YiannisLatsis lang el September 14, 1910, Katakolo &ndash April 17, 2003, Athens , also John Spyridon Latsis , was a Greece Greek shipping tycoon notable for his great wealth, influential friends, and charitable activities. Biography Latsis was born in Katakolo &mdash a fishing village ... title Shipping tycoon Yiannis John Latsis dies of old age publisher Embassy of Greece, Washington DC ... Latsis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Latsis, Yiannis Category 1910 births Category 2003 deaths Category People ... children, the son of Spiro Latsis and Aphrodite Efthimiou. ref name Independent cite web url http www.independent.co.uk news obituaries john latsis 730219.html title Obituary John Latsis author Michael ... title John S. Latsis, 92, Billionaire Who Built Empire in Shipping ... s richest people, with a fortune estimated at US 5.4 billion. ref name NYT Business empire The Latsis ..., through an EU funded pipeline built by a Latsis engineering company. Hellenic Petroleum , according ... Fuel Pipeline Company . A Latsis company also has a 50 percent stake in the huge contract for running ... themselves. Latsis s development arm, Lamda , is a partner with Hochtief in a series of vast, part ... EFG Eurobank Ergasias banking group, controlled by Latsis family interests, held an exclusive ... His charitable works began with the establishment of the Latsis Scholarships Institute in 1970 ref name ... of the Latsis Foundation . Awards He was awarded the Golden Cross from the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... by Greece. ref name Independent ref name Embassy Personal life Latsis married Erietta Tsoukala. They had three children Spiros Latsis Spiros , Marianna and Margarita. ref name Embassy Spiros is a trustee ... grandson Paris Latsis son of Marianna was the former fianc of Paris Hilton . References reflist ... billionaires Category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Phoenix Greece de Giannis Latsis el ... more details
Infobox Person name Paris Latsis image caption birth name Paris Kasidokostas Latsis birth date Birth date and age 1979 8 8 birth place Athens, Greece death date death place other names known for occupation Heir nationality Greece Greek Paris Latsis born Paris Kasidokostas on 8 August 1979 is a Greece Greek shipping heir and socialite . He is the grandson of YiannisLatsisYiannis John S. Latsis . He is also the former boyfriend of American socialite Paris Hilton . Biography Latsis is the son of Marianna and Gregory Kasidokostas, a water ski instructor. Kasidokostas runs a large water ski school and is the mayor of the seaside town Vouliagmeni . His mother, Marianna, is a major philanthropist who donated funds for Greek earthquake relief and the Athens Olympics. When his grandfather died in 2003, his fortune was estimated as the 101st largest in the world. Eventually the Latsis family expanded into banking, oil refining and real estate. Forbes magazine recently estimated the Latsis family fortune at US 7.5 billion placing them at No. 54 on the magazine s list of the world s richest people. Personal In May 2005, it was announced that Paris Latsis became the fianc of American socialite, Paris Hilton . In September 2005, the couple broke off their engagement. As of July 2009 to June 2010 Latsis was dating actress Nikki Reed . ref cite news publisher Real Life magazine Real News url http www.realnews.gr uploads cover reallife.pdf date 2009 06 ref Latsis currently divides his time between his family home in Athens , Greece and Los Angeles , California . References Reflist External links http ourmedia.org node 10323 Paris Hilton and fianc Paris Latsis SPIDER , video 8 May 2005, ourmedia http www.askmen.com men celeb profiles entertainment 7 paris latsis.html AskMen.com Paris Latsis Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Latsis, Paris ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latsis, Paris ... OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Latsis, Paris Category 1979 births Category Living people Category ... more details
for the Latvian diplomat M rti L cis for the Greek tycoons Spiros LatsisYiannisLatsis File Soviet Union stamp 1988 CPA 6011.jpg thumb right 175px Postage stamp , USSR 1988 Martin Ivanovich Latsis lang ru lang lv M rti L cis , born J nis Sudrabs December 14, 1888 February 11, 1938 was a Latvian born Soviet Union Soviet politician, revolutionary and state security high officer. He was a member of the Bolshevik Party since 1905 an Old Bolshevik ref Adelman, Jonathan R. editor http books.google.com books?id iafcWxG p YC&q 22Martin Latsis 22&dq 22Martin Latsis 22&ei 7Uh SIL8L4HsiQGu44XSCA&pgis 1 Terror and Communist Politics The Role of the Secret Police in Communist States , Westview Press , 1984 ISBN 9780865312937 page 81 ref , an active participant in the Russian Revolutions of Russian Revolution 1905 1905 1907 and Russian Revolution 1917 1917 , a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee , a member of the Collegium of the All Russia Cheka 1918 1921 and Chairman of the Cheka in Ukraine 1919 , and a member of VTsIK . Between 1932 and 1937, Latsis was a director at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics . Latsis was the author of the book Dva goda borby na vnutrennom fronte Two Years of Struggle in the Internal Front , Moscow Gos. izd vo, 1920 , in which he advocated unrestrained violence against class enemies. He boasted of the harsh repressive policies used by the Cheka . ref name hrono http www.hrono.ru biograf lacis mi.html Latsis Martin Ivanovich ... Tolczyk, Dariusz http books.google.com books?id yRFaq5IHcwYC&pg PA19&dq 22Martin Latsis 22&ei 7Uh ... of the Soviet camp experience Yale University Press , 1999, p. 19. ISBN 978 0300066081 ref Latsis ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Latsis, Martin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1888 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1938 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Latsis ... sv Martin Latsis ... more details
