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Samaras
Samaras (; feminine: Samara) is a Greek surname meaning 'saddler'. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonis Samaras (born 1951), Greek politician; Prime Minister of Greece, 2012–15 * Georgios Samaras (born 1985), Greek footballer * Ioannis Samaras (born 1961), Greek footballer * Katherine Samaras, Australian endocrinologist * Kos Samaras (born 1970/71), Australian political consultant * Lucas Samaras (born 1936), Greek-American art photographer * Nikos Samaras (1970–2013), Greek volleyball player * Nick Samaras (born 1952), American poet * Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917), Greek composer * Tim Samaras Timothy Michael Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser best known for his field research on tornadoes and time on the Discovery Channel show ''Storm Chasers''. He died in the 2013 El Reno torn ... (1957–2013), American weather researcher and "storm chaser" * Tryphon Samaras (born 1969), Greek hairdresser and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Samaras
Georgios Samaras (, ; born 21 February 1985) is a Greek former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. Samaras started his career at OFI Crete F.C., OFI, before moving on to Eredivisie side SC Heerenveen, Heerenveen in 2001. He made his first team debut two years later and after a further three seasons with the club he moved to Premier League club Manchester City F.C., Manchester City for a fee of £6 million in 2006–07 Manchester City F.C. season, 2006. After Sven-Göran Eriksson took over as manager Samaras fell out of favour with the first team. In January 2008 he was loaned out to Scottish Premier League team Celtic F.C., Celtic, moving on a permanent basis in the summer. Samaras helped Celtic win list of Scottish football champions, Scottish league championships in 2007–08 Scottish Premier League, 2008, 2011–12 Scottish Premier League, 2012, 2012–13 Scottish Premier League, 2013 and 2013–14 Scottish P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Samaras
Timothy Michael Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser best known for his field research on tornadoes and time on the Discovery Channel show ''Storm Chasers''. He died in the 2013 El Reno tornado. Early life Samaras was born November 12, 1957, in Lakewood, Colorado, to Paul T. and Margaret L. Samaras. His father was a photographer and model-airplane distributor who was an Army projectionist in WWII. Tim assisted in the photography and shop work. Samaras first became interested in tornadoes at age six, when he watched '' The Wizard of Oz'' on television with his mother. "When the tornado appeared," he recalled, "I was hooked!" Samaras attended Lasley Elementary and O'Connell Junior High in Lakewood, before graduating from Alameda International Junior/Senior High School in 1976. In his twenties, he began to chase storms "not for the thrill, but the science." Career Samaras was self-taught and never received a college degree. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Samaras
Antonis Samaras (, ; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samaras started his national political career as Ministry of Finance (Greece), Minister of Finance in 1989; he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1992 (with a brief interruption in 1990) and Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece), Minister of Culture in 2009. Samaras was expelled from the ruling conservative party in November 2024. Samaras was previously best known for a 1993 controversy in which he effectively caused the New Democracy government, of which he was a member, to fall from power . In spite of this, he rejoined the party in 2004 and was elected to its leadership in a closely fought intra-party election in late 2009. He was the seventh party leader since it was founded in 1974. In the years th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kos Samaras
Kosmos Samaras (born ) is a Greek-Australian lobbyist, pollster, and former Victorian Labor strategist. He helped run Labor's state election campaigns for 14 years before departing in 2019 to found RedBridge, a political consultancy firm, which has become influential in Victorian politics. Early life Samaras's mother was an active member in the Communist Party of Greece during a time of political instability in the country. At the urging of her father, a fellow communist, she fled to Australia in 1966 and found work in a rope factory in Melbourne. She married a smelter, Samaras's father, but the two separated when Samaras was three years old. Searching for somewhere with both affordable housing and work, the family moved suburbs from Northcote to Meadow Heights, where they lived in a housing commission property. In Meadow Heights, Samaras attended Bethal Primary School. Because of his mother's past activism in Greece, Samaras became interested in politics from an early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras (; September 14, 1936 – March 7, 2024) was a Greek-born American photographer, sculptor, and painter. Early life and education Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece on September 14, 1936. He studied at Rutgers University and befriended Allan Kaprow. Samaras participated as actor in Kaprow's ''Happenings'' while studying acting with Stella Adler. Samaras posed for George Segal's plaster sculptures. Claes Oldenburg, in whose ''Happenings'' he also participated, later referred to Samaras as one of the "Fluxus at Rutgers University" which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks, and Roy Lichtenstein. Eventually Samaras found success as a visual artist and moved out of his parents' home after his 1961 exhibit “The Art of Assemblage” was shown in the Museum of Modern Art. Samaras stayed in New York and his dismantled bedroom was reinstalled in the Green Gallery. Samaras ever only hung his own art and that o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Samaras
