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27.THE GREEKS OF AUSTRALIA





FROM WIKIPEDIA,THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Australian


List of notable Greek Australians

Business
Mark Bouris - managing director of Wizard
Sam W. Ballas - investor/past CEO AMP (investments)
Con Constantine - chairman, Newcastle United Jets
Andrew Demetriou - chief executive, Australian Football League (he is actually Greek Cypriot)
Nick Dimas - director, Canterbury Bulldogs
Andrew N. Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Company
Nick Pappas - chairman, South Sydney Rabbitohs
Nicholas Paspaley Senior and Paspaley family (Paspalis)- Paspaley dominate the pearling industry; large property holdings in Darwin CBD and properties in Sydney
George Peponis - chairman, Canterbury Bulldogs
James Raptis OBE - chairman and founder, Raptis Group Limited, Gold Coast
James Samios - Hon. MBE Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay, Sydney
Peter Abraam - CEO, Victorian Major Events Company
Emmanuel Drizas- co-founder of the "The Coffee Club".

Sports
Stan 'The Man' Longinidis - kickboxer
Tosca Petridis - kickboxer
Evangelos Goussis - Kickboxer/boxer
Louie 'Ice' Iosifidis - kickboxer
Michael Katsidis - Boxer
Braith Anasta - Rugby League player, Sydney Roosters
John Anastasiadis - former football (soccer) player/coach
Con Boutsianis - former football (soccer) player
Dean Bouzanis - Football (soccer) player
Ang Christou - Australian rules footballer
Theodore Skafidas - former football (soccer) player
Peter Daicos - Australian rules footballer
Anthony Doumanis- Football (soccer) player
Andrew Demetriou - Australian rules football CEO
Michael Diamond - Olympic gold medallist, shooting, Sydney 2000
George Gatis - Rugby League player, New Zealand Warriors
Steve Georgallis - Rugby League player/coach
Greek Team of the Century - Australian Rules Football [1]
Jason Gillespie - Australian cricketer
Lydia Ierodiaconou - Winter Olympian
Chris Kalantzis - Football (soccer) player
Michael Korkidas - Rugby League player, Salford City Reds
Nick Kouparitsas - Rugby League player, Canterbury Bulldogs
Anthony Koutoufides - Australian rules footballer
Stan Lazaridis - Football (soccer) player, Perth Glory and Socceroos
Angelo Lekkas - Australian rules footballer
Colin Mylonas - Founder of the Greek Rugby League (GRL)
Steve Pantelidis - Football (soccer) player Melbourne Victory
Lucas Pantelis - Football (soccer) player, Adelaide United
Andy Paschalidis - Football (soccer) analyst
George Peponis - Former Australian Rugby League captain
Willie Peters - rugby league player, South Sydney Rabbitohs
Paul Pezos - Football (soccer) player, Perth Glory
Mark Philippoussis - Tennis player
Lou Richards - Australian rules footballer
Jim Serdaris- rugby league player,
John Skandalis - rugby league player, Huddersfield Giants
George Sotiropoulos - Mixed martial artist
Marcus Stergiopoulos - Football (soccer) player
Jason Stevens - rugby League player, retired
John Tambouras - Football (soccer) player, New Zealand Knights
Nick Theodorakopoulos - Football (soccer) coach
Michael Theoklitos - Football (soccer) player, Melbourne Victory
Nikolas Tsattalios - Football (soccer) player
Justin Tsoulos - rugby League player, Parramatta Eels
Michael Valkanis - Football (soccer) player, Adelaide United
Andy Vlahos - Football (soccer) player

Directors
Peter Andrikidis - director - "Underbelly"
Ana Kokkinos - director
Harry Michaels - director Aerobics Oz Style
Bill Miller (II) - director and producer
George Miller - Academy-Award winning director and producer, Mad Max, Babe, Happy Feet
Alex Proyas - director, I, Robot, Dark City, The Crow
Nadia Tass - director
John Tatoulis - director/producer
Alkinos Tsilimidos - director

Entertainment
Harry Michaels - actor (TV series: Number 96) producer (Exercise Video: Aerobics Oz Style), Sports TV Director
Alex Blias - actor
Alex Dimitriades - actor
Despina Caldis - actress
Elena Carapetis - actress
Gia Carides - actress
Zoe Carides - actress
Chantal Contouri - actress
Mary Coustas - comedian
Alex Dimitriades - actor
Dominic Elmagolou - actor
Rebekah Elmaloglou - actress, Home and Away
Sebastian Elmaloglou - actor, Home and Away
Damien Fotiou - actor
Dimitri Giameos - actor
Nick Giannopoulos - actor and director
George Kapiniaris - actor and comedian
Peter Kelamis - comedian
Nico Lathouris - actor
Nic Lepouris
Gina Riley - actress, Kath & Kim, comedian and singer
Panda Likoudis - actor
Costas Mandylor - actor
Louis Mandylor - actor
Lex Marinos - actor, director, writer and broadcaster
Ada Nicodemou - actress, Home and Away
Phaedra Nicolaidis - actress
Irini Pappas - actress
Alex Papps - actor and tv host
Thaao Penghlis - actor (Nicholas Black in TV series Mission Impossible
Sally Polihronas - Singer - Bardot
George Spartels - actor
Zoe Ventoura - actress
Helen Zerefos - actress and cabaret singer
Irene Zervos - actress

Fashion
Ioannis Cholidis, fashion designer
Arthur Galan, mens fashion designer
Melanie Katsalidis, jewellry designer
Napoleon Perdis, make-up artist
Sandra Soulos, fashion designer
George Spyrou (fashion designer), fashion designer
Lia Tsimos, fashion designer
Alex Perry, fashion Designer

Journalists
John Mangos - news presenter and journalist, Sky News Australia, Foxtel
Georgia Cassimatis - journalist, Australian Cosmopolitan magazine
George Donikian - news presenter, Ten Network
Peter Frilingos (deceased) - sports journalist with the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, and broadcaster and commentator with the Continuous Call Team.
George Hatzimanolis - journalist Neos Kosmos newspaper
Helen Kapalos - news presenter, Ten Network
Mary Kostakidis - journalist, SBS
Paul Lampathakis - journalist, The Sunday Times newspaper
George Megalogenis - author and The Australian newspaper columnist
Andy Pasquelidis - sports commentator
Peter Peters - sports broadcaster and commentator (also Manly Sea-Eagles general manager)
Anastasia Salamastrakis - journalist, Seven Network
Victoria Simos - journalist, Neos Kosmos English Edition newspaper
Andrea Stylianou - journalist, News Limited
Michael Tomalaris - SBS Sports Reporter
Maria Anastasopoulos-Tsekouras, - journalist Neos Kosmos English Edition newspaper
Peter Costafostadidis, - journalist Along The Wing sport magazine
Harry Nicolaides - incarcerated in Thailand on charges of 'lese majeste' (the crime of insulting the Thai monarchy) in his novel Verisimilitude.

