List of Greek Americans (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of Greek Americans" in English language version.

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NYTimes.com

about.com

daysofourlives.about.com

  • [13] Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine " Born on the island of Crete in Greece, Yanni Anastasakis, aka John Aniston, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. His father promptly changed the family name to Aniston."

movies.about.com

gogreece.about.com

  • [55] Archived 2006-06-27 at the Wayback Machine "renowned Greek opera singer whose personal life enthralled Greece in the 1950s and 1960s"

americanlegends.com

  • [18] "Maharis was a Kerouac look-alike, a good looking Greek kid from Queens"

amysedarisrocks.com

  • [10] "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." [11] "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..." [12] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

ancestry.com

wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com

  • [44] Grandfather Nicholas Cachikis was born in Greece.

angelfire.com

  • [47] "...Greek-American entertainer Lisa Zane..."

aol.com

members.aol.com

  • [56] "This website is dedicated to preserving the musical memory of the late, great, Tatiana Troyanos, Greek-American Mezzo-Soprano"

movies.aol.com

  • [57] Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine "Called upon to help support their Greek-Norwegian family when their father's business was wiped out by the Depression"

archive.today

  • [67] "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans, adore rebetiko music."

believermag.com

  • [9] "The son of a Greek Orthodox priest (note: Orthodox priests can marry prior to ordination) and a nutritionist, Martin grew up with his brother and sister in Toms River, New Jersey. His parents co-owned a Greek diner with his grandparents and uncle. Martin, the prototypical "good Greek boy," served as an altar boy at church and bused tables at the restaurant."

buffalonews.com

chat.ru

structured.chat.ru

  • [27][permanent dead link] "John is also Greek and part Irish." [28] "John Stamos' original family name is Stamopolous, which was shortened by his grandparents when they came to America from Greece."

chicagotribune.com

chrisspheeris.com

  • "About Chris". Chrisspheeris.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2011-09-18. Born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Chris spent his summers in Greece, the land of his heritage...

cigaraficionado.com

  • [14] [15] Archived 2006-05-14 at the Wayback Machine "Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate... his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born."

clevescene.com

  • [64] Archived 2006-06-30 at the Wayback Machine "We were baptized Greek Orthodox, so we are Greek Orthodox", Matt says. "If you're baptized Greek Orthodox, you're in for good. That's it."

columbia.edu

  • [21][22] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [23]
  • [24][25] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [26]

crazedfanboy.com

  • [19] "It never occurred to me that Chris Sarandon is Greek (for those that don't know, Tarpon Springs is an ethnic Greek community located just north of St. Petersburg), until I thought about it - he very much looks Greek, later explaining that his father was from a "Greek village in Turkey"."

cyprus-asfe.com

fansofrealitytv.com

fashionclub.com

feelingthevibe.com

filmscoremonthly.com

  • "7/14/04: Basil Poledouris Interview". Archived from the original on 2006-10-23. Retrieved 2006-03-23. "The other element that influenced me early on had to do with my Greek Orthodox raising where I used to sit in church and just be enthralled with the choir. So, there are a lot of Gregorian modal ideas in my music that go back to that."

forward.com

blogs.forward.com

girl.com.au

greekamericangirl.com

  • [36] Archived 2006-08-15 at the Wayback Machine "Angie Harmon: "It would be shaping my eyebrows. Being half Greek and half American Indian, I have the unibrow. So once I started working on them, I really did see a change. You create another kind of beauty.""

greeknewsonline.com

  • [14] [15] Archived 2006-05-14 at the Wayback Machine "Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate... his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born."
  • "Greek News - Hellenic Times 15th Anniversary Gala". Greeknewsonline.com. 2006-05-13. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  • [49][50] "My father is a Greek from Macedonia. I don’t know his roots exactly."
  • [60] Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine "Kalomira Sarantis is missing the second semester of her first year in college. She is pursuing her lifetime dream – a career as a professional singer – in a very unorthodox way, as a contestant on the Antenna TV program "Fame Story" in Greece."

greekreporter.com

hollywood.greekreporter.com

usa.greekreporter.com

guardian.co.uk

arts.guardian.co.uk

  • [74] "My own band, the Vanity Set, half of whom (including myself) are second-generation Greek-Americans"

helleniccomserve.com

hit-channel.com

hollywoodreporter.com

hudsonmod.com

imdb.com

indiewire.com

jerriblank.com

  • [10] "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." [11] "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..." [12] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

lapam.mo.it

mario.lapam.mo.it

libsyn.com

wordballoon.libsyn.com

lifetimetv.com

metohos.com

  • [49][50] "My father is a Greek from Macedonia. I don’t know his roots exactly."

