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Michalis Fardoulis (Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange) was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1910. A son of Greek parents with an ancestry in Kythera (Greece), he moved to Paris in 1929 to study Philosophy. He joined the French intellectual circles and was prosecuted for his political activity. He published prose, poetry and essays. He was the publisher of the review Troisième Convoi (1945-1951) with which prominent figures had collaborated (Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Marcel Lecomte et al.). A short story of Fardoulis (“Sa spoudi, sa satira”) was published in the journal Alexandrini Techni in 1929. He died in Paris in 1994.

Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, or Robin Fedden (1908-1977), was a British writer and diplomat who had studied English at Cambridge. He served as a diplomat in Athens (Greece) and taught English literature at the University of Cairo.

Fettel & Bernard was a photographic studio in Alexandria (Egypt).

Luigi Fiorillo (1847-1898) established his photographic studio in Alexandria (Egypt) in the early 1870s. He took pictures of the city after the 1882 bombardment by the British, publishing an album. He had taken snapshots of the Urabi revolt a year earlier. Following his death, his studio was taken over by his widow and sons, one of whom (Federico) subsequently worked on the islands of Rhodes and Leros (Greece).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gail W. Foster was an irrigation engineer in Egypt.

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.

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.

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.

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.