Musicians
Peter Andre – singer
Ilias Arhontoulis - singer/composer/musician/designer
Alex Carapetis - drummer
Nick Drimousis – singer/composer/creator of GreekStar
Michael Fountas - singer/composer/musician
Big Haz - Chicano Rapper
Tassos Ioannides - composer/musician
Jim the Greek - musician (born Soviet Union)
Ross Kalenderidis - contemporary artist/illustrator/designer/writer
James Kannis - singer (Australian Idol)
Stelios Tsiolas - composer/musician (born in Cyprus)
Niki Vasilakis - violinist
Andy Vouli - Saxophonist
Maria Yiakoulis – singer/musician

Politics
Peter Katsambanis-Ex Politician, Victoria
Nick Bolkus - federal politician
John Comino - ex-mayor/lawyer
Michael Costa - politician, New South Wales
Jim Fouras - politician, Queensland
Steve Georganas - federal politician
Petro Georgiou - federal politician (born Kerkyra)
John Hatzistergos - Attorney General, New South Wales
Steve Kons - Deputy Premier, Tasmania
Nick Kotsiras - politician, Victoria
Tom Koutsantonis - politician, South Australia
Ken Michael, politician
Jenny Mikakos - politician, Victoria
Sophie Mirabella - federal politician
John Pandazopoulos - politician, Victoria
Nicholas Pappas - lawyer
Theo Theophanous - politician, Victoria (born Cyprus)
Arthur Sinodinos - John Howard's former Chief of Staff
Maria Vamvakinou - federal politician (born Lefkada)
Kon Vatskalis - politician, NT (born Kefallonia)
Nick Xenophon - politician, South Australia

Writers
Fotini Epanomitis
Zeny Giles
Dean Kalimniou - poet and journalist
Antigone Kefala - poet
Dina Kafiris - novelist
Mary Kalantzis - writer and academic
Angelo Loukakis - novelist
Tess Mallos
Tony Maniaty
Anastasia Mavromatis
George Megalogenis
George Papaellinas
Tom Petsinis
Pi O - performance poet
Jim Sakkas
Thalia - concrete poet
Dimitris Tsaloumas - poet
Christos Tsiolkas - novelist
Spiro Zavos

Other
Mick Adams (business man) (Joachim Tavlaidis), milk bar pioneer
Chris Moraitis, Diplomat (High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea)
Effy Alexakis, documentary photographer
John Ioannou, director of Agathon Gallery
Effie Michaels, costume designer/presenter Aerobics Oz Style
Nicholas Hogios (Psychogios), car designer
Stella Moraitis, Barrister/Member VCAT
Nonda Katsalidis, architect
Maria Karvouni, Principal of Distance Education Centre Victoria
Athanasios Comino, fish and chip shop pioneer
Minas Coroneo, Professor/Ophthalmologist
Andrew Kokinos, ex-physio, Indian cricket team
Marc Newson, designer
Christos Pantelis, psychiatrist
Denis Poulos, founding director Sydney Fish Market
Andrew Kimonides, Numismatist
Tony Rafty, caricaturist
Stelarc, artist
Archbishop Stylianos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia
Nikki Theofilos, graphic designer
Freda Miriklis, Stockbroker, Professional Speaker, Winner Australian Young Business and Professional Women, 1998 - 2000
Andrew Veniamin - slain underworld figure

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ACTORS,DIRECTORS,TV PERSONAS-part (F)

GREEK AUSTRALIAN ACTORS & DIRECTORS.


[glow=red,2,300](Miliotis) Miller[/glow]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Miller_(producer)


Dr George (Miliotis) Miller (born March 3, 1945) is an Academy-Award winning Australian film and television screenwriter, director and producer. He is probably most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet.


George Miliotis was born in Chinchilla, Queensland, to Greek immigrant parents: Dimitri (Jim) Castrisios Miliotis, from Kythera, and Evangelia (Angela) Balloyoulo. The Balloyoulo family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor, while Dimitri was from the Greek island of Kythera and he anglicised his surname to Miller when he emigrated to Australia.[1] The couple married and settled in Chinchilla and had four sons. The first two, non-identical twins were George and John, and later, Chris and Bill (Vassilli).

George served as an altar boy at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George, Rose Bay, New South Wales. He attended Sydney Boys High School, then studied medicine at the University of New South Wales with his twin brother John. While in his final year at med school (1971), George and his younger brother Chris made a one minute short film, that won them first prize in a student competition.[2] In 1971, George attended a Film Workshop at Melbourne University where he met fellow student, Byron Kennedy. In 1972, Miller completed his residency at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, spending his time-off crewing on short experimental films. Miller formed an irrepressible bond with fellow film fanatic Byron Kennedy. The pair collaborated on numerous works after that.

Miller wrote and directed the Mad Max movies starring Mel Gibson (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome); co-wrote Babe and wrote and directed its sequel; and co-wrote (with Nick Enright) and directed Lorenzo's Oil. He also directed The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer.

With Phillip Noyce, Miller co-produced and co-directed two acclaimed miniseries for Australian television: The Dismissal (1983) and The Cowra Breakout (1984).



[glow=red,2,300]Alex Proyas[/glow]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Proyas

Proyas was born to Greek parents in Egypt and moved to Sydney, Australia when he was 3 years of age.[1] At seventeen he went to film school and began directing music videos.[1] He moved to Los Angeles in the United States to further his career, working on MTV music videos and commercials.[1]


[edit] Career
Proyas' first feature film was the independent science fiction thriller Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds. This was nominated for two Australian Film Institute awards in 1988, for costume design and production design.[2] Next, Proyas directed the 1994 fantasy thriller The Crow starring Brandon Lee. Lee was killed in an accident during filming, only eight days before the completion of the film in March 1993. After Lee's death, Proyas and his producers decided to complete the film, partially rewriting the script, and using a stunt double and special effects to film the remaining scenes.[3] The Crow was released in May 1994 and was a box office and critical success.[4]

Proyas then wrote and directed and produced the 1998 science fiction thriller Dark City, which had disappointing box office results despite winning several awards,[5] but has since gained a strong cult following.[citation needed] In 2004, he directed I, Robot, a science fiction film suggested by[6] the Isaac Asimov short story compilation I, Robot that starred Will Smith. It was a box office success, but met with mixed reactions by readers and fans of the Asimov stories.[citation needed]

Proyas' next film will be thriller Knowing starring Nicolas Cage. It is due to begin production in Melbourne in March 2008.[7]


[edit] Awards
At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Proyas was nominated for a Golden Palm award for his short film, Book of Dreams: 'Welcome to Crateland'. For Dark City, he was nominated for several awards and won the Silver Scream Award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, the Bram Stoker Award, the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and the Pegasus Audience Award at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.[8]


[edit] Filmography

[edit] Short Films
Neon (1980)
Groping (1980)
Strange Residues (1981)
Spineless (1987)
Book of Dreams: Welcome to Crateland (1994, short)

[edit] Feature Films
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989)
The Crow (1994)
Dark City (1998)
Garage Days (2002)
I, Robot (2004)
Knowing (2009)

[edit] Music Videos
"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House (1987)
Songlines (1989)
The Best of Sting: Fields of Gold 1984-1994 (1994)
I'm Only Looking: The Best of INXS (2004)




[glow=red,2,300]Nick Giannopoulos[/glow]



www.imdb.com/name/nm0316318/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Giannopoulos




[glow=red,2,300]Costas Mandylor[/glow]


Costas Mandylor (born on 3 September 1965 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actor of Greek descent. His most famous role was as Kenny Lacos on the TV series Picket Fences which ran from 1992–1996. He was married to American actress Talisa Soto in 1997 but they divorced in 2000. His brother is actor Louis Mandylor.

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Selected filmography
7th Heaven (2005-2006)
The Game of Their Lives (2005) (uncredited)
DinoCroc (2004)
The Pledge (2001)
Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (199 (TV)
Players (1997) (TV series)
Delta of Venus (1996)
Virtuosity (1995)
Picket Fences (1992) (TV series)
Soapdish (1991)
The Doors (1991)
Mobsters (1991)





[glow=red,2,300]Louis Mandylor[/glow]


Louis Mandylor (September 13, 1966 in Melbourne) is a Greek Australian film and television actor. He is the brother of fellow actor Costas Mandylor.

