Famous Greeks
Greeks are a special example in history they have a glorious past but they dont live in the past. They are powerful, even today. And they will always be. Greeks distinguished everywhere and always be FAMOUS and useful citizens of the world.
The sculptor whose work is being taught in Brazilian schools
Nikos Floros, the sculptor who has won the admiration of the public, including in New York, Rome, Abu Dhabi, Russia, has received dozens of awards and distinctions, has exhibited worldwide, and his sculptures are in major museums around the world and in private collections. Fancy...
The ingenious fashion designer who reached the top of the Fashion Industry
Mary Katrantzou is a Greek fashion designer, internationally recognized for her talent and ingenuity. From time to time, she has received comments from Vogue magazine, she has won fashion awards such as that of British Fashion Award for Emerging Talent (2011) and the Designer of...
One of the most powerful CEOs of the planet
André Calantzopoulos is the man who holds the wheel of Philip Morris International (PMI), the largest multinational tobacco industry in the world, over the last six years. He is, by far, the most successful Greek manager, as the capitalization of PMI reaches 150 billion euros,...
He founded the modern shipping studies
Professor Costas Grammenos is Chairman of the “Costas Grammenos Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance”, Cass Business School, City, University of London. He also holds the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) Chair in Shipping, Trade & Finance, and was the Founding President of the Governing Body...
She developed the world’s first vaccine against breast cancer
Dr. Vasso Apostolopoulos is a Professor of Immunology and Vice President of Victoria University’s Research Department. She was the world’s first researcher to develop the theory of breast cancer immunotherapy in the early 1990s which is currently used in thousands of laboratories around the world....
The first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology
George Efstathiou is an astrophysicist, a professor of Astrophysics and a member of the Royal Society of Sciences, while he has been Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University. He is widely trained in theoretical and observational cosmology...
The Astrophysicist behind the first historical photo of a black hole
Dimitris Psaltis is a professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Arizona, with his research focusing on testing the theory of general relativity in the strong-field regime. He also works on various aspects of the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and black...
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and Knight of the British Crown
Sir Christopher Pissarides is Regius Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he also heads the Macroeconomic Research Program at the Center for Economic Performance. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus and President of the Council of National...
The astrophysicist who connects philosophy with science
Dr. Minas Kafatos is The Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics at Chapman University and has nearly 40 years of experience in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. During his career, he has even worked at NASA’s Gondar Space Flight Center and has published...
The Greek behind the famous restaurants “Milos”
Costas Spiliadis is a genius entrepreneur who has managed to bring seafood to the forefront of the art of gourmet cuisine and has conquered the top of international gastronomy, having owned the famous Milos restaurants, with all of them have a clientele ranging from celebrities...