Notable People
- Archilochos (7th c. BC) warrior and poet. "You led us a thousand strong at Thasos, fields fattened by corpses."
- Aglaophon (6–5th c. BC) painter, teacher and father of Polygnotus and Aristophon.
- Hegemon of Thasos comedian, inventor of parody
- Leodamas (4th century BC) mathematician
- Neseus of Thasos, painter
- Polygnostos Vagis (1892–1965) Thasos-born US sculptor
- Polygnotus (middle of 5th c.BC), painter
- Stesimbrotos (c. 470 BC-c. 420 BC) sophist
- Theagenes Olympic boxer (480 BC), Pankratiast (476 BC) and runner.
- Vassilis Vassilikos (1934) poet and author
- Demetrios Vassiliades (1958) Indologist scholar and author
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