Ioannis "John" Coumantaros
Born
Ioannis S. Coumantaros

1894
Died1981
NationalityGreek
OccupationBusinessman
SpouseFlora Nomikos
Children2, including George S. Coumantaros
RelativesStavros Niarchos (nephew)
Nicholas P. "Nikos" Goulandris (son-in-law)

Ioannis S. "John" Coumantaros (1894–1981) was a Greek shipping and flour mills businessman.

Early life

He was the son of Stavros Coumantaros from Sparta, and had three older brothers, Theodoros, Nikolaos and Panayotis.[1] The brothers founded the Evrotas flour mills in Piraeus, and moved into shipping in 1932.[1]

Career

Ioannis ran the ships, along with his nephew Stavros Niarchos, the son of his sister,[1] Eugenie Koumantaros, who had married Spyros Niarchos.

Personal life

He married Flora Nomikos, the daughter of Peter Nomikos, from a "traditional maritime family".[1]

They had two children, a son, George S. Coumantaros, who married, Sophie Yannagas, the daughter of George Yannagas from Kasos, and they had two sons, Yannis and John, and three daughters, Flora, Elena and Eugenie.[1] Their daughter Aikaterini "Dolly" I. Coumantaros married Nicholas P. "Nikos" Goulandris from Andros.[1] They founded the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 I. Theotokas; G. Harlaftis (2009). Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-0-230-23353-9.
  2. Nicholas Jackson, ed. (28 April 2011). "Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art – Athens, Greece". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  3. "Museum of Cycladic Art - GTP". Gtp.gr. Retrieved 1 July 2017.


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