Achievements
Achievements of Greeks leave their mark, influence developments, determine the future of Greece, Hellenism and whole world.
An 11 year old star is rising
She is just 11 years old, but she claimed one of the major television awards in Australia, the Loggie in the category for best emerging talent. We are referring to Anastasia Feneri, who was nominated for her role in the children’s series «My Place» presented...
“The Wog boy” of Australia
Nick Giannopoulos is an actor, writer, producer and director. He became famous after the success of «The Wog boy» and “The kings of Mykonos”. Born on the 1st of July in 1963 in Melbourne, Giannopoulos was the first-born son of Greek immigrant parents. He graduated...
A leader of the Greek market
[:el]His career’s milestone was the year 1989, when he founded the COCO-MAT company, which produces household linen and furniture. Since then his professional development coincides with the company’s course. In a relatively short period since 1989, COCO-MAT has become a leader and the acute preacher...
Portraits of prominent Greeks in the U.S.
Maria Gianna was born and grow up in Athens. She got her first degree from the Tufts University in Massachusetts (USA) where she studied International Relations / History of Art, and then she returned to Athens for her MBA at Athens Laboratory of Business Administration...
A Hope in the battle against cancer cells
The Greek origin’s Evaggelos Mihelakis’ research team is giving an important battle for cancer treatment in resent years. The Professor, of the University of Alberta in Canada, argues that a drug which is already used for other diseases, can be a valuable tool in cancer...
Grandson carries on family dive helmet tradition
[:el] Nicholas Toth is the follower of the tradition of his grandfather Antony Lerios, he manufactures protective suits for the sponge divers. For many years, Nicholas used his grandfather tools, in order to curb copper and brass, so that it can create Scuba, secure to...
The national poet of Lebanon, with roots from Smyrna
Born in 1925 in Beirut by a Greek mother from Smyrna and a Syrian father, with studies in philosophy at Sorbonne, Berkeley and Harvard, is now considered to be the greatest living poet of Lebanon, and experts describe her as a particularly significant presence in...
The Rhodian Dean in Victoria University of Melbourne
[:el] George Pappas is the fourth Chancellor of Victoria University in Melbourne and had been previously the Chairman of the Committee for Melbourne. George Pappas AO became the fourth Chancellor of Victoria University on 1 January 2010. His term as Chancellor will cease on 31 December...
Casting manager at the world’s top opera houses
[:el] Ilias Tzempetonidis has worked as casting manager at the most famous opera houses around the world. Tzempetonidis was raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Law, Contact Management and ART at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. His first contact with classical music and opera was in...
Perpetual researcher of mathematics
[:el]Eleftherios Argyropoulos was born in Kalamata on 1st of April in 1967. From his early high school years he showed his great interest in mathematics and physics. Immediately after graduating from high school he began research in mathematics. In 1986 when he was just 19...