| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 2021 List of years in Greece | ||||
Events in the year 2021 in Greece .
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 2021 List of years in Greece | ||||
Events in the year 2021 in Greece .
Christos Sartzetakis was a Greek jurist and a supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the president of Greece from 1985 to 1990.
Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis, commonly known as Adonis Georgiadis, is a Greek politician, author, publisher and former telemarketer. Often described as being on the far right of the political spectrum, he currently serves as Vice President of New Democracy and Minister for Health in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He previously served in the same cabinet as Minister for Labour and Social Security (2023–2024), Minister for Development and Investment in the First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019–2023), Minister for Health in the Cabinet of Antonis Samaras (2013–2014) and Deputy Minister for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping in the Cabinet of Lucas Papademos (2011–2012).
The Hellenic Police is the national police service and one of the three security forces of Greece. It is a large agency with responsibilities ranging from road traffic control to counter-terrorism. Police Lieutenant General Dimitrios Mallios currently serves as Chief of the Hellenic Police. He replaced Lazaros Mavropoulos. The Hellenic Police force was established in 1984 under Law 1481/1-10-1984 as the result of the fusion of the Gendarmerie and the Cities Police forces.
Ilias Polatidis was a Greek politician. He was a member of the Popular Orthodox Rally.
Apostolos-Athanasios "Akis" Tsochatzopoulos was a Greek politician, engineer, and economist. He served as a minister in several Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cabinets between 1981 and 2004 most notably Minister of the Interior three times and the Minister of National Defence during the Andreas Papandreou and Konstantinos Simitis governments respectively.
The first season of the Greek Cypriot reality talent show The Voice of Greece premiered on January 10, 2014, on ANT1. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series.
Ioanna-Maria Gertsou is a representative of the Greek guide dog movement, through "Lara Guide-Dog School" a non - profit organisation that she co-founded in 2008. She is visually impaired due to retinopathy of prematurity. She is mostly known as "Lara" is the first guide dog related organisation of Greece. She is an activist, promoting human diversity, guide dog access, physical and electronic accessibility and animal rights.
Vasiliki Koutrivanou is a Greek psychotherapist, politician and former member of SYRIZA. She studied Psychology and Conflict Resolution at the University of Portland and Law at the University of Athens. She speaks English and French.
Efrosíni (Fróso) Spentzári, was a Greek pharmacist and conservative politician.
Antonis Balomenakis, was a Greek politician and lawyer.
Theodoros Mitras was a Greek politician who served as a Member of Parliament. Born in Katerini, Greece, he was a member of the New Democracy Party and a member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 1996.
The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades, for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures. Protests intensified in response to the hunger strike of the prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of terrorist organization 17N, who had started the strike in December, demanding his transfer to a different prison after he had been forcibly relocated to a maximum-security facility in central Greece, as well as issues relating to police brutality and specifically the DELTA Force motorcycle police.
Giorgos Karaivaz was a Greek investigative journalist who specialized in organized crime. He was assassinated on 9 April 2021.
Giorgios Dalakouras was a Greek politician, shipowner and businessman. He served in the national Hellenic Parliament from 1974 to 1981 as a member of the New Democracy party. In January 1981, he became one of the first Greek Member of the European Parliament following Greece's ascension into the European Union. Dalakouras served as the Civil Administrator of Mount Athos, the civil head of government for the monastic community of Mount Athos, from 2004 to 2010.
Zacharias "Zak" Kostopoulos was a Greek-American activist, defending the rights of LGBT people, HIV-positive people, sex workers, and refugees. He worked as a drag performer under the stage name Zackie Oh. He was killed on a busy street near Omonoia Square, Athens in broad daylight on 21 September 2018. First beaten by civilians and later by the police, he died while on the way to the hospital. Two men were found guilty of his murder.
Elsa Papadimitriou was a Greek politician. A member of the New Democracy party, she served in the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 2011. She died in Athens on 17 March 2022 at the age of 80.
Events in the year 2022 in Greece.
Events in the year 2023 in Greece.
Giorgos Adamopoulos was a Greek politician. A member of PASOK, he served in the Hellenic Parliament from 1989 to 2000.
Two individuals on a motorbike shot veteran crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz multiple times in southern Athens district of Alimos, police say.
