Greek-American

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Category: US ethnic groups

A Greek-American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Greek heritage. Stereotypes abound about Greek-Americans, many of which can be found in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Greek-Americans have a heavy concentration in New York City and Chicago. Greek-Americans, Cuban-Americans and Jewish-Americans are believed to have the three most influential ethnic lobbies in American foreign policy-making.

List of famous Greek-Americans

• Spiro Agnew Disgraced conservative Republican Vice President
• Helene Alexopoulos
• Jennifer Aniston Actress
• Andy Athens
• Bob Costas
• John Colyandro Executive Director of Texans for a Republican Majority, indicted for money laundering and unlawful acceptance of corporate contributions.
• Angelo (The Boxer) Defendis Organized Crime Underling
• Peter Diamandis self described "astropreneur" or Space Tourism Promoter
• Frank Dicopoulos
• Michael Dukakis Democratic Presidential Candidate
• Olympia Dukakis Actress; sister of Michael Dukakis
• Tina Fey
• Mike Haridopolos, Florida State Senator, Bush Family Underling
• Arianna Huffington Liberal Columnist
• Melina Kanakaredes
• Alex Karras, actor
• Joseph Kyrillos
• Jay Leno Talk Show Host
• Greg Louganis (Greek by adoption; ethnically Samoan and Swedish)
• Andrea Macris brought a sexual harrassment action against Irish American conservative Fox News talk-show host Bill O'Reilly.
• Andy Manatos, lobbyist, former government bureaucrat
• John Negroponte conservative Republican State Department official responsible for problems in Central America in the 1980s and in contemporary Iraq.
• John Pappageorge, Troy, Michigan Republican State Representative who advocated keeping doen the African-American vote in 2004, saying, "If we do not keep down the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election cycle." The population of Detroit is 83% African-American.
• Harry J. Pappas, Chair and CEO of Pappas Telecasting Companies, first generation Cretan, accused of violating Federal Equal Time rules for contributing $74,000 in free aitime to Republican candidate Dean Gardner but contributing none to his Democratic opponent, California State Assemblywoman Nicole Parra
• Col. Thomas M. Pappas, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade Commander at Abu Ghraib
• John Rigas Convicted Corporate Criminal, Adelphia Communications Corporation
• Michael Rigas (corporate criminal, Adelphia Communications Corporation, son of John Rigas)
• Timothy Rigas (corporate criminal, Adelphia Communications Corporation, son of John Rigas)
• Pete Sampras, Tennis Player
• Paul Sarbanes, Politician
• Marina Sirtis a.k.a. Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek; actually Greek-British.
• John Sitilides
• Alex Spanos
• John Stamos
• George Stephanopoulos Political Commentator
• George Tenet Former Director of the CIA
• Frances Fragos Townsend
• Spyredon (Spiro) Velentzas New York Organized Crime Boss
• Billy Zane