Alexandros Hadjikyriakos

Alexandros Hatzikyriakos
Crowds celebrating in Athens the proclamation of the Republic in 1924, with placards of republican leaders Papanastasiou (left), Hatzikyriakos (center) and Kondylis (right)
Born	1 January 1874 Ermoupoli
Died	1958 Athens
Allegiance	Greece
Service/branch	Royal Hellenic Navy
Years of service	1899–1924
Rank	Rear Admiral
Wars	Balkan Wars, World War I, Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922
Relations	Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Gikas
Other work	MP, Minister for Naval Affairs (thrice), briefly Foreign Minister (twice)

Alexandros Hatzikyriakos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Χατζηκυριάκος; 1874–1958) was a Greek Navy officer who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. He played a major role in the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924, and served thrice as Minister for Naval Affairs and two brief periods as Foreign Minister.

He was born in Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros, on 1 January 1874 to an old shipping family from Psara. His father, Nikolaos, was an industrialist, while his brother Andreas became a politician. He entered the Hellenic Navy Academy, and was commissioned as an Ensign in March 1899.

During the 1909 Goudi coup he took an active part as a member of the military revolutionary council. He fought in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, first as captain of the destroyer Doxa, and then as battalion commander of the newly constituted naval infantry regiment (the future 29th Infantry Regiment) during the Second Balkan War (1913). In 1916 Hatzikyriakos joined the Provisional Government of National Defence under Eleftherios Venizelos, and was appointed as captain of the cruiser Georgios Averof, which he commanded during the Greek landing at Smyrna and the opening stages of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.