Katherine Samaras is the laboratory head at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She holds positions at St Vincent's Clinic, and University of New South Wales, as well as the University of Notre Dame. Career Samaras works in clinical care in endocrinology and metabolism, including diabetes, metabolism and obesity, thyroid conditions, polycystic ovary syndrome, osteoporosis, as well as adrenal and pituitary conditions. She is the clinical face for the campaign NSW Health’s "Make Healthy Normal". She is an editor of the open access obesity journal Frontiers in Endocrinology. Samaras gave a TEDx talk on preventable conditions and health, "our most valuable public resource, which we should do everything to protect" titled "Starve to Survive", with 70 000 views on intermittent fasting. She describes obesity, diabetes, as based on the lifestyle, of reduced exercise, increased food consumption, and on genetic differences. Samaras had over 140 publications, and an H index of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyridon Samaras
Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras () (29 November 1861 - 7 April 1917) was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas. His compositions were praised worldwide during his lifetime and he is arguably the most important composer of the Ionian School. Among his best-known works are the operas '' Flora mirabilis'' (1886) and '' Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle'' (1905). He also composed the music for the Olympic Hymn. Biography Samaras was born in Corfu. His mother was from Constantinople and his father, Skarlatos Samaras, was born in Vienna to a Greek family originally from Siatista. As a young man, he studied with Spyridon Xyndas (Σπυρίδων Ξύνδας). From 1875 to 1882 he studied at the Athens Conservatory with Federico Bolognini, Angelo Mascheroni and Enrico Stancampiano. His first opera ''Torpillae'' (now lost) was premiered in Athens in 1879. He went to Paris in 1882 to study at the Paris Conservatoire and became a favorite of Jules Massenet. His other instructors inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioannis Samaras
Giannis Samaras (; born 3 May 1961) is a former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Australia, he represented Greece at international level. Club career Samaras was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Greek parents who moved there at an early age. His father, Georgios, was a co-founder of South Melbourne FC, an Australian soccer club with strong ties to the Greek community and is Australia's most successful Football side. He moved to Greece at the age of thirteen. His son, also named Georgios, recently retired from professional football. Ioannis began his football career in 1980 with Vyzas F.C., but before long he had attracted the attention of several bigger teams and he signed for OFI in the summer of 1984. He went on to play over 100 matches for Crete before he left for Panathinaikos FC in January 1989. In 1991, Samaras returned to Crete, playing 103 games and retiring in 1996. In 1988, Samaras made a guest appearance for South Melbourne He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Samaras
Nick Samaras (; born 1952) is a poet and essayist. His first book of poetry, ''Hands of the Saddlemaker'' received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Biography Samaras is the son of Bishop Kallistos Samaras, a prominent Greek Orthodox Clergyman and theologian. He was born in Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England, living there and on the island of Patmos, Greece. At the time of the political Greek junta military dictatorship, he was brought in exile to be raised further in America, via previous living in Turkey, Wales, Brussels, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia, and Jerusalem. He later settled in Woburn, Massachusetts, his father's home town. He earned his MFA from Columbia University, and his doctorate from the University of Denver. His individual poems have been featured in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The New Republic'', ''Kenyon Review'', and many other publications. Currently, he lives in West Nyack Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Samaras
Nikos Samaras (1 July 1970 – 4 January 2013) was a Greek volleyball player, who competed for various Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish clubs. Samaras was born in Stuttgart. He led Orestiada, helping the team to become successful in Greece and Europe. Many young people turned to volleyball in the 1990s because of him. Career stats * 160 caps with the Greece Junior National Team * 263 caps with the Greece National Team Honours National team * 1989 Junior World Championship - 6th place * 1994 FIVB World Championship - 6th place Clubs * 1993 Greek Cup - Runner-up, with Orestiada * 1993 Greek Championship - Runner-up, with Orestiada * 1995 CEV Cup - Runner-up, with Orestiada * 1997 Greek Championship - Runner-up, with Orestiada * 1998 Greek Championship - Runner-up, with Orestiada * 2000 Greek Cup The Greek Football Cup (), commonly known as the Greek Cup or Betsson Greek Cup for sponsorship reasons is a Greek football competition, run by the Hellenic Foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tryphon Samaras
Tryphon Samaras (Greek: ''Τρύφωνας Σαμαράς'') is a Greek hairdresser and television personality. Youthful years He was born in Athens, and grew up in Agios Dimitrios, Attica Attica (, ''Attikḗ'' (Ancient Greek) or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital city, capital of Greece and the core cit .... His parents are Charalambos and Voula Samara. Career and important personal moments After graduating from high school, he began his career as a hairdresser in the early 1990s. In 1997, he founded his own business in the centre of Athens. He has been responsible for the hair care of important names in the global television and art industry (Naomi Campbell, Caitlyn Jenner, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Monica Bellucci, Natalia Vodyanova, Carla Bruni, etc. ), as well as in the domestic industry. At the same time, he is the author of two books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
