List of people from Greece


This is a list of notable Greeks.

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Ancient period

Ancient period

File:Phidippides.jpg|thumb|Phidippides, acclaimed runner and 'inspirator' of the Olympic Marathon race, who had run back and forth between Athens and Sparta in order to relay news of the Battle of Marathon, resulting in his death from ultimate exhaustion, when in his last breath he yelled out "We won". Painting by Luc-Olivier Merson, 1869.
File:Theodoros Zagorakis.jpg|thumb|Theodoros Zagorakis, Greece national football team captain during Greece's UEFA Euro 2004 victory

Medieval period

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Ancient period

Ancient period

Greece

Ancient period

Ancient period

Ancient period

Ancient period

File:Euclide?s.jpg|thumb|Euclid, mathematician and inventor, famous still today for his Elements
File:Caratheodory constantin.jpg|thumb|Constantin Carathéodory, acclaimed mathematician and scientist, mentor and teacher to Albert Einstein
File:Gnpapanikolaou.jpg|thumb|Georgios Papanikolaou, scientist and inventor; developed the pap test, named after him, in order to treat and prevent ovarian cancer

Ancient period

File:Onassis-1932.jpg|thumb|Aristotle Onassis in 1932, who later would create one of the largest shipping conglomerates of his day; married American first lady and widow Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Ancient period

File:Aesop pushkin03.jpg|thumb|Aesop, accredited with the Fables
File:Bust Homer BM 1825.jpg|thumb|Bust of Homer, composer and writer of the Iliad and Odyssey, the oldest poetry of Western civilization
File:Sophocles pushkin.jpg|thumb|Bust of Sophocles, writer of Oedipus Rex, one of the three most recomposed Greek playwrights of antiquity alongside Euripides and Aeschylus
File:David Sedaris.jpg|thumb|Greek-American author David Sedaris in June 2008, author best known for his When You Are Engulfed in Flames
This is a list of ethnic Greeks who were born after the Declaration of the Greek War of Independence, outside the borders of the Greek state. The list does not include Greeks born in the diasporan communities or Greeks of Cyprus, but only Greeks born in the traditional Greek homelands.

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