Chania - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Elpis Melena 1818-1899 (born as Marie Espérance von Schwartz, German writer)
  • Eleftherios Venizelos 1864-1936 (prime minister of Greece 1910-1920, 1924, 1928–1932, 1933; widely considered as the most important statesman of modern Greece)
  • Constantinos Manos 1869-1913 (politician and writer of the late 19th and early 20th century)
  • Alexis Minotis 1898-1967 (famous stage and screen actor active between 1930s-1980s)
  • Manos Katrakis 1909-1984 (famous theater and film actor)
  • Constantine Mitsotakis *1918 (politician, prime minister of Greece 1990-1993, now the honorary president of the New Democracy party)
  • George Psychoundakis 1920-2006 (Cretan war hero and author)
  • John Craxton 1922-2009 (painter and British hon. consul.)
  • Kostas Moundakis 1926-1991 (Traditional Cretan music composer, Cretan lyra virtuoso and teacher)
  • Eftichios Bitsakis *1927 (philosopher – theoretical physicist)
  • Maro Douka *1947 (Greek novelist)
  • Ioanna Karystiani *1952 (Greek novelist)
  • Phocion Francescakis 1910-1992, Private international law's teacher
  • Christos Sartzetakis *1929 (President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1985 to 1990)
  • Christos Dimitrios Lambrakis 1934-2009 (Publishing tycoon, owner of Lambrakis Press Group including daily newspapers Ta Nea and To Vima)
  • Mikis Theodorakis *1925 (Greek composer)
  • Manos Hatzidakis 1925-1994 (Greek composer)
  • Nikos Christodoulakis *1952 (Greek politician, economics professor and electronics engineer, the Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece from 2001 to 2004)
  • Nana Mouskouri *1934(Greek singer, one of the top-selling female singers of all time)
  • Constantinos Daskalakis *1981. (Professor at M.I.T. who managed at the age of 28 to improve the Nash equilibrium, an unsolved enigma for 60 years.)

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