Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos ( el, Γιώργος) is a common abbreviation of the given name
Georgios Georgios (, , ) is a Greek name derived from the word ''georgos'' (, , "farmer" lit. "earth-worker"). The word ''georgos'' (, ) is a compound of ''ge'' (, , "earth", "soil") and ''ergon'' (, , "task", "undertaking", "work").
It is one of the most ...
. Notable people with the name include:
Persons
Giorgos
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Giorgos Agorogiannis
Georgios Agorogiannis ( el, Γεώργιος Aγορογιάννης; born 3 May 1966) is a Greek former international football player who played as a right-back.
Club career
Agorogiannis started his football career at team of his hometown, To ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer
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Giorgos Anatolakis
Georgios Anatolakis ( el, Γεώργιος Ανατολάκης; born 16 March 1974) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is well known in Greece for his strength, passion and persistence. A strong aerial ch ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Angelopoulos, Greek businessman and billionaire
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Giorgos Apostolidis, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Arvanitis (born 1941), Greek cinematographer
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Giorgos Balogiannis
Georgios Balogiannis (alternate spelling: Giorgos, Ballogianis, Mpalogiannis) ( el, Γιώργος Μπαλογιάννης; born January 17, 1971, in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a retired Greek professional basketball player.
Professional career
Ba ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Bartzokas, Greek basketball coach
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Giorgos Batis
Yiorgos Batis ( el, Γιώργος Μπάτης, also Giorgos Batis) (1885 – 10 March 1967) was one of the first rebetes influential to '' rebetiko'' music. His real name was Yiorgos Tsoros although he was known as Yiorgos Ampatis. He had a ...
, Greek rebetiko musician
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Giorgos Dedes
Georgios Dedes ( el, Γεώργιος Δέδες; born 25 February 1943) is a Greek former professional footballer of Asia Minor descent, who played as a forward. His main characteristics were his speed, his technique and his shooting. He compet ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Diamantopoulos
Georgios "Giorgos" Diamantopoulos (; born on February 15, 1980) is a Greek former professional basketball player. At a height of 6'5" (1.96 m) tall, he played as a shooting guard-small forward. In the prime of his career, he possessed great scori ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (born 1952), Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament
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Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Economides, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Foiros, Greek footballer and manager
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Giorgos Fotakis
Georgios Fotakis ( el, Γεώργιος Φωτάκης; born 29 October 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
He last played for Panachaiki.
Club career
Fotakis spent his early career in his native Greece, p ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Gavriilidis (1906–1982), Greek actor
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Giorgos Georgiadis
Georgios Georgiadis ( el, Γεώργιος Γεωργιάδης; born 14 November 1987) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a winger.
Club career
PAOK
Georgiadis made his debut for the club on 4 August 2011 in a Europa League ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Giannias (died 1821), Greek revolutionary leader
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Giorgos Iacovou, Cypriot diplomat and politician
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Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Greek scriptwriter and actor
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Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Karagoutis, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
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Giorgos Katsaros (born 1934), Greek musician and composer
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Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Konstadinou (born 1934), Greek actor and director
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Giorgos Kostikos
Georgios Kostikos (Greek: Γεώργιος Κωστίκος; born 26 April 1958) is a Greek former professional footballer.
Playing career Club
Kostikos began playing football with Pierikos in 1975, and two years later he was acquired by PAOK. H ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Markopoulos
Giorgos Markopoulos ( el, Γιώργος Μαρκόπουλος; born 1951) is a Greek poet. He read Economics and Statistics at the University of Piraeus (then Higher School for Industrial Studies).
He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, ...
, Greek poet
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Giorgos Mazonakis
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, label = Universal Music Greece (1993–2001)Heaven Music (2001–2016) Minos EMI (2017;present)
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, Greek pop singer
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Giorgos Merkis, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Mitsibonas
Georgios Mitsibonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Μητσιμπόνας; 11 November 1962 – 13 September 1997) was a Greek football player during the 1980s and 1990s.
Biography
Mitsibonas was born in 1962 in the village of Tsaritsani ( Larissa r ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Nicolaou
Giorgos Nicolaou () born May 22, 1982 in Paralimni, Cyprus is a Cyprus, Cypriot soccer, football football striker, striker who currently plays for Ormideia F.C. He started his career at Enosis Neon Paralimni and he also played for Panachaiki AC ...
, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Ninios
Giorgos Ninios (born 1959) is a Greek television, film and stage actor with an extensive filmography.
He has won two awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival
The Thessaloniki Film Festival is a Thessaloniki-based cultural institution focusing ...
, Greek actor
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Giorgos Paligiorgos
Georgios Paligeorgos ( el, Γεώργιος Παληγεώργος; born 9 February 1990) is a Greek footballer currently playing for Tyrnavos in the Greek Football League. He has previously played for AEK Athens, Anagennisi Karditsa, Thrasyvo ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Panagi
Giorgos Panagi (; born November 3, 1986, in Larnaca) is a retired Cypriot footballer.
He is best known for scoring a goal in Anorthosis' famous draw with Internazionale becoming the first Cypriot player to score for a Cypriot side in a Champi ...
, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Papasideris
Giorgos Papasideris ( el, Γιώργος Παπασιδέρης 14 September 1902 – 8 October 1977) was a Greek singer, composer, and lyricist. He was born on Salamis Island. After leaving elementary school, he spent his entire career workin ...
(1902–1977), Greek country singer, composer and lyricist
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Giorgos Patis, Greek badminton player
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Giorgos Pelagias
Giorgos Pelagias () (born May 10, 1985 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot footballer, who last played for ASIL Lysi.
Career
Pelagias joined Kerkyra in July 2006 where he signed a 4-year contract.
On 1 August 2013 Pelagias joined Azerbaijan Premier Leagu ...
, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Poniros
Georgios Poniros ( gr, Γεώργιος Πονηρός; born 8 October 1987) is a professional football goalkeeper. He currently plays for A.E. Ermionida F.C.
Poniros started his career at Akarnanikos. In the summer of 2008, he signed with Pan ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Samaras, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Savvidis, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971), Greek writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
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Giorgos Siantos
Georgios Siantos (nicknames: ''Geros'' "Old man", ''Theios'' "Uncle"; el, Γεώργιος "Γιώργης" Σιάντος; 1890 – 20 May 1947) was a prominent figure of the Communist Party of Greece ( el, links=no, Κομμουνιστικό ...
, Greek resistance member and politician
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Giorgos Sideris
Giorgos Sideris ( el, Γιώργος Σιδέρης, born 5 April 1938-) is a Greek former Association football, footballer, who played as striker (association football), striker.
Club career
Sideris began his youth career at Atromitos Piraeus ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Sigalas
Giorgos Sigalas (alternate spelling: Georgios) ( el, Γιώργος Σιγάλας, link=no; born July 31, 1971 in Peristeri, Athens, Greece), is a retired Greek professional basketball player and basketball coach. During the decade of the 1990s, t ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Skartados
Georgios Skartados (Greek language, Greek: Γεώργιος Σκαρτάδος; born 7 April 1960) is a retired Greece national football team, Greek international Association football, footballer.
Career
Born in Rhodes, Skartados started his ca ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Sterianopoulos Giorgos, Yiorgos or Yorgos ( el, Γιώργος) is a common abbreviation of the given name Georgios. Notable people with the name include:
Persons Giorgos
* Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
* Giorgos Alkaios, pop musician and singer
* Gio ...
, Greek businessman
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Giorgos Theodoridis
Giorgos Theodoridis ( el, Γιώργος Θεοδωρίδης; born 3 July 1980) is a Greek former professional footballer.
References
1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Frankfurt
Greek men's footballers
Greece men's interna ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Theodotou
Georgos Theodotou () (born January 1, 1974, in Famagusta) is a Cypriot football defender. He last played for Anorthosis of Cyprus. His former teams are AC Omonia, AEK Larnaca
AEK Larnaca FC ( el, AEK; for short Αθλητική Έvωση ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Theofanous (born 1968), Cypriot-Greek composer
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Giorgos Tofas
Georgios Tofas (born 17 June 1989) is a Cypriot footballer who played for Enosis Neon Paralimni as a striker.
Career
Tofas made his debut for Enosis Paralimni first team at 15, he was then called into the Cyprus U16 squad. He made nine substit ...
, Cypriot footballer
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Giorgos Toursounidis
Georgios Toursounidis (Greek: Γεώργιος Τουρσουνίδης; born 21 August 1970) is a retired Greek footballer. He played for PAOK and Xanthi.
