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Sir Alec Issigonis, British-Greek creator of the Mini car; Eleni Konsolaki, archaeologist who researched Methana and the Troezen area in 1990; Vissarion Korkoliacos (1908–1991), Greek Orthodox monk; Polyvios Kossivas, bystander who became famous in the 2004 Olympic Games for helping a runner; Makarios III, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus
Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece; Bion; Bion the Borysthenite; Biton of Syracuse; Boethus – several people, including Boethus of Chalcedon (c. 2nd century BCE) – sculptor; Boethus of Sidon (Stoic) (fl. 2nd century BCE) – Stoic philosopher; Boethus of Sidon (Peripatetic) (c. 75 BCE – c. 10 BCE) – Peripatetic philosopher ...
Stephanos Sahlikis (1330 - after 1391) Greek satyrical poet in Cretan verse. Francesco Barozzi (1537–1604) Italian mathematician, astronomer, translator and writer in Latin. Georgios Chortatzis (1545–1610) Greek dramatist in Cretan verse. Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553–1613/14) Greek romantic poet in Cretan verse.
Auguste Corteau, pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos; Demetrius Cydones, prime minister of the Byzantine Empire; Prochorus Cydones, monk, theologian, and linguist; Saint Cyril, co-creator of the Cyrillic alphabet
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
Abydenus; Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides; Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor; Anticlides; Antipater; Antisthenes of Rhodes; Aratus of Sicyon; Artapanus of Alexandria
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 ...
Stasinus (~7th century BC), one of the first European poets, a semi-legendary early Greek poet, author of the epic poem "Cypria", related to the Trojan War; Theodora (around 500–548), empress of Byzantine empire (527–548) Zeno of Citium (333-264 BC), Cyprus-born Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism