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Notable Kytherians

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins (1968-)


This is where people of Kytherian decent who have contributed to their community in an extraordinary way will be featured. They need not be "famous" is the usual sense of the world, simply extraordinary.

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Peter Freeleagus

Born in Brisbane 05/03/1960 Mayor - Belyando Shire - elected March 2004 First elected to council in March 1997. Appointed Deputy Mayor in 2000 and appointed Mayor in August 2003. Council appointed committees: Belyando S...

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Professor Minas Coroneo

Professor Minas Coroneo and the bionic eye. Epsilon Magazine. Vol 1. Issue 14. October 2006. pp. 1, 22-29. Professor Minas Coroneo talks about the bionic eye, the latest breakthrough in the field of ophthalmology, the p...

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Manolis Sophios

Photographer Turn the leaf of any Kytherian photo album and you will certainly come across the work of Manolis Sofios. An analytical witness to the revolutionary changes of this century. Manoli’s seized the opportunity w...

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Zacharias (Jack) Simos

Simos, Zacharias Theodore (Jack) (1897 - 1976) (1897-1976), confectioner and café proprietor, was born on 15 August 1897 at Kousounari, Kythera (Cerigo), Greece, eldest of four children of Theodore Zachariou Simos, farme...

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Nicholas Meligakes

Nicholas A. Meligakes, Author of The Spirit of Gettysburg, 1950 (From "http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digitalbookshelf/bookindex.cfm?oclc=28366248") The Spirit of Gettysburg "There is no recorded parallel in history where...

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Emmanuel Kritharis

The First Kytherian Immigrant to Australia. The ‘First Kytherian’ Question First Published in The Greek Australian Vema, April 2006. pages 10/28 and 11/29. Original Pdf format: Page 11/28. 28 - APR 06 P.10-28.pdf Page 11...

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Efstathios Dilaveris

Benefactor of Kythera Efstathios Dilaveris was born at Karavas, Kythera in 1853 of poor parents. At the age of ten he came to Piraeus and made a living as a labourer but at the age of twenty he was a contractor. In 1888...

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Sir Arthur George

Battling the Establishment From, The New Boy Network Ruth Ostrow William Heinemann Australia Richmond, Victoria 1987 Sir Arthur George is disarming. He wastes no time skirting round questions with platitudes. He says: ‘W...

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Charles Andronicus

The Andronicus Family Becoming a cafe society From, The New Boy Network Ruth Ostrow William Heinemann Australia Richmond, Victoria 1987 Charles Andronicus makes no bones about what is at the root of his family’s success....

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Alex Freeleagus

The following is an Obituary of Alex Freeleagus, published in Clayton Utz's magazine Proctor. Freeleagus ACF Clayton Utz article August 2005 (1).pdf Report of Alex Freeleagus's funeral in The Vema. Freeleagus ACF Greek N...

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Maria Stamatakou

A lot has been written about the cafes which Kytherians set up and ran after they migrated, comparatively little though about the cafe culture on the island. Anyone who regularly visited the village of Mitata in the 1980...

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