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Top 5 Celebrities born in Athens

Greece is home to many famous personalities that have shot to worldwide recognition. The capital city, Athens, also known as the home of civilization and powerful empires has seen the rise of local and international celebrities.

Other than the famous 5th-century landmarks like the Acropolis and the Parthenon, Athens is the birthplace of many celebrities and famous people.

Check out our previous blogs on Famous movies filmed in Athens, Best universities in Greece, Best Universities in Athens, top Greek Actresses, Top Greek athletes and where to stay in Athens.

Let’s look at the top 5 celebrities born in Athens.

1. Tommy Lee – Musician

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Tommy Lee, popularly known as T-bone for his tall and athletic physique, is a famous drummer for the heavy metal band, Motley Crue. He is considered as one of the most talented heavy metal artists to date.

T-bone’s life in the limelight has however not been short of controversy due to his bizarre behind the scene behaviour.

He has also founded the rap-metal band called Methods of Mayhem and does solo projects on the side too.

His passion for heavy metal stemmed from listening to bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Kiss and Queen.

Ever since his bands became popular, he tried to promote their music and shows through unorthodox ways that always worked against him.

Apart from his music career, he appeared in the television series Tosh.0. and Californication. He is also a passionate animal rights activist.

2. Arianna Huffington – Author

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Arianna is an author, a humanitarian, television personality and owner of the independent liberal online news magazine, The Huffington Post. She was born in Athens but moved to England at the age of 16.

Arianna graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Economics. While in Cambridge, she became the first foreign student to be the president of the debating society Cambridge Union.

She started working as a columnist and later launched her online newspaper, the Huffington Post. Through this online platform, she created a portal that offered critical observations of the political scenarios.

Arianna soon became a celebrity and this status got her high-profile contributors for her politics, news and culture columns.

She once vied as an independent candidate for the California recall election for the position of Governor. Arianna is an environmental activist and took part in the project promoting Fuel-efficient cars.

3. Stefanos Tsitsipas – Tennis Player

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Stefano is a famous professional tennis player who is currently (2020) ranked number 1 in Greece and was previously ranked 1^st in the world among junior players.

He also ranks at number 44 in the world ranking, this makes him the second-youngest player on the ATP top 100.

Stefano remains to be the only Greek player to make it into that list together with being the best Greek Male tennis player in the Opera Era.

For two consecutive years (2014-2015) Stefano reached the Finals of the Orange Bowl, a prestigious Junior tennis tournament. He has had a series of successful tournaments by winning the International Junior championships in 2016.

4. Milo Yiannopoulos – Journalist

Milo was born in Athens but grew up in England. Many may not consider him as a celebrity, but a famous controversial figure.

He is openly gay and claims to have done it by choice. He is considered by many as being controversial and many know his online tabloid, The Kernel.

He went University of Manchester and Wolfson College but dropped out of the two. Milo got his first job with the Daily Telegraph.

In 2011 and 2012, he was named among Wired UK’s top 100 most influential people in Britain’s digital economy.

Milo got sued for failing to pay his contributors for his online publication, Kernel. His writing ridicules Islam, Feminism, Social justice and political correctness.

During his time at Breitbart, Milo became popular as the voice in the gamergate controversy. He has been banned from Twitter and Facebook for harassment.

5. Steve Angello – DJ

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Steve is a famous DJ producer, remixer and record label owner who is also a member of Swedish House Mafia together with Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso.

Angello developed an interest in music in his late teens and listened to a lot of electronic music then became an electronic scratch DJ.

He began his career on the turntables by mixing hip-hop and 70s classics in Stockholm clubs. Steve is also the owner and founder of dance record label Size Records based in Stockholm.

Steve then began producing under the alias Who’s Who and released famous tracks called Not So Dirty and Sexy F*ck. He has worked with other Swedish DJ like Sebastian Ingrosso and produced Now, Fireflies, General Moders, Mode Hookers, Outfunk, and The Sinners.

Through his label, he has released singles such as Gypsy, Isabel and Flonko.