Isabella Teotochi AlbrizziW
Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi

Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi was a Greek - Venetian writer, salonist and countess.

Alexander of GreeceW
Alexander of Greece

Alexander was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death three years later, at the age of 27, from the effects of a monkey bite.

Zacharias BarbitsiotisW
Zacharias Barbitsiotis

Zacharias Pantelakos, nicknamed Barbitsiotis but more commonly known as kapetan Zacharias was a Greek klepht in the Peloponnese during the last decades of Ottoman rule over Greece. He is described by Kyriakos Kassis as the best thief of Taygetus.

Konstantinos BelliosW
Konstantinos Bellios

Baron Konstantinos Bellios or Vellios was a Greek merchant and benefactor from the Ottoman Empire, the modern region of Greek Macedonia.

Katerina BotsariW
Katerina Botsari

Katerina "Rosa" Botsari was a member of the Souliot Botsaris family. The daughter of Markos Botsaris, she was in the service of Queen Amalia of Greece as well as an admired young woman throughout the European courts - she was immortalised for the 'Gallery of Beauties' of Ludwig I of Bavaria in an 1841 painting by Joseph Stieler. A Damask rose species bred in 1856 was named Rosa Botsaris after her. In 1845 she married prince and general George Karatzas.

KottasW
Kottas

Kote Hristov, known simply as Kote or Kottas, was a Slavophone insurgent leader in Western Macedonia.

Cyril II of JerusalemW
Cyril II of Jerusalem

Cyril II of Jerusalem was born in 1792 in the island of Samos. In 1816 he was ordained a deacon, then a presbyter, was abbot of the monastery. In 1835 he became Archbishop of Sebasteia and in 1838 of Lydia. In 1845 he was elected as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem under the name Cyril II (1846–1872) by the Hagiotaphites and remains to 1872. On 28 February 1870, Sultan Abdülaziz I signed a firman which created the Bulgarian Exarchate subjectеd to the Ecumenical Patriarchate but yet as a representative of the Bulgarian millet in the Ottoman Empire. Cyril II participated in the Council in Constantinople, chaired by Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus VI, in September 1872, wherein the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch also participated and which on 18/30 September declared the Bulgarian Exarchate as schismatic and its adherents excommunicated. Cyril opposed the declaration of schism and declined to sign the Council's decisions. On September 14, 1872 Cyril II left the council in Constantinople by steamer to Jaffa and Jerusalem. Dethroned from the patriarchal throne on 12 December 1872, in his absence. Cyril II had many supporters - especially among Christian Arabs, but also among high-ranking dignitaries, many of whom suffer because of it. Cyril's successor on the patriarchal throne, Procopius, remained little more than two years. On 26 February 1875, mainly under the pressure of the Arab population and Orthodox clergy, he was deposed. Arab notables from Jerusalem wanted former patriarch Cyril II to be a candidate for the vacant throne, but in a pastoral message, published in the newspapers, he declined this invitation on grounds of advanced age. He died on 18 August 1877.

Cyril VII of ConstantinopleW
Cyril VII of Constantinople

Cyril VII was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1855 to 1860.

Hatzimichalis DalianisW
Hatzimichalis Dalianis

Hatzimichalis Dalianis was a commander of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) and revolutionary leader in Crete in 1828.

Konstantinos DemertzisW
Konstantinos Demertzis

Konstantinos Demertzis was a Greek politician. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Greece from November 1935 to April 1936. Demertzis died during his mandate, of a heart attack, on April 13, 1936.

Evangelinos Apostolides SophoclesW
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles was a Greek Orthodox monk, professor of classics and Modern Greek at Harvard University, and lexicographer. He was born in Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is considered to be a pioneer of Modern Greek studies.

Tevfik FikretW
Tevfik Fikret

Tevfik Fikret was the pseudonym of Mehmed Tevfik, an Ottoman educator and poet, who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry.

Panagiotis GargalidisW
Panagiotis Gargalidis

Panagiotis Gargalidis was a Greek army general who fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Balkan Wars, World War I, and the Asia Minor Campaign, and leader of a failed coup attempt in 1923.

George II of GreeceW
George II of Greece

George II ; was King of Greece from September 1922 to March 1924 and from November 1935 to his death in April 1947.

Konstantinos GianniasW
Konstantinos Giannias

Konstantinos Giannias was a Greek klepht who operated in the Peloponnese. Giannias was born in Prostovitsa, a village now known as Drosia in Achaia. He was the brother of Giannis Giannias.

Georgios HatzidakisW
Georgios Hatzidakis

Georgios Nicolaou Hatzidakis was a Greek philologist, who is regarded as the father of linguistics in Greece. He was the first chair of Linguistics and Indian Philology at the University of Athens in 1890–1923.