The Latsis Foundation is a charitable foundation, founded in 1975 by the Greece Greek shipping magnate John Latsis . Amongst other prizes and symposia, it funds the European Latsis Prize and it has endowed the Lakatos Award . The foundation is based in Geneva . References http www.snf.ch E current Dossiers Latsis National Latsis Prize page at Swiss National Science Foundation website http vpaa.epfl.ch page14871.html Symposium Latsis EPFL page at cole Polytechnique F d rale de Lausanne website charity org stub Category Organizations established in 1975 Category Foundations based in Switzerland Category Organisations based in Geneva fr Latsis Greece stub ... more details
File Spiros Latsis.jpg left thumb Spiros Latsis in 2001 Dr. Spiro J. Latsis lang el born 1946 in Athens is a Greece Greek businessman with a fortune of US 9.1 billion http www.forbes.com lists 2006 10 QX6W.html . He ranked 51st on Forbes s 2006 World s Billionaires list. He is the son of the Greek shipping magnate, John Latsis , who died in 2003. The family s largest holding is its EFG Bank European Financial Group , a banking conglomerate with private banking operations in many jurisdictions. Spiro Latsis graduated with a PhD in philosophy from the London School of Economics . The Latsis family fortune, managed by Spiros Latsis, includes more than 40 in EFG Eurobank Ergasias, the Greek arm of his Swiss EFG Group and more than 30 in Hellenic Petroleum, the major petroleum player in the Balkans, through his ownership of Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S.A. . The Latsis group also controls Lamda Development, a real estate group based in Athens. Lamda Development projects include The Mall complex in Athens, which opened in 2005. Latsis invited the President of the European Commission, Jos Manuel Dur o Barroso , who had been a student friend at the London School of Economics ... aid for Latsis shipping company but the approval had been given by the previous European Commission .... ref In 2006 Mr. Latsis received an honorary doctorate from Witten Herdecke University in Witten , Germany. Economy of Greece Notes references Publications Latsis, S. Situational Determinism in Economics The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1972 23, pp.207 45 Latsis, Spiro J. Ed. Method and Appraisal in Economics Cambridge University Press 1976 ISBN 0521210763 Latsis, S.J. The role and status ... Latsis, Spiro ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Latsis, Spiro Category 1946 births Category Living people Category People from ... Greece business bio stub shipping bio stub de Spiro Latsis el it Spiro Latsis ... more details
Image Otto Lacis.jpg thumb right 200px Otto Rudolfovich Latsis lang ru 22 June 1934 3 November 2005 was a Soviet and Russia n journalist , of Latvian people Latvian descent . Journalist career After graduating from Moscow State University in 1956, Otto Latsis began working in a local newspaper, Soviet Sakhalin . His subsequent work at the newspaper The Economic Gazette , began build Latsis reputation as a prominent journalist. At the end of the Khrushchev Thaw , he worked at Izvestia , where he advocated for the loosening of censorship and sought to make the newspaper popular among the intelligentsia . His liberal views proved unpopular with authorities. Latsis was sent into a so called exile of honour , that is, to work in a place where he would not have a platform to spread his ideas. He worked in Prague for a magazine called Problems of Peace and Socialism , later at the Moscow Institute of the Economy of the World Social System. From 1987 to 1991 he returned to occupy an important position in the Soviet magazine Communist mdash in theory, a magazine intended to be a vehicle for promulgating communist propaganda , but which under Latsis spread the idea of perestroika . After 1991, he returned to work at Izvestia . In 1997, because of a conflict ... . He subsequently moved to Russkii Kurier , and lastly, to Moskovskiye Novosti . Latsis also wrote ... bombings . Death On September 10. 2005, while Otto Latsis was driving his Peugeot and turning left at a crossroad, a jeep crashed into his car at a high speed. Otto Latsis and his grandson, as well as the woman who was driving the jeep and her two children, were hospitalized for treatment. Latsis lingered ... at 5 AM MSK on November 3, 2005, in Burdenko hospital in Moscow . Opinions on Otto Latsis Otto was one ... in Moscow State University Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Latsis, Otto ... Latsis, Otto Category 1934 births Category 2005 deaths Category Communist Party of the Soviet ... more details