mondo-digital.com

myspace.com

mytelevision.com

  • [37] "Her (Real) Heritage: "I'm Greek, Italian and Jewish. In TV Guide they wrote that I was French, Greek and Jewish. I am mostly Greek. I don't know where French came from."

nationalgeographic.com

channel.nationalgeographic.com

neoskosmos.com

newyorker.com

  • [34] "Fey's mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she's wary of claiming an ethnic identity. "I’ve said a few things about being Greek, and now every Greek organization wants to adopt me," Fey told me." [35] "Because of the Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs and butt."

newyorksocialdiary.com

npr.org

nydailynews.com

nyfa.org

  • [7] Archived 2008-04-06 at the Wayback Machine "How I was both Spiderman and a tiny unathletic Greek boy..." [8] "As the son of Greek immigrants, he participated in the familiar first generation event of multiple identities"

nytimes.com

movies2.nytimes.com

  • [21][22] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [23]
  • [24][25] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [26]

nytimes.com

  • Green, Penelope (July 11, 2018). "Margaret Hoover and John Avlon on their Post-Partisan Marriage". The New York Times. Retrieved September 8, 2018. Mr. Avlon, who grew up in New York City, is a grandchild of Greek immigrants. Their experiences have made him, he said, a proud patriot.

obereed.net

obituariestoday.com

  • [20] "Greek-American actor George Savalas"

oprah.com

  • [38] Archived 2006-05-10 at the Wayback Machine "My grandfather always told me, "You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.""

originalmmc.com

  • [16] Archived 2019-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Tim's mother, Carmen, was an heiress to the theatre chain founded by her father, Alexander Pantages, who immigrated to the United States from Greece around 1885."

pbs.org

  • [6] Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine "Eugenides is himself Greek-American, Detroit-born, suburb-raised--all sources of inspiration for his second novel."

people.com

  • [34] "Fey's mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she's wary of claiming an ethnic identity. "I’ve said a few things about being Greek, and now every Greek organization wants to adopt me," Fey told me." [35] "Because of the Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs and butt."

playboy.com

  • [66] Archived 2006-07-18 at the Wayback Machine "Are you a fan of anal sex? TL, "Being Greek, you'd think I'd be a big anal sex fan. It's kinda nasty. I'm not really feeling it too much, although I've done it several times -- but it's not my favorite."

plymouthphilharmonic.com

  • [51][permanent dead link] "I'm Greek and my wife and I will cook a Greek dinner for eight for the winner. That is a Greek."

popdirt.com

  • [58] "I'm Greek, so we have pretty big booties in my family." [59] "I'm Greek and Irish, but I don't know Greek. I just have the booty, that's the only part I got of it, that's the curve of it all."

punkglobe.com

  • [62] "Jim Verraros: My father was born in Greece, so I am mostly Greek. My mother is German, Irish, French and English."

rambert.org.uk

sfsu.edu

  • [32] "Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American stage and film actress... will discuss the impact of her Greek-American heritage on her career, as well as past performances, particularly her lead role in the ancient tragedy "Hecuba."" [33] "The daughter of Greek immigrants..."

smoothradio.com

amp.smoothradio.com

specialweb.com

yanni.specialweb.com

sport24.gr

startrek.com

straight.com

stuffmagazine.com

  • [39] Archived 2006-03-21 at the Wayback Machine "The stunning Maria Menounos had no problem getting her Greek on for our photo shoot, but her heritage hasn’t always been easy for her. "My dad was very strict," she says. "A guy would call the house and he would say, ‘I have a gun, and I will use it!’"... My parents said I had to marry a Greek boy. I dated them, but they weren’t for me. They want slaves. I want someone to be my slave! My mom still puts my dad's socks on him when she wakes him up in the morning."

stylecaster.com

submitresponse.co.uk

  • [69] Archived 2006-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "Well, here I am. I'm an Anatolian Greek - a middle eastern Greek - and I'm an American, which is a bloody weird combination."

theage.com.au

  • [45] "...Rita Wilson's parents - her father was Bulgarian, while mother Dorothy was Greek - changed their surname to Wilson after moving to the United States." "My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek." [46] "...her producers include actor Rita Wilson, who is half Greek...".

