Petros (pelican) Petros (pelican) Petros was a great white pelican. It was the official mascot of the Greek island of Mykonos. In 1958, a wounded pelican was found off the coast of Mykonos by a local fisherman. The pelican was nursed to health and remained on the island supported by locals. It soon adopted the name "Petros", as a joke among locals, as "petro" in Greek means "rock" or "stone", but metaphorically "old and grumpy". Petros was hit and killed by a car in December 1985. Subsequently, three new pelicans took up residence around the main town of Mykonos. One, honorifically, was
Petros Kokkalis Petros Kokkalis Petros Kokkalis (Greek: Πέτρος Κόκκαλης, 1896 - 1962) was a Greek medical doctor, academic and politician, member of the Communist Party of Greece, and Minister in the (internationally unrecognized) Provisional Democratic Government during the Greek Civil War. He was the personal physician to East German leader Walter Ulbricht and is the father of the billionaire businessman Sokratis Kokkalis, one of the wealthiest and most influential people in Greece. He was born in Livadeia, Greece, in 1896, to a prosperous family. He first studied medicine at Athens University and received a PhD from the University of Bern in Switzerland.