Louis has enjoyed success in USA television shows, such as a promminent guest appearance on Relic Hunter with Tia Carrere. Louis is probably most famous for his role in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Other major roles include playing Louis Malone in Martial Law (TV series) alongside Sammo Hung. However, the show only lasted two series, with Mandylor being dropped at the end of its first run.

Mandylor appeared in the sitcom Friends, pretending to be Joey's twin in The One With Unagi.




[glow=red,2,300]Vasili Kanidiadis[/glow]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kanidiadis


Vasili Kanidiadis is a Greek-Australian television personality, best known as the host of the Channel 31 gardening show, Vasili's Garden.

Kanidiadis grew up in Coburg in Melbourne's north. He began broadcasting on Greek radio station 3XY for 7 years before moving to Channel 31. He has studied structural engineering, classical piano and horticulture.

He is the owner and operator of Munro Street Nursery in Coburg.



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili's_Garden

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AUSTRALIAN GREEKS IN BUSINESS

Mark Bouris



From Wikipedia

Mark Bouris is an Australia businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's largest non-bank mortgage lender.

Wizard Home Loans was founded by Mark Bouris in 1996 [1] and was sold to GE Money in 2004 for $500 million. [2] Mark is a dynamic businessman who became recognisable after fronting a number of marketing campaigns for the company, including television commercials.

Mark came from humble beginnings and credits his parents George and Marsha Bouris with instilling in him the discipline and values that would propel him from the working-class Sydney suburb of Punchbowl to the boardroom of one of the world's largest companies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bouris


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Nick Pappas


From Wikipedia

Nicholas Pappas is a solicitor from Sydney, Australia, and also the current chairman[1] of the board for the South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby league club.

Pappas' most significant involvement with the Rabbitohs prior to being chairman was his heading of the legal battle to keep the club in the National Rugby League (NRL). Once this was achieved, Pappas shortly replaced chairman George Piggins. In 2006 Pappas supported the takeover of the club by Russell Crowe and Peter Holmes a Court.

Pappas is also principal, Nicholas G Pappas & Company Lawyers[2]; Member, Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia; Chairman, Laiki Bank (Australia) Ltd; President, Powerhouse Museum Australia; Member, Council of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Board Member of the Steve Waugh Foundation.

Pappas has also written several books about the history of his parent's homeland, Castellorizo in Greece.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Pappas


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Nicholas Paspaley Senior

From Wikipedia

History

Paspaley is the largest pearling company in Australia[citation needed]. It started operations in the 1930s and is based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It has about 20 farms, situated between Dampier, Western Australia and the Cobourg Peninsula east of Darwin.

Nicholas Paspaley Senior MBE (1913–1984) fled the Greek island of Castellorizo with his family during World War I. His father, Theodosis Paspalis brought his family to Australia in 1919 and decided to settle at their ship's first port of call, Cossack on the Indian Ocean coast of Western Australia.

The Paspalis family were among a few Europeans living in the area with the traditional Aboriginal inhabitants and Asian pearl fishermen. Pearling was one of the few viable industries in the area, and although Theodosis died in 1924, his sons Michael and Nicholas and his daughter Mary continued their father's interest in pearling. Nicholas learnt the trade at 14 years of age and by 1932, he was at the helm of his own pearling lugger, diving for shell that fulfilled most of the global demand for button making. Michael Paspalis worked as a pearl lugger for many years in Port Hedland. The Paspalis family realised that Port Hedland was becoming less profitable since all the pearl fields in the region had been exhausted and decided to move further north to Broome, where they established their business. Nicholas Paspalis changed the family name to Paspaley.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Paspaley_Senior

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GREEK AUSTRALIANS IN SPORTS


Stan Longinidis



From Wikipedia

Stan "The Man" Longinidis (born June 25, 1965) is a retired Australian kickboxer and 8 time World Champion of kickboxing. He was born in Australia of Greek parentage.

Stan is one of the few fighters to have won World titles in three different styles, International Rules

Biography & Career

Longinidis was honoured in France at a martial arts expo in 2000, awarded a lifetime achievement award recognising his major influential impact on the early days of the sport, and his status as one of the most famous names in the history of kick boxing.

Beginning his career in 1983, Stan the Man won two amateur titles before challenging for the World Light Heavyweight Title in 1987, a contest ending in a draw. After being approached by scouts from the Jet Centre in Van Nuys, California, Stan quit his day job and traveled to live and train in the USA where he became a cult favorite amongst local celebrities and kickboxing fans. He racked up 18 straight wins in the USA and won the North American and USA Heavyweight Titles as well as the Australian professional title.

His fame at home grew to huge proportions, a feat no local kickboxer had achieved, with Stan appearing on local talk shows and newspapers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Longinidis


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Tosca Petridis

From Wikipedia

Tosca Petridis (born Tasis Petridis) is a former Kickboxer and Boxer. He was born in Australia, however is of Greek ethnicity. He lives in Melbourne.

Tosca is a former 7 World Kickboxing champion and former Australian boxing Cruiserweight champion. He has also competed in one MMA match in 2004 where he defeated Peter Jones.

Tosca in 1993, also competed in the K-2 tournament, beating 1991 World Karate Cup champion Toshiyuki Atokawa in the quarter finals by unanimous points decision, before losing on a close points decision in the semi-final to Muay Thai legend, Changpuek Kiatsongrit.

Tosca is regarded[by whom?] as being one of the greatest kickboxers ever in Australia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca_Petridis


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Ang Christou

From Wikipedia

Ang Christou (born 16 January 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Football career

Christou played for the Carlton Football Club and along with Anthony Koutoufides was a popular figure as a Greek Australian.

In 2001, Christou had a solid pre-season, but missed the first month of the AFL season due to a knee injury. After his return in Round 7, Christou was noted for his penetrating kicks from defence. However, he was dropped after Round 17 playing only 13 games for the season, including a recall for the finals series of 2001 (receiving limited game time).

Christou will always be remembered for his thumping left foot kick, upwards of 60-65 metres. Whenever taking a kick, short or long, a chant from the Carlton crowd of "WOOF!" would always be heard.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Christou


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Michael Diamond (sport shooter)

From Wikipedia

Michael Constantine Diamond, OAM (born May 20, 1972 in Sydney) is a professional target shooter from Australia. Mastering the shotgun, Diamond succeeded in winning the Olympic gold medal for trap both in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000). He also holds the world record in double trap, and held the final world record in trap between 2007 and 2008. Diamond is of Greek heritage.

He won the trap event at the 2007 World Shotgun Championships.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Diamond_(sport_shooter)


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George Sotiropoulos

From Wikipedia


George Sotiropoulos (born 9 July 1977 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian professional mixed martial artist of Greek background. He was a fighter on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra, fighting on Team Serra.[1]. He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, awarded by John Will[2].

The Ultimate Fighter

Sotiropoulos defeated Jared Rollins in the first round of the competition by KO. He went on to defeat Richie Hightower in the quarterfinals via submission due to a kimura. Sotiropoulos was then defeated by Tommy Speer in the semi-finals by knockout, shortly after an accidental thumb to the eye.

Sotiropoulos defeated Billy Miles at The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra Finale via submission (rear naked choke) at 1:36 of round 1.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sotiropoulos



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Andy Vlahos

From Wikipedia

Andrew Vlahos (born 20 April 1976) is an Australian football (soccer) player with Greek heritage.

