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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

LIST OF GREEK AMERICANS

Architecture[edit]

Business[edit]

Automobiles[edit]

Agriculture[edit]

Alcoholic beverages[edit]

Chemicals and petroleum[edit]

Computer software & hardware[edit]

Consumer products[edit]

Education[edit]

Entertainment and media[edit]

Finance and venture capital[edit]

Game design[edit]

Inventor[edit]

Medical devices and pharmaceuticals[edit]

Retail[edit]

Real estate[edit]

Social media[edit]

Sports[edit]

Unfiled[edit]

Fashion[edit]

Cuisine[edit]

Fashion[edit]

Modeling[edit]

Style[edit]

Explorers and settlers[edit]

Religious figures[edit]

Law enforcement[edit]

Media figures[edit]

Fiction & literature[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

Television[edit]

Radio[edit]

Art and entertainment[edit]

Comedy[edit]

Dance[edit]

Choreography[edit]

Pop[edit]

Tango[edit]

Film and theater[edit]

Actors[edit]

Jason Mantzoukas in 2015

Actresses[edit]

Art direction, costume design, set design[edit]

Choreography[edit]

Cinematography[edit]

Directors[edit]

Makeup and special effects[edit]

  • Crist Ballas - Emmy Award-winning make-up artist for film and television
  • Karen Goulekas - visual effects artist
  • Jack Pierce - designer of makeup and costumes for all of Universal Studios's iconic movie monsters, including: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, et al.
  • Patrick Tatopoulos - special effects and creature designer[52]
  • Petro Vlahos - Oscar-awarded Hollywood special effects pioneer

Producers[edit]

Props[edit]

Sound[edit]

Magicians[edit]

Musicians[edit]

Composer[edit]

Conductor[edit]

Producers[edit]

Classical[edit]

Country & western[edit]

Dark cabaret[edit]

  • Lola Blanc - singer, songwriter; her father is Greek-American.

Disco[edit]

New age[edit]

  • Chris Spheeris - new age multi-instrumentalist, composer, recording artist, collaborated on several albums with Paul Voudouris[56]
  • Paul Avgerinos - composer, performer and producer of new-age music
  • Yanni - new-age musician[57]

Opera[edit]

Pop[edit]

Rock and metal[edit]

Rap[edit]

Rock and roll[edit]

Visual arts[edit]

Comics, cartoons[edit]

Graffiti[edit]

  • Alex Martinez - graffiti artist, illustrator, muralist (Greek mother)
  • Taki 183 - original artist who spawned the Graffiti craze in New York City of 1960s-70s. Demetrios/Demetraki ("Taki") hailed from 183rd Street in Washington Heights, hence his moniker "Taki 183".

Illustrators[edit]

Painters[edit]

Performance artists[edit]

  • Mary Ashley - video artist, performance artist, and painter

Photography[edit]

Sculptors[edit]

Unfiled[edit]

Writing[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Military[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Federal[edit]

Ιncumbent politicians[edit]

Former politicians[edit]

Former CIA Director George Tenet

State[edit]

Incumbent politicians[edit]

Former politicians[edit]

Local[edit]

Science and academia[edit]

Academic administration[edit]

Anthropology[edit]

  • Dorothy D. Lee - anthropologist, author and philosopher of cultural anthropology

Biology - genetics[edit]

Chemistry[edit]

Computer science[edit]

Economics-management[edit]

Engineering[edit]

  • Constantine A. Balanis - electrical engineer
  • John Baras - electrical engineer
  • George Doundoulakis - physicist and soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and then served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. He is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar, electronics, and narrowband television.
  • Helias Doundoulakis - civil engineer who was employed at Grumman Aerospace Corporation for over thirty five years and group leader on many USAF and NASA projects. These included the Apollo space missions and the Lunar Excursion Module, the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, and the Space Shuttle. His design of the oxygen tanks on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission was instrumental in the return of the Apollo 13 crew, for which Doundoulakis was given a plaque by Captain James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. Served in the United States Army and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) — as a spy during the Battle of Crete in WWII.
  • Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos - chemical engineer
  • Peter Karter - nuclear engineer and one of the pioneers of the modern recycling industry
  • Ares J. Rosakis - engineer
  • George Tchobanoglous - civil and environmental engineer, professor at University of California, Davis
  • Michael Tsapatsis - chemical engineer and materials scientist

English, debate, speech[edit]

  • Helena Zachos (March 5, 1856 – February 28, 1951) - American college professor and elocutionist, who was on the faculty at Cooper Union from 1897 to 1939. Daughter of educator and abolitionist Professor John Celivergos Zachos.
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  • John Celivergos Zachos (December 20, 1820 – March 20, 1898) - worked as Library Curator and Professor of English Language at Cooper Union from 1872 until his death in 1898. In 1861 was named the first superintendent of the Port Royal Experiment where freed slaves were educated on the liberated islands off of Charleston, SC.

Law[edit]

Mathematics[edit]

Medicine[edit]

Philosophy[edit]

Physics[edit]

Psychology[edit]

Sociology[edit]

Various[edit]

Sports[edit]

Aquatics[edit]

Baseball[edit]

Basketball[edit]

Body building and fitness training[edit]

  • John Sitaras - fitness professional, creator of the Sitaras method and founder of Sitaras Fitness in New York City
  • Craig Titus - American bodybuilder
  • Christos Nikitas Poulis - athletic trainer

Boxing[edit]

Football[edit]

Chris Maragos 2013.jpg

Chris Maragos]], NFL safety for the Seattle Seahawks

Gambling, bookmakers, poker[edit]


Golf[edit]

Hockey[edit]

Mixed martial arts[edit]

Motor sports[edit]

Soccer / association football[edit]

Danielle Fotopoulos, college and US Woman's National Soccer team player

Surfing[edit]

Tennis[edit]

Track and field[edit]

  • Dean Karnazes - ultramarathon champion, writer, businessman
  • Tom Pappas - track & field decathlete, 2003 world decathlon champion and 2-time Olympian.

Winter sports[edit]

Wrestling[edit]

Sports journalism[edit]

Criminal figures[edit]

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