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The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Athens, Texas. Pages in category "People from Athens, Texas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Alexander I of Macedon, runner and Olympic winner; Astylos of Croton; Pheidippides Phidippides, acclaimed runner and 'inspirator' of the Olympic Marathon race, who had run back and forth between Athens and Sparta in order to relay news of the Battle of Marathon, resulting in his death from ultimate exhaustion, when in his last breath he yelled out "We (the Greeks) won".
Jüri Kraft, 88, Soviet-Estonian economist and politician, people's deputy (1989–1991). [424] Alastair Lamb, 93, Chinese-born British diplomatic historian and author. [425] Roman Lentner, 85, Polish footballer (1960 Olympics, Górnik Zabrze). [426] Aleksander Łuczak, 79, Polish historian and politician, minister of national education (1993 ...
Theodoros Angelopoulos was born in Athens on 27 April 1935. His father Spyros hailed from the town of Ampeliona, Messenia in the Peloponnese. [8] During the Greek Civil War, his father was taken hostage and returned when Angelopoulos was 9 years old; according to the director, the absence of his father and looking for him among the dead bodies (during the "Dekemvriana" in Athens) had a great ...
People from Athens, Greece. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ... People from Athens by occupation (18 C) A. Ancient ...
Baldock qualified to represent Greece through a paternal grandmother and played for the national team 12 times during his career. “It was a really special game for us because of George and of ...
Greece: Andrews was born in China to American father Roy Chapman Andrews and his English wife, and served in the U.S.' 10th Mountain Division during World War II. After graduating from Harvard University in 1947, Andrews moved to Greece to pursue archaeological studies, and renounced his U.S. citizenship to naturalize as a Greek citizen in 1975 ...
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