Image Yewbarrow.jpg thumb right 250px Yiannis en route to Yewbarrow . Yiannis Tridimas born Andros , Greece on 22 February 1945 is a renowned long distance fell runner, noted as being the first and only 60 year old to have completed an extended version of the Bob Graham Round , covering 60 peaks in under 24 hours. ref http www.bobgrahamround.co.uk statistics.htm Statistics Bot generated title ref ref http www.bobgrahamclub.org.uk index.php?page records The 24 hour club Bot generated title ref He completed the course on his third attempt, during the weekend of 6 7 August 2005, after his first attempt was curtailed by injury and the second by extreme hot weather. ref http www.bobgrahamclub.co.uk bobgrahamround.co.uk yiannis.htm Third Time Lucky for Yiannis Bot generated title ref Yiannis is among a group of a few who have completed all three major 24 hour rounds in England, Scotland and Wales Bob Graham, Ramsay and Paddy Buckley round . In addition, he completed his own 24 hour round, the Meirionnydd round in Wales, which he rates as one of his hardest challenges yet. He completed the Cuillin round in the Isle of Skye, which he rates as one of the most scenic and most challenging not ideal for those not fond of rock climbing, as it includes both the Black and the Red Cuillin. He has ... ref In 2003 Yiannis, along with team mate Ray Baines were winners in the veteran section of the Long ... title ref In 2007 Yiannis and Ray Baines completed the OMM previously KIMM elite class with an aggregate ... below Yiannis is seen with Ranulph Fiennes at the start of the 2004 Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon where ... thumb right 250px Yiannis with Ranulph Fiennes at the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon 2004 Yiannis, now a preeminent figure in the world of fell running has been a guest speaker at fell running ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tridimas, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION ..., Yiannis Category 1945 births Category Andros Category Mountain runners Category Living people ... more details
Yiannis Kouros born February 13, 1956 in Tripoli, Greece Tripoli , Greece is a Greece Greek ultramarathon runner based in Melbourne . He is sometimes called the Running God or the Pheidippides Successor . ref http sports.espn.go.com espn page2 story?page keri 080220 Are these runners ultra tough ... or ultra crazy? ref He holds every men s world record from 100 to 1,000 miles and from 24 hour run 24 hours to 10 days. In 1991, he starred as Pheidippides in the movie The Story of the Marathon A Hero s Journey , which chronicles the history of marathon running. Kouros came to prominence when he won the Spartathlon in 1984 in record time ref http www.usatoday.com sports olympics 2009 09 26 798787142 x.htm Japan s Ryoichi Sekiya wins Spartathlon race ref and the Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1985 in a record time of 5 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes and 6 seconds. He beat the previous record held by Cliff Young athlete Cliff Young . ref Potter, David 18 Apr 1985 http news.google.com.au newspapers?id a2olAAAAIBAJ&sjid K gDAAAAIBAJ&pg 4585,1022637&dq yiannis kouros&hl en Melbourne s Greeks welcome their Marathon man The Sydney Morning Herald ref Kouros has also written over 1,000 poems several of which appear in his book Symblegmata Clusters and the book The Six Day Run of the Century . World records According to the http www.iau.org.tw statistics detail.php?Id 1 International Association of Ultrarunners , as of 27 June 2005. Distance class wikitable 100 miles Road 11h 46min 37s 13.665 km h 1000 km Track 5d 16h 17min 00s 7.338 km h 1000 km Road 5d 20h 13min 40s 7.131 km h 1000 miles ... Yiannis Kouros official page Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kouros, Yiannis ... DEFAULTSORT Kouros, Yiannis Category 1956 births Category Living people Category Australian long ... Category Tripoli, Greece Greece athletics bio stub de Yiannis Kouros el fr Y nnis Ko ros hu Yiannis Kouros nl Yiannis Kouros fi Yiannis Kouros ... more details
Notability date April 2010 Football player infobox playername Yiannis Koskiniatis image fullname Yiannis Koskiniatis height dateofbirth 1983 cityofbirth countryofbirth Greece dateofdeath death date 2008 10 29 cityofdeath Profitis Ilias countryofdeath Greece position Midfielder football Midfielder youthyears youthclubs years clubs Diagoras F.C. caps goals 61 4 Yiannis Koskiniatis 1983 October 29, 2008 was a Greek people Greek Association football footballer who played for Diagoras F.C. He played 61 games and scored 4 goals for the team. Koskiniatis, who had not played all season due to a leg injury was dropped for a game against Olympiakos Volou . Koskiniatis went missing around midday, he drove his motobike to the top of a cliff. He left a suicide note at the top of the cliff saying Being left out of the squad was a great injustice. I cannot take it any more. Koskiniatis then jumped of the cliff and committed suicide. ref http www.brisbanetimes.com.au news sport dropped footballer jumps off cliff 2008 10 30 1224956183501.html Footballer cut from team jumps off cliff Brisbane Times ref Diagoaras lost the game 3 2. It is reported that the team had sent him for psychological help. ref http sports.yahoo.com sow news?slug reu europegreecesuicide&prov reuters&type lgns Greek player commits suicide after omission from squad Yahoo Sports ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Koskiniatis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1983 PLACE OF BIRTH Greece DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2008 PLACE OF DEATH Profitis Ilias , Greece DEFAULTSORT Koskiniatis, Yiannis Category 1983 births Category 2008 deaths Category Greek footballers Category Association football players who committed suicide Category Suicides by jumping from a height Category Suicides in Greece ... more details
