List of Greek Americans

The following is a list of notable Greek Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Greek descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
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Famous Greek Americans


Spiro Agnew • Olympia Snowe • George Stephanopoulos • Jennifer Aniston • Alexander Frey • Tina Fey • Pete Sampras • Olympia Dukakis • Michael Dukakis • Zach Galifianakis



List

ARCHITECTURE

Automobiles

Agriculture

Alcoholic beverages

Chemicals and petroleum

Computer software & hardware

Consumer products

Education

Entertainment and media

Finance and venture capital

Game design

Inventor

Medical devices and pharmaceuticals

Retail

Real estate

Social media

Sports

Unfiled

Cuisine

Fashion

Modeling

Style

EXPLORATION & PIONEERING

FAITH & SPIRITUALITY

LAW & LAW ENFORCEMENT

Fiction & Literature

Nonfiction

Television

Radio

Comedy
Choreography
Pop
Tango
Actors
Jason Mantzoukas in 2015
Actresses
Art direction, costume design, set design
Choreography
Cinematography
Directors
Makeup and special effects
  • Crist Ballas - Emmy Award-winning make-up artist for film and television
  • Karen Goulekas - visual effects artist
  • Jack Pierce - designer of makeup and costumes for all of Universal Studios's iconic movie monsters, including: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, et al.
  • Patrick Tatopoulos - special effects and creature designer[51]
  • Petro Vlahos - Oscar-awarded Hollywood special effects pioneer
Producers
Props
Sound

Magicians

Composer

Conductor

Producers

Classical

Country & Western

Dark Carbaret
  • Lola Blanc - singer, songwriter; her father is Greek-American.

Disco

New age
  • Chris Spheeris - new age multi-instrumentalist, composer, recording artist, collaborated on several albums with Paul Voudouris[55]
  • Paul Avgerinos - composer, performer and producer of new-age music
  • Yanni - new-age musician[56]

Opera

Pop

Rock & Metal Music

Rock and roll
Comics, cartoons
Graffiti
Illustrators
Painters

Performance artists
  • Mary Ashley - video artist, performance artist, and painter

Photography
Sculptors
Unfiled
Fiction

MILITARY

Federal

State

Local

Academic Administration

Anthropology
  • Dorothy D. Lee - anthropologist, author and philosopher of cultural anthropology

Biology - Genetics

Chemistry

Computer Science

Economics-Management

Engineering
  • Constantine A. Balanis - electrical engineer
  • John Baras - electrical engineer
  • George Doundoulakis - physicist and soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II and then served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. He is known by his twenty-six US patents in the fields of radar, electronics, and narrowband television.
  • Helias Doundoulakis - civil engineer who was employed at Grumman Aerospace Corporation for over thirty five years and group leader on many USAF and NASA projects. These included the Apollo space missions and the Lunar Excursion Module, the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, and the Space Shuttle. His design of the oxygen tanks on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission was instrumental in the return of the Apollo 13 crew, for which Doundoulakis was given a plaque by Captain James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. Served in the United States Army and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) — as a spy during the Battle of Crete in WWII.
  • Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos - chemical engineer
  • Peter Karter - nuclear engineer and one of the pioneers of the modern recycling industry
  • Ares J. Rosakis - engineer
  • George Tchobanoglous - civil and environmental engineer, professor at University of California, Davis
  • Michael Tsapatsis - chemical engineer and materials scientist

English, Debate, Speech
  • Helena Zachos (March 5, 1856–February 28, 1951) - American college professor and elocutionist, who was on the faculty at Cooper Union from 1897 to 1939. Daughter of educator and abolitionist Professor John Celivergos Zachos.
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  • John Celivergos Zachos (December 20, 1820–March 20, 1898) - worked as Library Curator and Professor of English Language at Cooper Union from 1872 until his death in 1898. In 1861 was named the first superintendent of the Port Royal Experiment where freed slaves were educated on the liberated islands off of Charleston, SC.

Law

Mathematics

Medicine

Philosophy

Physics

Psychology

Sociology

Various

Aquatics

Baseball

Basketball

Body building and fitness training
  • John Sitaras - fitness professional, creator of the Sitaras method and founder of Sitaras Fitness in New York City
  • Craig Titus - American bodybuilder
  • Christos Nikitas Poulis - athletic trainer

Boxing

Football
Chris Maragos NFL safety for the Seattle Seahawks

Gambling, Bookmakers, Poker

Hockey

Mixed martial arts

Motor sports

Soccer / association football

Surfing

Tennis

Track and field
  • Dean Karnazes - ultramarathon champion, writer, businessman
  • Tom Pappas - track & field decathlete, 2003 world decathlon champion and 2-time Olympian.