Pavlos KalligasW
Pavlos Kalligas

Pavlos Kalligas was a Greek jurist, writer and politician, who served as professor at the University of Athens, Member and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, cabinet minister for Foreign Affairs, Education, Finance and Justice and chairman of the National Bank of Greece.

Marianna KambouroglouW
Marianna Kambouroglou

Marianna Sotirianos Kambouroglou (1819-1890), was a Greek folklorist.

Xenophon KasdaglisW
Xenophon Kasdaglis

Xenophon Emmanuel Kasdaglis, or Xenophon Casdagli, was an Egyptiote Greek – later on British citizen – tennis player. He competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens.

Nikolaos KasomoulisW
Nikolaos Kasomoulis

Nikolaos Kasomoulis was a participant in the Greek Revolution of 1821, and one of the main historical sources about it.

Panagiotis KefalasW
Panagiotis Kefalas

Panagiotis Kefalas was a Greek fighter of the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Georgios KondylisW
Georgios Kondylis

Georgios Kondylis was a general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece. He was nicknamed Keravnos, Greek for "Thunder" or "Thunderbolt".

Stefanos KoumanoudisW
Stefanos Koumanoudis

Stefanos Koumanoudis was a Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer of the 19th century.

Armen KouptsiosW
Armen Kouptsios

Armen Kouptsios was a Greek Macedonian revolutionist.

Georgios LeonardopoulosW
Georgios Leonardopoulos

Georgios Leonardopoulos was a Greek army major general who fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the Balkan Wars, World War I, and the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, and leader of a failed coup attempt in 1923.

Spiridion LusiW
Spiridion Lusi

Spiridion Lusi was a Greek scholar, diplomat, politician and naturalized ambassador of Prussia.

Alexandros LykourgosW
Alexandros Lykourgos

Alexandros Lykourgos was a Greek theologian, Greek Orthodox cleric and university professor.

Aspasia ManosW
Aspasia Manos

Aspasia Manos was a Greek aristocrat who became the wife of Alexander I, King of Greece. Due to the controversy over her marriage, she was styled Madame Manos instead of Queen Aspasia, until recognized as HRH Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark after Alexander's death and the restoration of King Constantine I, on 10 September 1922.

Grigorios MaraslisW
Grigorios Maraslis

Grigorios Maraslis was an official of the Russian Empire and long-time mayor of Odessa (1878–1895) of Greek origin. A noted philanthropist, he sponsored many buildings and educational institutions both in Odessa and in various cities in Greece and for the Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire. He was awarded Order of the Cross of Takovo and Order of Prince Danilo I.

Ioannis MetaxasW
Ioannis Metaxas

Ioannis Metaxas was a Greek military officer and politician, serving as Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. He governed constitutionally for the first four months of his tenure, and thereafter as the strongman of the 4th of August Regime.

Zachos MiliosW
Zachos Milios

Zachos Milios was a Greek revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) and officer of the Greek army. He was the brother of the distinguished general and politician Spyros Milios.

Andreas MoustoxydisW
Andreas Moustoxydis

Andreas Moustoxydis, sometimes Latinized as Mustoxydes or in the Italian form Andrea Mustoxidi, was a Greek historian and philologist from Corfu.

Evangelos NatsisW
Evangelos Natsis

Evangelos Natsis Georgiou was a Slavophone Greek revolutionary leader born 1876 in Srempeno (Σρέμπενο) or Srebreno (Сребрено), Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire ; died May 12, 1904. He is also known as Strempeniotis or Capetan Vangelis. In 1897, he volunteered for military service in the Greco-Turkish War (1897). In 1904, he was one of the first who began the Macedonian Struggle. He co-operated with Germanos Karavangelis, who brought him in contact with volunteers who had just arrived from Crete. He organized his own troop and inflicted many losses on the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), most importantly the extermination of Voivod Kirchev.

NikitarasW
Nikitaras

Nikitaras was the nom de guerre of Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, a Greek revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence. Due to his fighting prowess, he was known as Tourkofagos, literally meaning the "Turk-Eater".

Panoutsos NotarasW
Panoutsos Notaras

Panoutsos Notaras was a leading figure of the Greek War of Independence, serving several times as president of the Greek national assemblies and legislative bodies.

Olga Constantinovna of RussiaW
Olga Constantinovna of Russia

Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.

Ioannis PapafisW
Ioannis Papafis

Ioannis Papafis was a merchant and entrepreneur from Thessaloniki and is considered a national benefactor of Greece.

Alexandros PapanastasiouW
Alexandros Papanastasiou

Alexandros Papanastasiou was a Greek lawyer, sociologist and politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of Greece in the interwar period, being a pioneer in the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.

