Spyros Stavros Niarchos (; born 1955) is a Greek shipping magnate. He is the second son of
Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Spyrou Niarchos (, ; 3 July 1909 – 15 April 1996) was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and increasing demand for oil, ...
and
Eugenia Livanos
Eugenia Livanos-Niarchos (, ; 1927 – 4 May 1970) was a shipping heiress and the third wife of Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos.
She was the daughter of shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos and his wife Arietta Zafirakis. Eugenia and Stavr ...
, and through his mother the grandson of
Stavros G. Livanos
Stavros George Livanos (; 1887 or 1890 – May 28, 1963), was a Greeks, Greek shipowner, native of the northern Aegean Sea island of Chios, and the founder of the Livanos shipping empire. He was also a rival as well as father-in-law to billionaire ...
.
Biography
In 1955
Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders Ltd launched for Stavros Niarchos what was then the world's largest supertanker.
The
ship was named ''SS Spyros Niarchos''
[ after his son.
In 1987, while skiing in ]Switzerland
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, he met 19-year-old Daphne Guinness
Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness (born 9 November 1967) is an English fashion designer, socialite, actress, film producer, and musician.
Early life
Her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, the eldest son of Diana Mitford and Bryan ...
(artist, socialite
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and an heiress of the Guinness family
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) and they soon married.[
The couple has three children:
* Nicolas Stavros Niarchos (born 1989)
* Alexis Spyros Niarchos (born 1991)
* Ines Sophia Niarchos (born 1995)
]
Relationships
In January 1999, Niarchos was a witness at the wedding of his best friend, Ernst August, Prince of Hanover. He is the godfather of Crown Prince Pavlos' youngest son, Aristides-Stavros. With his brother, Philip
Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...
, Niarchos is co-president and member of the board of directors
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The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulatio ...
at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
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.
References
1955 births
Living people
Niarchos family
Livanos family
People educated at Atlantic College
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