Whilst enjoying previous success in the Belgian Jupiler League with Cercle Brugge, Vlahos decided to return home, to play for Melbourne Victory in the inaugural season of the A-League. After returning to Heidelberg United in the Victorian Premier League he now plays for Hume City.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Vlahos


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Stan Lazaridis

From Wikipedia

Stanley "Stan" Lazaridis (born August 16, 1972 in Perth, Australia), is an Australian former football (soccer) player of Greek descent. He was predominantly a left winger though he had been known to perform at left-back. He last played for his home-town club, Perth Glory and made 58 official appearances for Australia and was called up to the Australian 2006 FIFA World Cup squad though he never played in Germany.

Club career

His reputation as a young left-footed teenager began with Olympic Kingsway where, despite his age, he intimidated many a defender with his extraordinary change of pace.[4]

Lazaridis made his senior debut for West Adelaide Hellas in the Australian National Soccer League in the 1992 season. His dashing runs and lightning pace drew much attentions on the Australian scene. At the end of the 1995 season he got his big move to Europe when Harry Redknapp paid £300,000 to sign him for Premier League side West Ham United. A poor debut and consistent injury problems made his debut season at West Ham difficult.

Over four seasons, Lazaridis, played just 87 games for West Ham United leading to him dropping down a division to sign for Birmingham City in the Summer of 1999. Settling much better at St. Andrews, he played an important role in guiding the team up to the Premiership for 2002/03.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lazaridis

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GREEK AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS.


John Mangos - Journalist.



From Wikipedia

John Mangos is an Australian newsreader for Sky News Australia. He is also a host on talk back radio station 2UE and a regular on Sunrise on the Seven Network. He has also made cameo appearances on the Australian comedy programs Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers.

Mangos began his career as a journalist for National Nine News and during his 14 years there covered State and Federal politics before becoming the United States correspondent. In 1989, he joined Graham Kennedy on his late night news and current affairs program Coast to Coast, replacing Ken Sutcliffe. [1]

Mangos has also been a newsreader for Eyewitness News on the Ten Network, an international reporter for The Midday Show and the host of his own daytime chat show At Home with John Mangos on the Seven Network for two years.

Mangos has been a newsreader on Sky News Australia since its launch in 1996. In 2008, he became a contestant on It Takes Two, a variety show that teams celebrities with professional singers, who each week compete against each other in a sing-off to impress a panel of judges and ultimately the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination.

Mangos lives in Sydney, where he runs his own media consultancy, Megisti Media, which was named after the Greek island of his family's origin, Kastellorizo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mangos


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Mary Kostakidis - Journalist.



From Wikipedia

Mary Kostakidis (born 1954) was an Australian newsreader for the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). She was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and migrated to Australia with her family two years later.

Kostakidis attended Fort Street Girls' High School, and the University of Sydney, where she studied Modern Greek, Philosophy, French, German and Italian. She was also a founding member and first President of the University's Greek Society. She went on to complete a Diploma of Education in order to prepare for a career as a teacher. Kostakidis won a post-graduate scholarship to study at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Before joining SBS Kostakidis worked as a tutor at the University of Sydney, as a research officer for the Departments of Health and Young and Community Services in New South Wales and as a Court interpreter. She once worked for ABC Radio news.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kostakidis


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Peter Peters (Panoutas Peterides) - Journalist

From Wikipedia

Peter Peters (b. Panoutas Peterides) was a first grade rugby league player for Parramatta Eels (1967-68) and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 1969 to 1974, playing in the 1972 and 1973 premiership winning teams, Later he became a football commentator on radio station 2GB before moving to 2KY, forming a partnership with former referee Greg Hartley, which became popularly known as 'Hollywood and Zorba'.[1] Peters was nicknamed 'Zorba' for his Greek ancestry.[2] He was also a panelist on Controversy Corner, hosted by Rex Mossop in the late 1970s.[1]

He later became Media Manager at Manly and started a dairy produce company - Pauls.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Peters


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Dean Kalimniou - Poet and journalist

From Wikipedia

Dean Kalimniou (also known as Konstantinos Kalymnios) (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καλυμνιός) is an Australian lawyer, writer and journalist of Greek descent. Dean Kalimniou was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1977. He studied law and arts, majoring in Modern Greek studies.

As spokesperson for the Panepirotic Federation of Australia, he has consistently raised awareness of the plight of the Northern Epirot Greek minority in Southern Albania, traveling to Albania on many occasions to research the plight of the Northern Epirots. As a journalist, Dean Kalimniou is popular within the Greek community of Australia through his incisive column in the Melbourne Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos (New World) entitled Diatribe, which has been running since 2001.

Dean Kalimniou is also a well known poet and short story writer within the Greek community. His short stories have won the annual Greek-Australian Cultural League awards every year since 1998. His three published poetry collections "Kipos Esokleistos" (Garden Enclosed) (2003, "Alexipyrina" (Flameproof) (2004)and "Apteros Niki" (Wingless Victory) (2008) are highly regarded both in Greece and Australia. Alexipyrina was awarded the Angelidis Institute Prize in 2004.

Dean Kalimniou has also translated the following works of prominent Greek-Australian authors from Greek into English:

Faye Mangos "A Cry of the Heart" (2004), Nikos Vournazos: "Dancing Solo"(2005), Vakina Panagiotidou: "Curtain Calls" (2008)

In November 2007, Dean Kalimniou was awarded the Government of Victoria Award for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs by the Governor of Victoria, Professor de Kretzer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kalimniou


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Mary Kalantzis - Writer and academic.

From Wikipedia

Professor Mary Kalantzis (Born 1949) is an Australian author and academic, who is the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University. She has a deep interest in the development and history of multi-culturalism and the impact it has had on Australian society.

Biography

Mary Kalantzis was born in a village in the Peloponnese, Greece and migrated to Australia with her family in 1953. She was the eldest of three children, to Nicholas and Diamondo. htm In 1982 she was the recipient of a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award and in 1990-91 she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. She has since held appointments as Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at James Cook University of North Queensland, Director of the Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. She has been a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, as advisor to the Queensland Premier on all matters relating to multiculturalism.

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Angelo Loukakis - Novelist.

From Wikipedia

Angelo Loukakis is an Australian author. He was born in Australia and has worked as a teacher, editor, publisher and scriptwriter. Angelo Loukakis is the author of three novels: For the Patriarch, Vernacular Dreams and Messenger, as well as non-fiction work such as a children's book on Greeks in Australia, a book on ancestry based on the Australian version of the television series Who Do You Think You Are? and a travel book on Norfolk Island.

Angelo’s parents came from the island of Crete, Greece and his novel, The Memory of Tides, honours their generation. His novel For the Patriarch received a prize in the 1981 NSW Premier's Awards and was set on the NSW HSC syllabus between 1986 and 2001.

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Tess Mallos - Writer, journalist, author, and commentator.

From Wikipedia

Tess Mallos (nee, Anastasia Calopades) is an Australian food and cooking, writer, journalist, author, and commentator. She has written a number of books on Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine.

Biography

Her parents, both from the Greek island of Kythera, emigrated to Australia where she was born and raised in the country town of Casino, New South Wales. Her father, Andonis Calopades arrived in Australia at the turn of the 20th century as an 11 year old, and worked in the famous Kominos cafe in the central business district of Sydney. In 1919, he moved to Casino, where he ran the Marble Bar Cafe. Her mother was Calliope Manolliaras. [1]

Tess began her writing career in cooking as a freelance food consultant in advertising, creating and writing recipes for a wide range of food as well as preparing food for photography. Her first book in 1976 was the Greek Cook Book, which featured familiar recipes from her Greek heritage. Many books followed featuring recipes gathered from cuisines in the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa.

Tess worked as Food Consultant to the Australian Meat Board, where she has written editorials on meat cooking for some 80 publications throughout Australia, and 20 overseas countries. She has also demonstrated her recipes in cooking segments on a number of Australian television cooking shows.