thebiographychannel.co.uk

  • [21][22] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [23]
  • [24][25] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [26]

thejournalnews.com

thenationalherald.com

tripod.com

john-stamos01.tripod.com

  • [27][permanent dead link] "John is also Greek and part Irish." [28] "John Stamos' original family name is Stamopolous, which was shortened by his grandparents when they came to America from Greece."

tudou.com

  • [29] "Her father John Aniston was born on the island of Crete in Greece. Her mother Nancy Dow is partly Greek." (1930-present)
  • [31] "Nancy Dow is Scottish, Irish, Italian and Greek."

tvguide.com

community.tvguide.com

upne.com

  • [72] "Born in Berkeley, California, to a Greek immigrant family"

usaweekend.com

vasiltole.com

  • [52] "Greek conductor and composer"

villagevoice.com

web.archive.org

  • "Feature Articles". www.helleniccomserve.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-29.
  • [2] Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine "Greek American, originally from Springfield, Massachusetts"
  • [3] "To show in Milan is 'the top' according to the Greek American who decided to leave the catwalks of New York and head for those here in Milan."
  • [4] Archived 2006-10-09 at the Wayback Machine " I’m half Greek and half Venezuelan, and I speak fluent Spanish and Greek."
  • "American Idol: Interview With Becky O'Donohue". Fansofrealitytv.com. 2006-02-26. Archived from the original on 2006-03-04. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  • [5] Archived April 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  • [6] Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine "Eugenides is himself Greek-American, Detroit-born, suburb-raised--all sources of inspiration for his second novel."
  • [7] Archived 2008-04-06 at the Wayback Machine "How I was both Spiderman and a tiny unathletic Greek boy..." [8] "As the son of Greek immigrants, he participated in the familiar first generation event of multiple identities"
  • [10] "As far as religion goes, we were raised Greek Orthodox..." [11] "My father's mother, our grandmother, lived with us for a while. She didn't speak any English. She was all Greek and she was freaky. She had long hair, which she wore in braids..." [12] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  • [13] Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine " Born on the island of Crete in Greece, Yanni Anastasakis, aka John Aniston, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. His father promptly changed the family name to Aniston."
  • [14] [15] Archived 2006-05-14 at the Wayback Machine "Chiklis got his acting talent from his mother, Kate... his flamboyance from his father, Charlie, a macho second-generation Greek-American who runs a hair salon in the Boston suburb of Lowell, where Chiklis was born."
  • [16] Archived 2019-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Tim's mother, Carmen, was an heiress to the theatre chain founded by her father, Alexander Pantages, who immigrated to the United States from Greece around 1885."
  • "Dimitri Diatchenko, Actor, Musician and Video Game Voiceover Artist, Dies at 52". The Hollywood Reporter. May 1, 2020. Archived from the original on June 10, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  • [17] Archived 2006-04-27 at the Wayback Machine "Andreas Katsulas, whose striking Greek visage..."
  • "Q&A with Executive Producer Ralph Macchio | National Geographic Channel". Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  • [21][22] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [23]
  • [24][25] Archived 2007-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Born to Greek parents, Savalas served in World War II after he dropped out of Columbia University..." You should not trust yurunalists, Columbia lists him as having graduated in 1950 from their "adult" General Studies school after the army. [26]
  • "Billy Zane Interview"BloodRayne"Movie: Tim Nasson". Wildaboutmovies.com. 2005-12-27. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
  • [30] "Her father, Ernest J. Carteris, was of Greek descent."
  • [36] Archived 2006-08-15 at the Wayback Machine "Angie Harmon: "It would be shaping my eyebrows. Being half Greek and half American Indian, I have the unibrow. So once I started working on them, I really did see a change. You create another kind of beauty.""
  • [38] Archived 2006-05-10 at the Wayback Machine "My grandfather always told me, "You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.""
  • [39] Archived 2006-03-21 at the Wayback Machine "The stunning Maria Menounos had no problem getting her Greek on for our photo shoot, but her heritage hasn’t always been easy for her. "My dad was very strict," she says. "A guy would call the house and he would say, ‘I have a gun, and I will use it!’"... My parents said I had to marry a Greek boy. I dated them, but they weren’t for me. They want slaves. I want someone to be my slave! My mom still puts my dad's socks on him when she wakes him up in the morning."
