Famous People with Name Petros

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].

Petros G. Molyviatis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros G. Molyviatis: is a Greek politician, and from 2004 to 2006 was the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs. he served in the Permanent Delegation of Greece to the United Nations in New York and NATO in Brussels. He also served in the Greek embassies in Moscow, Pretoria and Ankara. From 1974 to 1980, Molyviatis was diplomatic advisor and director general of the political cabinet of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis.

Petros Protopapadakis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Protopapadakis: was Prime Minister of Greece. Protopadakis was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1902 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Party. He later joined the People's Party and served as Minister of Economy and later, in the government of Dimitrios Gounaris, he was the Justice Minister (1921–22). In 1922, during the ill-fated Greco-Turkish War, Protopapadakis was asked to form a government by King Constantine when Gounaris resigned after almost losing a vote of confidence. Protopapadakis became Prime Minister and Gounaris the Justice Minister, and remained so for a few weeks until overthrown by a military coup d'état.

Petros Mavromichalis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Petros Mavromichalis: was the leader of the Maniot people during the first half of the 19th century. His family had a long history of revolts against the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of what is now Greece. His grandfather Georgakis and his father Pierros were among the leaders of the Orlov Revolt.