Editing Crete (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|:Category:People from Crete}}
[[File:El Greco - Portrait of a Man - WGA10554.jpg|thumb|250px|upright|[[El Greco|Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)]]]]
[[File:Venizelos--lifeofvenizelosw00chesuoft.png|thumb|250px|upright|[[Eleftherios Venizelos]]]]
[[File:20070427 Psarantonis All Tomorrow s Parties festival Butlins Minehead UK.png|250px|thumb|upright|[[Psarantonis]]]]

Notable people from Crete include:

*[[Vitsentzos Kornaros]], Renaissance author from Sitia, who lived in Heraklion (then Candia)
*[[Domenikos Theotokopoulos]] (El Greco), Renaissance artist, born in [[Heraklion]]
*[[Nikos Xilouris]], famous composer and singer.
*[[Psarantonis]], Cretan folk singer and [[Cretan lyra]] player and brother of [[Nikos Xilouris]].
*[[Nikos Kazantzakis]], author, born in Heraklion, 7 times suggested for the Nobel Prize
*[[Odysseas Elytis]], poet, awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1979, born in [[Heraklion]]<ref>[http://www.cretanbeaches.com/en/home/577-elytis.html Odysseas Elytis]{{Dead link|date=September 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by Alexandros Roniotis, CretanBeaches.com.</ref>
*[[Eleftherios Venizelos]], former Greek Prime Minister, born in [[Chania Prefecture]]
*[[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]], nephew of [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] and father to [[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], the [[Prime Minister]] of [[Greece]].
*[[Daskalogiannis]], leader of the [[Orlov Revolt]] in Crete in 1770
*[[John Aniston]] (Giannis Anastasakis), Greek-American actor, father of [[Jennifer Aniston]]
*[[Zach Galifianakis]] paternal grandparents, Mike Galifianakis and Sophia Kastrinakis, were from Crete
*[[Georgios Chortatzis]], Renaissance author
*[[Nana Mouskouri]], singer, born in Chania
*[[Michalis Kourmoulis]], leader of the [[Greek War of Independence]] from [[Messara Plain|Messara]].
*[[Eleni Daniilidou]], tennis player, born in Chania
*[[Louis Tikas]], Greek-American labor union leader
*[[Tess Fragoulis]], Greek-Canadian writer, born in Heraklion
*[[Nick Dandolos]], a.k.a. Nick the Greek, professional gambler and high roller
*[[Joseph Sifakis]], a computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 [[Turing Award]], born in [[Heraklion]] in 1946
*[[Constantinos Daskalakis]], Associate Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department
*[[George Karniadakis]], Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University; and Research Scientist at MIT
*[[George Psychoundakis]], a shepherd, a war hero and an author
*[[Georgios Kalaitzakis|Georgos Kalaitzakis]], [[Greeks|Greek]] professional basketball player for the [[Tigers Tübingen]] of the German [[Basketball Bundesliga]] is from [[Heraklion]], Crete