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What they did / were
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Greek
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1
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He conquered Persia
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Alexander the Great
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2
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Physician who invented the "Pap smear" test
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George Papanikolaou
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3
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Greek general who defeated the Ottomans in 1822
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Theodoros Kolokotronis
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4
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Prime Minister and President in the latter half of the 20th century
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Konstantinos Karamanlis
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5
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First moral philosopher, died by drinking hemlock
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Socrates
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6
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"Father of Western Philosophy"
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Aristotle
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7
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Leader of the Greek national liberation movement, "Ethnarch"
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Eleftherios Venizelos
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8
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First president of independent Greece
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Ioannis Kapodistrias
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9
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Founder of the Academy in Athens
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Plato
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10
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Statesman, orator and general of Athens
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Pericles
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11
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Songwriter, Zorba's Dance
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Mikis Theodorakis
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12
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Mathematician, theory of functions of a real variable
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Constantin Carathéodory
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13
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Actress and activist against the Greek junta
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Melina Mercouri
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14
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Three times Prime Minister in the 80s and 90s
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Andreas Papandreou
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15
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Writer of Zorba the Greek and translator of The Divine Comedy
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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16
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Major exponent of romantic modernism
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Odysseus Elytis
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17
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Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Homer
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18
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Composer, "Éntekhno", Never on Sunday
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Manos Hadjidakis
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19
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Spartan warrior king at the Battle of Thermopylae
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Leonidas I
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20
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"Father of Medicine"
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Hippocrates
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21
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a² + b² = c²
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Pythagoras
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22
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Poet, journalist and civil servant
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Constantine P. Cavafy
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23
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Greek American soprano, "La Divina"
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Maria Callas
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24
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Mathematician from Syracuse, Sicily
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Archimedes
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25
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Second husband of Jackie Kennedy
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Aristotle Onassis
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26
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Seven time Prime Minister, Rio-Antirrio bridge
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Charilaos Trikoupis
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27
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Painter of the Spanish Renaissance (the name means "the Greek", in Spanish)
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El Greco
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28
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He died in the fall of Constantinople
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Constantine XI
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29
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Nobel laureate, poet and diplomat
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Giorgos Seferis
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30
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Active in the modern Greek Enlightenment, pioneer of independence
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Rigas Feraios
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