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Dimitrios E. Galanis (1879 or 1882-1966) was born in Athens (Greece). He studied at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He then moved to Paris (France) and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. He published sketches in numerous journals and illustrated books and albums. After 1930 he turned to engraving. From 1945 onwards he was professor at the École des Beaux-Arts as well as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, while in 1950 he was elected in the Academy of Athens. He organised many personal exhibitions and took part in many group exhibitions, both in Greece and abroad. He served at the French Foreign Legion during World War I and became a French citizen. He died in Athens.

Irakleios Fyssentzidis (Héraclios Fyssen) (1904-1982) was born in Cairo (Egypt). He was among the founders of the Argo journal (published between 1923 and 1927), an initiative of the “Hellenic Youth Union”. He was educated in Paris (France), where he remained and became professionally active in the field of new technologies. In 1979 he founded the “Fondation Fyssen”, with the aim to promote scientific research in the fields of social anthropology, archaeology, neurobiology etc.

Robert (Robin) Allason Furness (1883-1954) was born in England and studied at Cambridge (King’s College), where he met E. M. Forster. He worked as a civil servant in Egypt (1906-1923, deputy director of censorship, director of imports and exports, financial consultant, etc.). He taught English at the Fuad I University of Cairo (1936-1944), while from 1945 to 1950 he worked for the British Council, also in Egypt. In 1931 he published his translation work (Translations from the Greek Anthology and Poems of Callimachus).

Kimon Friar (Kimon Kalogeropoulos) was born at the Propontis (Sea of Marmara) in 1911 and moved to the United States with his family at a young age. He wrote poems and taught English and American poetry. He moved to Athens (Greece) and introduced Greek poetry (Kazantzakis, Elytis, Ritsos, etc.) through his translations to the English-speaking audience. He was professor and visiting professor at universities in the United States and in Greece. He also published important critical studies.

Anastasios Fragkos, with an ancestry from Karpathos (Greece), was born in Athens in 1906. He was a writer and literary critic and collaborated with the journal Alexandrini Techni, researching the work of Cavafy. He wrote and published articles and texts on the Dodecanese as well as short stories and novels. He published in the journal Nea Techni and in the newspapers Eleftheria of Larissa and Esperini. An employee of the Ministry of Finance, he died in 1975.

Vasilis Fotiadis (1900-1975) was a painter and a scholar of the Greek diaspora. In addition to painting (oil, watercolour, sketching), Fotiadis was also involved in literature (writing prose and poetry) and published articles, mainly in art journals.

Fotios Fotiadis was the son of George and Eleni Fotiadis and the only brother of Charikleia, C. P. Cavafy’s mother. He married Smaragda Agelastou in 1878 and had two sons.

Gail W. Foster was an irrigation engineer in Egypt.

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, a short story writer and an essayist. He was born in London (England), studied at Cambridge and travelled to around the world. His most famous works include A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India etc. He was a Literature Nobel Prize Nominee, sixteen times. Forster became acquainted with Cavafy in Alexandria (Egypt) during World War I and had a long-term correspondence with him. He introduced Cavafy’s work to the English public and persistently tried to convince the Alexandrian poet to publish his entire work in English.

Edgar John Forsdyke (1883-1979) was an archaeologist and Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1932-1936) as well as director and chief archivist (1936-1950) at the British Museum. He studied in Oxford and worked as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hellenic Studies from 1912 to 1923.

Newspaper in Cyprus, first published in 1882 under the name Stasinos in Larnaca (Cyprus). It was renamed to Foni tis Kyprou in 1887 and its headquarters were transferred to Nicosia (Cyprus). It was published until 1952, under the name Nea Foni tis Kyprou since the 1920s. It published, inter alia, correspondences by Cypriots living in Greece and Egypt.

Floga was a journal first published by Tefkros Anthias (Andreas Pavlos Chatziminas, 1903-1968), a Cypriot author. In the 1920s, it was distributed in Greece, during the publisher’s stay at that country, and then in England.