Stelios
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Stelios or formally Stylianos (Greek: Στυλιανός) is a Greek first name. This name is given to honor St. Stylianos
Stylianos of Paphlagonia
Saint Stylianos was born during the 6th century in Adrianopolis in the province of Paphlagonia into a very wealthy family...

, an orthodox saint, protector of the children.

Stelios is the first name of a number of people:
  • Stelios Giannakopoulos
    Stelios Giannakopoulos
    Stylianos "Stelios" Giannakopoulos , popularly known as Stelios, is a retired Greek footballer who is currently president of the Greek Professional Footballers Association...

    , association football player
  • Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
    Stelios Haji-Ioannou
    Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds...

    , owner of easyGroup
    EasyGroup
    EasyGroup , founded in 1998, is a conglomerate & the holding company controlling the "easy" ventures; it is privately owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou....

  • Stelios Kazantzidis
    Stelios Kazantzidis
    Stylianos Kazantzidis was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.-Biography :...

    , singer and novelist
  • Stelios Konstantas
    Stelios Konstantas
    Stylianos Konstantas is a Cypriot-born singer. He participated in two Cypriot national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, coming second in 1997 with I grammitis ntropi, and fourth in 1999 with Methysmeno feggari. In 2003, he performed the song "Feeling Alive" as the Cypriot entry for the...

    , singer
  • Stelios Arcadiou
    Stelarc
    Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...

     (better known as Stelarc
    Stelarc
    Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...

    ), performance artist
  • Stelios replaces Dienekes
    Dienekes
    Dienekes or Dieneces was a Spartan soldier present at the Battle of Thermopylae. He was acclaimed the bravest of all the three hundred Spartiates selected to fight in that battle. Herodotus related the following anecdote about Dienekes:...

     in the 300 movie. Stelios is played by German/Irish actor Michael Fassbender
    Michael Fassbender
    Michael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...

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