Infobox football biography playername Yiannis Andrianopoulos image fullname dateofbirth 1900 cityofbirth flagicon GRE old Piraeus countryofbirth Greece dateofdeath death date df yes 1952 11 6 height currentclub clubnumber position Midfielder Attacking Midfielder , Forward association football Second Striker youthyears 1915 1918 youthclubs Peiraikos Syndesmos FC years 1918 1923 br 1924 br 1924 1925 br 1925 1929 clubs Peiraikos Syndesmos FC br Athletic and Football Club of Piraeus br Olympiacos Omilos Filathlon Peiraia br Olympiacos FC caps goals nationalyears 1920 nationalteam Greece flagicon GRE old nationalcaps goals manageryears 1925 1927 managerclubs Olympiacos FC pcupdate ntupdate Yiannis Andrianopoulos 1900 6 November 1952 ref http www.ekathimerini.com 4dcgi news columns 1KathiLev&xml &aspKath columns.asp&fdate 07 11 2002 ref was a Greeks Greek Association football Football Legend and one of the founding members of Greece s most successful football club, Olympiacos CFP . Club career Born in Piraeus , Greece , Yiannis began his career at the age of 18, playing for home town club Peiraikos Syndesmos FC. Here Yiannis earned his first taste of success, winning ..., as well as an Athens football Championship, Yiannis and his brothers went on to create Olympiacos .... Yiannis was the oldest of seven brothers who like him, would go on to become famous footballers in the Olympiacos ranks.As a result, Yiannis and his brothers earned Olympiacos the name Thrylos meaning Legend in Greek, a nickname which the club carries to this day. Yiannis was certainly the brother ..., from 1925 until 1927. In 1929, Yiannis retired from football, and became Olympiacos president for 3 years. International Yiannis played for the Greece national team at the 1920 Olympics. His brothers ..., Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION footballer DATE OF BIRTH 1900 PLACE OF BIRTH ..., Yiannis Category 1900 births Category 1952 deaths Category Greek footballers Category Greek ... more details
Orphan date February 2011 Yiannis Evangelidis or Evangelides Greek is a designer. He was born in Cyprus . He moved to Athens when he was 18 in which he immediately married Vasso Kourtidi in which lived in a same house as a tailor. Models that he drew by the writer Eggonopoulos. He was the first that he made the sources of Greek arts, ancient and modern, he brought a new breadth in Athenian designs. During the wartime period, he fled Greece and in 1948, he resided in London . His next stop was the United States in which otherwise he was the manufacturing of clothing that happened and artistic council in the famous designing chain Tiffany s . Bibliography Dimitris D, Lyberopoulos Greek Models 1900 2000, A Century of Creation , Athens 1999 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Evangelidis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Cyprus DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Evangelidis, Yiannis Category Living people Category Cypriot people Category Designers Category Year of birth missing living people el ... more details
BLP sources date March 2011 Yiannis Grivas also spelled Ioannis Grivas lang el born 23 02 1923 , Greece Greek judge , was the 87th Prime Minister of Greece who served as a non party interim Prime Minister. Grivas was born in Kato Tithorea, Tithorea , Phthiotis in the region of Lokris . He studied law at the University of Athens and in 1954 he became a judge. In 1979, he was appointed to the Areios Pagos Supreme Court of Greece for Civil and Criminal Cases . He became vice president of the court in 1986 and president in 1989. In 1989, when the Greek Parliament was deadlocked between the Panhellenic Socialist Movement PASOK and New Democracy Greece New Democracy parties, the Constitution requiring that the President of one of Greece s Supreme Courts be appointed interim Prime Minister, Grivas agreed to head a caretaker government to preside over fresh elections. He took office on 12 October 1989. After the elections produced another deadlocked Parliament, he resigned on 23 November 1989, in favour of Xenophon Zolotas , who formed a coalition government, in which all three Parliament parties participated. ref http news.google.com newspapers?id 2nIhAAAAIBAJ&sjid hYgFAAAAIBAJ&dq yiannis 20grivas&pg 2537 2C6478301 National Unity Gov t takes office in Greece ref Grivas retired in 1990. References Reflist s start s off s bef before Tzannis Tzannetakis s ttl title List of Prime Ministers of Greece 176th Prime Minister of Greece years 1989 s aft after Xenophon Zolotas end Heads of government of Greece Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Grivas, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Grivas, Yiannis Category 1923 births Category Living people Category People from Phthiotis Category University of Athens alumni Category Prime Ministers of Greece Greece politician stub de Ioannis ... Grivas oc Ioannis Grivas pt Io nnis Gr vas tr Yiannis Grivas yo Yiannis Grivas zh ... more details