Toursounidis was born in 1970. He made 263 league appearances for PAOK, scoring 35 goal ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Toussas
Giorgos Toussas ( el, Γιώργος Τούσσας) (born 8 September 1954) is a Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Communist Party of Greece; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. He was born ...
, Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament
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Giorgos Tsalikis
Giorgos Tsalikis (Γιώργος Τσαλίκης, born 25 October 1975) is a Greek Laïko
Laïko or laïkó ( el, λαϊκό ραγούδιlaïkó 'tragoúdi'' ; “ongof the people", "popular ong, pl: ''laïká'' 'tragoúdia'' is a Gr ...
, Greek pop singer
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Giorgos Tsiaras
Georgios Tsiaras (alternate spelling: Giorgos Tsiaras; born May 4, 1982) is a Greek former professional basketball player and the current team manager of Peristeri B.C., Peristeri of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. Du ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giorgos Tzavelas
Georgios Tzavellas ( el, Γεώργιος Τζαβέλλας; born 26 November 1987) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Super League club AEK Athens and the Greece national team.
Club career Kerkyra
Tzavellas be ...
, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Tzavellas George Tzavellas, also rendered Giorgos Tzavellas, Yiorgos Tzavellas, or Yorgos Javellas ( el, Γιώργος Τζαβέλλας, 1916, Athens – October 18, 1976), was a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particu ...
, Greek film director and screenwriter
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Giorgos Vaitsis, Greek footballer
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Giorgos Vassilakopoulos
George Vassilakopoulos (alternate spellings: Georgios, Giorgos, Vasilakopoulos, Vassilacopoulos, Vasilacopoulos; el, Γιώργος Βασιλακόπουλος; born 18 January 1939) is a Greek politician, former professional basketball player ...
, President of FIBA Europe
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Giorgos Velentzas
Giorgos Velentzas ( el, Γιώργος Βελέντζας; 4 December 1927 – 20 July 2015) was a Greek actor.
Biography
He studied at the Dramatic School at the Athens Odeum. He starred in the movie '' Ochyro 27'' in 1948 and made his firs ...
, Greek actor
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Giorgos Zampetas, Greek songwriter and musician
Yiorgos
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Yiorgos Batis (1885–1967), Greek musician, influential in rebetiko music
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Yiorgos Caralambo
Yiorgos (or George) Caralambo also called Greek George and George Allen (? – September 2, 1913) was an alleged murderer and camel driver hired by U.S. Army in 1856 for the Camel Corps experiment in the Southwest. The camels were to be tested ...
, camel driver hired by US Army in 1856 for the Camel Corps experiment in the Southwest
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Yiorgos Depollas
Yiorgos Depollas (born Athens 1947) is a Greek photographer. Alternative spellings of his name are Giorgos Depollas and George Depollas.
Depollas was one of the main figures of the New Greek Photography movement which promoted creative photograp ...
, Greek photographer
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Yiorgos Magoulas
Yiorgos Magoulas (Greek: Γιώργος Μαγουλάς), is a successful composer of orchestral music and music for television and cinema. Among other projects, he has composed music for the documentary series WarZone (Εμπόλεμη Ζώνη, ...
, Greek composer and guitarist
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Yiorgos Vardinogiannis
Yiorgos Vardinogiannis ( el, Γιώργος Βαρδινογιάννης) is a Greek businessman and a shipping magnate, former owner and president of the Panathinaikos football club. He was born in Episkopi, Rethymno in 1936. He is the brothe ...
, Greek shipowner and businessman, former owner and president of the Panathinaikos football club
Yorgos
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Greek film producer and director
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Yorgos Dalaras, Greek Singer
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Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Greek film editor
Songs about Giorgos
*"Giorgo pou xereis ta polla" (Giorgos, the know-it-all) by
Dimitris Mitropanos
*"Me lene Giorgo" (My name is Giorgos) sung by
Manolis Mitsias
Manolis Mitsias (Greek: Μανώλης Μητσιάς, ; born 26 February 1946) is a Greek singer. He has been a significant artistic presence in the laïko, light laïko and entekhno genres of modern Greek music.
Early life
Mitsias was born i ...
, written by
Giorgos Hatzinasios
*"Aftos o Giorgos" (This Giorgos) by
See also
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George (given name)
George () is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Geōrgios (; , ). The name gained popularity due to its association with the Christian martyr, Saint George (died 23 April 303), a member of the Praetorian Guard who was sentenced to dea ...
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