page_title: List of Greek Americans
section_title: Federal
hierarchical_section_title: List of Greek Americans / List / POLITICS / Federal
caption_attribution_description: Olympia Snowe, U.S. Senator.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable Greek Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Greek descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
  Famous Greek Americans
  Spiro Agnew • Olympia Snowe • George Stephanopoulos • Jennifer Aniston • Alexander Frey • Tina Fey • Pete Sampras • Olympia Dukakis • Michael Dukakis • Zach Galifianakis
context_section_description: Spiro Agnew - former Vice President of the United States, governor of Maryland, first Greek-American governor in U.S. history
  William Antholis - former White House and State Department official, studies the presidency at the University of Virginia
  George Argyros - U.S. ambassador to Spain
  Shelley Berkley - member of Congress
  Gus Bilirakis - congressman, Republican co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues
  Michael Bilirakis - Congressman from Florida
  John Brademas - former member of Congress, former president of New York University, former chair of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  Charlie Crist - United States Representative from Florida, former governor of Florida (2007-2011)
  Alexander Dimitry - diplomat, linguist and scholar who worked as a U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua
  Michael Dukakis - former governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic presidential candidate 
  Nick Galifianakis - former Congressman from North Carolina.
  George Gekas - former congressman from Pennsylvania
  George T. Kalaris - CIA head of Counter-intelligence Staff and chief of the Soviet-East Europe Division
  Ron Klink - former representative from Pennsylvania
  Tom C. Korologos - U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, Reagan lobbyist
  Nicholas Mavroules - former congressman from Massachusetts
  Andrew Manatos - former assistant secretary of commerce under Jimmy Carter
  Sylvia Mathews - former Secretary of Health and Human Services under Barack Obama and president of American University
  John Negroponte - United States Director of National Intelligence, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations 
  Peter Peterson - first Greek-American cabinet officer, head of Blackstone Group
  John Podesta - White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton and campaign director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential run.
  Jen Psaki - United States Department of State spokesperson under President Barack Obama
  Paul Sarbanes - former Senator for Maryland; co-sponsored the Sarbanes–Oxley Act on corporate accounting 
  Tasia Scolinos - Justice Department director of public affairs
  Olympia Snowe - Republican Senator from Maine 
  Zack Space - member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio
  George Stephanopoulos - political commentator, former White House communications director 
  George Tenet - former CIA director 
  Dina Titus - congresswoman from Nevada
  Frances Townsend - former assistant to the president and homeland security advisor
  Paul Tsongas - former senator from Massachusetts
  Niki Tsongas - former congresswoman from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
  Viron Vaky - former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela
  Gus Yatron - former Pennsylvania congressman and boxer
caption: Senator Olympia Snowe
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