- Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
- Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius, apostles to the Slavs
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), politician, founder of the Republic of Turkey
- Naz?m Hikmet, (1901 - 1963), Turkish poet
- Cahit Arf, (1910 - 1997), Turkish mathematician
- Isaac Carasso, founder of Dannon yogurt company
- Manolis Anagnostakis, doctor and leftist writer
- Kostas Tahtsis, writer
- Alexandros Zannas (1892 - 1968), politician
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- Christos Sartzetakis (b. 1929), jurist & ex-president of Greece
- Stavros Koujioumtzis (1932-2005), music composer & lyricist)
- Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915 - 1984), music composer and lyricist
- Stratos Dionysiou (died 1990), popular singer
- Marinella (b. 1935), popular singer
- Dionysis Savvopoulos (b. 1944), music composer, lyricist and singer
- Zoe Laskari (b.1942), actress
- Peja Stojakovic, Serbian-Greek NBA basketball player
- Eleni Daniilidou, Professional Womens Tennis Player
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