Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas, and was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Christina Lekka is a Greek model and beauty queen who became the first, and only woman from her country to win the Miss International pageant.
The Greece Billie Jean King Cup team represents Greece in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Hellenic Tennis Federation. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I.
The Cretan shrew is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the island of Crete, Greece. Its natural habitat is temperate shrubland, and the animal is threatened by habitat loss. It is found in the mountainous highlands of Crete, having been displaced from lower altitudes by the lesser white-toothed shrew.
Christína Papadáki is a former tennis player from Greece who turned professional in 1989.
The Greece women's national water polo team represents Greece in international women's water polo competitions. Since the mid-1990s, Greece have emerged as one of the leading powers in the world, becoming World Champions after their gold medal win at the 2011 World Championship.
The Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies is a museum in Athens, Greece, a part of the new Acropolis Museum and its research workshops. It is housed in the Weiler Building, named after the Bavarian engineer who designed it in 1834 and constructed it in 1836. It was created under the direction of the archaeologist Evi Touloupa while she was director of the Athens Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
Christina Kokotou is a Greek race walker.
Christina or Cristina is a feminine given name. It is a simplified form of the Latin Christiana, and a feminine form of Christianus or a Latinized form of the Middle English Christin 'Christian'. Short forms include Chris and Tina. The name is ultimately derived from the original Greek form of the name, Χριστίνα.
The Real Housewives of Athens is a Greek reality television series that debuted on ANT1 on March 4, 2011, until May 27, 2011. Developed as the first international installment of the Real Housewives franchise, it aired only one season and documented the personal and professional lives of several women residing in Athens, Greece. After 13 years, the series is coming back in late 2024 with its second season on ANT1, as an external production in courtesy of BRAVO.
Georgios Gennimatas was a Greek politician and founding member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He occupied several cabinet posts in the PASOK governments under Andreas Papandreou, serving as Minister of Interior (1981–1984), Welfare and Social Insurance (1984–1987), Labour (1987–1989) and National Economy. He is most notable for his official recognition of the left-wing fighters of the Greek Resistance during World War II and his healthcare and welfare reforms which established the National Health System of Greece. His daughter Fofi Gennimata was also a PASOK politician.
Alexandra Tsiavou is a Greek rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and she took the 6th place at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Christina Thalassinidou is a Soviet and later Greek former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Christina Schwab is an American former Paralympic basketball player and distance track/road racer and current head coach of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team.
Christina Chrysoula Tsoukala is a water polo player currently playing for Olympiacos and the Greece women's national water polo team.
Christina Batman Kotsia is a female water polo player of Greece. She was part of the Greek team at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. At club level, she played for Olympiacos and NC Vouliagmeni.
Christina Ioannidi is a Soviet Union born Greek female retired weightlifter who competed in the 75 kg category and represented Greece at international competitions.
Christina Ioanna Bourmpou is a Greek rower from Thessaloniki. Along with Maria Kyridou, she won four gold medals for Greece in just over four months. The last one, was the gold medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Bourmpou participated – along with Kyridou – at the 2020 Olympics, reaching the final and eventually taking the fifth place.
Group I of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying competition consisted of five teams: Germany, Ukraine, Republic of Ireland, Greece, and Montenegro. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 21 February 2019, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.
Amygdalopita is an almond cake in Greek cuisine made with ground almonds, flour, butter, eggs and pastry cream. It is one of the most common glyka tapsiou - dessert dishes like pies and breads baked in baking pans. Other common desserts of this style are galaktoboureko, karydopita and kadaifi.
