Celebs You Didn't Know Where Greek!

my writing about Tina Fey and John Stamos was stolen from wikipedia because I got tired


1. Marina Lambrini Diamandis (better known as Marina from Marina And The Dimonds)

Marina's father was greek and her mother was welsh, she was born and raised in Wales and later moved to London  Marinas parents divorced when she was 4. At 16 years old she moved to Greece where her baba (dad) lived  "to connect with her heritage and learn to speak the language". She would sing Greek folk songs with her yayia (grandma) She went to St. Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens and their earned a International Baccalaureate. She moved back to Wales with her mother two years later.

2.Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Better known as George Micheal of Wham!)

George was born in Northern England, His father Kyriacos Panayiotou was a Greek-Cypriot Immigrant who came from Patriki, Cyprus to the U.K in the 1950s, His mother was an English Dancer. Andrew (the second wham! member) would wall George "Yog" because its a shortened version of his greek name "Georgios'. (he was born a day after my mom and their both greek)

3.Tommy Lee Bass (better known as Tommy Lee from Motley Crue)

Tommy was born in Athens, Greece to his father David Lee Thomas Bass, an American U.S. Army sergeant, and mother Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou, a contestant on the 1957 Miss Greece beauty contest. when Tommy  was 2 years old his father moved the  family moved back to the U.S 


4. John Stamos

I actually think everybody know he's greek but lets forget about that.

Stamos was born on August 19, 1963, in Cypress, California, to William "Bill" Stamos, a second-generation Greek-American restaurateur Loretta (née Phillips). His original family surname is Stamatopoulos  In his youth, Stamos worked for his father's restaurants, and as a teenager, had a job flipping burgers in the Orange County area.


5.Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born on May 18, 1970 in Upper Darby Township, Delaware CountyPennsylvania. Her father, Donald Henry Fey, was a Korean War veteran, university administrator for the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University, and a grant proposal writer who raised $500 million for schools, hospitals, and public service agencies through proposals and direct mail appeals. Following her father's death, Fey established a scholarship fund in his name at his alma mater, Temple University, to support war veterans studying journalism Her mother, Zenobia "Jeanne" (néeXenakes), is a retired brokerage employee born in Piraeus, Greece.[9][10] Fey's maternal grandmother, Vasiliki Kourelakou, left the Greek village of Petrina on her own and arrived in the United States in February 1921.





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