35 Famous People from Greece - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Legendary author of The Iliad and The Odessey	Homer	89%
King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon	Alexander the Great	84%
Philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy	Socrates	82%
Philosopher who defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known”	Aristotle	77%
Philosopher who contributed the theory of Forms known by pure reason	Plato	72%
King of Sparta who led the allied Greek forces to the Battle of Thermopylae.	Leonidas	69%
Philosopher who discovered the theorem of relations among the three sides of a right triangle	Pythagoras	69%
Shipping magnate who was married to Jacqueline Kennedy	Aristotle Onassis	66%
Basketball player and two-time MVP in the NBA	Giannis Antetokounmpo	59%
Painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance	El Greco	54%
Physician of the Classical Greece and an outstanding figure in the history of medicine	Hippocrates	49%
Opera singer known for her passionate love affair with famous shipping magnate	Maria Callas	49%
Ancient Greek tragedian and author of Antigone, Ajax and Oedipus Rex	Sophocles	49%
Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War	Spartacus	49%
Legendary fabulist who was the reputed creator of numerous short tales	Aesop	48%
Mathematician whose achievements is deriving an accurate approximation of number pi	Archimedes	48%
Politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens	Pericles	48%
Highest-ranked Greek tennis player in history	Stefanos Tsitsipas	39%
Author whose famous works are Zorba the Greek and Christ Recrucified	Nikos Kazantzakis	33%
Prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1996	Andreas Papandreou	31%
Female tennis player who has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in 2022 by WTA	Maria Sakkari	31%
Singer who won Eurovision Song contest in 2005	Helena Paparizou	30%
Greek historian, widely referred to as “The Father of History”	Herodotos	30%
Singer whose single "Shake It" is the all-time bestselling single in Greece	Sakis Rouvas	28%
Captain of national football team who won UEFA EURO 2004	Theodoros Zagorakis	26%
Composer of music for movies Chariots of Fire and 1492: Conquest of Paradise	Vangelis	23%
Greek-French film director who won an Oscar for the movie Z	Costa Gavras	21%
Songwriter who composed the song for the film Zorba the Greek	Mikis Theodorakis	21%
Basketball player, widely regarded as one of Europe's greatest scorers	Nikos Galis	20%
Singer who had international hit records as a solo performer in the 1970s	Demis Roussos	16%
Actress known for her parts in the ancient Greek comedies and tragedies	Irene Papas	16%
Oscar nominated actress and the first female Minister of Culture and Sports	Melina Mercouri	13%
Singer who came to fame with her song ‘’The White Rose of Athens” in 1969	Nana Mouskouri	11%
Bouzouki player and one of the founders of modern Rebetiko and Laiko music	Vassilis Tsitsanis	11%
Shipping tycoon, who had the world’s biggest super tankers built for his fleet	Stavros Niarchos	7%