The Hellenic Post (ELTA) released a new series of stamps honoring four prominent members of the Greek Diaspora.
The stamps depict the award-winning personalities chosen by the International Foundation for Greece (IFG) who contribute, each in their own way, to strengthening the international presence of Greece.
IFG Founder and President Aspasia Leventis said the IFG Awards as a recognition of successful Hellenes abroad who, not only do not forget their Hellenic origin, but through their work and lives express, promote, and invigorate the Hellenic Spirit.
The Greek Diaspora personalities depicted on the stamps
Dr George Miller, Director, Screenwriter and Producer.
Miller was born on 3 March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, to Greek immigrant parents: Jim Miller and mother Angela. Jim (aka Dimitrios) was born on the Greek island of Kythira (at Mitata), Jim’s father anglicized his surname from Miliotis to Miller when he emigrated to Australia in 1920; Angela’s family were Greek refugees from Anatolia, displaced by the 1923 population exchange.
Over the course of four decades Miller has received critical and popular success creating the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979 with two of the films having been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time. He has also earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Dr Demetri Porphyrios, Architect – Urban Planner, Visiting Professor at Yale University, Patriarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
While Porphyrios is considered to be an exponent of New Classical architecture, he has designed buildings in both the Gothic and classical idioms. Moreover, he has designed occasional buildings in a more modernist style, notably the glass curtain-walled office block One Forbury Square (2003) in Reading, Berkshire, England.
Michael Psaros, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist, Co-Founder & CEO of KPS Capital Partners LP, Archon, Host of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Psaros serves on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Advisors of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He and his spouse created “The Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration” at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2013.
Psaros and his Family created the “The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endowed Orthodox Chaplaincy, Endowed by the Michael Psaros Family” in 2021.
Dean A. Spanos, Businessman & Philanthropist, Owner & Chairman of the Board Los Angeles Chargers of the American National Football League (NFL), Chairman of the Board The Spanos Corporation – Construction & Multi-Family Development Company.
Spanos, raised in Stockton, California, is the son of Alex Spanos and Faye Papafaklis, both of Greek ancestry.
He had served as President of the Chargers since early in 1994, the same year the team culminated its most memorable season with an appearance in Super Bowl XXIX.
The Spanos family has a multi-generation commitment to community involvement and is recognized as one of the NFL’s most philanthropic families and one of Southern California’s most active and caring contributors to local causes.