Infobox Officeholder name Yiannis Boutaris br small small image Yiannis Boutaris Drasi.jpg office Mayor of Thessaloniki president term start January 1, 2011 term end predecessor Vasilis Papageorgopoulos successor birth date birth date and age 1942 01 06 birth place Thessaloniki , Greece death date death place party spouse children occupation Businessman profession Chemist , Oenologist alma mater University of Thessaloniki religion website footnotes Yiannis Boutaris lang el , born 6 January 1942 is a Greeks Greek businessman and politician, current mayor of Thessaloniki . He is the founder of KIR YIANNI wine company, based in Naoussa and Amyndeo. He is one of the founding members of Drasi party and Environmental Centre ARCTUROS Arcturos ecological organization. ref name drasi bio cite web title url http www.drassi.gr index.php?id 751&title CE 93 CE B9 CE AC CE BD CE BD CE B7 CF 82 20 CE 9C CF 80 CE BF CF 85 CF 84 CE AC CF 81 CE B7 CF 82 publisher Drasi accessdate 15 November 2010 language Greek language Greek ref Early life Yiannis Boutaris was born in Thessaloniki in 1942. Son of the winemaker Stelios Boutaris and Fanny Vlachos, with a vlach origin. He was educated at the Experimental elementary school of the University of Thessaloniki and then at Anatolia College . He studied chemistry at the University of Thessaloniki. ref cite web title url http protovoulia2010.gr prospective giannis boutaris publisher protovoulia2010.gr accessdate 15 November 2010 language Greek ref References reflist External links http protovoulia2010.gr Official campaign website http www.kiryianni.gr KIR YIANNI company website start box succession box before Vasilis Papageorgopoulos title Mayor of Thessaloniki years 2011&ndash after Incumbent end box DEFAULTSORT Boutaris, Yiannis ... Persondata . NAME Boutaris, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1942 01 ... more details
Infobox artist bgcolour EEDD82 name Yiannis Spyropoulos br small small image imagesize caption birthname birthdate birth date 1912 3 12 birthplace Pylos , Greece deathdate death date and age 1990 5 18 1912 3 12 deathplace Athens , Greece nationality Greek people Greek field Painting training Athens School of Fine Arts , br cole nationale sup rieure des Beaux Arts movement works patrons influenced by influenced awards First prize of the Academy of Athens modern Academy of Athens Yiannis Spyropoulos lang el March 12, 1912 May 18, 1990 was a famous Greece Greek Painting painter of the second half of the 20th century. Life and work Spyropoulos was born in Pylos of Messenia . In 1930 he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts . Eight years later the Academy of Athens modern Academy of Athens rewards Spyropoulos with the first prize and the opportunity to study in the cole nationale sup rieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. During his studies he was taught by Charles Fran ois Prosper Gu rin . See also Art in modern Greece Contemporary Greek art External links http www.spyropoulosfoundation.org Spyropoulos Foundation http www.eikastikon.gr zografiki spyropoulos.html Spyropoulos paintings http www.pinakothiki chania.gr default.aspx?process show el exhibitions past spyropoulos Municipal Art Gallery Of Chania http www.tf.auth.gr teloglion default.aspx?lang el GR&loc 1&&page 556&item 17669 Painter s folder in the Teloglion Foundation of Art Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Spyropoulos, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1912 PLACE OF BIRTH Pylos , Greece DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1990 PLACE OF DEATH Athens , Greece DEFAULTSORT Spyropoulos, Yiannis Category Greek painters Category 1912 births Category 1990 deaths Category People from Messenia Artist stub ... more details
Infobox basketball player name Demertzis, Yiannis br image 150px caption image size league A1 Ethniki Greek League height ft 6 height in 4 weight lbs team PAOK BC PAOK Thessaloniki jersey number 19 position Point Guard birth date Birth date and age 1983 7 20 birth place Greece college nationality Greeks Greek former teams Mantoulidis 1994 04 br ICBS 2004 06 br Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. Iraklis 2006 07 career start 2004 career end awards Yiannis Demertzis in Greek language Greek born July 20, 1983 in Greece is a Greece Greek professional basketball player . He is 1.93 m 6 ft 4 in tall. Club career In his pro career, Demertzis has played for Mantoulidis , ICBS basketball ICBS and Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. Iraklis . Notes reflist External links http www.esake.gr player 1629 ESAKE Profile http www.basketpedya.com player Giannis Demertzis 78256 Basketpedya Profile Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Demertzis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1983 PLACE