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Thalia - (poet)

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thalia (born 1952) is a contemporary Greek-Australian poet.

thalia was born in Katerini, Greece and came to Melbourne, Australia with her family in 1952. In her youth she worked in 'sly grog' cafes and later as a secretary. It was in this capacity that she first encountered the Pitman Shorthand for dictation which she uses as the building blocks of a unique style of concrete poetry. This involves using iconic aspects of shorthand characters to produce poems having both pictorial and verbal references to their subjects. Also including the more common type of page poetry, her work addresses issues of oppression and social justice from a marginalised perspective. She record a CD of her spoken poetry and was instrumental in the workers poetry magazine 925 which grew out of a poetry reading she organised.

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Steve Georganas - Federal politician

From Wikipedia



Steve Georganas (13 June 1959–), Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party, was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Hindmarsh, South Australia for the at the 2004 federal election replacing the retiring incumbent, Christine Gallus of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Georganas was born in Adelaide of Greek parents. He gained a Business Studies Certificate at a TAFE college and worked as an underwriter and in financial services.

Georganas has been involved in numerous community organizations, including as president of his local lions club, and as a board member of the Adelaide Greek Festival "Glendi"[1]. In his maiden speech to the Australian Parliament Steve Georganas summed up what he felt where the major issues the people of Hindmarsh where concerned about: "[the people of Hindmarsh] tell me that they need affordable health care and dental care, they need education for their children and a safe and clean environment for the future"

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Petro Georgiou - Federal politician

From Wikipedia

Petro Georgiou (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 1994, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.

Early life

Georgiou was born in Kerkyra, Greece, and was educated at Melbourne University. He was a senior tutor in politics at La Trobe University 1970-73, Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser 1975-79, Secretary of the Ethnic Television Review Panel 1979-80, Director of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1980-85, Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Peacock, 1985, Director of the Victorian Liberal Policy Unit 1985-89 and State Director of the Victorian Liberal Party 1989-94.

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Maria Vamvakinou - Federal politician

From Wikipedia

Maria Vamvakinou (born 4 April 1959, Lefkada, Greece), is an Australian politician. She has been member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Calwell, Victoria for the Australian Labor Party. She is a member of its Socialist Left faction.

A high school teacher before entering politics, Vamvakinou is the first Greek-born woman to be elected to parliament in Australia, having emigrated to Australia with her parents when she was four years old. She obtained a BA in Modern Greek and Political Science at the University of Melbourne.

Vamvakinou was an advisor and electorate officer to several Labor politicians including Joan Kirner, and a member of Northcote City Council 1990-92.

She is married to Dr Michalis S. Michael, an academic from La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue.

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Steve Kons - Deputy Premier, Tasmania

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Steven Kons (born 17 September 1962, Melbourne) is an Australian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon. He had previously held senior positions within the Government of Tasmania including Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Workplace Relations and Minister for Planning.

Kons was born to Greek immigrants who worked in heavy manual employment to help educate him at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne. After the family moved to operate a Devonport business, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Tasmania before returning to Melbourne to practice mainly in the corporate sector.

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Tom Koutsantonis - Politician, South Australia

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Tom Koutsantonis (born 1971) is a South Australian politician and a member of the Australian Labor Party, representing the seat of West Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly. He is the current Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister for Gambling, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the current Rann cabinet.

Koutsantonis, a Greek-Australian, was born in Adelaide and attended Netley Primary School and Adelaide High School. As a student at the University of Adelaide he became involved in Australian Young Labor, drove taxis and went on to run a small business before becoming an industrial officer for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association.

Koutsantonis was elected to the seat of Peake (now West Torrens) at the 1997 election on a margin of 4.5 per cent, then by 8.6 per cent at the 2002 election, and by 18.3 per cent at the 2006 election, after which Koutsantonis was elevated to the chairmanship of the economic and advisory committee. In 2009, he was elevated to cabinet.

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Theo Theophanous - Politician, Victoria

From Wikipedia

heo Charles Theophanous (born 16 June 1948 in Paphos, Cyprus) is an Australian politician, currently serving in the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Northern Metropolitan Region.

Before the reforms to the Legislative Council that introduced proportional representation, Theophanous served from 1988 to 2006 as one of the two members for Jika Jika[1] and served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council from 1993 until 1999.

Despite his experience, Theophanous did not enter cabinet with the election of the Bracks government in 1999[2]. This did not occur until after the 2002 election when he was given the Energy Industries and Resources portfolios.

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Kon Vatskalis - politician, NT (Northern territory)

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Konstantine "Kon" Vatskalis is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since September 2001, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Casuarina. He is the current Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Defence Support, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Essential Services.

Vatskalis was born in Greece, and studied public sector management and health surveying in Athens. He became involved in student politics while there, becoming a student representative at the Athens Higher Vocational School and taking part in the 1970s pro-democracy protests, where he witnessed people being arrested for speaking freely. He married an Australian woman, Linda Cotton in 1982, and in 1983, they immigrated to Western Australia. Once they had arrived in Perth, Vatskalis found that his Greek degrees were not recognised, and was forced to start again, beginning a degree in environmental health at Curtin University, where he also joined the Australian Labor Party. After graduating in 1985, he worked as an environmental health officer and surveyor in the rural Western Australian towns of Port Hedland and Wanneroo from 1986 to 1993. This period was also marked by personal tragedy, however; his wife died in 1988. In 1992, not long before leaving Western Australia, Vatskalis completed another degree, this time in environmental science from Murdoch University.

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Peter André - Singer



From Wikipedia

Peter James André (born 27 February 1973) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter and television personality. He currently produces music in the genres of pop, R&B and reggae. He was born in Harrow, London, England, but was raised in Australia, and is of Greek Cypriot descent. He is married to glamour model Katie Price.

Peter André was discovered on the Australian TV talent show New Faces in 1990. Australian music guru and Melodian Records boss Molly Meldrum was one of the judges on the show and signed André up after seeing him do a Bobby Brown impression. In 1992, the debut single "Gimme Little Sign" was released, eventually peaking at #3 and lasting 31 weeks on the official ARIA Charts. In 1993, a self-titled album charted well in Australia, while the singles "Funky Junky" and "Let's Get It On/Do You Wanna Dance?" reached the Australian Top 20, and "To The Top" provided an additional Top 50 performance. In 1993, "Gimme Little Sign" picked up an ARIA Award as the highest selling single of the year.

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James Kannis - Singer

From Wikipedia

James Jay Kannis (born 5 November 1985) is a singer from Australia who was well known for participating in the reality television show Australian Idol. Kannis was placed in seventh position, eliminated on 17 October 2005.

Kannis auditioned for Australian Idol in Sydney singing a song he composed with his father, producer Sammy K, "A Dollar Away". The three judges responded with positive comments, Marcia Hines stating that she thought Kannis has "got a really good future in this industry".

During his Top 30 performance, he performed "Change the World" by Babyface, and although the judges provided positive feedback, he did not reach the Top 12. He returned to perform in the "Wildcard" round singing "Drift Away", and became the "Judges Choice" and the first "Wildcard" to be put through to the Final 12.

James Kannis is currently signed with ZEUS Records/SHOCK. His debut album Angels on a Hot Tin Roof, which takes inspiration from many genres of music including hip-hop, orchestral and dance, was Produced in Australia by Sammy K and Mastered in New York by world renowned Tom Coyne (Destiny's Child, Pink) is due for release in early 2007. His debut single "Love 2 Love" which was released on 11 November 2006 peaked at #22 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart and #35 in the "Weighted" ARIA Singles Chart, making him the only true independent Australian artist in the Aria Top 40 on 4 December. On 2 April 2007, "Love 2 Love" re-entered the ARIA Chart at #35 and ARIA Physical Singles Chart at #17 after Kannis' appearance at a Greek Music Festival in Australia during March 2007. This was 3.5 months after the song left the Australian Chart in the first place. "Love 2 Love" also topped the Australian Indie charts. Kannis' second single is also due out just prior to the release of the album Angels on a Hot Tin Roof.

