Elis (regional Unit) - Persons

Persons

• Panagiotis Adraktas (b. September 28, 1948 in Kardamas), a New Democracy politician
• Hristodoulos Aholos or Acholos
• Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos, revolutionary leader
• Astydameia
• Atreus
• Avgerinos family:
  • Agamemnon Avgerinos
  • Andreas Avgerinos
  • Charalambos Avgerinos
  • Dimitrios Avgerinos
  • Nakis Avgerinos
  • Petros Avgerinos
• Dionyssios N. Bokos, writer of Myrsini, Nihta Pepromenou, etc.
• Andreas Bratis, writer of To Vartholomo (The Vartholonio)
• Christopoulos family:
  • Agamemnon Christopoulos, politician, brother of Asimakis
  • Anastasios Christopoulos, revolutionary leader
  • Asimakis Christopoulos, politicians, brother of Tzannetos
  • Charalampos Christopoulos, politician
  • Christos Christopoulos, father of Anastasios
  • Tzannetos Christopoulos, politician, son of Anastasios
• Christos Daralexis, journalist
• Themistoklis Daralexis, politician
• Vyronas Davos, a writer, historian and a poet, he published works on Ilia during the Frankish, Ottoman, Venetian periods, the Greek War of Independence and the Modern period
• Dionyssis Diakos, revolutionary leader
• Ioannis Diakos, revolutionary leader
• Takis Doxas, writer
• Epeus, ancient mythological legend
• Ioannis Giannopoulos, politician
• Kostis Gontikas (b. 1934), politician
• Dimitrios Gontikas, (1888–1967) a politician and former president of the Greek parliament
• Aristeidis Griboutis, journalist
• Miltiadis Iatridis, revolutionary leader
• Nikos Kahtitsis, writer
• Antonios Kalogeropoulos, a revolutionary leader from Myrsini (then Souleimanaga)
• Athanassios Kanellopoulos, politician
• Simon Karas, music historian
• Andreas Karkavitsas
• Kostas Kazakos, actor
• Dimitrios Kioussopoulos, former Prime Minister of Greece
• Dionyssos Kokkinos, writer
• Dimitrios Korkolis, politician and mayor of Pyrgos
• Krestenitis family:
  • Aristeidis Krestenitis
  • Georgios Krestenitis, two politicians
  • Ioannis Krestenis (elder)
  • Ioannis Krestenitis (younger), politician
  • Lykourgos Krestenitis (1793–1873), president of the Greek parliament
  • Stamatis Krestenitis, a Greek revolutionary leader
• Christos Laskaris, poet
• Liourdis family:
  • Ioannis Liourdis, politician
  • Spyros Liourdis, Greek revolutionary leader
  • Georgios and Petros Mitzos, revolutionary leaders
• Georgios Nikoloutsopoulos, a revolutionary leader from Myrsini (then Souleimanaga)
• Alexandros Panagoulis
• Georgios Papandreou, an unrelated historian
• Theodoros Papasimakopoulos, revolutionary leader
• Ioannis Pesmazoglou
• Takis Sinopoulos, poet
• Sisinis family:
  • Chrysanthos Sisinis, A Greek revolutionary leader and a politician
• Georgios Sisinis, a Greek revolutionary leader
• Christos Stefanopoulos, politician
• Theodoridis family:
  • Thallis Theodoridis (elder), a Greek revolutionary leader
  • Thallis Theodoridis (younger), a politician
  • Vasileios Theodoridis, journalist
• Konstantinos Varouxis, journalist, Patris writer
• Leonidas Varouxis, journalist, Patris writer
• Alexis Vilaetis, a 19th century politician who was elected in 1868
• Charalambos Vilaetis, a Greek revolutionary leader
• Lysandros Vilaetis, a chief of Pyrgos and a politician
• Nikolaos Vilaetis
• Panagis Vourloumis

• For the kings of Elis (now Ilia), see section