Greek community leaders, worldwide
39 Greek community leaders across 77 countries, verified and searchable on Zoi.
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George D. YancopoulosCommunity Leaders · Tarrytown, New YorkGreek-American scientist, co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Michael DukakisCommunity Leaders · Boston, MassachusettsGreek-American politician, longest-serving Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee.
Mike LazaridisCommunity Leaders · Waterloo, OntarioGreek-Canadian businessman and engineer, founder of BlackBerry (Research In Motion) and philanthropist.George StephanopoulosCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American journalist and television presenter, co-anchor of Good Morning America and former White House communications director.El GrecoCommunity Leaders · Heraklion, CreteGreek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete.Constantine P. CavafyCommunity Leaders · Alexandria, الإسكندريةGreek poet of the Alexandrian diaspora, one of the most important figures of modern Greek poetry, author of Ithaka.Arianna HuffingtonCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American author and businesswoman, co-founder of The Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global.Georgios PapanikolaouCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek physician and researcher, pioneer of cytopathology and inventor of the Pap test for early detection of cervical cancer.Giorgos SeferisCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek poet and diplomat, the first Greek to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1963).Nikos KazantzakisCommunity Leaders · Heraklion, CreteGreek writer and philosopher, author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ.Odysseas ElytisCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek poet, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated for works such as To Axion Esti.Alex SpanosCommunity Leaders · Stockton, CaliforniaSon of Greek immigrants who started with $800 selling sandwiches to farm workers and built A.G. Spanos Companies into one of the largest apartment buiAndrew N. LiverisCommunity Leaders · Darwin, Northern TerritoryGreek-Australian chemical engineer who rose to become chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical, orchestrating the historic Dow-DuPont merger; later an adviserArchbishop IakovosCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek Orthodox Archbishop of North and South America for nearly four decades who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma in 1965, the onAristides AlafouzosCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaHead of one of Greece's most influential shipping and media families, controlling Kyklades Maritime and the Skai media group, blending the country's mChristodoulos StefanadisCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek cardiologist and academic, former president of the Hellenic Cardiological Society, known internationally for research on the human aorta and pioDean MetropoulosCommunity Leaders · Greenwich, ConnecticutGreek-American billionaire investor known as a turnaround specialist for iconic food brands, famously rescuing Hostess (Twinkies) from bankruptcy andDemis HassabisCommunity Leaders · London, EnglandBritish AI researcher and entrepreneur of Greek-Cypriot descent, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind and 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.Dimitri NanopoulosCommunity Leaders · College Station, TexasGreek theoretical physicist and one of the most-cited researchers in high-energy physics, known for work on grand unified theories, supersymmetry andFotis KafatosCommunity Leaders · Heraklion, CreteCretan-born molecular biologist who became Harvard's youngest-ever full professor at 29, pioneered cDNA cloning techniques and malaria-mosquito immunoGeorge CotziasCommunity Leaders · New YorkCretan-born scientist who emigrated to the United States and, working at Brookhaven National Laboratory, developed L-DOPA therapy in the late 1960s, tGeorge LivanosCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaMember of the storied Livanos shipping dynasty from Chios, one of the foundational families of modern Greek shipping whose fleets and intermarriages wJim Davis (New Balance)Community Leaders · Boston, MassachusettsGreek-American businessman who bought the small New Balance shoe company in 1972 and built it into one of the world's largest athletic footwear brandsJim GianopulosCommunity Leaders · Los Angeles, CaliforniaGreek-American film executive, former chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures.John ArgyrisCommunity Leaders · Stuttgart, Baden-WürttembergGreek pioneer of computer science and aeronautical engineering, one of the founders of the finite element method that underpins modern structural andJohn BrademasCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American congressman from Indiana who served in the U.S. House for 22 years, rose to House Majority Whip, and later became president of New YorkJohn CalamosCommunity Leaders · Naperville, IllinoisGreek-American son of Arcadian immigrants and decorated Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force combat pilot who founded Calamos Investments in 1977, pioneering coJohn CatsimatidisCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American billionaire who arrived from the island of Nisyros as an infant, built the Gristedes supermarket chain and the Red Apple Group energy aJohn CoustasCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek shipping executive and engineer who leads Danaos Corporation, one of the world's largest independent owners of containerships, modernizing GreekJoseph SifakisCommunity Leaders · Heraklion, CreteCretan-born computer scientist who won the 2007 ACM Turing Award (the Nobel Prize of computing) for founding the field of model checking, an algorithmLucas PapademosCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaGreek economist who served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank and as Prime Minister of Greece during the height of the 2011-2012 debt crisOlympia SnoweCommunity Leaders · Augusta, GeorgiaGreek-American (born Bouchles) who served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Maine, known as a centrist powerbroker and one of the most prominent Greek-Paul SarbanesCommunity Leaders · Salisbury, North CarolinaSon of Greek immigrants who became the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Maryland history and co-authored the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act reforming corpPeter G. PetersonCommunity Leaders · New YorkSon of Greek immigrants (born Petropoulos) who served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, chaired Lehman Brothers, co-founded the private-equity giant BlacSpiro AgnewCommunity Leaders · Baltimore, MarylandGreek-American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon.Spyros SkourasCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek immigrant who arrived in St. Louis as a busboy and rose to become president of 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962, steering the studio through HStavros NiarchosCommunity Leaders · Athens, AtticaLegendary Greek shipping magnate who built one of the world's largest private fleets of supertankers in the mid-20th century; his estate endows the StStelios Haji-IoannouCommunity Leaders · London, EnglandGreek-Cypriot entrepreneur based in the UK who founded the low-cost airline easyJet in 1995 and built the wider easyGroup brand, becoming a knighted bTom CarvelCommunity Leaders · Hartsdale, New YorkBorn Athanasios Karvelas in Athens, this Greek immigrant invented America's first soft-serve ice cream after a 1934 flat tire forced him to sell meltiCountries
Greece 9,254United States 7,569United Kingdom 2,258Canada 1,905Australia 1,774Germany 794Cyprus 433South Africa 285Belgium 240Italy 215France 170Netherlands 137New Zealand 127Switzerland 114Sweden 88Brazil 68Austria 66Guatemala 61Argentina 52Kenya 52Ireland 46Mexico 42Spain 39Turkey 31Cameroon 28Denmark 26Chile 23Egypt 22Hungary 20Norway 20Portugal 18United Arab Emirates 16Colombia 15Zimbabwe 14Poland 14Romania 14Czech Republic 13Indonesia 13South Korea 8Albania 8Ukraine 8Luxembourg 7Nigeria 7Singapore 7Uruguay 6Czechia 5Venezuela 4Hong Kong 4Madagascar 4Philippines 3Haiti 2Georgia 2Ecuador 2Democratic Republic of the Congo 2San Marino 2Chad 2Bulgaria 2Iceland 2Russia 1Samoa 1Belize 1Serbia 1Ethiopia 1Monaco 1Faroe Islands 1Mauritius 1Cote D'Ivoire 1Israel 1Tonga 1Central African Republic 1Fiji 1Gibraltar 1Panama 1Pakistan 1Nicaragua 1Benin 1Eswatini 1