List of Greek Nobel laureates and nominees

As of 2023, Greece has produced 2 Nobel laureates and both in the field of literature.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Field	Citation
Citizens
1963		Giorgos [Seferiadis] Seferis	13 May 1900 in Urla, İzmir, Ottoman Empire	20 September 1971 in Athens, Greece	Literature	"for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."
1979		Odysseas [Alepoudellis] Elytis	2 November 1911 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece	18 March 1996 in Athens, Greece	Literature	"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness."

Nominations

Nominees

Image	Nominee	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation	Nominator(s)
Literature
	Demetrios Bernardakis	3 December 1833 in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece	12 January 1907 in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece	1904, 1905		Athanasios Bernardakis (1844–1922) Greece
	Georgios Souris	2 February 1853 in Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece	26 August 1919 in Athens, Greece	1907		Nikolaos Levidis (1868–1942) Greece
						9 members of the Greek Artists' Association
				1907, 1912		Georgios Hatzidakis (1848–1941) Greece
				1908		name ineligible
				1909		Pavlos Karolidis (1849–1930) Greece Dimitrios Patsopoulos (1845–1920) Greece
						members of the Parnassos Literary Society
				1911		Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople
	Kostis Palamas	13 January 1859 in Patras, Greece	27 February 1943 in Athens, Greece	1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933		Simos Menardos (1872–1933) Greece
				1928, 1930, 1935		Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) Sweden
				1930, 1934		Frederik Poulsen (1876–1950) Denmark
				1931		10 members of the Academy of Athens
				1934, 1936		Harry Fett (1875–1962) Norway
				1935		Three professors
				1936		Sofia Antoniadou (?) Greece
				1937		Nikos Athanasiou Veēs (1882–1958) Greece
				1938		3 members of the Athens Academy of Science
				1940		Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) Greece
	Yiorgos Theotokas	27 April 1906 in Istanbul, Turkey	30 October 1966 in Athens, Greece	1945		Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) Sweden
	Angelos Sikelianos	28 March 1884 in Lefkada, Greece	19 June 1951 in Athens, Greece	1946		Anders Österling (1884–1981) Sweden
				1947		Nikos Athanasiou Veēs (1882–1958) Greece
				1948		Elin Wägner (1882–1949) Sweden
						Axel Waldemar Persson (1888–1951) Sweden
				1949, 1951		Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) Sweden
				1950		Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) Sweden
						Hellenic Authors' Society
	Gregorios Xenopoulos	9 December 1867 in Istanbul, Turkey	14 January 1951 in Athens, Greece	1947		Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) Greece
	Nikos Kazantzakis	18 February 1883 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece	26 October 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	1947		Nikos Athanasiou Veēs (1882–1958) Greece
				1950		Hjalmar Gullberg (1898–1961) Sweden
				1951		Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) Sweden
				1952		Norwegian Authors' Union
				1953		Hans Heiberg (1904–1978) Norway
				1954		Henry Olsson (1896–1985) Sweden
				1955, 1956, 1957		Society of Men of Letters of Greece
				1955		Lorentz Eckhoff (1884–1974) Norway
				1956		Johannes Andreasson Dale (1898–1975) Norway
				1956, 1957		Samuel Baud-Bovy (1906–1986)
	Georgios Drossinis	9 December 1859 in Athens, Greece	3 January 1951 in Kifisia, Attica, Greece	1947		Phaidōn Koukoules (1881–1956) Greece
						Iōannēs Kalitsounakēs (1878–1966) Greece
				1947, 1948		Geōrgios Oikonomos (1882–1951) Greece

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