Famous People with Name Odysseas

Odysseas Elytis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Odysseas Elytis: Greek poet,regarded as one of the most important representatives of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Odysseas Dimitriadis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Odysseas Dimitriadis: was a Greek and at the same time Soviet classical music conductor. During his 70 year carrier, Odysseas had conducted a number of the world's leading orchestras, as well as being a main conductor of Georgia,

Odysseas Angelis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Odysseas Angelis: was Vice President of Greece in 1973, during the "republican" period of the military junta of 1967-1974. Along with most of those involved in the coup of April 1967, he was an officer of the Greek Army. At the time he held the rank of Lieutenant General and was appointed Chief of the Army General Staff following the coup. He was responsible, at least officially, for the Army Decree Nr. 13, which banned the musical works of Mikis Theodorakis. In the failed royal counter-coup of 13 December 1967, Angelis remained loyal to the junta, and was rewarded with promotion to full General and appointment as Chief of the Armed Forces Command.