Μίκης Θεοδωράκης".
  11. ^[2] "This website is dedicated to preserving the musical memory of the late, great, Tatiana Troyanos, Greek-American Mezzo-Soprano"
  12. ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Echephyllides". InSmith, William (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 2.
  13. ^"Eugenides is himself Greek-American, Detroit-born, suburb-raised – all sources of inspiration for his second novel."[3]
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