The 30 Greatest Greeks

In 2009, Greek TV network Skai TV made a show about the 100 greatest Greeks of all time. Can you name the top 30?

Use the Latin alphabet, not the Greek one

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Greek

He conquered Persia

Alexander the Great

Physician who invented the "Pap smear" test

George Papanikolaou

Greek general who defeated the Ottomans in 1822

Theodoros Kolokotronis

Prime Minister and President in the latter half of the 20th century

Konstantinos Karamanlis

First moral philosopher, died by drinking hemlock

Socrates

"Father of Western Philosophy"

Aristotle

Leader of the Greek national liberation movement, "Ethnarch"

Eleftherios Venizelos

First president of independent Greece

Ioannis Kapodistrias

Founder of the Academy in Athens

Plato

Statesman, orator and general of Athens

Pericles

Songwriter, Zorba's Dance

Mikis Theodorakis

Mathematician, theory of functions of a real variable

Constantin Carathéodory

Actress and activist against the Greek junta

Melina Mercouri

Three times Prime Minister in the 80s and 90s

Andreas Papandreou

Writer of Zorba the Greek and translator of The Divine Comedy

Nikos Kazantzakis

Major exponent of romantic modernism

Odysseus Elytis

Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer

Composer, "Éntekhno", Never on Sunday

Manos Hadjidakis

Spartan warrior king at the Battle of Thermopylae

Leonidas I

"Father of Medicine"

Hippocrates

a² + b² = c²

Pythagoras

Poet, journalist and civil servant

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greek American soprano, "La Divina"

Maria Callas

Mathematician from Syracuse, Sicily

Archimedes

Second husband of Jackie Kennedy

Aristotle Onassis

Seven time Prime Minister, Rio-Antirrio bridge

Charilaos Trikoupis

Painter of the Spanish Renaissance (the name means "the Greek", in Spanish)

El Greco

He died in the fall of Constantinople

Constantine XI

Nobel laureate, poet and diplomat

Giorgos Seferis

Active in the modern Greek Enlightenment, pioneer of independence

Rigas Feraios

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