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Notable Kytherians / Mitata

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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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submitted by Kytherian Newsletter Sydney on 13.04.2014

Peter Prineas

Australia Day Award, for Peter Prineas. 2012.



Photograph: Peter Prineas (left) with Jim Somerville an old comrade of rainforest and wilderness campaigns.

Among the honours announced by the Governor General on Australia Day 2012 was the award to Peter Prineas of an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for his "service to conservation and the environment through executive and advocacy roles".

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submitted by Angelos Grammenos on 15.06.2011

Vasilis Kailas



Child prodigy of Greek cinema and theatre was born of Kytherian parents (from Mitata) in Athens, on June 16, 1953. He began his career is movies at a very young age, appearing in 1957 in the film The Last Lie. He very soon established a distinctive record as a young supporting actor. He also played lead roles in films such as Mary Plyta Loustrakos’, Salesman.

Watch cinema performances of Vasili as a child ...

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submitted by James Victor Prineas on 03.12.2005

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 1980s and '90s probably ate at George and Maria Stamatakou's restaurant which was perched near the ravine on the roller-coaster-road out of the back of the village.



The months I spent each year on the island are ...

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submitted by George Poulos on 04.12.2007

George Miller



George Miller

Order of Australia, 1996.
MBMS (University of New South Wales.}
HonDLitt, Honorary Doctor of Literature, Doctor of Letters.

World-reknowned Film Producer, Director, and Script Writer.

Parental Background

Dimitri (Jim) Castrisios Miliotis was born in Mitata, Kythera. The Milioti "patriko spiti" is in ...