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Maria Yiakoulis - Singer/musician

From Wikipedia

Maria Yiakoulis (Greek: Μαρία Γιακούλη) was born on August 1974 in Sydney Australia. Maria's musical influences are many, but none stronger than the music of her parent's homeland. Coming from a family with a background in music and dance, there is an on going connection with the sounds and tempos of Greece.

Today, Maria has been developing a sound which identifies her generation. This fusion of Australian society and Greek traditions culminate in music and lyric, reaching out to all cultures that have influenced Australia. Maria's musical interests began with the violin and progressed in the classical influences, peaking as a classically trained flautist. Shortly thereafter she expanded her musical horizons and moved to the not so structured world of jazz and blues. Her appetite for expression furthered her exploration through various forms of world and ethnic music, bringing her full circle to the sounds of her parent's homeland, melodies and modes etched deeply into the soul of the Mediterranean.

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Napoleon Perdis - Make-up artist

From Wikipedia

Napoleon Perdis (born 19 March 1970) is an Australian makeup artist and businessman.

Napoleon Perdis created a line of cosmetic products which he sold through his own concept store in the trendy Sydney suburb of Paddington in 1995 and later through major department stores. When the company celebrated 10 years in the industry (in 2005) his name was firmly established; by 2007 the "empire" operated 59 concept stores across Australia and New Zealand and sold its cosmetics from a total of 800 locations

Biography

Napoleon's parents were Greek immigrants, who settled in Sydney's western suburbs. They were also hard-working business people who once owned a popular cafe on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Liverpool Street, in the Sydney CBD. Napoleon's family lived in the Sydney suburbs of Sutherland, Strathfield and Parramatta. He went to school at Arthur Phillip High School and later at the Redeemer Baptist School. He completed a Bachelor of Arts at Macquarie University, where he met his wife Soula-Marie. They married in 1991 and have four daughters, which include triplets. [4] He worked as a barrister's assistant and his wife was an actuary. He worked as a make-up artist for brides on weekends and in 1992 opened his own make-up studio in a small shop in Leichhardt. In 1993, he won a make-up competition at a beauty expo with a look that was inspired by Cher. He won a trip to Los Angeles, where he met Cher's make-up artist and agreed to become the Australian distributor for his 'Taut' make-up products. Napoleon sold the make-up to brides and through his studio and hair salons. He sold the business when he launched his own make-up products under the Napoleon Perdis name two years later.

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Alex Perry - Fashion Designer

From Wikipedia

Alex Perry is an Australian fashion designer, particularly noted for his designs in womenswear After graduating from East Sydney Technical College in 1984, Perry worked as a model agent representing Australian models for international modelling agencies. In 1992 Perry opened his first atelier creating gowns, corsets and sheaths. Vogue Australia photographed these gowns that became the Alex Perry trademark signature in his first editorial shoot.

Perry relocated his salon in 1994 to Double Bay, Sydney where he built up his clientele to include high profile celebrities, social identities and personalities. Alex Perry was a designer at the inaugural Mercedes Australian Fashion Week held in May 1995, and has shown collections each year. Perry’s runway shows have featured supermodels such as Linda Evangelista, Megan Gale, Miranda Kerr, Kate Fischer, Alyssa Sutherland, Nicole Trunfio and Lily Cole.

Perry launched his first “ready to wear” collection in 1998. Alex Perry Couture signatures of the ready-to-wear collection are boned corsetry, hand ruching and sexy, feminine silhouettes. In May 2002, Perry launched his Sydney salon at The Strand Arcade. Alex Perry's debut accessories collection was launched in 2006 and features stilettos, jewelled clutch handbags and bijoux earrings for evening and bridal.

International models Elle Macpherson, Linda Evangelista and Claudia Schiffer have donned his designer ball gowns and red carpet eveningwear . Jennifer Lopez and Nelly Furtado both chose to perform on stage and walked the red carpet in Alex Perry gowns. His designs have also been modelled by Jennifer Hawkins former Miss Australia and Miss Universe and now television presenter on The Great Outdoors and have been worn by Sonia Kruger on the celebrity reality show Dancing With The Stars.

Biography

Perry is the middle son of three boys of Greek immigrant parents, who ran a hamburger shop in suburban Sydney. His wife Mary is a former fashion model from Greece. [2] Also prominent in media circles is Alex's brother Lee, Australia's most successful voiceover artist, who appears in the Hollywood film 'Happy Feet'.

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Melanie Katsalidis - Jewellry designer

From Wikipedia

Melanie Katsalidis is an Australian jewellery designer. Katsalidis is based in Melbourne and is one of the artists who has a studio at the Pieces of Eight gallery and artist workshop.

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I  (Vartholomaeos)








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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (born 29 February 1940) is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch,and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991. He is thus the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world.

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USN Admiral James G. Stavridis


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Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN has been selected as the prospective NATO Supreme Allied Commander / European Command (SACEUR) and is the current Commander, United States Southern Command. He is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a native of south Florida. He has been recommended to be the next Supreme Allied Commander Europe, to replace General Bantz J. Craddock when the latter retires.[1]

A Surface Warfare Officer, he has served at sea in carriers, cruisers, and destroyers.

Stavridis commanded destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) from 1993-1995, completing deployments to Haiti, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. Barry won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet under his command.

In 1998, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 21 and deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1998, winning the Navy League’s John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership.

From 2002-2004, Stavridis commanded Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, conducting combat operations in the Persian Gulf in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Afterwards, VADM Savridis served as senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. In October 19, 2006 he became the first Navy Commanding Officer of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami, FL.

Ashore, he served as a strategic and long range planner on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the start of the "Global War on Terror," he was selected as the Director of the Navy Operations Group, Deep Blue. He has also served as the executive assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

Stavridis earned a PhD and MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in International Relations in 1984, where he won the Gullion Prize as outstanding student. He is also a 1992 distinguished graduate of the National War College. He frequently publishes his thoughts, opinions and analyses at myriad publications, including the Western Hemisphere policy publication Americas Quarterly.

He holds various decorations and awards, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal and five awards of the Legion of Merit.



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U.S. NATO chief blames Turkey for 'ethnic cleansing' of Greeks, including own family

U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, the senior American officer in both the U.S. European Command and NATO, blames Turkey for violence against its Greek minority, including his own family, almost 90 years ago.

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Chrysostomos of Smyrna

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Chrysostomos Kalafatis (8 January 1867 – 10 September 1922) (Greek: Χρυσόστομος Καλαφάτης), known as Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna,Chrysostomos of Smyrna and Metropolitan Chrysostom, was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Smyrna (Izmir) between 1910 and 1914, and again from 1919 until his death in 1922. He was born in Triglia (today Zeytinbağı), Turkey in 1867, considerably aided the Greek Invasion of Turkey and was killed by a lynch mob after Turkish troops took back the city at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.He was declared a martyr and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on 4 November 1992.

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Asa Jennings

An American benefactor of Asia minor Greeks.








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Even after World War I drew to a close, much of the world was still in chaos. Asa Jennings was sent to Smyrna which at the time was largely a christian city on the western coast of Asia-Minor. Only 14 days after Asa and his family arrived in Smyrna, The Turkish army invaded the city. The il-equipped Greek army quickly withdrew. Most foreigners in the city quickly left, but 350,000 Greek, Armenian and Jewish refugees were trapped with no way out. The sea was to the west and the approaching Turkish army to their east. Homes were looted and set ablaze, many were raped, tortured and killed. Scores drowned trying to reach foreign vessels anchored near by. American and British warships were stationed off the coast to observe the situation but as neutral parties stayed clear of any involvement.

