Famous People with Name Joannis

Joannis Andreou            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Joannis Andreou: was a Greek swimmer.

Joannis Martyn            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Joannis Martyn: was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728-1737), and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues (1749) and Georgics (1741) of Virgil. On resigning the botanical chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books.He abandoned this idea in favour of medical and botanical studies. His interest in botany came from his acquaintance with an apothecary, John Wilmer, and Dr. Patrick Blair, a surgeon-apothecary from Dundee who practiced in London. Martyn gave some botanical lectures in London in 1721 and 1726, and in 1727 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.