OF BIRTH Greece DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Demertzis, Yiannis Category 1983 births Category Living people Category Greek basketball players Category Iraklis basketball players Category PAOK B.C. players Category Point guards Greece basketball bio stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 John Constantine Carras Lang el 1907 89 was a Greek shipping magnate , grandson of captain and sailing ship owner Ioannis I. Carras 1852 1927 from Kardamyla of Chios . In the late 1960s the fleet of the J. C. Carras group of companies attained its zenith, with 34 ships of an overall capacity some 640,000 dwt. During that time he was also involved in the real estate and tourist business and bought an extended area in Sithonia , Chalkidiki peninsula in northern Greece and in 1973 he started constructing a tourist resort, known as Porto Carras , which became one of the most famous holiday resorts in Greece. Yiannis Carras died in 1989. References Ioannis Theotokas, Gelina Harlaftis, Leadership in World Shipping Greek Family Firms in International Business , 2009 DEFAULTSORT Carras, Yiannis Category Year of birth missing Category 1989 deaths Category Businesspeople in shipping Category Greek businesspeople Shipping bio stub Greece business bio stub el ... more details
BLP unsourced date June 2010 Yannis Psychopedis was born in 1945 and he is one of the main Greeks Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism , an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968. The May 1968 student rebellions in France , the Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia , and the coup d tat establishing the Greek military junta of 1967 1974 were catalysts for this group. In the 1980s Psychopedis broached the subject matter of female Nudity nudes . The use of colour pencils, which create a fuzzy visual impression, became characteristic of this period of his work. At the end of the decade, Psychopedis turned his attention to pastels and oils, exploring bright contrasts of pure colour in his work Hommage a Vincent . A major touring exhibition of his works was hosted in German museums 1980 81 , while the Academy of Arts in West Berlin organised a large solo exhibition in 1981. Since 1992, Psychopedis lives and works mainly in Greece and is a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Psichopedis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Psichopedis, Yiannis Category Greek painters Category Living people ... more details
Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name Yiannis Patilis image imagesize caption birthdate 1947 birthplace Athens , Greece nationality Greece Greek Image Flag of Greece.svg 25px Country flag deathdate deathplace spouse children occupation poet genre period 1970&ndash influences influenced website Yiannis Patilis lang el b. Athens 1947 is a Greece Greek poet . He read Law and Philology at the University of Athens . He has worked as a high school professor since 1980. He co founded the literary periodical T The Tree since 1986 he has published the periodical Vagrant . He belongs to the so called Genia tou 70 , which is a literary term referring to Greece Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967 1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi . ref http www.dedalus.gr gr author.asp?id 174 Bot generated title ref Poetry The Little Guy and the Beast , 1970 , But Now Be Careful , , 1973 In Favor of Fruition , 1977 Tokens , 1980 1970 1980 Non Smoker in the Land of Smokers poems, 1970 80 , 1982 Warm Midday , 1984 The Scribe s Mirror , 1989 1970 1990 Trips in the Same City, poems, 1970 90 , 1993 External links http www.dedalus.gr gr author.asp?id 174 His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors Society Greek Notes Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Patilis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH Athens , Greece DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Patilis, Yiannis Category 1947 births Category Living people Category People from Athens Category University of Athens alumni Category Greek poets Category Modern Greek writers Category Modern Greek poets es Yannis Patilis ... more details
Infobox Football biography playername Yiannis Xipolitas image fullname Yiannakis Xipolitas dateofbirth birth date 1944 04 10 df yes cityofbirth countryofbirth Cyprus dateofdeath cityofdeath countryofdeath height position youthyears youthclubs years clubs Olympiakos Nicosia br West Sydney Berries Football Club Canterbury caps goals 0 0 br 0 0 manageryears 1977 br 1979 br 1999 2002 managerclubs West Sydney Berries Football Club Canterbury Marrickville br Sydney Olympic FC Sydney Olympic br West Sydney Berries Football Club Canterbury Marrickville nationalyears nationalteam Cyprus national football team Cyprus nationalcaps goals 2 ? Yiannakis Yiannis Xipolitas lang en John Xipolitas born 10 April 1944 in Cyprus is a Cyprus Cypriot former Association football footballer . Xipolitas represented the Cyprus national football team twice. ref name ozf1 cite web url http www.ozfootball.net ark Players X X.html title Australian Player Database X publisher ozfootball.net accessdate 2009 05 14 ref ref name rsssf1 cite web url http www.rsssf.com tables 68e full.html title European Championship 