Asa had sent his family home but had remained behind to see how he could assist with the situation. He arranged for food supplies to be brought in to feed the refugees. Determined to prevent the impending massacre, Asa, at great risk to his personal safety traveled through combat and managed to arrange a meeting with Ataturk, the imposing and much feared Turkish leader. Amazingly, Ataturk agreed to allow the refugees to leave and gave Asa 11 days to find them safe passage out of the country.

Asa contacted the Greek Government to encourage them to provide ships to pick up the refugees. The Greek government showed little enthusiasm for Asa's request and were quite puzzled as to who he was. As Asa appeared to be the only American left in Smyrna, it wasn't much of a stretch for Asa to identify himself as the top American official in Smyrna. After much persistence and threats to expose the Greek governments inaction, the Greek government cabled that they were putting Asa in charge of 26 of their ships. Asa directed the ships into port under American flags and picked up the refugees within the 11 day window.




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Elena Nikolaidi


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Elena Nikolaidi (June 15, 1909–November 14, 2002) was a noted Greek-American opera singer and teacher. Nikolaidi sang leading mezzo-soprano roles with major opera companies worldwide and made numerous recordings.

Early life and musical study
Elena Nikolaidi was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (which is now Ýzmir, Turkey). In 1922 , after the invasion of Turkey in Smyrna, she moved with her family to Greece. She studied voice on scholarship at the Athens Conservatoire under Thanos Mellos. She made her debut with orchestra in Athens in a performance conducted by Dimitris Mitropoulos. Her first stage appearance was in the premiere of The Ghost Bridge by Theophrastos Sakellaridis.

Nikolaidi married Mellos, her voice instructor, in 1936. However, she would retain "Elena Nikolaidi" as her professional name.


Career
In 1936, Nikolaidi traveled to Vienna to compete in the Belvedere vocal competition. She placed fourth but earned a second hearing with the great conductor Bruno Walter, which resulted in her being cast as Princess Eboli, a leading role, in Verdi's opera Don Carlos with the Vienna State Opera on December 16, 1936. Nikolaidi was "an instant, memorable success." She became a star in Vienna; after one performance as Carmen she received an ovation reported as being between 15 and 30 minutes in length—the longest ever recorded there.

In 1948, Nikolaidi came to the United States with her husband and their son, Michael. She made her Town Hall debut recital in New York City in January 1949. The following morning, Jerome D. Bohm of the New York Herald Tribune wrote: "In 20 years of music reviewing and in twice that number spent in listening to most of the world's best singers, I have encountered no greater voice or vocalist"; the New York Times critic wrote of her "rare brilliance." She made her American operatic debut as Amneris in Verdi's Aïda with the San Francisco Opera and reprised the role for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1951. In the early 1960s she retired from opera but continued concertizing extensively for a number of years.

In 1960 Nikolaidi accepted a position on the voice faculty of Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 1977 she came to Houston, Texas, as the primary voice instructor for the newly established Houston Opera Studio, a young-artist training program that was at that time a joint venture of Houston Grand Opera and the University of Houston; she also instructed a select few university students who were not in the HOS program. Nikolaidi's students have since sung major roles in many of the leading opera houses of the world. Among her most successful protégés are Bruce Fowler, Richard Paul Fink, Bruce Ford, Denyce Graves, Eric Halfvarson, Diane Kesling, Susanne Mentzer, Erie Mills, Robynne Redmon, Chris Pedro Trakas, Stella Zambalis and Linda Zoghby.

Nikolaidi retired from teaching in 1994 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2002.


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Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas (Lady Amalia Fleming)


Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, Lady Fleming (1909 - 26 February 1986) was a Greek doctor, activist and politician.

Fleming was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1909. She moved to Greece and, during the Axis occupation, took part in the National Resistance, for which she was jailed by the Italians.

In 1946, she received a scholarship to study in London. There, she met Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. After his wife died in 1949, she married him in 1953, becoming the second Lady Fleming. She was widowed less than two years later, in March 1955.

She returned to Greece in 1963 and was arrested by the Greek junta during the period of the dictatorship (1967-1974) for acts of sabotage. She was released from prison due to health problems in 1971 but was stripped of her Greek citizenship and exiled. While in exile, she wrote a "A Piece of Truth," a personal account of her imprisonment as well as of the trial of Alexandros Panagoulis.

Lady Fleming returned to Greece after the fall of the junta in 1974. She joined PASOK and was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1977, 1981 and 1985. She also was active in several human rights organisations, notably Amnesty International, Democratic Concern, and Human Rights Union.

Fleming initiated and funded the establishment of the Greek Foundation for Basic Biological Research "Alexander Fleming" (1965) which was later transformed to the Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming", a governmental, non-profit institution which is actively involved in research areas covering immunology, molecular biology, genetics and molecular oncology.

Amalia Fleming died in 1986.




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Aristotelis Onassis

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Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis

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15.AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

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Elias Venezis

Elias Venezis was a Greek writer.

He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık  in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books throughout his career as an author. His most famous book is Number 31328. Elias Venezis is not his real name, but his pen name. He is categorised among the writers of "the generation of the 30s".

During the Asia Minor Catastrophe he was 18 years old and was conscripted to a labour battalion of the Turkish State. In his book The Number 31328 - The Book of Slavery he describes the 14 months of his life that he had spent in a concentration camp, forced to hard labour.


Books
Aeolia 
The Number 31328 
Peacefulness 
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Nikos Avgeridis

The martyrdom of the 31 Aidini's boy scouts.

A sacrifice and a world shocking tragedy for "faith in Christ and our nation's Freedom" was the slaughter of 31 Greek Boy Scouts by Turks in Aidini of Asia minor,in 1919. These young martyrs prefered to be murdered by the Tsetes (Turkish irregulars) instead of changing their religion.Their leader was Nikos Avgeridis,who was the first one who was murdered. Their memory is celebrated in the end of May.

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George Seferis


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Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs ( 13 March 1900 - September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was also a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.


Seferis was born in Urla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens, as well as a poet and translator in his own right.


In 1963, Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by Odysseas Elytis,who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). His nationality, and the role he had played in the 20th century renaissance of Greek literature and culture, were probably a large contributing factor to the award decision. But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus." [2] While Seferis has sometimes been considered a nationalist poet, his 'Hellenism' had more to do with his identifying a unifying strand of humanism in the continuity of Greek culture and literature

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Dido Sotiriou

Dido Sotiriou (née Pappa; 18 February 1909 – 23 September 2004) was a Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright.

Life
Sotiriou was born in Aydin, in western Anatolia and at that time part of the Ottoman Empire, as the daughter of Evangelos Pappas and Marianthi Papadopoulou,in a wealthy and polyglot bourgeois Rûm family who lived in a stately home. Her childhood, Sotiriou said, appeared to her as an "endless fairy tale". She had two older and two younger siblings. After her father, an entrepreneur, went bankrupt and her family became poor, Dido, who at that time was about eight years old, was sent to her wealthy uncle and his wife in Athens, where later she was educated. Sotiriou later described this separation from her family as "my first experience as a refugee".In 1919 the family moved to Smyrna (now Izmir), at that time occupied by Greece, but in 1922 Turkey repulsed the Greek invasion of Asia Minor (Greek-Turkish War), and Sotiriou's family had to leave Smyrna because of the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

The family landed in the port of Piraeus, where the father worked in the docks and on ships as a clerk. In Athens, she was raised in her aunt's house in the affluent, middle-class milieu. There she completed her studies, attending the French Institute and having as teachers Kostas Paroritis and Sophia Mavroeidis-Papadakis,and later attending the Sorbonne.However, as she herself explained, she developed in that period a strong sense of social justice, especially because of the contrast between her own privileged situation and the humble way of living of her parents and siblings.She became a member of the union and so came to the leftist movement. In 1933 she joined the anti-fascist front. In 1935 she met in Geneva Vladimir Lenin’s comrade Alexandra Kollontai and in 1945 she was cofounder of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Paris.In 1936 she began her career as a journalist.She fought against the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and later, in the period of Axis occupation, she joined the Communist Party of Greece and worked for an underground anti-fascist newspaper.

