Panagiotis
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Panagiotis pronounced Panayiodis (mainland Greece) or Banayiodis (Cypriot) is sometimes phonetically transliterated as Panayiotis or latinized as Panagiotes, it is a common male Greek name deriving from the epithet Panagia
("all-holy"), which is one of the titles of Mary, the mother of Jesus in Orthodox Christianity
. Diminutive forms of the name are Panagis (Παναγής), Panos (Πάνος) and Takis (Τάκης).The female form of the name is Panagiota (Παναγιώτα), shortened to Giota (Γιώτα).
Panagia
Panagia , also transliterated Panayia or Panaghia, is one of the titles of Mary, the mother of Jesus, used especially in Orthodox Christianity....
("all-holy"), which is one of the titles of Mary, the mother of Jesus in Orthodox Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
. Diminutive forms of the name are Panagis (Παναγής), Panos (Πάνος) and Takis (Τάκης).The female form of the name is Panagiota (Παναγιώτα), shortened to Giota (Γιώτα).
Persons with this name
- Panayiotis AssiotisPanayiotis AssiotisPanayiotis Assiotis is a Cypriot footballer currently playing for APOP Kinyras Peyias FC of Cyprus. He is a midfielder.- External links :*...
, Cypriot football player - Panagiotis BeglitisPanagiotis BeglitisPanagiotis Beglitis is a Greek politician, who from 2004-7 was Member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement; part of the Party of European Socialists...
, Greek politician - Panagiotis ChinofotisPanagiotis ChinofotisAdmiral Panagiotis Chinofotis is a Member of Parliament with the New Democracy party, a former Vice-Minister of the Interior and a former Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff.Born in Athens, Chinofotis graduated from the Hellenic Naval Academy and was commissioned an...
, Greek admiral and politician - Panayiotis ChronisPanayiotis ChronisPanagiotis Chronis is a Greek football player.Chronis was previously on the books of Ethnikos Asteras F.C. during the 2002–03 Beta Ethniki season.-References:...
, Greek football player - Panagiotis DanglisPanagiotis DanglisPanagiotis Danglis was a Greek general of the Hellenic Army and a politician.He was born in Agrinio in 1853, graduated from the Scholi Evelpidon Officer Academy in 1878 as a Second Lieutenant of Artillery, and later extended his studies for another year in Belgium...
, Greek general and politician - Panayiotis DemetriouPanayiotis DemetriouPanayiotis Demetriou is a Cypriot politician and Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party. He is a member of the Democratic Rally. -References:...
, Cypriot politician - Panayiotis Dexiades, Cypriot footballer
- Panagiotis DoxarasPanagiotis DoxarasPanagiotis Doxaras was a Greek painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art .- Biography :He was born in Mani, Ottoman Greece. In 1664, his family moved to Zante where he was taught iconography by Leo Moscos. In 1694 he joined the Venetian army and fought against the Ottomans in Chios...
, Greek painter of the 17th/18th century - Panayiotis EngomitisPanayiotis EngomitisPanayiotis Engomitis is a retired Cypriot football midfielder who played for Ethnikos Achnas of Cyprus. He also played for Anorthosis Famagusta and PAOK FC.-External links:*...
, Cypriot football midfielder - Panagiotis FasoulasPanagiotis FasoulasPanagiotis Fasoulas is a Greek politician and former professional basketball player...
, Greek basketball player and politician - Panagiotis GiannakisPanagiotis GiannakisPanagiotis Giannakis , nicknamed "The Dragon", is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. He is the former head coach of the pro club Olympiacos, and the Greek National Basketball Team. Under Giannakis' guidance, the Greek National team won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket...
, Greek basketball player and coach - Panayiotis KafkisPanayiotis KafkisPanagiotis Kafkis is a Greek professional basketball player...
, Greek professional basketball player - Panayiotis KalorkotiPanayiotis KalorkotiPanayiotis Kalorkoti is a contemporary British artist. As well as painting in acrylics and watercolour he does pen and ink drawings and also experimented with etchings, screenprints and lithographs. He tends to produce a series of paintings for a specific exhibition...
, Cypriot-British painter - Panagiotis KanellopoulosPanagiotis KanellopoulosPanagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a distinguished Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974....
, Greek politician, two-time Prime Minister - Panayiotis KokorasPanayiotis KokorasPanayiotis Kokoras is a Greek composer, musician, teacher, writer and Vice President of HELMCA -Studies:Kokoras studied composition with I. Ioannidi, K. Varotsi and Anri Kergomard as well as classical guitar with E. Asimakopoulo in Athens. In 1999 he moved to England, for postgraduate studies at...
, Greek composer - Panagiotis KondylisPanagiotis KondylisPanagiotis Kondylis , was a Greek writer, translator and publications manager who principally wrote in German, in addition to translating most of his work into Greek...
, Greek social scientist and historian of philosophy - Panayiotis KosmaPanayiotis KosmaPanayiotis Kosma is a Cypriot midfielder last playing for Nea Salamina of Cyprus.-External links:*...
, Cypriot footballer - Panayiotis KythreotisPanayiotis KythreotisPanayiotis Kythreotis is a Cypriot football player, currently playing goalkeeper for AEK Larnaca. He has also played for Aris Limassol, ASIL Lysi, APOEL and Chalkanoras Idaliou.- References :...
Cypriot football player - Panagiotis LagosPanagiotis LagosPanagiotis Lagos is a Greek football player currently playing as a left wingback for AEK Athens F.C. in the Greek Super League.-Iraklis Thessaloniki:Lagos started his professional football career with Iraklis in 2002...
