page_title: Mytilene
section_title: Modern
hierarchical_section_title: Mytilene / Notable Mytilenians / Modern
caption_attribution_description: Odysseas Elytis in Rome
context_page_description: Mytileneor Μυτιαενε, possibly honouring the ancient hero "AENEAS / MITAENEAS / MITAN·AS" is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port. It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region, and hosts the headquarters of the University of the Aegean. It was founded in the 11th century BC.
  Mytilene is one of the 13 municipalities on the island of Lesbos. Mytilene is built on the southeast edge of the island. It is the seat of a metropolitan bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
context_section_description: Hayreddin Barbarossa  ( 1478–1546), Ottoman admiral
  Oruç Reis  (1478–1518), Ottoman bey
  Saint Parthenios (1600–1657), Patriarch of Constantinople and religious martyr
  Palaiologos Lemonis, member of Filiki Etaireia
  Dimitrios Skambas (1992–present), Greek-American financier, youngest Partner at Bannockburn Global Forex in NYC. Parents from Pamfila, Lesvos.
  Theophilos Hatzimihail (c.1870–1934), Greek painter
  P. M. Kourtzis, shipowner, founder of Aegean Steamship Company (1883)
  Gregorios Bernardakis, philologist
  Demetrios Bernardakis, playwright
  Stratis Myrivilis (1892–1969), Greek writer
  Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996), Greek poet, Nobel Laureate in 1979
  Argyris Eftaliotis (1849–1923) (née Cleanthis Michailidis), Greek writer
  Fotis Kontoglou (Aivali/Kydonies, origin from Mytilene) (1895–1965) Greek writer and painter.
  Georgios Jakobides, painter
  Hermon di Giovanno (c. 1900–1968), Greek painter
  Nikos Fermas (1905–1972), Greek actor
  Irini Mouchou (born 1987), triathlete
  Giorgos Mouflouzelis (1912–1991), Greek composer of rebetiko
  Panagiotis Polychronis (1854–1941), Greek artist: photographer, lithographist and painter.
  Leo Rapitis (1906–1957), Greek singer
  Konstantinos Kenteris (born 1973), Greek athlete
  Alexis Panselinos (1903–1984), Greek writer
  Sophocles Vournazos (1853–1889), Greek philanthropist and founder of Mytilene's academic buildings.
  Tériade (1889–1983), Greek art critic, patron, and publisher
  Ahmed Djemal Pasha  (1872–1922), Ottoman military leader, perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide
  Tamburi Ali Efendi  (1836–1902), Turkish musician
  Nicholas Kampas (1857–1932), Greek poet
  Argyris Adalis, architect
  Nicholas Athanasiadis (1904–1990), Greek theatre writer, literature writer, poet.
  Ioannis Hatzidaniel (1850–1912), Greek painter and photographer.
  Solon Lekkas, singer of traditional music from Asia Minor.
  Giannis Bournellis, comedian, actor.
  Christos Touramanis, particle physicist
  Michalis Pavlis  (born 1989), football player and coach
  Anastasios Chatzigiovanis, football player
caption: Odysseas Elytis
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