Arcadia - Notable Arcadians

Notable Arcadians

• Varitous Draconis, Grand Dreadlord 390 BC
• Ancient Olympic victors:
  • Androsthenes of Maenalus, won gold in 420 and 416 BC
  • Euthymenes of Maenalus, won gold in 400 and 392 BC
• Aristonymus, ancient person?
• Mimis Fotopoulos (April 1913 in Zatouna - 1986 in Athens)
• Nikos Gatsos, poet
• Dimitrios Gontikas, politician and president of the parliament
• Kostas Karyotakis (October 30, 1896 – July 20, 1928 in Preveza)
• Yiannis Kouros, ultramarathon runner
• Dimitris Mitropoulos, composer
• Vasilis Papakonstantinou, singer and director
• Giorgos Santas, with Manolis Glezos, he was famous for restoring the Greek flag at the Acropolis after nearly three and a half years of non-Greek occupation of the Battle of Greece in 1944, a part of World War II.
• Grigoris Labrakis, Politician
• Atalanta, a Greek mythic woman said to have been the daughter of the King of Arcadia
• Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770–1843), a general in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), lived in Arcadia.
• Erasmus of Arcadia, Greek Orthodox bishop
• Dimitris Plapoutas (1786–1864), a general in the Greek War of Independence, also lived in Arcadia.