Alexandros Panagoulis

Alexandros Panagoulis Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης
Panagoulis in Florence (1973), with (to his right) Luigi Tassinari
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B
In office 9 December 1974 – 1 May 1976
Personal details
Born	(1939-07-02)2 July 1939 Glyfada, Athens, Greece
Died	1 May 1976(1976-05-01) (aged 36) Athens, Greece
Political party	Centre Union
Domestic partner	Oriana Fallaci (1973-1976)
Profession	politician, poet

Alexandros Panagoulis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης) (2 July 1939 – 1 May 1976) was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture that he was subjected to during his detention. After the restoration of democracy he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Center Union (E. K.).

Alexandros Panagoulis was born in the Glyfada neighbourhood of Athens. He was the second son of Vassilios Panagoulis, an officer in the Greek Army, and his wife Athena, and the brother of Georgios Panagoulis, also a Greek Army officer and victim of the Colonels' regime, and Efstathios, who became a politician. His father was from Divri (Lampeia) in Elis (Western Peloponnese) while his mother was from the Ionian island of Lefkada. Panagoulis spent part of his childhood during the Axis Occupation of Greece in the Second World War on this island.

He studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Faculty of History and Archaeology.

From his teenage years, Alexandros Panagoulis was inspired by democratic values. He joined the youth organisation of the Center Union party (E.K.), known as O.N.E.K., under the leadership of Georgios Papandreou. The organisation later became known as Hellenic Democratic Youth (E.DI.N.). After the fall of the Colonels' regime and the restoration of parliamentary rule, Panagoulis became the Secretary-General of E.DI.N., on 3 September 1974.