Greek People's Liberation Army - List of Important ELAS Members

List of Important ELAS Members

This list contains the names of the most well-known ELAS leaders or simple members, with their nom de guerre in parentheses:

  • Athanasios Klaras (Aris Velouchiotis), chief captain of ELAS
  • Colonel Stefanos Sarafis, chief military expert of ELAS
  • Andreas Tzimas (Vasilis Samariniotis), chief political commissioner of ELAS
  • Georgios Siantos
  • Major General Neokosmos Grigoriadis (Lambros), Chairman of ELAS Central Committee
  • Lieutenant General Ptolemaios Sarigiannis, Chief of Staff of ELAS Central Committee
  • Colonel Evripidis Bakirtzis, commander of ELAS' Macedonian theatre
  • Captain Theodoros Makridis (Ektoras), one of ELAS chief staff officers
  • Markos Vafiadis
  • Charilaos Florakis (Captain Giotis)
  • Nikos Beloyannis
  • Iannis Xenakis
  • Leon Tzavelas
  • Panos Tzavelas
  • Father Dimitrios Holevas (Papaflessas)
  • Father Germanos Dimakis (Papa-Anypomonos)
  • Fotis Mastrokostas (Thanos)
  • Nikos Kavretzos (Kostoulas Agrafiotis)
  • Dimitrios Dimitriou (Nikiforos)
  • Giorgos Houliaras (Periklis)
  • Pandelis Laskos (Pelopidas)
  • Ioannis Alexandrou (Diamantis)
  • Lambros Koumbouras (Achilleas)
  • Lefteris Tsiligiannis
  • Sarantos Kapourelakos, serving directly under Velouchiotis command.
  • Spyros Bekios (Lambros)
  • Dimitrios Tassos (Boukouvalas)
  • Thomas Pallas (Kozakas)
  • Nikos Xinos (Smolikas)
  • Vangelis Papadakis (Tassos Lefterias)
  • Ioannis Aggeletos (Tzavelas)
  • Vasilis Priovolos (Ermis)
  • Gerasimos Avgeropoulos
  • Andreas Zacharopoulos
  • Ioannis Hatzipanagiotou (Thomas)
  • Christos Margaritis (Armatolos)
  • Georgios Zarogiannis (Kavallaris)
  • Vasilis Ganatsios (Cheimarros)

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