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Here is an alphabetical list of famous Greeks, plus a few non-Greeks who are connected with Greece in some way.

Politis, Kosmas  a novelist

Polydoros  one of the three sculptors from Rhodes who created the Winged Victory of Samothrace

Polygnotos  a painter who was active in the 5th Century BC

Polykleitos  a sculptor who was active in the 5th Century BC

Poliorketes, Demetrios  known as 'the Besieger', the son of Antigonos I. He attempted an unsuccessful siege of Rhodes in 305-304BC, using 400 ships and 40,000 horsemen.

Porphyrogenitus, Constantine  a 9th Century Byzantine emperor

Protogenes  an ancient painter

Ptolemy of Egypt  [not yet done]

Rallis, John  a politician who was made Prime Minister in 1943. He organised Security Groups who were armed by the Germans and fought against the resistance forces.

Rangavis, Alexandros Rizos  a poet and later novelist who first introduced the historical novel to Greece

Ritsos, Yiannis  a poet, imprisoned by the Colonels

Roidis, Emmanouil  a novelist whose works include Pope Joan

Rondiris, Dimitris  a theatrical director, head of the Greek National Theatre

Roosevelt  [not yet done]

Roxana  died in 308 BC [not yet done]

Sanado, Marco  a nephew of the Doge Dandolo who founded the Duchy of Naxos in 1207

Sarafis, Marion  the wife of General Stephanos Sarafis

Sarafis, Stephanos  the former commander-in-chief of ELAS

Schliemann, Heinrich  an archaeologist who believed he had discovered the grave of Agamemnon at Mycenae, but the burial treasures, including the death mask, belong to an earlier time.

Scobie, General  the leader of the British forces who came to Athens at the end of WWII. He ordered the partisans to surrender their arms, but does not order the royalist army to do the same.

Seferis, George  a poet

Seleukos  [not yet ready]

Selim II  a sultan

Seven Sages, the  [not yet ready]

Sikelianos, Angelos  (1884-1951) a novelist

Skoulas, Nikos  a Greek-Canadian businessman who was the first minister when the Ministry of Tourism was founded. Before that he was General Secretary of the Greek National Tourist Organisation

Sokrates  (469-399 BC) a philosopher, born in Athens, father of the Sokratic method of philosophy 

Solomos, Alexis  a playwight whose works include The Path of Freedom

Solomos, Dionysios   (1797-1857) the national poet whose works include Hymn to Liberty (published in 1825)

Solon  [not yet ready]

Sophokles  (496-406) a tragic dramatist who wrote 123 plays. he was born at Kolonos and died in Athens

Soutsos, Alexandros  [not yet ready]

Soutsos, Panayiotis  brother of Alexandros Soutsos. He first introduced Romantic poetry and the epistolary novel to Greece

Stalin  betrayed the Greek communists [not yet ready]

Stratou, Dora  a custodian of Greek culture. She recorded Greek folk songs, created a Greek dance company that toured the world

Stephanus  an ancient writer on food

Sulla  a Roman general who destroyed Piraeus in 86 BC

Temachidas  an ancient poet from Rhodes who wrote 11 books on food called Suppers Descriptions

Theagenes  the tyrant of Megara, the father-in-law of Kylon

Theodorakis, Mikis  a composer, originally left-wing. He was exiled during the Civil War, and kept in the concentration camp at Macronissos. After the Civil War he studied and composed in Paris. He wrote for the ballet and put into music the poetry of Elytis, Ritsos, and Seferis. He was elected as a deputy to parliament and created a youth movement named after Grigoris Lambrakis. The junta put him in jail for three years and suppressed the Lambrakis movement.

Theokritos  a poet

Theophanes  a Byzantine historian

Theophilos  a naif painter

Theorion  an ancient Greek from Sicily who perfected the process of making white bread

Theotokopoulos, Domenikos  the real name of the painter El Greco

Theseus  [not yet ready]

Thucydides  (?-c.400BC) historian of the Peloponnesian War

Timokreon  [not yet ready]

Tito  President of Yugoslavia

Tlepolemos of Rhodes  a Mycenaean ruler

Tsarouchis  a painter

Tsimiskis  [not yet ready]

Vachliotti  a designer

Vafiades, Markos  leader of the Democratic Army in the Civil War

Valaoritis, Aristotelis  (1824-79) a poet from Lefkas

Varnalis, Kostas  (1884-1974) a novelist

Vasiliou, Maria  an actress who appeared in the film The Travelling Players (1975)

Vassilikos, Vassily  a writer whose works include Z

Veakis, Emile  an actor

Velouchiotis, Aris  one of the founders of ELAS. He was based in Karpenissi in central Roumeni

Venizelos, Eleftherios  a Cretan politician who came to Crete in 1909 from Athens to form a new government/the founder of the modern Greek state/a republican Prime Minister. He was fired twice in 1915 by King Constantine

Ventris, Michael  the man who deciphered Linear B in 1952

Vestenlis, Rigas  (1757-98) translator of the first short stories to be written in Greek, a translation from Retif de le Bretonne

Viziinos, Yeoryios  (1849-1896) a short story writer

Vougouklaki, Aliki  an actress

Voulgaris  a family from Hydra who were involved in politics

Woodhouse, C.M.  a historian

Xenophon  [not yet ready]

Xefloudas, Stelios  a writer

Xerxes  [not yet ready]

Yiannopoulos, Alkiviadis  a writer

Zarkadis, Petros  an actor who appeared in the film The Travelling Players (1975)

Zervas  right-wing EDES resistance leader