Famous People from Greece

• Achilles (Thessaly)

  Greek warrior at the center of Homer's Iliad

• Carvel, Thomas (Athens)

  Founder of the Carvel ice cream empire

• Hippocrates (Island of Cos)

  Author of the Hippocratic Oath

• Homer

  The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

• Lanthimos, Yorgos (Athens)

  The Greek filmmaker who did 'The Lobster'

• Lee, Tommy (Athens)

  Mötley Crüe, drummer and Pam Anderson's ex-husband

• Plato (Athens)

  The ancient philosopher who wrote The Republic

• Plutarch (Chaeroneia)

  Author of Plutarch's Lives

• Prince Philip (Isle of Corfu)

  The husband of Queen Elizabeth II

• Pyrrhus (Epirus)

  King of hellenistic Epirus whose gave up a lot to win

• Pythagoras (Samos)

  The guy they named the Pythagorean Theorem after

• Socrates (Athens)

  The great Greek philosopher who drank hemlock

• Sophocles (Colonus (now Kolonos))

  Greek dramatist who wrote Oedipus Tyrannus

• Theophrastus (Eresus)

  Ancient Greek who began the study of plants

• Vangelis

  The composer of 'Chariots of Fire'

See: Index by Birthplace