Greece
- Georgios Tsitas – 1896 Olympic Silver Medalist
- Stephanos Christopoulos – 1896 Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Petros Galaktopoulos – 1972 Olympic Silver Medalist
- Stelios Mygiakis - 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist, the only non Russian wrestler win a Gold medal inside USSR
- Haralampos Holidis - 1984 Olympic Bronze Medalist, 1988 Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Dimitrios Thanopoulos - 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist
- Amiran Karntanov – 2000 Olympic Bronze Medalist
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Famous quotes containing the word greece:
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labors.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)