Famous People with Name Petros

Petros Xanthopoulos            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Xanthopoulos: is a retired football defender.During his club career, Xanthopoulos played for Olympiacos, Ethnikos Piraeus, Panionios and Proodeftiki. He also amassed 21 caps for the Greece national team.

Petros Manos            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Manos: was a Greek Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Petros Fyssoun            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Fyssoun: is a Greek actor in film and television. He came to Greece as a child, and graduated from the Dramatic School of Art Theatre in 1954. Until 1956, he collaborated with the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun. From 1961 to 1965, he played lead roles for the National Theatre of Greece, and the same again in 1976-78 for the State Theatre of Northern Greece. His repertoire has included all kinds of theatre, from drama, comedy and tragedy to burlesque.

Petros S. Kokkalis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros S. Kokkalis: is a Greek businessman. He is Vice-President and shareholder of Intracom Holdings, one of the largest multinational technology groups in South-Eastern Europe, and the Vice-President and shareholder of Intralot S.A., the world's leading gaming technology supplier and lottery licenced operator. He is also the Vice-President of Olympiacos CFP, the biggest Greek football club and the Vice-President of the Kokkalis Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes education and training, culture and social welfare, medical research and information technology, and athletics, both in Greece and abroad.

Petros Markaris            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Markaris: is a Greek writer well known for his series of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos. The son of an Armenian entrepreneur and a Greek mother, he went to school at the St. George's Austrian High School in Istanbul and studied after his Abitur for some years in Vienna and in Stuttgart. Because of his father, he belonged to the Armenian minority for many years and did not have any citizenship; he became a Greek citizen shortly after 1974, together with the rest of the Armenian minority in Greece[1].