Aris
Encyclopedia

Given name

  • Aris Alexandrou
    Aris Alexandrou
    Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional , he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among the classic modern Greek works in the second half of the 20th...

    , a Greek writer
  • Aris Christofellis
    Aris Christofellis
    Aris Christofellis is a sopranist who was born in Athens on 5 February 1960. After studying piano in Athens and Paris, he decided to concentrate on developing his singing voice.He made his debut in Bordeaux in 1984...

    , a Greek male soprano
  • Aris Gavelas
    Aristotelis Gavelas
    Aristotelis Gavelas is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He finished sixth at the 2002 European Championships and won the gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, the latter in a career best time of 10.14 seconds. In Greece only Angelos Pavlakakis has run faster...

    , a Greek sprinter
  • Aris Jaffar, a Malaysian polymath genius mastermind
  • Aris Konstantinidis
    Aris Konstantinidis
    Aris Konstantinidis 1913 Athens - 1993 in Athens, was a notable Greek architect of modernism in Greece.Aris Konstantinidis was born in Athens and studied architecture in the Technical University of Munich from 1931 to 1936, where he came into contact with the architectural concept of the Modern...

    , a Greek architect
  • Aris Maliagros
    Aris Maliagros
    Aris Maliagros was a Greek actor who played several aristocratic roles as Giorgos Gavriilidis and Hristos Tsaganeas...

    , a Greek actor
  • Aris Nalcı, executive editor of Agos
    Agos
    Agos is an Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. It was established on 5 April 1996. Today, it has a circulation of over 9,000. It has both Armenian and Turkish pages as well as an on-line English edition...

  • Aris Poulianos
    Aris Poulianos
    Aris Poulianos is a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist.-Early life and career:Before becoming an anthropologist, Poulianos fought during World War II as a member of ELAS from 1942 up until 1943. During the Greek Civil War, he fought on the side of the DSE from 1948 up until 1949...

    , a Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
  • Aris Spiliotopoulos
    Aris Spiliotopoulos
    Aris Spiliotopoulos is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party. He served as Minister for Tourism and Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs from January to October of 2009.He was born in Patras....

    , a Greek politician
  • Aris Tatarounis
    Aris Tatarounis
    Aris Tatarounis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 1.92 m tall.-Pro career:...

    , a Greek basketball player
  • Aris Velouchiotis
    Aris Velouchiotis
    Aris Velouchiotis , the nom de guerre of Athanasios Klaras , was the most prominent leader and chief instigator of the Greek People's Liberation Army , the military branch of the National Liberation Front , which was the major resistance organization in occupied Greece from 1942 to 1945...

    , a Greek guerrilla fighter in the 1940s
  • Aris Xevghenis
    Aris Xevghenis
    Aris Xevghenis is a Greek football player who plays for Nafpaktiakos Asteras.He began his professional career with Panetolikos F.C. in August 2004.-References:...

    , a Greek footballer

Surname

  • Ben Aris
    Ben Aris
    Benjamin Patrick Aris was an English actor who was best known for his parts in Hi-de-Hi! and To the Manor Born, and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class man....

    , English actor
  • Jonathan Aris
    Jonathan Aris
    Jonathan Aris is a British actor who has appeared in films, television and the theatre. Aris is also a narrator for some documentaries.- Credits :Acting credits include:* Spooks * Sherlock * Being Human * Doc Martin...

    , British actor
  • Michael Aris
    Michael Aris
    Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a leading Western authority on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture, and wrote numerous books on Buddhism in those regions. He was the husband of Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi....

    , British historian
  • Rutherford Aris
    Rutherford Aris
    Rutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.- Early life :...

    , Control theorist

Fictional characters

  • Aris Kristatos, a character in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only

Places

  • A settlement in the Windhoek Rural
    Windhoek Rural
    Windhoek Rural is a constituency in the Khomas Region of Namibia. its population is 20,212. This constituency contains all settlements in the Khomas Region that are outside the city of Windhoek, among them:...

     constituency of Namibia
  • Arış
    Aris
    -Given name:* Aris Alexandrou, a Greek writer* Aris Christofellis, a Greek male soprano* Aris Gavelas, a Greek sprinter* Aris Jaffar, a Malaysian polymath genius mastermind* Aris Konstantinidis, a Greek architect* Aris Maliagros, a Greek actor...