  • [40] "Sigler is half-Cuban and half-Greek (Jewish)"
  • [41] Archived 2006-08-04 at the Wayback Machine "A raven haired beauty who is equal parts Greek passion and English reserve"
  • "Mena Suvari Interview - Mena Suvari on Rumor Has It, Jennifer Aniston, and Rob Reiner". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-11-25. "Well we’re both [she and Jennifer Aniston] Greek, which is a shoe-in right there." [42][permanent dead link] "Mena, the world traveler: Part Estonian and part Greek, Suvari was named for her godmother, who was born in the Mena House, a hotel at the base of the Pyramids in Egypt." [43] "Brought up in South Carolina, her Estonian father is a retired psychiatrist and her Greek mother a nurse."
  • [48] Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine "Greek-American production designer Dean Tavoularis"
  • "7/14/04: Basil Poledouris Interview". Archived from the original on 2006-10-23. Retrieved 2006-03-23. "The other element that influenced me early on had to do with my Greek Orthodox raising where I used to sit in church and just be enthralled with the choir. So, there are a lot of Gregorian modal ideas in my music that go back to that."
  • "About Chris". Chrisspheeris.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2011-09-18. Born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Chris spent his summers in Greece, the land of his heritage...
  • [53] Archived 2006-06-28 at the Wayback Machine "his Greek musician's claims to fame" [54] Archived 2006-06-16 at the Wayback Machine "He divides his time between L.A. and the Seattle, WA area, and is now an American citizen."
  • [55] Archived 2006-06-27 at the Wayback Machine "renowned Greek opera singer whose personal life enthralled Greece in the 1950s and 1960s"
  • [57] Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine "Called upon to help support their Greek-Norwegian family when their father's business was wiped out by the Depression"
  • [60] Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine "Kalomira Sarantis is missing the second semester of her first year in college. She is pursuing her lifetime dream – a career as a professional singer – in a very unorthodox way, as a contestant on the Antenna TV program "Fame Story" in Greece."
  • [61] Archived 2006-05-12 at the Wayback Machine "the half-Greek, half-Puerto Rican kid"
  • Trousdale - "Feeling the Vibe || Chris Trousdale Interview Page 2". Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2006-06-23. "Half and half? Yeah I think…my dad is full Greek and my mom's Black Irish."
  • [64] Archived 2006-06-30 at the Wayback Machine "We were baptized Greek Orthodox, so we are Greek Orthodox", Matt says. "If you're baptized Greek Orthodox, you're in for good. That's it."
  • [65]"I am French/Greek"
  • [66] Archived 2006-07-18 at the Wayback Machine "Are you a fan of anal sex? TL, "Being Greek, you'd think I'd be a big anal sex fan. It's kinda nasty. I'm not really feeling it too much, although I've done it several times -- but it's not my favorite."
  • [68] Archived 2006-06-18 at the Wayback Machine "Annette Artani, a native Greek-American New Yorker"
  • [69] Archived 2006-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "Well, here I am. I'm an Anatolian Greek - a middle eastern Greek - and I'm an American, which is a bloody weird combination."
  • [70] "Constantine comes from a "massive" Greek American family"
  • [71] Archived 2006-05-17 at the Wayback Machine "I’m half Irish and I’m half Greek"
  • [73] Archived 2007-10-28 at the Wayback Machine "Greek American bandleader Johnny Otis"
  • "Word Balloon Comics Podcast". Wordballoon.libsyn.com. 2006-12-17. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  • "WWF comes to Michigan". Archived from the original on 2006-06-24.
  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-08-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."

wgbh.org

  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-08-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."

wildaboutmovies.com

yahoo.com

movies.yahoo.com

  • [32] "Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American stage and film actress... will discuss the impact of her Greek-American heritage on her career, as well as past performances, particularly her lead role in the ancient tragedy "Hecuba."" [33] "The daughter of Greek immigrants..."
  • [45] "...Rita Wilson's parents - her father was Bulgarian, while mother Dorothy was Greek - changed their surname to Wilson after moving to the United States." "My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek." [46] "...her producers include actor Rita Wilson, who is half Greek...".

yaledailynews.com

youtube.com

  • [58] "I'm Greek, so we have pretty big booties in my family." [59] "I'm Greek and Irish, but I don't know Greek. I just have the booty, that's the only part I got of it, that's the curve of it all."