Megali Ellines

As Megali Ellines ( Greek Μεγάλοι Έλληνες , Great Greeks) refers to a 2009 by the Greek TV station Skai TV to the greatest Greeks to determine performed coordination of all time. The action is based on " 100 Greatest Britons " by the BBC . The German counterpart is our best .

The 10 biggest

space	Surname	Lifetime	property
1	Alexander the Great	356-323 BC Chr.	King, hegemon and general
2	Georgios Papanikolaou	1883-1962	Doctor, biologist
3	Theodoros Kolokotronis	1770-1843	Freedom fighters and politicians
4th	Konstantinos Karamanlis	1907-1998	Politician
5	Socrates	470 / 469-433 BC Chr.	philosopher
6th	Aristotle	384-322 BC Chr.	Philioph, scientist
7th	Eleftherios Venizelos	1864-1936	Politician
8th	Ioannis Kapodistrias	1776-1831	Diplomat, politician
9	Plato	427-347 BC Chr.	Philosopher
10	Pericles	495-429 BC Chr.	Politicians, strategos

Places 11 to 100

11. Mikis Theodorakis (1925–)
12. Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950)
13. Melina Merkouri (1920-1994)
14. Andreas Papandreou (1919–1996)
15. Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)
16. Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)
17. Homer
18. Manos Hadjidakis (1925–1994)
19. Leonidas I (540-480 BC)
20. Hippocrates (460-370 BC)
21. Pythagoras (570–495 BC)
22. Konstantinos Kavafis (1863–1933)
23. Maria Callas (1923-1977)
24. Archimedes (287–212 BC)
25. Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975)
26. Charilaos Trikoupis (1832-1896)
27. El Greco (1541-1614)
28. Constantine XI. (1404-1453)
29. Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971)
30. Rigas Feraios (1757–1798)
31. Aris Velouchiotis (1905–1945)
32. Ioannis Metaxas (1871-1941)
33. Nikos Galis (1957–)
34. Georgios Karaiskakis (1782–1827)
35. Democritus (460-370 BC)
36. Georgios Gemistos Plethon (1355-1454)
37. Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857)
38. Ioannis Makrygiannis (1797–1864)
39. Adamantios Korais (1748–1833)
40. Giannis Ritsos (1909–1990)
41. Themistocles (524–459 BC)
42. Heraclitus (535-475 BC)
43. Thucydides (454–399 / 396 BC)
44. Euclid
45. Pavlos Melas (1870–1904)
46. Christodoulos I (1939–2008)
47. Athanasios Diakos (1788–1821)
48. Theodoros Zagorakis (1971–)
49. Nanopoulos, Dimitri (1948–)
50. Unknown soldier
51. Phidias (480-430 BC)
52. Aristophanes (446–386 BC)
53. Kostis Palamas (1859–1943)
54. Cosmas of Aitolia (1714–1779)
55. Manolis Andronikos (1919–1992)

56. Sophocles (497–406 BC)
57. Nikos Belogiannis (1915–1952)
58. Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997)
59. Georgios Papandreou (senior) (1888–1968)
60. Nikolaos Margioris (1913–1993)
61. Alexandros Panagoulis (1939–1976)
62. Georgios Papadopoulos (1919–1999)
63. Epicurus (341–270 BC)
64. Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851–1911)
65. Otto of Greece (1815–1867)
66. Vangelis (1943–)
67. Solon (638–558 BC)
68. Kleisthenes (570–507 BC)
69. Aeschylus (525–456 BC)
70. Basil II (958-1025)
71. Constantine the Great (272–337)
72. Ion Dragoumis (1878-1920)
73. Konstantinos Simitis (1936–)
74. Nikolaos Plastiras (1883–1953)
75. Dimitris Mitropoulos (1896–1960)
76. Theodoros Angelopoulos (1935–2012)
77. Nikos Xylouris (1936–1980)
78. Stelios Kazantzidis (1931–2001)
79. Charilaos Florakis (1914-2005)
80. Euripides (480–406 BC)
81. Karolos Koun (1908–1987)
82. Justinian I (482-565)
83. Apostolos Lazopoulos (1956–)
84. Herodotus (484-425 BC)
85. Thanasis Veggos (1927-2011)
86. Hélène Ahrweiler (1926–)
87. Katina Paxinou (1900–1973)
88. Aliki Vougiouklaki (1934–1996)
89. Markos Vamvakaris (1905–1972)
90. Grigoris Lambrakis (1912–1963)
91. Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915–1984)
92. Pyrros Dimas (1971-)
93. Manos Loïzos (1937–1982)
94. Manolis Glezos (1922-2020)
95. Elena Mouzala
96. Philip II (382–336 BC)
97. Dimitris Horn (1921–1998)
98. Laskarina Bouboulina (1771–1825)
99. Thales (624-546 BC)
100. Praxiteles (390-320 BC)

Trivia

El Greco (27th) reached the 55th place in the Spanish edition El Español de la Historia .
Sophia of Greece was voted 4th in the Spanish edition of El Español de la Historia .