Famous People with Name Spyridon

Spyridon Xyndas            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Spyridon Xyndas: was a Greek composer and guitarist, whose last name has also been transliterated as "Xinta", "Xinda", "Xindas", and "Xyntas"

Spyridon "Spiros" Marangos            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Spyridon "Spiros" Marangos: a former Greek football player. He played for Panionios, Panathinaikos, PAOK FC, AC Omonia and APOEL FC, as well as for the Greek national side at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Spyridon Ferentinos            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Spyridon Ferentinos: was a Greek Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Spyridon Lambros            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Spyridon Lambros: was a Greek history professor and, briefly, Prime Minister of Greece. After 1903, Lambros started an academic movement called Neos Hellenomnemon which studied the scientific and philosophical developments of the Greek-speaking world during the Byzantine and Ottoman eras.

Spyridon Merkouris            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Spyridon Merkouris: was a Greek politician and long-time mayor of Athens in the early 20th century. he held the post continuously until 1914. As a committed royalist, in 1917, during the National Schism, he was exiled to Corsica. He was also accused of complicity in the riots of the Noemvriana of 1916, and was sentenced to death. Released from prison in 1920, he was elected as an MP for Attica-Boeotia in 1928 and re-elected as mayor of Athens in 1929. He served as mayor until 1932, and died in 1939. His son Stamatis was also an MP, whilst his granddaughter was the actress and later Minister of Culture, Melina Merkouri.