Achievements
Achievements of Greeks leave their mark, influence developments, determine the future of Greece, Hellenism and whole world.
The Greeks of the Diaspora are the guardians of Hellenism
In 1977, student Babis Bizas set out to realize his dream of traveling all around the world, carrying nothing more than his backpack. Within five months, he had walked in the streets of Asia, crossing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, he entered India, continued to...
The Greek illustrator of the Titanic
[:el]Nick Kaloterakis migrated to Australia 15 years ago and started working for Popular Science, the famous American magazine that illustrated his works on a regular basis. Making constant headway in digital art, Nick was then offered an illustration project by National Geographic on the occasion...
The creator of the first Arabic-speaking humanoid robot
Nikolaos Mavridis is a Startup Mentor at both the Enterprise Forum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and FasterCapital and an Academic and Counselor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is also the founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)...
The “golden” mathematical mind
Panagiotis Lolas is only 17-years-old, currently attending the B” Lyceum class of a private school at Tricala and- naturally- planning to study maths in Britain or the US. He recently returned from Attalya, Turkey, carrying yet another gold medal, which he won at the 29th...
Touches sensitive “chords” with his bouzouki
[:el]George Georgopoulos was born in Athens in 1983 and eight years later his family moved to Kalamata, where he began his music lessons at age 9. His bouzouki teacher, Dimitris Koutis, encouraged brought him to a professional orchestra and soon afterwards he began to play...
Award winning director and script writer
Constantine Alexander Papadopoulos, known as Alexander Payne, is a director, producer and screenwriter who fascinates with his talent all over the world. Alexander Payne was born on 10 February 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska. A second-generation Greek with roots from Aigio, Syra and Livadia. His parents,...
Builds aircrafts, conquers the skies
He is not an aircraft builder, yet the airplane he manufactured using cheap and alternative materials has drawn the attention of american companies that seek to exploit its commercial value. A policeman from Florina, George Iliopoulos decided to occupy himself with aircraft building after he...
The Greek Star of the Canadian television industry
[:el] George Stroumboulopoulos is a broadcast veteran in television and radio and is one of the most trusted and respected broadcasters in Canada. He is the host and co-executive producer of “George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight”, Canada’s primetime talk show. Born in 1972 in Ontario, to a...
One of the world’s best female guitarists
Orianthi Panagari has already been named as one of the best guitarists in the world. With notable collaborations on her CV, she has worked with Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, Michael Bolton, Prince, ZZ Top, Adam Lambert, Carrie Underwood, John Mayer, Dave Stewart...
She used the internet to accumulate 20,000 dollars of funding
A postgraduate student at the film directing program of UCLA, Greek-American Alithia Avramis realized her dream thanks to crowdfunding- a practice born out of the current financial crisis and made possible thanks to new technologies. In a four-minute-long video that she uploaded on the internet,...