Sotiriou declared in a 1989 interview that since the beginning of her political engagement in 1932 she always stood "on the left wing". She was proud of having waived both her inheritance and the patrimony of her aunt, having the goal of being free and being able to do what she wanted.

Traveling to Paris, she met writers as André Malraux, André Gide and Louis Aragon. In the 1950s she herself began to write novels, "to tell the truth."

In 1959 she published her first novel, The Dead Await ("Οι νεκροί περιμένουν").In 1962 appeared Bloody Earth ("Ματωμένα Χώματα"; title of the English edition: "Farewell Anatolia"), probably her greatest success. The book deals with the trauma of the Greek-Turkish population exchange and the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor. In the preface Sotiriou mentions that she wrote the novel on the basis of the memories of a little Asia Minor farmer named Axiotis Manolis, who had lived the events as an eyewitness. From his perspective, the book is written in first person. The book was (and still is) also very popular in Turkey, probably because, as the author said, "there are no evil Greek and Turk, but only people who are victims and pay dear for it". The book has been reprinted sixty-five times in Greece and translated into six languages, including Turkish in 1970 and French in 1996.Subject of a novel published in 1976, Commandment ("Εντολή"), is the time of the Greek Civil War and the secret machinations against the Greek democracy. Depicted therein is the fate of Nikos Beloyannis, a Communist resistance fighter who was executed in 1952.Another work is Katedafizometha ("Shattered"), appeared in 1982.

Sotiriou was chief editor of a women's magazine, Gynaika ("Woman"), and foreign policy commentator on various newspapers, as Neos Kosmos ("New World") and the Greek Communist Party's daily Rizospastis, where she became editor-in-chief from 1944.[2] As a novelist, she received many awards.

In 1986, she was with Zulfu Livaneli and Mikis Theodorakis among the founders of the Association for the Turkish-Greek Friendship (Daphne/Defne).

She died in Athens at the age of 95 years because of pneumonia.

The Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize, issued by the Hellenic Authors' Society, is named after her.

Dido Sotiriou is a realistic writer who uses self biographical elements participating emotionally to the adventures of her protagonists.Her novels deal with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war period and the post-war period in Greece.

Works
Prose
The dead are waiting. Kedros, Athens, 1959.

Elektra (Fictionalized biography of Elektra Apostolou). Athens, 1961.

Bloody Earth. Kedros, Athens, 1962.  (English edition: Farewell Anatolia).
Commandment. Kedros, Athens, 1976. 
Through the flames. Kedros, Athens, 1978. 
Guests. Kedros, Athens, 1979. 
Shattered. Kedros, Athens, 1982. 
Random encounter and other stories. Kedros, Athens, 2004. 
Coincidence. Pyrsos, Athens, 1939.


Theater
Two theatrical texts and a monologue. Kedros, Athens, 1995.

Theatre. Kedros, Athens, 1995.


Non-fictional works
The Asia Minor catastrophe and the strategy of imperialism in the Levant. Kedros, Athens, 1975 (essay).

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Elia Kazan


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan


Kazan was born Elias Kazanjoglou in the Anatolian city of the Ottoman Empire, Kayseri , Turkey) to a Greek family.

Elia Kazan,September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003, was an award-winning film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. Kazan was a three-time Academy Award winner, a five-time Tony Award winner, a four-time Golden Globes winner, as well as a recipient of numerous awards and nominations in other prestigious festivals as the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.

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Some Greek-orthodox institutions in Turkey.



Phanar Greek Orthodox College/Μεγάλη του Γένους σχολή.

Pammakaristos Church in Constantinople





The entrance of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. George in the Phanar

The graves of all Patriarchs.Οι τάφοι των Πατριαρχών.

The Patriarchal Monastery at Valoukli is where the cemetery with the graves of the Patriarchs is found.

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End of the "Greeks of Turkey" biographies.Various others follow.

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Additional from Greek Australian Entertainers.

Vasili Kanidiadis - Tv Gardener.

About the Show
Vasili’s Garden is a fresh and thoroughly entertaining gardening program. Each week, Vasili Kanidiadis visits the private world of backyard gardeners to discover passionate characters willing to share their knowledge about their plants and produce.

Throughout the series Vasili’s mother, Eleni Kanidiadis, introduces audiences to the authentic cooking of her home town back in Greece where she learnt all her cooking tricks and tips. With every dish she prepares, Eleni trials new herbs, spices and techniques, always attempting to improve and explore the recipe, to go where no dish has gone before.

Vasili’s Garden began on Greek radio 3XY in Melbourne around the turn of the millennium and it wasn’t long before it found it’s way to community television on C31 in Melbourne, where it became a firm fixture of the Friday night schedule. After nearly 200 episodes, many of which have also been shown on other community TV channels around Australia, Vasili found a new home at SBS.

Vasili Kanidiadis


Vasili Kanidiadis was born in Coburg in Melbourne’s north, and he’s never left home as the house where he grew up is now a part of the Munro Street Nursery that he owns and operates. After studying as a structural engineer and then as a classical pianist Vasili studied horticulture. None of that hard work has gone to waste as Vasili now combines all three of these skills professionally and on screen.

Eleni Kanidiadis was born in Thessaloniki where, as a teenager, she fell in love with Vasili’s father Ilia. They married and migrated to Australia and now they both work with Vasili in the Munro Street Nursery.

www.sbs.com.au/food/show/vasilis-garden

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Orianthi Panagaris or Orianthi (Born January 22 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia) is a female guitarist of Greek origin.[1][2] She learned to play the acoustic guitar at six, started electric when she was eleven and left school at 15 to focus on writing songs and performing. She has been playing in different bands since she was 14 around Adelaide and her first support show was for Steve Vai when she was 15. Orianthi had the opportunity to meet and jam with Carlos Santana when she was 18 in her hometown. He invited Orianthi to get up and jam with him at soundcheck then later asked if she would join him on stage that night to jam.[2] Orianthi signed with Geffen Records,[3] and is living in Los Angeles and making a new record. Orianthi has played with Prince, toured with Steve Vai, made a video clip for Panasonic HD, had a song on the Bratz movie, played at the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival and appeared in the New York Times business section promoting Eco-friendly acoustic guitars.[4] She has also appeared at the 51st annual Grammys with Carrie Underwood where she was Underwood's lead guitar player.[5][2][6][7] At the Grammys, Underwood invited Orianthi to become a member of her band.[3] As a member of Michael Jackson's band she was to replace Jennifer Batten who had performed with Jackson for almost a decade.[3] Orianthi has recorded the album "Violet Journey".[8]

Orianthi was Michael Jackson's lead guitarist and was present on all rehearsals before his death.[9][2][3]. She played and sang at Jackson's memorial on July 7th 2009.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orianthi

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George Sotiropoulos
A Greek Australian MMA/UFC Fighter.

www.georgesotiropoulos.tv/