List of Pontic Greeks

→This is a list of Pontic Greeks (Greek: Πόντιοι, Pontioi ), i.e. Greeks from the region of Pontus, in modern northern Turkey.

Ancient

  • Diogenes (412/404 BC – 323 BC), also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy
  • Diphilus (342–291 BC), of Sinope, a poet of the new Attic comedy and contemporary of Menander
  • Mithridates VI Eupator (132–63 BC), the most important king of the Kingdom of Pontus
  • Laodice, Mithridates VI's sister and first wife
  • Diophantus, son of Asclepiodorus, of Sinope, was a general in the service of Mithridates VI of Pontus
  • Cleopatra of Pontus (born 110 BC), the Pontic wife of Tigranes the Great and daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus
  • Arcathius, a prince from the Kingdom of Pontus
  • Machares, a Pontian prince and son of King Mithridates VI of Pontus and Queen Laodice
  • Pharnaces II of Pontus, a prince, then King of Pontus and the Bosporan until his death
  • Athenais Philostorgos II, princess from Kingdom of Pontus, was a Roman Client Queen of Cappadocia
  • Stratonice of Pontus, a Greek woman from the Kingdom of Pontus, a mistress and fourth wife of King Mithridates VI of Pontus
  • Xiphares, a Pontian Greek prince, son of King Mithridates VI of Pontus and Stratonice of Pontus

Roman

Byzantine

Rulers of the Trebizond Empire

Clerics

Scholars

Early Modern

Contemporary

Actors

Artists

Basketball

Football

Martial Arts

Track & Field

Water Sports

Weightlifting

Various Sports

Business

Journalists

Military

Models

Music

Politics

  • Adonis Georgiadis (b. 1972), Greek politician, historian, publisher, and author
  • Leonidas Iasonidis (1884–1959), political activist, congressman of Greek parliament and minister
  • Ioannis Passalidis (1886–1968), a prominent member of the Greek Left and founder of the United Democratic Left party
  • Dimitrios Partsalidis (1903/1905–1980), communist politician
  • Nikos Papadopoulos (b. 1939) Greek-born Swedish Social Democrat politician
  • Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (b. 1936), former mayor of Moscow (real name Gavriil Papadopoulos)
  • Savvas Tsitouridis (b. 1954), politician and member of the New Democracy and former Minister for Employment and Social Protection
  • Markos Vafiadis (1906–1992), leading cadre of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the Greek Civil War

Science/academia

Writers

Various

  • A. I. Bezzerides (1908–2007), Greek-Armenian novelist and screenwriter, best known for writing Noir and Action motion pictures, especially several of Warners' "social conscience" films of the 1940s (father)
  • Anastasios Papadopoulos (1896–1922), guerilla fighter and leading figure of Pontus
  • Yanis Kanidis (1930–2004), Greek-Russian physical education teacher & hero who died to save the lives of his students during the Beslan school hostage crisis
  • Filon Ktenidis (1889–1963), playwright, accountant, journalist, doctor and the founder of Panagia Soumela in Kastania, Vermiou in Greece

References

  1. "Obituary: Sano Themia Halo (1909-2014)". Armenian Weekly. May 4, 2014.
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