Kalliroi ParrenW
Kalliroi Parren

Kallirhoe Parren launched the feminist movement in Greece and was a journalist and writer in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Photini TzavelaW
Photini Tzavela

Photini Kolokotroni–Tzavela served as Lady-in-Waiting at the royal court of King Otto. She was the daughter of the chieftain Photos Tzavelas, sister of Kitsos Tzavelas, prime minister of Greece, wife of Ioannis (Gennaios) Kolokotronis, also prime minister and mother of the journalist Theodoros Kolokotronis.

Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of PlaisanceW
Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance

Sophie Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance (1785–1854) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father, François Barbé-Marbois, was serving as French Consul-General in the United States.

Anastasios PolyzoidisW
Anastasios Polyzoidis

Anastasios Polyzoidis was a Greek politician and judicial official.

George Rhaedestenos IIW
George Rhaedestenos II

George Rhaedestenos II was acting Lambadarios of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, when Stephen the Lambadarios was old and weak. He was an unimmitable performer of psaltic art, and second to none of his contemporary cantors; he was especially renowned for his ancient-like patriarchal chanting style.

Lady of RoW
Lady of Ro

Despina Achladiotou, known as the Lady of Ro, was a Greek patriot born on the island of Kastellórizo in 1890.

Georgios SachtourisW
Georgios Sachtouris

Georgios Sachtouris was a Hydriot ship captain and a leading admiral of the Greek War of Independence.

Konstantinos SapountzakisW
Konstantinos Sapountzakis

Konstantinos Sapountzakis was a Greek Army officer. He is notable as the first head of the Hellenic Army General Staff and as the first commander of the Army of Epirus during the First Balkan War.

Sophia of PrussiaW
Sophia of Prussia

Sophia of Prussia was Queen consort of the Hellenes during 1913–1917 and 1920–1922.

SpyromiliosW
Spyromilios

Spyromilios or Spyros Milios, was a Greek revolutionary, general and politician.

Giannis StathasW
Giannis Stathas

Giannis Stathas was a Greek armatolos during the pre-Greek Revolution era in Greece. He later became leader of a small fleet in the Aegean Sea.

Demetrio StefanopoliW
Demetrio Stefanopoli

Demetrio Stefanopoli was a Corsican notable and military officer in French service. A member of the Greek community of Corsica, in 1782 he received letters patent from Louis XVI recognizing him as the descendant and heir of David Komnenos, the last Emperor of Trebizond, after which he was known in French as Démétrius Stephanopoli Comnène.

Simone StratigoW
Simone Stratigo

Simone Stratigo was an Italian Greek mathematician and a nautical science expert who studied and lived in Padua and Pavia in 18th-century Italy.

Avra TheodoropoulouW
Avra Theodoropoulou

Avra Theodoropoulou was a Greek music teacher, pianist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She founded the League for Women's Rights in 1920 and served as its chairperson from 1920 to 1957. She was married to the poet Agis Theros.

Panagis TsaldarisW
Panagis Tsaldaris

Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician and the 48th Prime Minister of Greece. He was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years (1922–1936) of the conservative People's Party in the period before World War II. He was the husband of Lina Tsaldari, a Greek suffragist, member of Parliament, and the Minister for Social Welfare.

Aristotelis ValaoritisW
Aristotelis Valaoritis

Aristotelis Valaoritis was a Greek poet, representative of the Heptanese School, and politician. He was also the great-grandfather of Nanos Valaoritis, one of the most distinguished writers of Greece.

Kyra VassilikiW
Kyra Vassiliki

Vassiliki Kontaxi, nicknamed Kyra Vassiliki, was an influential Greek woman brought up in the seraglio of the Ottoman ruler Ali Pasha.

Adelphoi ZangakiW
Adelphoi Zangaki

Adelphoi Zangaki were two brothers of Greek origin, who were active as photographers in Egypt and Algeria, from the 1860s through to the 1890s and who specialized in photographing ancient monuments and scenes of everyday life, producing prints for the tourist trade. They occasionally worked with the Port Said photographer, Hippolyte Arnoux on the project document works on the Suez Canal. They were amongst the first commercial photographers to produce large scale images of Egypt.

Georgios ZariphisW
Georgios Zariphis

Georgios Y. Zariphis, also known as Yorgo Zarifi, was a prominent Ottoman Greek banker and financier. He was also very well known as a prominent benefactor of his time. Zariphis met Sultan Abdul Hamid II when the latter was a shahzade with a low expectation of ascending to the throne. The prince, having financial troubles, called on the expertise of Zariphis to manage his personal wealth. After Abdul Hamid II became sultan, he continued to utilize Zarifi's advisory services.