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 Greek who received the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal
Known for his intuitive approach to complex technologies, Dr. Dimitri A. Antoniadis has had a tremendous effect on several areas of microelectronics technology, especially in field-effect controlled, quantum-effect devices and silicon process modeling. Dimitri A. Antoniadis was born on 1 January 1947, in Athens, Greece....
One of the 100 cited computer science authors
Dimitri Bertsekas’nearly fifty years of contributions to areas such as optimization theory, data networks, dynamic programming, and large-scale computation proves nearly impossible to measure. His 15 books take too long to summarize. But a few words capture his skill and passion: the language of mathematics....
The international artistic marvel of instrumental music
Yanni is a composer, keyboardist and musical producer of international recognition from his concerts in historical monuments of the world, with the video from “Live at the Acropolis” having yielded the second best-selling music concert video of all time. He has also played in Taj...
Dimitri Vassilakis is an internationally renowned jazz musician, award-winning saxophonist, singer, composer and teacher and has recorded 5 albums for the historic jazz company Candid Records based in New York and London. He is the first Greek jazz musician and academician with an international career...
Serial entrepreneur of the Internet
[:el]Jason Calacanis is a multi-millionaire Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, writer and blogger who has invested in major technology companies before they had been even discovered by the general public. He has been ranked 10th in the list of the most prominent internet celebrities, in the...
The computer science guru
[:el]Nicholas Negrοponte is a Greek-American architect, computer scientist, entrepreneur and the founder of the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition, he is the founder of the Organization, a Laptop Per Child, and became known for his book, “Being Digital” (1995),...
Creator of The History Channel
Nicholas Davatzis, born in Greece, created and developed two of America’s largest television networks, A & E Network and our well-known “The History Channel,” with 150 million viewers worldwide. A & E was founded in 1983 through the merger of ABC and ARTS Network, creating...
The greatest Greek painter of the 15th century
Angelos Akotantos was the most important painter of a particularly interesting era, he was an artist many call the “Dominic Theotokopoulos of the 15th Century” and was the first painter of icons to decide to break his anonymity and put his signature in his works....
The life of a magnificent artist
[:el]Demis Roussos (Artemios Ventouris Roussos) was a Greek singer and musician who was originally known worldwide as a member the band of Aphrodite’s Child with Vangelis Papathanassiou and had a tremendous success, especially in the 1970s, and sold over 70 million albums worldwide. He was...
The first Greek appointed as as Chief Economist at the World Bank
Penelope Kougianou-Goldberg, a professor of economics at Yale University, is the first Greek and the second woman who served as a Chief Economist at the World Bank. Penelope Kougianou was born in Athens and went to the German Gymnasium of Athens. She received a scholarship...