List of Greek Americans

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

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List

Actors

Miscellaneous crew

Architects

Artists

Automotive/motorsport

Business

Chefs

Comics/cartoons

Dancers

Designers

Directors

Law

Military

Models

Musicians

Photographers

Poker Players

Politics

Federal level

State level

Local level

Science/academia

Sports

John Christopulos - most prolific high school coach in history has won over 1,500 games coaching football, basketball, baseball and tennis. Coached in Tonapah, Nevada, Salt Lake City, Utah and lastly in Sacramento, California. Coached from 1955 to 1999.

TV/journalists

Writers

Other

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Her father John Aniston was born on the island of Crete in Greece. Her mother Nancy Dow is partly Greek." (1930-present)
  2. ↑ "Her father John Aniston was born on the island of Crete in Greece. Her mother Nancy Dow is partly Greek." (1930-present)
  3. ↑ " Born on the island of Crete in Greece, Yanni Anastasakis, aka John Aniston, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. His father promptly changed the family name to Aniston."
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala". Greeknewsonline.com. 2006-05-13. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  5. ↑ "Her father, Ernest J. Carteris, was of Greek descent."
  6. ↑ "And when I saw the film recently and saw George Chakiris, this beautiful guy, Greek guy." "Chakiris, the son of Greek immigrants, opposes race based casting."
  7. ↑ Archived 2006-05-14 at the Wayback Machine. "Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate... his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born."
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "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."
  10. ↑ "Nancy Dow is Scottish, Irish, Italian and Greek."
  11. ↑ "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..."
  12. ↑ "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..."
  13. ↑ "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."
  14. ↑ "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."
  15. ↑ 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.""
  16. ↑ "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."
  17. ↑ 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.""
  18. ↑ "Andreas Katsulas, whose striking Greek visage..."
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  20. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  21. ↑ "Maharis was a Kerouac look-alike, a good looking Greek kid from Queens"
  22. ↑ Jones, Patty (2012-05-10). "The Dictator wields a comic arsenal | Vancouver, Canada". Straight.com. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  23. ↑ Papapostolou, Anastasios. "24" Greek-American Star Adoni Maropis Plans Screenplay in Crete!". Hollywood Greek Reporter. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  24. ↑ "Constantine Maroulis - NY, New York - Rock / Pop". MySpace.com. 2005-02-25. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  25. ↑ "The son of a Greek Orthodox priest (note: Orthodox priests can marry prior to ordination) and a nutritionist, Martin grew up with his brother and sister in Toms River, New Jersey. His parents co-owned a Greek diner with his grandparents and uncle. Martin, the prototypical "good Greek boy," served as an altar boy at church and bused tables at the restaurant."
  26. ↑ "The son of a Greek Orthodox priest (note: Orthodox priests can marry prior to ordination) and a nutritionist, Martin grew up with his brother and sister in Toms River, New Jersey. His parents co-owned a Greek diner with his grandparents and uncle. Martin, the prototypical "good Greek boy," served as an altar boy at church and bused tables at the restaurant."
  27. ↑ 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."
  28. ↑ "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"."
  29. ↑ "Greek-American actor George Savalas"
  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. ↑ 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.
  32. ↑ "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..."
  33. ↑ "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..."
  34. ↑ "Sigler is half-Cuban and half-Greek (Jewish)"
  35. ↑ Archived 2006-08-04 at the Wayback Machine. "A raven haired beauty who is equal parts Greek passion and English reserve"
  36. ↑ "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."
  37. ↑ "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."
  38. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-11-25. "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."
  39. ↑ Grandfather Nicholas Cachikis was born in Greece.
  40. ↑ "...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...".
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  43. ↑ "My father is a Greek from Macedonia. I don’t know his roots exactly."
  44. ↑ "Greek-American production designer Dean Tavoularis"
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  52. ↑ "To show in Milan is 'the top' according to the Greek American who decided to leave the catwalks of New York and head for those here in Milan."
  53. ↑ "To show in Milan is 'the top' according to the Greek American who decided to leave the catwalks of New York and head for those here in Milan."
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  61. ↑ Mordechai Shinefield, “Monday Music: The Face of Ladino Dream-Pop,” The Forward, May 21, 2012.
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  63. ↑ "renowned Greek opera singer whose personal life enthralled Greece in the 1950s and 1960s"
  64. ↑ "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."
  65. ↑ "Mr. Greg Dulli (he's Greek, ya know...)"
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  67. ↑ 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."
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  69. ↑ "I'm Greek and my wife and I will cook a Greek dinner for eight for the winner. That is a Greek."
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  73. ↑ "Constantine comes from a "massive" Greek American family"
  74. ↑ "Greek conductor and composer"
  75. ↑ "I’m half Irish and I’m half Greek"
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  77. ↑ "Born in Berkeley, California, to a Greek immigrant family"
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  80. ↑ "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans, adore rebetiko music."
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  83. ↑ "This website is dedicated to preserving the musical memory of the late, great, Tatiana Troyanos, Greek-American Mezzo-Soprano"
  84. ↑ "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans"
  85. ↑ "Jim Verraros: My father was born in Greece, so I am mostly Greek. My mother is German, Irish, French and English."
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