Snake Goddess, an exhibit from Iraklion Archaeological Museum. Other exhibits include Phaistos Disk and Arkalochori Axe.
Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous Greek painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco).

• Elli Alexiou, writer 1894-1988
• Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, business woman and politician *1955
• Francesco Barozzi, mathematician and astronomer 1537-1604
• Michael Damaskenos, painter of icons 1530/35-1592/93
• Rika Diallina, actress and model, Miss Hellas 1952
• El Greco, Mannerist painter, sculpturer and architect 1541-1614
• Odysseas Elytis, poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1911-1936
• Fotis Kafatos, Professor of Biology, President of the European Research Council
• Nikos Kazantzakis, the prominent modern Greek writer 1883-1957
• Georgios Klontzas, painter of icons 1540-1607
• Vitsentzos Kornaros, most important Cretan Renaissance writer 1553-1613
• Fragiskos Leontaritis (Francesco Londarit), sole Cretan Renaissance composer 1518-1572
• Nikos Machlas, football player *1973
• Giannis Markopoulos, composer *1939
• Sapfo Notara, actress 1907-1985
• Nikolaos Panagiotakis, Professor of History, Byzantinologist, 1935-1997
• Theodoros Poulakis, painter of icons 1622-1692
• Andreas Ritzos, painter of icons 1422-1492
• Georgios Samaras football player *1985
• Yannis Smaragdis, film director *1970
• Emmanuel Tzanes, painter of icons 1610-1690
• Aristidis Vlassis, painter *1955
• Konstantinos Volanakis, painter 1837-1907
• Lili Zografou, writer, 1922-1998

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