National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: List of University of Athens alumni

Politicians

  • Eleftherios Venizelos
  • King Constantine II of Hellenes
  • George Papandreou, senior
  • Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • Panayotis Kanellopoulos
  • Karolos Papoulias

Scientists

  • Gerasimos Danilatos, physicist, inventor of the ESEM
  • Nikos Hadjichristidis, chemist
  • Fotis Kafatos, biologist
  • Michael N. Katehakis, applied mathematics and operations research
  • Evangelos Moudrianakis, biologist
  • Dimitri Nanopoulos, physicist
  • Georgios Papanikolaou, doctor, inventor of the Pap test
  • Panayotis Varotsos, physicist
  • Sophia Frangou, psychiatrist

Poets/writers

  • Giorgios Seferis, Nobel laureate (1963), poet
  • Odysseas Elytis, Nobel laureate (1979), poet

Philosophers/Philologists

  • Cornelius Castoriadis
  • Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Emmanuel Kriaras
  • Helene Ahrweiler

Other

  • Saint Nectarios of Aegina
  • Apostolos Santas
  • George Lucas Adamopoulos, founder of the only school in the Philippines founded by Greeks, Adamson University in Manila
  • Panagiotis Pikrammenos, judge and caretaker prime minister

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