* 479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.

His awareness, thoughtfulness, and wisdom were all traits to be emulated diplomatically, while his bravery and shrewdness in battle epitomized the heroic Greek commander.

General Ivanov, commander of the 2nd Bulgarian Army, acknowledged the role of the Greek fleet in the overall Balkan League victory by stating that " the activity of the entire Greek fleet and above all the Averof was the chief factor in the general success of the allies ".

* 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence ( b. 1792 )

* 1771 – Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander ( d. 1825 )

But this hope failed, as the Cypriot towns and the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, who possessed a large fleet, now preferred to join the Persians, and the commander of the Greek troops, Phanes of Halicarnassus, went over to them.

* With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to free the Greek cities on Cyprus and capture Byzantium from the Persians and their Phoenician allies.

* Pantelis Petrou, deputy commander of the Greek police Riot Control Unit ( M. A. T.

The Norman Roger II of Sicily ( 1095 – 1154 ), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who previously had served as a naval commander for several North African Moslem rulers.

* With the support of the Persian King Artaxerxes II, King Agesilaus II of Sparta concludes " the King's Peace " ( or the Peace of Antalcidas, after the Spartan envoy and commander ) with Greek allied forces in a manner favourable to Sparta.

* Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ): was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River.

* Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ), commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III

* Antiphus, son of Aegyptius, was a Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus.

The word itself derives from the Greek " στρατηγία " ( strategia ), " office of general, command, generalship ", in turn from " στρατηγός " ( strategos ), " leader or commander of an army, general ", a compound of " στρατός " ( stratos ), " army, host " + " ἀγός " ( agos ), " leader, chief ", in turn from " ἄγω " ( ago ), " to lead ".

Arrian of Nicomedia (; ; AD 86 – 160 ) was a Roman ( ethnic Greek ) historian, public servant, military commander and philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period.

During the voyage, Nearchus was reputedly the first Greek commander to visit Bahrain, which was called Tylos by the Greeks.

Dimitrios Makris ( c. 1772 – 1841 ) a native of Aetolia was a Greek chief klepht, armatole, military commander and fighter of the 1821 Greek war of independence.

Gelo replied that he could supply 28, 000 men as well was 200 ships if he was appointed commander of either the Greek navy or army.

Tintin's old nemesis and the mastermind of the plot in the book is the evil Rastapopoulos, who Frey argues is an example of anti-Semitic caricature, though other writers argue against this, pointing out that Rastapopoulos is not Jewish ( his drugged ramblings about the past of his family mentioning Erzurum and his surname make him likely a Turk of Greek ethnicity ), and surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine commander of The Red Sea Sharks, Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

Compare also the rendition of the name of early Bulgarian ruler Pagan as ( Kampaganos ), likely resulting from a misinterpretation of " Kan Pagan ", in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called Breviarium In general, however, the inscriptions as well as other sources designate the supreme ruler of Danube Bulgaria with titles that exist in the language in which they are written – archontеs, meaning ' commander or magistrate ' in Greek, and knyaze, meaning ' duke ' or ' prince ' in Slavic.

In Greece his services were not confined to the duties of a surgeon, but were of a more military nature, and his bravery, enthusiasm, and ability as a commander, as well as his humanity, won for Howe the title " the Lafayette of the Greek Revolution.

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

The town was the birthplace of the Byzantine Greek writers Nicetas and Michael Choniates.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek κάθοδος ( kathodos ), ' descent ' or ' way down ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

The motif is continued in Greek Apollo, and the early Christian narratives about Archangel Michael and Saint George.

The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.

The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron ( meaning amber, from which the word electricity is derived ) and hodos, a way.

* 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF. 7 hydroplane.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.

* Ventris and Chadwick: Gods found in Mycenaean Greece: a table drawn up from Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek second edition ( Cambridge 1973 )

In 1952, Michael Ventris discovered that Linear B was being used to write the early form of Greek known as Mycenaean.

Linear B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known as Mycenaean Greek.

In 1983 Vangelis wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis ' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed featuring Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece.

* Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier ( b. c. 1453 )

* Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian

* Michael B. Cosmopoulos ( ed ), Greek Mysteries: the archaeology and ritual of ancient Greek secret cults ( London, Routledge, 2003 ).

Michael and George, formerly the residence of the British governor and the seat of the Ionian Senate, and the summer Palace of Mon Repos, formerly the property of the Greek royal family and birthplace of the Duke of Edinburgh.

The family of Michael III were Anatolians from Phrygia and of Greek speech and culture, though originally of the Melchisedechian heretical faith.

Singer George Michael ( the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London ) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.

Michael V ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Ε ΄, Mikhaēl V ), ( 1015 – 24 August 1042 ), was Byzantine emperor for 4 months in 1041 – 1042, as the nephew and successor of Michael IV and the adoptive son of his wife, the Empress Zoe.

Michael VII Doukas or Ducas ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Ζ ΄ Δούκας, Mikhaēl VII Doukas ), nicknamed Parapinakēs ( Παραπινάκης ), was Byzantine emperor from 1071 to 1078.