, Greek football player - Panagiotis ManiasPanagiotis ManiasPanagiotis Manias or Panayiotis Manias is a former international professional basketball player.-Pro career:He was a member of the Panellinios Basketball Club and its famous 1950s era Hrisi Pentada, or "The Golden Five" in English....
, Greek basketball player - Panagiotis MarkouizosPanagiotis MarkouizosPanagiotis Markouizos is a Greek figure skater. He is a multiple Greek national champion. His highest placement at an ISU championship was 33rd at the 2001 European Figure Skating Championships.-Career:Markouizos began skating in 1988 because his sister was...
, Greek figure skater, 6 times Greek champion - Panayiotis PanayiotouPanayiotis PanayiotouPanayiotis Panayiotou is a defender player that played for Olympiakos Nicosia. Previously he played for Digenis Morphou on loan from APOEL FC. He has been elected through the Academies of APOEL FC.He plays in Cyprus national under-21 football team. He had been the top scorer of U-21 championship...
Cypriot football player - Panagiotis PapadopoulosPanagiotis PapadopoulosPanagiotis Papadopoulos is a Greek wrestler who specializes in Greco-Roman wrestling.He was a competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the super-heavyweight division, losing in his opening bout to Liu Deli from China.-References:...
, Greek fashion designer based in Sweden - Panayiotis Paphides, British journalist
- Panagiotis ParaskevopoulosPanagiotis ParaskevopoulosPanagiotis Paraskevopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Gortynia and died in Corfu....
, Greek athlete, 1896 and 1900 Olympics - Panagiotis PipinelisPanagiotis PipinelisPanagiotis Pipinelis was a Greek politician and diplomat.He was born on March 21, 1899 in the port city of Piraeus. He studied Law and Political science at the University of Zurich and in 1920 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany....
, Greek diplomat, politician, briefly Prime Minister - Panayiotis PounnasPanayiotis PounnasPanikos Pounnas is a former international Cypriot football midfielder.He started and ended his career in Anorthosis Famagusta, playing solely for the Famagusta side.-External links:*...
Cypriot footballer - Panagiotis Peter Sarganis, Canadian artist
- Panagiotis SarrisPanagiotis SarrisPanagiotis Sarris is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games and finished eighth in 4 x 100 m relay at the 2006 IAAF World Cup...
, Greek sprinter. - Panayiotis SimopoulosPanayiotis SimopoulosPanayiotis Simopoulos is one of Greece's top male fashion models. He has appeared in numerous fashion magazines and events promoting Greek and international products and appearing on ad campaigns for department stores such as JC Penney. He booked the campaign for the Dolce & Gabbana catalogue...
, Greek model - Panagiotis SkagiopoulosPanagiotis SkagiopoulosPanagiotis Skagiopoulos was a Greek merchant and was a grape trader of a large company, the largest part that he help the philanthropic sentinel, a transaction that he done as he loved in Patras. In 1926, he built an orphanage centre where it still exist today in the city...
, Greek merchant and philanthropist - Panayiotis Sofianis, Greek football player
- Panayiotis Spyrou, Cypriot football defender
- Panagiotis StroubakosPanagiotis StroubakosPanagiotis Stroubakos is a retired Greek middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.He competed at the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004, the World Championships in 1997 and 1999 and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final.His personal best time is 1:45.00 minutes,...
, Greek runner - Panayiotis TetsisPanayiotis TetsisPanayiotis Tetsis is a major Greek painter. Tetsis is a genuine exponent of the post-impressionistic seascape tradition.- Life and work :...
, Greek painter - Panagis TsaldarisPanagis TsaldarisPanagis Tsaldaris was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years of the conservative People's Party in the period before World War II...
, Greek politician, two-time Prime Minister - Panayiotis "Peter" VagenasPeter VagenasPanayiotis Alexiou "Peter" Vagenas born February 6, 1978 in Pasadena, California is an American soccer player who currently plays for Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Major League Soccer.-High School and College:...
, American soccer player - Panayotis VarotsosPanayotis VarotsosPanayotis Varotsos is a Greek physicist , full professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Athens since 1986, notable for his VAN method to predict earthquakes. His group claims the ability to identify electromagnetic signals that are precursors to earthquakes...
, Greek university Professor - Panagiotis VasilopoulosPanagiotis VasilopoulosPanagiotis "Panos" Vasilopoulos is a Greek professional basketball player. He measures 203 cm tall...
, Greek basketball player - Panagis VourloumisPanagis VourloumisPanagis Vourloumis was a Greek politician, lawyer, economist and a finance minister. He was one of the main collaborators of Eleftherios Venizelos. He studied law at the University of Athens and worked in Marseilles as the director of a raisin export company. In 1893, he founded his own business...
, Greek politician - Panayiotis XiourouppasPanayiotis XiourouppasPanikkos Xiourouppas is a former international Cypriot football striker and current football manager who was recently sacked from Ermis Aradippou....
, Cypriot footballer - Panayiotis YamarelosPanayiotis YamarelosPanayiotis Yamarelos , also called as Panos Yamarelos/Giamarelos, is a Greek retired university professor of medical jurisprudence and arguably the most famous coroner in Greece, based in Athens. He was for many years the Head of the Medical Examiners of Greece...
, Greek retired university professor - Panayiotis ZavosPanayiotis ZavosPanayiotis Michael Zavos is a Greek Cypriot biologist from Cyprus. He is also an American citizen who currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.-Biography:...
, Greek Cypriot reproductive biologist - TakisTakisVassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...
, Greek artist
Other uses of the name
- Panagiotis (ship)Panagiotis (ship)The Panagiotis is a picturesque shipwreck lying in the white sands of an exposed cove on the coast of Zakynthos , which is among the southern-most of the Ionian Islands of Greece...
, a ship now wrecked on the shore of the Greek island of ZakynthosZakynthosZakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...