Spyros Stavros "Spiros" Niarchos ( el, Σπύρος Νιάρχος; born 1955) is the second son of the
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shipping
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magnate 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 ...
and
Eugenia Livanos
Eugenia Livanos-Niarchos ( el, Ευγενία Λιβανού, ; 1927 – 4 May 1970) was the third wife of Stavros Niarchos.
She was the daughter of shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos and his wife Arietta Zafirakis. Her sister was Athina Livano ...
. He is a grandson of another Greek shipping giant, his mother's father,
Stavros G. Livanos Stavros George Livanos ( el, Σταύρος Λιβανός; 1891– May 28, 1963), was a Greek shipowner, native of Chios, and the founder of the Livanos shipping empire. He was also a rival as well as father-in-law to billionaire Greek shipping ty ...
.
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
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Early life
Her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, the eldest son of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, ...
(artist, socialite and an heiress of the Guinness family
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) and they soon married.[
The couple has three children:
* Nicolas Stavros Niarchos (born 1989)
* Alexis Spyros Niarchos (born 1991)
* Ines Sophia Niarchos (born 1995)
In January 1999, Niarchos was a witness at the wedding of his best friend, Ernst August, Prince of Hanover. He is the godfather of Crown Prince Pavlos' youngest son, Aristides-Stavros. With his brother, Philip, Niarchos is co-president and member of the board of directors at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
]
References
1955 births
Living people
Niarchos family
Livanos family
People educated at Atlantic College
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