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Dukakis ( el, Δουκάκης) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Dukakis (born John A. Chaffetz), actor, son of Kitty Dukakis and stepson of Michael Dukakis * Kitty Dukakis (Katharine D. Dukakis), author, wife of Michael Dukakis * Michael Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic Party presidential candidate * Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not lon ...

John Dukakis
John Dukakis (né Chaffetz; born June 9, 1958) is an American entertainer, music executive, and political aide. Early life Dukakis was born John Chaffetz Jr. in San Jose, California on June 9, 1958, but reared in the Boston area. He is the son of Kitty Dukakis and John Chaffetz, a businessman, and the stepson of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis whom his mother married when he was five. His half-brother, through his biological father, is Jason Chaffetz who was a U.S. Representative from Utah from 2009 to 2017. He changed his name from Chaffetz to Dukakis at age 18. Acting career While attending Brown University in the 1970s, Dukakis was cast in Universal's ''Jaws 2''. He relocated to Hollywood and continued to work as an actor for the next 6 years. He had substantial roles in the films ''Making Love'', ''Delusion'' and '' Split Image'' and on television in ''Family Ties'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Taxi'' the Jim J ...
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Kitty Dukakis
Katharine "Kitty" Dukakis (née Dickson; born December 26, 1936) is an American author. She is the wife of former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Life and career Dukakis was born Katharine Virginia Dickson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Jane (née Goldberg) and Harry Ellis Dickson. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews; her mother was born to an Irish Catholic father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, and had been adopted by a family of German Jewish descent. Her father was a member of the first violin section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 49 years and also served as Associate Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. She graduated from Brookline High School in 1954 and attended Pennsylvania State University. She dropped out of college in 1956 and married John Chaffetz in 1957. They had one son, John. After four years and several moves the marriage ended in divorce, and she returned to Cambridge. Her former husband later remarried and had a son, Jas ...
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Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Greek immigrants, Dukakis attended Swarthmore College before enlisting in the United States Army. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving from 1963 to 1971. He won the 1974 Massachusetts gubernatorial election but lost his 1978 bid for re-nomination to Edward J. King. He defeated King in the 1982 gubernatorial primary and served as governor from 1983 to 1991, presiding over a period of economic growth kn ...
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