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Giannopoulos
Giannopoulos, Yannopoulos, Yiannopoulos, Gianopoulos or Gianopulos, variously transliterated from the el, Γιαννόπουλος, is a Greek family name, which means "son of John". The female version of the name is Giannopoulou/Yiannopoulou (Γιαννοπούλου). Notable people with this name include: People Giannopoulos *Charis Giannopoulos (born 1989), Greek basketball player * Kyriakos Giannopoulos (born 1959), Greek water polo player *Nick Giannopoulos (born 1963), Greek Australian stand-up comedian and actor *Panagiotis Giannopoulos (born 1972), Greek footballer * (1870–1869), Greek poet * Stavros Giannopoulos (born 1961), Greek water polo player *Tasos Giannopoulos (1931–1977), Greek movie actor *Tout Giannopoulos (born 1964), name used by Estonian basketball player Tiit Sokk, while playing in Greece Gianopoulos * Panio Gianopoulos (born 1975), Greek American writer and editor Gianopulos * Jim Gianopulos (born 1951), Greek American businessman, CEO of Fox Ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Giannopoulos
Nicholas Giannopoulos (born 1 July 1963) is an Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and film director. He is best known for his comedy stage show ''Wogs Out of Work'' alongside George Kapiniaris, the television sitcom ''Acropolis Now'' and ''The Wog Boy'' film series and has been described as "Australia's leading exponent of "wog#As an ethnic reference in Australian English, wog" humour". Early life Giannopoulos was born in Melbourne, the first-born son of Greek immigrant parents. He grew up in working class origins, his father ran a milk bar, which he staffed sometimes from a young age, while his mother was a machinist. Growing up at the time, Australia was a racially divided country, though in Richmond, there were a community of Greek Australian which he was part of. He grew up in the inner Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy and Richmond and attended Abbotsford Primary School and Richmond High School. In 1981 he was accepted into the Drama course at Rusden State Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charis Giannopoulos
Charalampos "Charis" Giannopoulos (Greek: Χαράλαμπος "Χάρης" Γιαννόπουλος; born July 13, 1989) is a Greek professional basketball player and the team captain for Kolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League. He is a 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall small forward. Professional career Giannopoulos began his pro career with the Greek League club PAOK Thessaloniki, during the 2005–06 season. He joined the Greek club Olympiacos Piraeus in 2008. He moved to Panionios for 2 seasons, from 2009 to 2011. He joined Peristeri for the 2011–12 season. He then moved to Panathinaikos for the 2012–13 season. In 2013, he signed with the Spanish League club Bàsquet Manresa. In 2015, Giannopoulos returned to Greece, signing with Rethymno Cretan Kings. On July 10, 2017, Giannopoulos renewed his contract with the Cretan team through 2020, and also became the club's team captain. In 2018, Giannopoulos signed with AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League. He parted wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panagiotis Giannopoulos
Panagiotis Giannopoulos ( el, Παναγιώτης Γιαννόπουλος; born 25 September 1972) is a Greek former professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played as a left-back. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Giannopoulos, Panagiotis 1972 births Living people Association football defenders Greek expatriate footballers Greek expatriate sportspeople in Italy Greek expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Romania Serie A players Serie B players Liga I players Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players Panionios F.C. players Venezia F.C. players FC Argeș Pitești players Footballers from Piraeus Greek footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasos Giannopoulos
Anastasios (Tasos) Giannopoulos ( el, Τάσος Γιαννόπουλος; 1931 – November 8, 1977) was a Greek actor. He was born in 1931 and died of cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bl ... on November 8, 1977 at the age of 46. He was famous as Kitsos in his movies. Filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Giannopoulos, Tasos 1931 births 1977 deaths Deaths from cancer in Greece 20th-century Greek male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyriakos Giannopoulos
Kyriakos Giannopoulos (born 17 April 1959) is a Greek former water polo player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics. See also * Greece men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments * List of men's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers This is a list of top goalscorers in the men's Olympic water polo tournament since the inaugural official edition in 1900. Abbreviations Overall top goalscorers As of 2016, 57 male players have scored 30 or more goals at the Summer Olympics. ... References External links * 1959 births Living people Greek male water polo players Olympiacos Water Polo Club players Olympic water polo players of Greece Water polo players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Giannopoulos
Stavros Giannopoulos (born 12 July 1961) is a Greece, Greek former water polo player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. See also * Greece men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers References External links * 1961 births Living people Greek male water polo players Water polo goalkeepers Olympic water polo players of Greece Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics {{Greece-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tout Giannopoulos
Tiit Sokk (born 15 November 1964) is a retired Estonian professional basketball player and current coach. Often cited as one of the very best European point guards of his generation, he is widely recognized as the greatest Estonian basketball player in history. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010. Professional career Sokk was awarded the Estonian best male athlete award in 1988. He won the Soviet Union League title in 1991 with , and ended his career as a player in 1997 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milo Yiannopoulos
Milo Yiannopoulos (; born Milo Hanrahan, 18 October 1984), who has also published as Milo Andreas Wagner and the mononym Milo, is a British alt-right political commentator. His speeches and writings often ridicule Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. Yiannopoulos is a former editor for ''Breitbart News'', an American far-right media organisation. Yiannopoulos worked for ''Breitbart'' from 2014 until 2017. During this time, Yiannopoulos rose to prominence as a significant voice in the Gamergate harassment campaign. In July 2016, he was permanently banned from Twitter for online harassment of actress Leslie Jones. He was permanently banned from Facebook in 2019. According to emails by Yiannopoulos leaked by '' BuzzFeed News'' in late 2017, Yiannopoulos solicited white nationalists, such as '' American Renaissance'' editor Devin Saucier, for story ideas and editing suggestions during his tenure at ''Breitbart''. Yiannopoulos has been accused of advoca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelos Yannopoulos
Evangelos Yannopoulos or Giannopoulos ( el, Ευάγγελος Γιαννόπουλος, 1918 – 4 September 2003) was a Greek lawyer and socialist politician, who served as a senior Minister in the governments of Andreas Papandreou and Costas Simitis. He was notable for his participation in the Greek Resistance during World War II, his key role in arranging prosecutions for the leaders of the deposed Regime of the Colonels in 1974, and for having his own talk show on Greek television. Life He was born in 1918 the village of Mygdalia, in Arcadia. He graduated in Law from Athens University and worked as a lawyer, eventually going on to become one of the most famous and well-paid lawyers in Greece. In 1940–1941 he fought with the Greek Army in the Greco-Italian War as a second lieutenant of Infantry, and was wounded in battle. Later, after the German invasion of Greece, Yannopoulos joined the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) and served as an officer in its milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Yannopoulos
Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos (December 15, 1919, Athens, Greece – April 6, 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the principal stage director of the Metropolitan Opera between 1945 and 1977. One of his major works was a production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas on the title role. He was also the founder of the Athens Music Festival. Also active as an educator, he worked as director of the opera program at the Curtis Institute of Music during the 1970s and was director of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia from 1977-1987 and artistic director of the AVA from 1987-1989. He earned degrees from the University of Vienna, the University of Leipzig, and the Mozarteum Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Mo .... References 1919 births 2003 deaths Metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek-language Surnames
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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