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.
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).
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.
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).
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.