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Konstantinos G. Delta (1872-1937) was a doctor. He was the younger brother of Stefanos Delta, husband of Penelope, and a friend of C. P. Cavafy. He published poems and short stories in journals and translated sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Greek. He joined the movement of demoticism and contributed to the establishment of the Educational Association of Egypt.

Demos Raphael was born in Izmir (Turkey) in 1892, lived in Istanbul and graduated from the Anatolia College (in the area of Amasya) in 1910. He moved to the United States in 1913 and obtained his doctorate from Harvard, where he taught Philosophy from 1919 to 1962. He moved to Athens (Greece) in 1967 and died while on-board a ship to New York in 1968.

Polyxeni I. Dimara (née Tsimpouki) was a painter. She organised personal exhibitions and illustrated the edition of Ioannis Gryparis’s work Skaravaioi kai Terakotes (1928). Illustrations of her work have been published in Nea Estia, while her text on the painter Konstantinos Maleas was published in 1953 in the daily I Vradini.

Konstantinos Th. Dimaras was born in Athens (Greece), in 1904. He studied Classics and started publishing his scientific works in 1926. He worked with newspapers and journals as a literary critic; he was an historian of Modern Greek literature and the first researcher of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. He taught at the University of Sorbonne and died in Paris (France) in 1992.

Dimokratia was an Athenian newspaper, circulating from 1923 to 1927 and then from 1932 to 1933. It was aligned with the Democratic Union party of Alexandros Papanastasiou. Among its directors were Spyros Melas and Stratis Myrivilis, during the last years of its publication. Many prominent writers and intellectuals collaborated with Dimokratia, publishing their texts in the newspaper.

Bonamy Dobrée (1891-1974) came from a family of bankers. He studied at a military academy and served in France and in the Middle East during World War I. He then studied at Cambridge (1921-1924), specialising in 18th century English literature, taught English in London (England) and at the University of Cairo (1925-1929) and became professor of English literature at the University of Leeds (1936-1955). He met most of the important authors of his time, and wrote studies, poems, one novel and one play.