    , Azerbaijan
  • Aris, Messenia
    Aris, Messenia
    Aris is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kalamata, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,189 ....

    , a municipality in Greece, next to a river by the same name

Sports clubs

  • A Greek sports club in Thessaloniki, Aris Thessaloniki:
    • Aris Thessaloniki F.C.
      Aris Thessaloniki F.C.
      Aris Football Club , also known as God of war and the Yellows, is a Greek football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia. Formed in 1914, the club was a founding member of Macedonian Football Clubs Association as well as the Hellenic Football Federation, they currently compete in...

      , a football club
    • Aris BC
      Aris BC
      Aris Basketball Club is the professional basketball team of the Thessaloniki-based Greek sport club Aris Thessaloniki. Aris BC was founded in 1922, eight years after the founding of Aris Thessaloniki....

      , a basketball club
    • Aris VC
      Aris VC
      Aris VC is a volleyball club from Thessaloniki, Greece, part of Aris Thessaloniki Sport Club. Aris participates in the A1 Division and it is one of the most historical teams of the whole club and of the most stable values of the Greek volleyball, inside and outside its borders.-History:Aris was the...

      , a volleyball club
    • Aris WPC, a water polo club
    • Aris Baseball
      Aris Baseball
      Aris Baseball is a baseball club based in Thessaloniki, Greece, and belongs to one of the biggest sport clubs in Greece, "Aris Thessaloniki". The club was established in 2002 and it is the only major baseball club in Macedonia and one of the most important in Greece.From it first participation in...

      , a baseball club
  • Aris Limassol, a Cypriot football club in Limassol

Other uses

  • A common hypocoristic of several common Greek given names, such as Aristotle
    Aristotle
    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

    , Aristides
    Aristides
    Aristides , 530 BC – 468 BC was an Athenian statesman, nicknamed "the Just".- Biography :Aristides was the son of Lysimachus, and a member of a family of moderate fortune. Of his early life, it is only told that he became a follower of the statesman Cleisthenes and sided with the aristocratic party...

    , Aristomenes
    Aristomenes
    Aristomenes was a king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans in the Messenian Wars , and his resistance to them on Mount Ida for 11 years...

     etc.
  • Ares
    Ares
    Ares is the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and...

    , god in Greek mythology; also a Greek given name
  • Architecture of Integrated Information Systems
    Architecture of Integrated Information Systems
    ARIS is an approach to enterprise modeling. It offers methods for analyzing processes and taking a holistic view of process design, management, work flow, and application processing....

     (ARIS), a method for analyzing processes
  • Arris
    Arris
    Arris is an architectural term that describes the sharp edge formed by the intersection of two surfaces, such as the corner of a masonry unit; the junction between two planes of plaster or any intersection of divergent architectural details...

    , an architectural term for a sharp edge
  • ARIS Express
    ARIS Express
    ARIS Express is a free-of-charge modeling tool for business process analysis and management. It supports different modeling notations such as BPMN 2, Event-driven Process Chains , Organizational charts, process landscapes, whiteboards, etc. ARIS Express was initially developed by IDS Scheer, which...

    , a freeware software tool from IDS Scheer AG
    IDS Scheer
    IDS Scheer develops, markets, and supports Business Process Management software and is widely regarded as the founder of the BPM industry. The company was established in 1984 by current supervisory board chairman and Chief Technology Advisor, August-Wilhelm Scheer as a spin-off from the Institute...

     based on the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems
    Architecture of Integrated Information Systems
    ARIS is an approach to enterprise modeling. It offers methods for analyzing processes and taking a holistic view of process design, management, work flow, and application processing....

     concept
  • Anti-Racism Information Service
    Anti-Racism Information Service
    The Anti-Racism Information Service is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1992 by Kati David. ARIS was accorded Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1997...

     (ARIS THERMIS) in Geneva, Switzerland
  • The American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS)
  • ARIS - International Course on Architectural Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation. ICCROM-GCI courses held in Rome 2003-2009.
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