Some Prominent Greek-Americans |
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MEDICINE |
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT |
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT |
Dr. George N. Papanicolaou: Developed the Pap Smear |
SPORTS |
Jim Londos: World champion wrestler |
Anthony D. Thomopoulos: President of ABC Entertainment |
Thomas Karamachines: Chief of Operations for the CIA |
General Business |
William Tavoulareas: President of Mobil Oil |
Matina Souretis: President of Radcliffe College |
Alex Kampouris: First Major league baseball player from Greek descent |
Nicholas Gage: Wrote the Book Eleni |
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder: Las Vegas Odds Maker for Gambling Events |
Paul Tsongas: US Senator |
Solon Vlasto: Founded the first Greek daily newspaper in the US |
Dr. Evangeline Papgeorge: Executive Associate Dean of Medicine at Emory Univeristy |
The following people are grouped by category and most of the positions listed are not current positions. |
Dr. Alex Kyrides: Discoverd Synthetic Rubber |
Spyros Skouras: Owned Movie Theatres, Chairman of 20th Century Fox |
The links below will give you a detailed explanation of the contributions made by each Greek American. |