Local Personalities

Several important personalities come from Nafpaktos such as John Vlachogiannis historian, academic and political writer; George Athanasiadis – Novas, who served as Prime Minister of Greece, and the brother of Themistocles; the writer Spyros Melas; the writer Harry Stamatiou; Agelaos; Stamatis Stamatiou (Stam-Stam) and many more. The city also had many great benefactors like Andreas Andreopoulos, Andreas Tsaras, Nicolas Tsaras, Andreas Kozonis, Konstantinos Kozonis, George Kapordelis, George and Maria Athanasiadis-Novas, Gabriel Oikonomou, Dimitrios Asimakopoulos, Dimitrios and Vasiliki Papacharalambous, Epaminondas Arvanitis, Katherine Arvanitis , Efthimios Vardakoulas, Leonidas and Polyxeni Tsonis, Altanis Floropoulou, Athena Plati, Lambros Tzavellas, John Foutzilas,, Leonidas Charalambous, Paraskevi Garmani, Vassiliki Xanthopoulou and Julia Kozoni.

SEE ALSO

History of Nafpaktos

Lepanto Naval Battle

Municipal Cinema

Museums

Nafpaktos Library