1968 Details publisher RSSSF accessdate 2009 05 14 ref ref name kypros1 cite web url http www.kypros.org Soccer national cyp nat app en.htm title Cyprus National Team Appearances publisher Kypros.org accessdate 2009 05 14 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref ref name wf1 cite web url http www.weltfussball.de spieler profil yiannakis xipolitas title Spieler Profil Yiannakis Xipolitas publisher weltfussball.de language German accessdate 2009 05 14 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Xipolitas, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1944 04 10 PLACE OF BIRTH Cyprus DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Xipolitas, Yiannis Category 1944 births Category Cypriot footballers Category Cypriot football managers Category Olympiakos Nicosia players Category Football soccer managers in Australia Category Living people Cyprus footy bio stub ... more details
Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name Yiannis Ritsos image Yiannis Ritsos in 1984.jpg imagewidth 160px birthdate birth date 1909 5 1 df y birthplace Monemvasia , Greece deathdate death date and age 1990 11 11 1909 5 1 df y deathplace Athens , Greece occupation Poet nationality Greece Greek awards awd Lenin Peace Prize 1975 Yiannis Ritsos lang el Monemvasia 1 May 1909 Athens 11 November 1990 was a Greece Greek poet and left wing activist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II . Early life Born to a well to do landowning family in the Monemvasia , Ritsos suffered great losses as a child. The early deaths of his mother and his eldest brother from tuberculosis , the commitment of his father who suffered with mental disease and the economic ruin of losing his family marked Ritsos and affected his poetry. Ritsos, himself, was confined in a sanitarium for tuberculosis from 1927 1931. ref name Wagner 2003 cite web last Wagner first Guy title Ritsos date 2003 url http www.mikis theodorakis.net ritsos e.html accessdate 2009 01 24 ref Literary start In 1931, Ritsos joined the Communist Party of Greece KKE . He maintained a working class circle of friends and published Tractor in 1934, inspired of the futurism of Vladimir Mayakovsky . In 1935, he published Pyramids these two works sought to achieve a fragile balance between faith in the future, founded on the Communist ideal, and personal despair. The landmark poem Epitaphios , published in 1936, broke with the shape of Greek traditional popular poetry and expressed in clear and simple language a message of the unity of all people. ref name Wagner 2003 Political ... ar br Yiannis Ritsos ca Iannis Ritsos da Jannis Ritsos de Giannis Ritsos el es Yannis Ritsos fr Y nnis R tsos gl Yannis Ritsos it Yiannis Ritsos la Ioannes Ritsos mk nl Yannis R tsos no Giannis Ritsos pl Janis Ritsos pt Yiannis Ritsos ru , fi Jannis ... more details
Infobox Military Person name Yiannis Pharmakis br small small born 1772 died 1821 placeofbirth Vlasti , Macedonia Greece Macedonia , Ottoman Empire placeofdeath Constantinople , Ottoman Empire image nickname birth name allegiance Greece serviceyears rank commands battles Greek War of Independence awards portrayedby Yiannis Pharmakis or Ioannis Farmakis lang el 1772 1821 , born in Vlasti , Macedonia Greece , was a Greeks Greek ref Dakin Douglas. http books.google.com books?ei szdMTOWdDJWC4Qbc9b2aDA&ct result&hl el&id aGZoAAAAMAAJ&dq 22Farmakis 22 2Bgreek 2Brevolution&q 22Farmakis and other chiefs were humiliated and tortured 2C and were then sent to Constantinople where they were put to death. Thus perished two of the great sons of the Greek nation 22 search anchor The unification of Greece, 1770 1923 . Benn, 1972, p. 39 Farmakis and other chiefs were humiliated and tortured, and were then sent to Constantinople where they were put to death. Thus perished two of the great sons of the Greek nation . ref revolutionary leader of the Greek War of Independence , active in Wallachia and Moldavia . ref cite book author Hidryma Melet n Cherson sou tou Haimou Thessalonik , Greece title Balkan Studies Biannual Publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Volumes 11 12 publisher The Institute year 1970 page 72 ref ref cite book last Sakellariou first M. V. title Macedonia, 4000 Years of Greek History and Civilization publisher Ekdotik Athenon year 1992 page 438 ref Initially a commander of the List of Wallachian rulers Princely guard in Bucharest , Pharmakis joined the Philik Etaire a movement and became an aide to Alexander Ypsilantis 1792 1828 Alexander Ypsilantis , establishing a permanent link with the non Greek Oltenia n Pandurs led by Tudor ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Pharmakis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1772 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1821 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Pharmakis, Yiannis ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Yiannis Moralis lang el , also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis 23 April 1916 &ndash 20 December 2009 was an important Greece Greek visual artist and part of the so called Generation of the 30s . Life Born in Arta, Greece , in 1916, Moralis moved to Athens with his parents in 1927. From the age of 15 he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Umbertos