Greek Americans
A Greek-American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Greek heritage. Stereotypes abound about Greek-Americans, many of which can be found in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Greek-Americans have a heavy concentration in New York City and Chicago.
List of famous Greek-Americans
- Spiro Agnew Disgraced conservative Republican Vice President
- Helene Alexopoulos
- Jennifer Aniston Actress
- John Aniston
- Andy Athens
- Bob Costas
- John Colyandro Executive Director of Texans for a Republican Majority, indicted for money laundering and unlawful acceptance of corporate contributions.
- Angelo (The Boxer) Defendis Organized Crime Underling
- Peter Diamandis self described "astropreneur" space tourism promoter
- Frank Dicopoulos
- Michael Dukakis Democratic Presidential Candidate
- Olympia Dukakis Actress; sister of Michael Dukakis
- Tina Fey
- Mike Haridopolos, Florida State Senator, Bush Family Underling
- Arianna Huffington Liberal Columnist
- Melina Kanakaredes
- Alex Karras, actor
- Joseph Kyrillos
- Jay Leno Talk Show Host
- Greg Louganis (Greek by adoption; ethnically Samoan and Swedish)
- Andrea Macris brought a sexual harrassment action against Irish American conservative Fox News talk-show host Bill O'Reilly.
- Andy Manatos, lobbyist, former government bureaucrat
- John Negroponte conservative Republican State Department official responsible for problems in Central America in the 1980s and in contemporary Iraq.
- John Pappageorge, Troy, Michigan Republican State Representative who advocated keeping doen the African-American vote in 2004, saying, "If we do not keep down the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election cycle." The population of Detroit is 83% African-American.
- Col. Thomas M. Pappas, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade Commander at Abu Ghraib
- John Rigas Convicted Corporate Criminal
- Pete Sampras, tennis player
- Paul Sarbanes, politician
- Marina Sirtis a.k.a. Counselor Deanna Troi; perhaps better considered Greek-British).
- John Sitilides
- Alex Spanos
- John Stamos
- George Stephanopoulos Political Commentator
- George Tenet Former Director of the CIA
- Frances Fragos Townsend
- Spyredon (Spiro) Velentzas New York Organized Crime Boss
- Billy Zane