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4 unusual facts about Greek American


Grecian Echoes

Grecian Echoes is a variety show geared to the Greek American community of the Greater Boston area.

Gus G

The stage name "Gus G." has two sources of origin - "Gus" is a common Greek American English translation of the name "Kostas," and "G" was a nickname given to him by a friend during his time living in the U.S.

Gus Triandos

Gus Triandos (July 30, 1930 – March 28, 2013) was a Greek American former professional baseball player.

Pagedale, Missouri

The area originally was farmland, but it did have an interesting history with several pockets of significant Greek and African-American residents.


Costa Dillon

Dillon, a Greek American (his grandfather's family name was Anglicized from Deligianis), was born in Norwich, Connecticut to parents who were second-generation Greeks.

Peter Moskos

The son of military and Greek American sociologist Charles Moskos, he specializes in policing, crime, and punishment.

Peter Tiboris

Peter Tiboris was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on October 31, 1947, to Ernest Peter Tiboris, a dentist, from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Stella Menas, of Waukegan, Illinois, first generation Greek-Americans of the Greek Orthodox faith.

Tzavaras

The Greek diaspora shows presence of Greek American and Greek Canadian bearers of this family name both in the United States and Canada, mostly located in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto, comprising the alterations Javaras, Zavaras, Tziavaras and Chiavaras.


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Annastasia Batikis

Born in Racine, Wisconsin to Greek-American parents, Batikis was one of three descendants of Greek migrants to play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, being the others Kay Lionikas and Vickie Panos.

Calathes

Nick Calathes (born 1989), Greek-American basketball player in the National Basketball Association, brother of Pat Calathes

Fieldites

One of Field's most important collaborators in this strike was a young Greek-American, Aristodimos Kaldis, who would later have a career as a landscape artist.

Gus Yatron

As a Greek-American, Yatron found personal hardship during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Harry Meshel

He was born in Youngstown, Ohio on June 13, 1924, to Greek-American parents, Rubena (Markakis) and Angelo Michelakis (sometimes spelled Mechilakis), whose surname was Americanized to Meshel.

Katehi

Linda P.B. Katehi (born 1954), Greek-American engineer, sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis

Kay Lionikas

A Native of New Brunswick, New Jersey to Greek-American parents, Lionikas was one of three descendants of Greek migrants to play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, being the others Annastasia Batikis and Vickie Panos.

Leonard Patrick

Patrick grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Lincoln Park, in Chicago's Near North Side and during Prohibition, eventually becoming an associate and later partner of Greek-American loanshark and extortionist Gus Alex.

Michael Gianaris

He is the second Greek-American to be elected to the New York State Legislature after Dean Skelos.

Pankration

"Amateur Pankration" was first introduced to the martial arts community by Greek-American combat athlete Jim Arvanitis in 1969 and later exposed worldwide in 1973 when he was featured on the cover of Black Belt magazine.

Papageorgiou

George Papageorgiou, Greek-American football player and coach in the United States

Punk jazz

Greek-American singer Diamanda Galás also approached jazz tradition from a thematically and stylistically transgressive perspective.

Ralph Mosca

Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, loan sharking and gambling, and was responsible for receiving tribute payments from Greek-American gangsters operating in Astoria.

Secret Combination

Secret Combination: The Album, Greek-American singer Kalomira's fourth studio album

Sid Ganis

Sidney Ganis (born January 8, 1940) is a Greek-American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee.

Tryfon Tolides

Tryfon Tolides (born Korifi Voiou, Greece) is a Greek-American poet, author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking (Penguin, 2005).

William N. Valavanis

William N. Valavanis, born September 3, 1951 in Waukegan, Illinois, is a Greek-American bonsai master who carries on Yuji Yoshimura's tradition of teaching Japanese techniques and aesthetics to enthusiasts in the West.

Yanna Darili

As of August 2012, Yanna Darili headed up a private investment group acquiring National Greek TV a Greek-American television station on Time Warner Cable.