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Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians Bust of Leonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at the Battle 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 ...
These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world. Contents: Top
3 December 1833 in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece 12 January 1907 in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece 1904, 1905: Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1922) Greece: Georgios Souris: 2 February 1853 in Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece 26 August 1919 in Athens, Greece 1907: Nikolaos Levidis (1868–1942) Greece: 9 members of the Greek Artists' Association 1907, 1912 ...
Laid the foundations of Western science. One of the most influential thinkers in history. Gregory Patrikareas: 7 Eleftherios Venizelos: Prime Minister (1910-1915) (1917-1920) (1924) (1928-1932) (1932) (1933). Most often re-elected Prime Minister of the country. Introduced many constitutional and economic reforms which modernized Greek society.
Abydenus; Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides; Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor; Anticlides; Antipater; Antisthenes of Rhodes; Aratus of Sicyon; Artapanus of Alexandria
Solon of Athens (c. 638 BCE – c. 558 BCE) was a famous legislator and reformer from Athens, framing the laws that shaped the Athenian democracy. Cleobulus, tyrant of Lindos (fl. c. 600 BCE), reported as either the grandfather or father-in-law of Thales; Myson of Chenae (6th century BCE); and
Image credits: Rafal Oleksiewicz / Getty Images #2 Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi is yet another soccer player on this list. Like Ronaldo, the Argentinian megastar started his football career early on ...
The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more ...