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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 onArianna HuffingtonCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American author and businesswoman, co-founder of The Huffington Post and founder of Thrive Global.Aristides 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 pioConstantine P. CavafyCommunity Leaders · Alexandria, الإسكندريةGreek poet of the Alexandrian diaspora, one of the most important figures of modern Greek poetry, author of Ithaka.Dean MetropoulosCommunity Leaders · Greenwich, ConnecticutGreek-American billionaire investor known as a turnaround specialist for iconic food brands, famously rescuing Hostess (Twinkies) from bankruptcy and
Demis 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 andEl GrecoCommunity Leaders · Heraklion, CreteGreek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete.Fotis 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, t
George D. YancopoulosCommunity Leaders · Tarrytown, New YorkGreek-American scientist, co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.George 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 wGeorge StephanopoulosCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American journalist and television presenter, co-anchor of Good Morning America and former White House communications director.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).Jim 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 cris
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.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.Olympia 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 melti
George D. YancopoulosCommunity Leaders · Tarrytown, New YorkGreek-American scientist, co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.George 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 wGeorge StephanopoulosCommunity Leaders · New YorkGreek-American journalist and television presenter, co-anchor of Good Morning America and former White House communications director.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).Jim 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 cris
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.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.Olympia 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
United States 12,175Greece 11,521United Kingdom 3,560Australia 3,162Canada 2,521Cyprus 1,430Germany 1,327South Africa 445Belgium 400France 337Italy 306Netherlands 253New Zealand 208Switzerland 202Austria 196Sweden 184Spain 110Uganda 100Tanzania 94Brazil 86Ireland 81Democratic Republic of the Congo 70Argentina 67Guatemala 62Kenya 56Norway 47Mexico 46Hungary 43Turkey 40Zimbabwe 39Denmark 38Portugal 38Czech Republic 36Poland 35Egypt 33Cameroon 31Romania 30Chile 27Luxembourg 26Madagascar 26Colombia 23Malawi 21United Arab Emirates 21Albania 15Indonesia 14Ukraine 13Finland 11South Korea 11Bulgaria 10Nigeria 10Singapore 10China 9Israel 9Venezuela 9Russia 8Uruguay 8Czechia 7Georgia 6Malta 6Japan 5North Macedonia 5Philippines 5Serbia 5Ethiopia 4Hong Kong 4India 4Libya 4Pakistan 4Zambia 4Algeria 3Botswana 3Iraq 3Morocco 3Mozambique 3Panama 3Slovakia 3Thailand 3Vietnam 3Armenia 2Chad 2Cuba 2Ecuador 2Estonia 2Haiti 2Iceland 2Iran 2Jordan 2Kazakhstan 2Latvia 2Lebanon 2Lithuania 2Moldova 2Montenegro 2Nicaragua 2Qatar 2San Marino 2Seychelles 2Tunisia 2Bahrain 1Bangladesh 1Belize 1Benin 1Central African Republic 1Cote D'Ivoire 1Croatia 1El Salvador 1Eswatini 1Faroe Islands 1Fiji 1Ghana 1Gibraltar 1Guinea 1Honduras 1Kuwait 1Malaysia 1Mauritius 1Monaco 1Nepal 1Oman 1Peru 1Republic of the Congo 1Samoa 1Saudi Arabia 1Slovenia 1Sri Lanka 1Sudan 1Tonga 1