Top 20 most important and famous people from Greece - Statistics

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Husband of Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
84%
Soprano, one of the most influential opera singers of XX century Maria Callas
58%
Tennis player fourth in the ATP ranking Stefanos Tsitsipas
56%
Director of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, three times winner of Academy Award Elia Kazan
51%
Writer, author of Zorba the Greek, Christ Recrucified and The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis
38%
Leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. Prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms between 1910 and 1933 Eleftherios Venizelos
31%
Military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973 Georgios Papadopoulos
31%
Actress, singer, activist, and politician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film Never on Sunday Melina Mercouri
31%
Politician a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996 Andreas Papandreou
24%
Modernist poet, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963 Giorgos Seferis
22%
Romantic modernist writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979 Odysseas Elytis
22%
Military officer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941 Ioannis Metaxas
18%
Actress famous for her roles in The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek and The Trojan Women Irene Papas
18%
Greece's national poet. He is best known for the Hymn to Liberty Dionysios Solomos
16%
Composer of The Ballad of Mauthausen, which has been described as the most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust. He was also a politician Mikis Theodorakis
16%
Scholar founder of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment Adamantios Korais
11%
Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019 Alexis Tsipras
11%
Greek-Egyptian poet, journalist, translator and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy
11%
Actress famous for her role in For Whom the Bell Tolls, winner of Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1944 Katina Paxinou
11%
Writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. Pioneer of the Greek War of Independence remembered as a national hero in Greece Rigas Feraios
9%
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