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Walking in his father’s footsteps

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Nick Cassavetes is a Greek American actor and film director. He has worked together with famous Hollywood actors, like Cameron Diaz, Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. Cassavetes was born on May 21st, 1959, in New York to actress Gena Rowlands and Greek American...

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Ηe created one of the largest shoe companies in the world

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[:el] Jim Davis is the owner of New Balance shoes company and a billionaire. During the latest years, Forbes magazine has been including him in its notorious lists together with the wealthiest Americans and Greeks. Forbes 400 list for 2014 ranks him on place 173...

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The Greek legend of global advertising

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[:el] George Lois ranks among the most renowned authors, designers and creative directors in the world. The 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine during the years between 1962 and 1972 are legendary and most of them are exhibited as part of the permanent collection...

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The researcher who discovered double meaning in DNA

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[:el] John Stamatoyannopoulos, M.D., is Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine (Oncology) at the University of Washington School of Medicine. A second code, hidden within our already known genetic code, is said to have been discovered by his scientific team. He holds degrees in...

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President of the most powerful ticketing company in U.S.

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Chris Tsakalakis is an e-commerce executive the president of StubHub, the most powerful secondary ticketing enterprise in America and general manager of eBay Tickets. He is named as one of the most influential executives in the ticketing industry. His parents came from Naxos and Samos...

Famous Greeks

The real estate guru

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[:el]Angelo Tsakopoulos is a real estate developer and during the latest years he has been ranking among the wealthiest Greeks of the United States, with a net worth of $650 million. He’s the founder and owner of AKT Development in Sacramento, California. Tsakopoulos was born in...

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Appointed as U.S. Minister of Health

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Sylvia Mary Matthews Burwell was chosen in April 2014 by U.S. President Barack Obama for the post of Minister of Health and Human Services. She was born in 1965 in Hinton West Vitzinia. Her mother is the former mayor of Hinton, Cleo Matthews, her madden...

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He is planning drones with humanitarian nature

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The Greek businessman Andreas Raptopoulos is planning drones – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) – that take on a humanitarian nature with the potential to deliver medical supplies to roadless areas. “When you think of all the robotics companies in the world, I don’t know any whose first...

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The Greek chef in the kitchen of the White House

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Chris Bisiotis works as a chef in the White House. He started cooking at the early age of 12 and his grandmother was his mentor. He had studied the art of cooking at OTEK of Anavissos for two years. However, he was already working for...

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Leader in biomaterials science and engineering

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[:el] Nicholas Peppas is the winner of the 2014 American Chemical Society Award in Applied Polymer Science. Nicholas A. Peppas is the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy; Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Director...

Walking in his father’s footsteps

Ηe created one of the largest shoe companies in the world

The Greek legend of global advertising

The researcher who discovered double meaning in DNA

President of the most powerful ticketing company in U.S.

The real estate guru

Appointed as U.S. Minister of Health

He is planning drones with humanitarian nature

The Greek chef in the kitchen of the White House

Leader in biomaterials science and engineering

Dr. Ioanna (Joan) Vernikos – The first Greek female scientist at NASA

Katerina Gogou – The carefree girl of Greek cinema who was anything...

Rania Bellou – The artist of memory

Alec Issigonis – The Greek behind the legendary Mini Cooper

Metsovo – An Autumn Fairytale in the Pindus

Stefanos Ntouskos – The Greek Who Carried His Country with Oars

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