Winter sports

Wrestling

Sports Journalism

Others
  • Michael Katakis - writer, photographer, and manager of Ernest Hemingway's literary estate
  • George Lois - advertising executive (ESPN, USA Today, Xerox, MTV, Wolfschmidt, Tommy Hilfiger), "Fizz Fizz What a Relief it Is", "No Dancing in the (a)Isles" "Crazy People" (Big break hired by Rossides for Javits 1960)

See also

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  18. "Tim's mother, Carmen, was an heiress to the theatre chain founded by her father, Alexander Pantages, who immigrated to the United States from Greece around 1885."
  19. "Andreas Katsulas, whose striking Greek visage..."
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  27. "It never occurred to me that Chris Sarandon is Greek (for those that don't know, Tarpon Springs is an ethnic Greek community located just north of St. Petersburg), until I thought about it - he very much looks Greek, later explaining that his father was from a "Greek village in Turkey"."
  28. "Greek-American actor George Savalas"
  29. Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army.
  30. Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army.
  31. "John is also Greek and part Irish." "John Stamos' original family name is Stamopolous, which was shortened by his grandparents when they came to America from Greece."
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  37. "Nancy Dow is Scottish, Irish, Italian and Greek."
  38. "Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American stage and film actress... will discuss the impact of her Greek-American heritage on her career, as well as past performances, particularly her lead role in the ancient tragedy "Hecuba."" "The daughter of Greek immigrants..."
  39. "Fey's mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she's wary of claiming an ethnic identity. "I’ve said a few things about being Greek, and now every Greek organization wants to adopt me," Fey told me." "Because of the Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs and butt."
  40. Archived 2006-08-15 at the Wayback Machine "Angie Harmon: "It would be shaping my eyebrows. Being half Greek and half American Indian, I have the unibrow. So once I started working on them, I really did see a change. You create another kind of beauty.""
  41. "Her (Real) Heritage: "I'm Greek, Italian and Jewish. In TV Guide they wrote that I was French, Greek and Jewish. I am mostly Greek. I don't know where French came from."
  42. Archived 2006-05-10 at the Wayback Machine "My grandfather always told me, "You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.""
  43. Archived 2006-03-21 at the Wayback Machine "The stunning Maria Menounos had no problem getting her Greek on for our photo shoot, but her heritage hasn’t always been easy for her. "My dad was very strict," she says. "A guy would call the house and he would say, ‘I have a gun, and I will use it!’"... My parents said I had to marry a Greek boy. I dated them, but they weren’t for me. They want slaves. I want someone to be my slave! My mom still puts my dad's socks on him when she wakes him up in the morning."
  44. "Sigler is half-Cuban and half-Greek (Jewish)"
  45. Archived 2006-08-04 at the Wayback Machine "A raven haired beauty who is equal parts Greek passion and English reserve"
  46. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-11-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Well we’re both [she and Jennifer Aniston] Greek, which is a shoe-in right there." "Mena, the world traveler: Part Estonian and part Greek, Suvari was named for her godmother, who was born in the Mena House, a hotel at the base of the Pyramids in Egypt." "Brought up in South Carolina, her Estonian father is a retired psychiatrist and her Greek mother a nurse."
  47. Grandfather Nicholas Cachikis was born in Greece.
  48. "...Rita Wilson's parents - her father was Bulgarian, while mother Dorothy was Greek - changed their surname to Wilson after moving to the United States." "My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek." "...her producers include actor Rita Wilson, who is half Greek...".
  49. "...Greek-American entertainer Lisa Zane..."
  50. "Greek-American production designer Dean Tavoularis"
  51. "My father is a Greek from Macedonia. I don’t know his roots exactly."
  52. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-23. Retrieved 2006-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "The other element that influenced me early on had to do with my Greek Orthodox raising where I used to sit in church and just be enthralled with the choir. So, there are a lot of Gregorian modal ideas in my music that go back to that."
  53. "I'm Greek and my wife and I will cook a Greek dinner for eight for the winner. That is a Greek."
  54. "Greek conductor and composer"
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  57. "renowned Greek opera singer whose personal life enthralled Greece in the 1950s and 1960s"
  58. "This website is dedicated to preserving the musical memory of the late, great, Tatiana Troyanos, Greek-American Mezzo-Soprano"
  59. "Called upon to help support their Greek-Norwegian family when their father's business was wiped out by the Depression"
  60. "I'm Greek, so we have pretty big booties in my family." "I'm Greek and Irish, but I don't know Greek. I just have the booty, that's the only part I got of it, that's the curve of it all."
  61. "Kalomira Sarantis is missing the second semester of her first year in college. She is pursuing her lifetime dream – a career as a professional singer – in a very unorthodox way, as a contestant on the Antenna TV program "Fame Story" in Greece."
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  64. "Jim Verraros: My father was born in Greece, so I am mostly Greek. My mother is German, Irish, French and English."
  65. "Mr. Greg Dulli (he's Greek, ya know...)"
  66. Archived 2006-06-30 at the Wayback Machine "We were baptized Greek Orthodox, so we are Greek Orthodox", Matt says. "If you're baptized Greek Orthodox, you're in for good. That's it."
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  69. Archived 2006-07-18 at the Wayback Machine "Are you a fan of anal sex? TL, "Being Greek, you'd think I'd be a big anal sex fan. It's kinda nasty. I'm not really feeling it too much, although I've done it several times -- but it's not my favorite."
  70. "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans, adore rebetiko music."
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  73. Archived 2006-06-18 at the Wayback Machine "Annette Artani, a native Greek-American New Yorker"
  74. Archived 2006-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "Well, here I am. I'm an Anatolian Greek - a middle eastern Greek - and I'm an American, which is a bloody weird combination."
  75. "Constantine comes from a "massive" Greek American family"
  76. "I’m half Irish and I’m half Greek"
  77. "Born in Berkeley, California, to a Greek immigrant family"
  78. "Greek American bandleader Johnny Otis"
  79. "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans"
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