Argyros and Konstantinos Parthenis . In 1936 he received a grant from this school to study for a year in Rome. After this, he went to Paris to study fresco and mural work at the cole Nationale Sup rieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He also studied mosaic at the cole des Arts et M tiers . When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Moralis returned to Greece . The first exhibition of one of his works was in 1940 numerous other exhibitions followed both nationally and internationally. From 1947 Moralis taught at the Athens School of Fine Arts until his retirement in 1983. In 1949 he formed, with other artists including Nikos Hadjikyriakos Ghikas , Yannis Tsarouchis , Nikos Nikolaou , Nikos Engonopoulos and Panayiotis Tetsis , the Armos art group. This group had its first exhibition in 1950 in Athens Zappeion . Moralis died on December 20, 2009. Works Some of Moralis most famous works include Two Friends 1946 Pregnant Woman 1948 Seated Nude 1952 Erotiko 1990 . From the 1970s, he moved from the realistic depictions of the human form of his earlier works towards a geometric stylisation incorporating curves. Over the years, Moralis was also involved with creating theatrical set and costume designs for the Greek National Theatre and the Greek National Ballet illustrating poetic works by Odysseas Elytis and Giorgos Seferis and decorating architectural works such as the fa ade ... . NAME Moralis, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 23 April 1916 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 20 December 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Moralis, Yiannis Category 1916 ... more details
Yiannis Papaioannou Greek alphabet Greek 6 January 1910 in Kavala 19 May 1989 in Athens was a Greece Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era . He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and composition with Alekos Kontis at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens 1922 34 , as well as the piano and orchestration with Emilios Riadis in Thessaloniki 1928 9 . In 1949, he visited the major European music centres on a UNESCO grant and he became familiar with new compositional developments. In particular, in Paris he attended Arthur Honegger s class. Between 1951 and 1961 he taught music at an Athens high School and from 1953 he was professor of counterpoint and composition at the Hellenic Conservatory . He was the first president of both the Greek section of the ISCM 1964 75 and the Hellenic Association for Contemporary Music 1965 75 . Papaioannou was the first musician to systematically teach atonal, 12 note and serial techniques before 1970. His students include Michalis Adamis , Theodore Antoniou , Georges Aperghis , Argyris Kounadis and Dimitri Terzakis . His compositional career falls into five main phases Early Impressionist 1932 8 , National School 1939 43 , Hindemithian neo classicism combined with elements from Byzantine music 1944 1952 , 12 note period 1953 1966 and the last period 1966 1989 in which he developed an entirely personal technique. Works Stage Agnos dramatic idyll, 1937 Sklavas lytrossi Liberation of a Slave Woman choreographic tableau, 1945 Pirates ballet, 1952 Himoniatiki fantasia Winter Fantasy ballet, 1951 Antigone ballet, 1965 etc. Orchestral 5 Symphonies. 1946, 1947, 1953, 1963, 1964 Idhyllio Idyll , 1938 O koursaros The Corsair , 1939 Choreographic Prelude, 1940 3 Piano Concertos, 1940, 1952, 1989 Poiema tou dhasous Forest ... . NAME Papaioannou, Yiannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Papaioannou, Yiannis Category 1910 births Category 1989 deaths Category ... more details
Yiannis Poulakas Greek language Greek , Agios Georgios Nileias , 1863 &ndash Athens , February 1942 was a Greece Greek painting painter and probably the first Greek theatrical scene decorator. He was born into a farming family and at a young age, he visited Constantinople , the modern day Istanbul , where he became a painter. Later, he went to Athens , where he was taught oil painting of sea scenes by Konstantinos Volanakis . Around 1900, he returned to Volos , where he began teachning calligraphy and art. In 1927, he returned to Athens, where he died during the winter of 1942. Among other things, Poulakas was the first Greek who painted scene decorations for the theatre. That was done for the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus around 1895. One of his few remaining paintings can be seen in the Volos City Hall I Navmachia tou Volou sta 1827 The Naval Battle of Volos in 1827 , around 1920 . ref Vogiatzis, Fotis. O Zografos kai protos ellinas skinografos Yian. Poulakas 1863 1942 The Painter and First Greek Scene Decorator Gian. Poulakas 1863 1942 , I Vigla Edition of the Nikolas Public Museum Agios Georgios Nileias Piliou , Volume 19, June 2004, pp. 53 56. ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Poulakas Giannis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1863 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1942 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Poulakas Giannis Category 1863 births Category 1942 deaths Category People from Magnesia Category Greek painters el ... more details
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