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Niarchos Diamond
Niarchos may refer to: *Philip Niarchos (born 1954), eldest son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos * Spyros Niarchos (born 1955), second son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos *Stavros Niarchos (1909–1996), Greek shipping tycoon * Stavros Niarchos Foundation, established in 1996 to honor Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos * Stavros S Niarchos (ship), British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust *Victoria Niarchos Victoria Christina Niarchos (; born 30 January 1960) is a member of the banking branch of the Guinness beer clan. She is a daughter of ''Patrick'' Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965) (himself half-brother of the Aga Khan IV) and his wife (and stepsis ... (born 1960), member of the non-aristocratic branch of the Guinness beer clan *'' Niarchos'', a genus of goblin spiders {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Niarchos
Philip Niarchos (alternately: Philippos or Philippe; el, Φίλιππος Νιάρχος) (born 1954) is a Greek billionaire, the eldest son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos and Eugenia Livanos, herself the elder daughter of Stavros Niarchos' rival Stavros G. Livanos. Inheritance and work Philip Niarchos was reported to be 54 in 2008 when ''The Sunday Times'' estimated his net worth at GBP 850 million, or about $1.687 billion US at that exchange rate of that time. He is a member of the board of trustees at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and an international council member of London's Tate Gallery. He was educated at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. Alongside his younger brother, Spyros, Niarchos is co-president and member of the board of directors at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The foundation is one of the world’s largest global private philanthropies founded over 25 years ago with a total of $3.3 billion awarded across 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyros Niarchos
Spyros Stavros "Spiros" Niarchos ( el, Σπύρος Νιάρχος; born 1955) is the second son of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos and Eugenia Livanos. He is a grandson of another Greek shipping giant, his mother's father, Stavros G. Livanos. In 1955 Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders Ltd launched for Stavros Niarchos what was then the World's largest supertanker. The ship was named after his new son. In 1987, while skiing in Switzerland, he met 19-year-old Daphne Guinness (artist, socialite and an heiress of the Guinness family The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout Guinnes ...) and they soon married. The marriage ended in divorce, with Guinness receiving a $39 million settlement in 1999. The couple has three children: * Nicolas Stavros Niarchos (born 1989) * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Spyrou Niarchos ( el, Σταύρος Σπύρου Νιάρχος, ; 3 July 1909 – 15 April 1996) was a Greek billionaire shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping. Niarchos was also a noted thoroughbred horse breeder and racer, several times the leading owner and number one on the French breed list. Early life Stavros was born in Athens to a wealthy family, son of Spyros Niarchos and his wife, Eugenie Koumantaros, a rich heiress. His great-great-grandfather, Philippos Niarchos, a Greek shipping agent in Valletta, had married a Maltese woman, a daughter from a noble family in Malta, whose younger offspring had migrated to Greece to base themselves in a merchant business from Malta. His parents were naturalized Americans who had owned a department store in Buffalo, New York, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was established in 1996 to honor Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos (1909–1996). Niarchos was one of the world's largest transporters of oil and owned the largest supertanker fleet of his time. Organization The foundation's board of directors includes: *Philip Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos) * Spyros Niarchos, co-president (son of Stavros Niarchos) *Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president (great-nephew of Stavros Niarchos) *George Agouridis *Heini Murer The foundation has staff in Athens, Greece; Monte Carlo, Monaco; and New York City. Since 1996, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation has provided more than 4,700 grants totaling more than $3 billion to non-profit agencies. In 2012, in response to the socio-economic crisis in Greece, SNF announced a grant initiative of additional $130 million (€100 million) over three years to help ease the adverse effects of the deepening crisis. A new initiative, Recharging the Youth, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stavros S Niarchos (ship)
''Stavros S Niarchos'' is a British brig-rigged tall ship, now renamed "Sunset". She was previously owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust (TSYT). She was primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training. She was also used for adult voyages and holidays, which helped subsidise the operation of the ship. Construction In the late 1990s the two schooners (''Malcolm Miller'' and ''Sir Winston Churchill'') then owned by the Tall Ships Youth Trust (then called the Sail Training Association (STA)) were showing their age and becoming increasingly expensive to maintain. The hulls for the two new brigs (''Stavros S Niarchos'' and her sister ship, ''Prince William'') were obtained half-completed from another project in Germany. These were transported to Appledore Ship Yards in Devon, where they were modified to the TSYT's requirements, and fitted out. She was completed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Niarchos
Victoria Christina Niarchos (; born 30 January 1960) is a member of the banking branch of the Guinness beer clan. She is a daughter of ''Patrick'' Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965) (himself half-brother of the Aga Khan IV) and his wife (and stepsister), the former Dolores Guinness (1936–2012) (''Dolores'' Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Hedringen), herself the daughter of the Mexican socialite Gloria Guinness (1912–1980) and Count Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (1896–1975). She has two older siblings: Countess Maria Alexandra de Quatrebarbes (b. 1956) and Loel Patrick Guinness (b. 1957). The third and former wife of Greek shipping heir Philip Niarchos (b. 1954), she is the mother of: * Stavros Niarchos III (b. 17 April 1985). entry. In October 2019, he married |
Niarchos (spider)
''Niarchos'' is a genus of South American goblin spiders first described by Norman I. Platnick Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ... & N. Dupérré in 2010. Species it contains twenty-three species: *'' Niarchos baehrae'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos barragani'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos bonaldoi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos cotopaxi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos elicioi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos facundoi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos florezi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Colombia *'' Niarchos foreroi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos grismadoi'' Platnick & Dupérré, 2010 — Ecuador *'' Niarchos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
