Petros (pelican) given the name "Petros". 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
Petros Kokkalis During the Nazi Occupation of Greece he joined the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM), and became a Minister in EAM's government that controlled the liberated areas of Greece, under guerrilla control, the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA). Later, in the Greek Civil War, he was a minister in the internationally unrecognized Provisional Democratic Government. After the defeat of the communists, he fled to East Germany, where he continued his academic career. He died in East Berlin in 1962, aged 66, after suffering a myocardial infarction. Petros Kokkalis Petros Kokkalis (Greek: Πέτρος Κόκκαλης, 1896 - 1962) was a Greek medical