List of Greek Americans

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This is a list of notable Greek Americans.

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  1. ^ Aniston - [1] "Jen, who is half-Greek, does not even like Greek food." [2] "Her Greek father, an actor, perhaps hoped that Jennifer would follow in his footsteps, so he made Telly Savalas (TV's "Kojak") her godfather and also changed the family name from their original Greek surname Anastassakis to the more American sounding Aniston. After spending a year living in Greece, the family returned to the States, settling in New York..."
  2. ^ [3][4] "John Aniston was born on the island of Crete and is fluent in Greek and Spanish."
  3. ^ [5] "she's part Greek and Spanish"
  4. ^ [6]Born in Cyprus, she has said: "I am a Cypriot by disposition. I don't have a passport or Cypriot nationality but my heart is Cypriot, not Greek or Turkish Cypriot, just Cypriot. I enjoy a passionate love affair with my birthplace. I was born in Ayios Dhometios, part of the Nicosia district. My parents were American."
  5. ^ Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala
  6. ^ [7] "And when I saw the film recently and saw George Chakiris, this beautiful guy, Greek guy." [8] "Chakiris, the son of Greek immigrants, opposes race based casting."
  7. ^ [9] [10] "Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate... his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born."
  8. ^ [11] "Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American stage and film actress... will discuss the impact of her Greek-American heritage on her career, as well as past performances, particularly her lead role in the ancient tragedy "Hecuba."" [12] "The daughter of Greek immigrants..."
  9. ^ [13] "Fey’s mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she’s wary of claiming an ethnic identity. “I’ve said a few things about being Greek, and now every Greek organization wants to adopt me,” Fey told me."
  10. ^ [14] "Angie Harmon: "It would be shaping my eyebrows. Being half Greek and half American Indian, I have the unibrow. So once I started working on them, I really did see a change. You create another kind of beauty.""
  11. ^ [15] "Her (Real) Heritage: "I'm Greek, Italian and Jewish. In TV Guide they wrote that I was French, Greek and Jewish. I am mostly Greek. I don't know where French came from."
  12. ^ Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala
  13. ^ Alex Kalognomos - Biography
  14. ^ [16] "My grandfather always told me, "You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.""
  15. ^ [17] "Andreas Katsulas, whose striking Greek visage..."
  16. ^ [18] "Maharis was a Kerouac look-alike, a good looking Greek kid from Queens"
  17. ^ MySpace.com - Constantine Maroulis - NY, New York - Rock / Pop - www.myspace.com/constantinemaroulis
  18. ^ [19] "The son of a Greek Orthodox priest (note: Orthodox priests can marry prior to ordination) and a nutritionist, Martin grew up with his brother and sister in Toms River, New Jersey. His parents co-owned a Greek diner with his grandparents and uncle. Martin, the prototypical “good Greek boy,” served as an altar boy at church and bused tables at the restaurant."
  19. ^ [20] "The stunning Maria Menounos had no problem getting her Greek on for our photo shoot, but her heritage hasn’t always been easy for her. “My dad was very strict,” she says. “A guy would call the house and he would say, ‘I have a gun, and I will use it!’”... My parents said I had to marry a Greek boy. I dated them, but they weren’t for me. They want slaves. I want someone to be my slave! My mom still puts my dad’s socks on him when she wakes him up in the morning."
  20. ^
    • Demi Moore[21] "only Greek-American comic"
  21. ^ Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala
  22. ^ [22] "It never occurred to me that Chris Sarandon is Greek (for those that don't know, Tarpon Springs is an ethnic Greek community located just north of St. Petersburg), until I thought about it - he very much looks Greek, later explaining that his father was from a "Greek village in Turkey"."
  23. ^ [23][24] "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [25]
  24. ^ [26] "Greek-American actor George Savalas"
  25. ^ [27] "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." [28] "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..." [29]
  26. ^ [30] "Sigler is half-Cuban and half-Greek (Jewish)"
  27. ^ [31] "A raven haired beauty who is equal parts Greek passion and English reserve"
  28. ^ [32] "John is also Greek and part Irish." [33] "John Stamos' original family name is Stamopolous, which was shortened by his grandparents when they came to America from Greece."
  29. ^ [34] "Well we’re both Greek, which is a shoe-in right there." [35] "Mena, the world traveler: Part Estonian and part Greek, Suvari was named for her godmother, who was born in the Mena House, a hotel at the base of the Pyramids in Egypt."
  30. ^ [36]"I'm a mutt. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. German on one side, Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. My mom is very olive-skinned; I get my blue eyes from my dad."
