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Georgios Anastasiadis was a member of the “Anastasiadis brothers” commercial company. For many years he served as president of the “Aeschylus - Arion” Association of Alexandria (Egypt), contributing to its further development.

Pericles A. Anastasiadis (1870-1950) was born in Alexandria (Egypt). He was the son of Aristeidis P. Anastasiadis, member of the Stock Exchange in Alexandria, and most probably his professional successor. Pericles Anastasiadis studied abroad and was an amateur painter. He was a friend of C. P. Cavafy and part of their correspondence is preserved in the Cavafy archive.

Nikolaos Andriomenos (1850/1-1929) was one of the most important early photographers in Turkey. He was first employed at a very young age (11) by the photographic studio of the Abdullah Frères (in the area of Pera [Beyoğlu], Istanbul, Turkey); six years later, he bought the building and established his own studio. He won a prize at the Paris Fair of 1903 and taught photography to the then successor to the Ottoman throne. His studio was subsequently taken over by his son Athanasios; it was totally destroyed in 1955, during the “September events” (or “Istanbul pogrom”).

Gerasimos Anninos (1891-1964) was born in Athens. He was the son of the journalist and author Charalambos G. Anninos (1852-1934). He published in journals and newspapers (vignettes, prose works and poems); he also published prose and poetry.

Sofoklis Antoniadis (1896-1978), known by the pseudonym Sofo, was a painter and cartoonist. He worked in Greece and in Egypt, where he lived for many years. In 1924, he published the journal Mefistofelis in Alexandria (Egypt).

The Apollo theatre in Athens (Greece) was built around 1915 and originally operated as a cinema. It was converted into a theatre in the 1920s. It was on Stadiou Street, next to the Splendid cinema.

Apostolis Apostolopoulos was a journalist. He collaborated with the Grammata journal of Alexandria (Egypt). In 1919 he was in Paris (France) with Jean Kefalinos. One of Apostolopoulos’s published works was I Polis. Sira entiposeon pou mas edoke kata kairous mia polis (Alexandria, 1914).

Stavrakis Aristarchis was born in Istanbul (Turkey), in 1834 or 1836. He was appointed senator of the Ottoman Empire in 1876. He also was a Great Logothete of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Following the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-1922, he was forced to leave Istanbul and to sell off part of his library to the Vatican. He died in 1925.