The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Cyprus
This page contains a list of the greatest Cypriot Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Cyprus. This makes Cyprus the birth place of the 85th most number of Military Personnels behind Taiwan, and Tajikistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cypriot Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Cypriot Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Georgios Grivas (1897 - 1974)
With an HPI of 54.26, Georgios Grivas is the most famous Cypriot Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Georgios Grivas (Greek: Γεώργιος Γρίβας; 6 June 1897 – 27 January 1974), also known by his nickname Digenis (Greek: Διγενής), was the Cypriot founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). A specialist of guerilla and asymmetric warfare, he was one of the main actors in the Cypriot War of Independence, securing the independence of Cyprus against the British Empire. He died only six months prior to the 1974 Cypriot coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cypriot military personnels born between 1897 and 1897. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Cypriot military personnels include Georgios Grivas.