  31. ^ [37]. "My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek." [38] "Father: worked at a racetrack; changed family name from Ibrahimoff to Wilson, selecting the name from the street on which they lived in Southern California; a Greek-Pomak who was born in Greece but raised in Bulgaria; lived in Turkey before emigrating to the USA.[39] Her mother Dorothy Wilson was born and raised in a Greek village on the Albanian border. [40] "Tom Hanks' wife Rita Wilson is of Greek origin and took her family to see this one-woman act. She loved it so much that she went again, this time with her husband. Tom Hanks was so impressed that he offered to produce the movie. His production company Playtone Productions has produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
  32. ^ [41] "Greek-American entertainer Lisa Zane"
  33. ^ [http://www.demosrestaurants.com/history.cfm "
  34. ^ Social Diary 4/22/05 - When Too Much of Too Much Is Still Not Enough
  35. ^ [42] "Greek-born couturier James Galanos"
  36. ^ [43] "Greek American, originally from Springfield, Massachusetts"
  37. ^ [44][45] "My father is a Greek from Macedonia. I don’t know his roots exactly."
  38. ^ [46] "Greek-American production designer Dean Tavoularis"
  39. ^ [47] "To show in Milan is 'the top' according to the Greek American who decided to leave the catwalks of New York and head for those here in Milan."
  40. ^ [48] " I’m half Greek and half Venezuelan, and I speak fluent Spanish and Greek."
  41. ^ Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala
  42. ^ [49] "Greek-born U.S. conductor"
  43. ^ [50] "Called upon to help support their Greek-Norwegian family when their father's business was wiped out by the Depression"
  44. ^ [51] "Annette Artani, a native Greek-American New Yorker"
  45. ^ [52] "renowned Greek opera singer whose personal life enthralled Greece in the 1950s and 1960s"
  46. ^ [53] "I'm Greek, so we have pretty big booties in my family"
  47. ^ [54] "Mr. Greg Dulli (he's Greek, ya know...)"
  48. ^ [55] "We were baptized Greek Orthodox, so we are Greek Orthodox," Matt says. "If you're baptized Greek Orthodox, you're in for good. That's it."
  49. ^ [56] "Well, here I am. I'm an Anatolian Greek - a middle eastern Greek - and I'm an American, which is a bloody weird combination."
  50. ^ [57] "I'm Greek and my wife and I will cook a Greek dinner for eight for the winner. That is a Greek."
  51. ^ [58] "I am French/Greek"
  52. ^ [59] "Are you a fan of anal sex? TL, "Being Greek, you'd think I'd be a big anal sex fan. It's kinda nasty. I'm not really feeling it too much, although I've done it several times -- but it's not my favorite."
  53. ^ [60] "Constantine comes from a "massive" Greek American family"
  54. ^ [61] "Greek conductor and composer"
  55. ^ [62] "I’m half Irish and I’m half Greek"
  56. ^ [63] "the half-Greek, half-Puerto Rican kid"
  57. ^ [64] "Born in Berkeley, California, to a Greek immigrant family"
  58. ^ [65] "Greek American bandleader Johnny Otis"
  59. ^ [66] "Date of birth (location)29 March 1943, Volos, Greece"
  60. ^ [67] "The other element that influenced me early on had to do with my Greek Orthodox raising where I used to sit in church and just be enthralled with the choir. So, there are a lot of Gregorian modal ideas in my music that go back to that."
  61. ^ [68] "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans, adore rebetiko music."
  62. ^ http://www.chrisspheeris.com/bio/indexbio.html} "Being raised in the midwestern usa and spending summers in his ancestral homeland of Greece..."
  63. ^ Trousdale - [69] "Half and half? Yeah I think…my dad is full Greek and my mom’s Black Irish."
  64. ^ [70] "This website is dedicated to preserving the musical memory of the late, great, Tatiana Troyanos, Greek-American Mezzo-Soprano"
  65. ^ [71] "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans"
  66. ^ [72] "Jim Verraros: My father was born in Greece, so I am mostly Greek. My mother is German, Irish, French and English."
  67. ^ [73] "My father was a first generation born American, of Greek refugees from Izmir, Turkey. My mother was born in Athens, Greece, to Greek parents."
  68. ^ [74] "his Greek musician's claims to fame" [75] "He divides his time between L.A. and the Seattle, WA area, and is now an American citizen."
  69. ^ [76] "Kalomira Sarantis is missing the second semester of her first year in college. She is pursuing her lifetime dream – a career as a professional singer – in a very unorthodox way, as a contestant on the Antenna TV program "Fame Story" in Greece."
  70. ^ Titus - [77] "Greek-American State Senator Dina Titus"
  71. ^ [78] "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
  72. ^ [79] "Eugenides is himself Greek-American, Detroit-born, suburb-raised-- all sources of inspiration for his second novel."
  73. ^ [80] "How I was both Spiderman and a tiny unathletic Greek boy..." [81] "As the son of Greek immigrants, he participated in the familiar first generation event of multiple identities"
  74. ^ [82] "Because I am Greek, they gave me a pet betta fighting fish for a good-luck mascot"