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{{Short description|Greek activist (1937–2023)}}'''Marianna V. Vardinogiannis''' ({{lang-el|Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη}}, ''née'' Μπουρνάκη ''Bournaki''; 1937 – 24 July 2023) was a Greek [[UNESCO]] Goodwill Ambassador<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/goodwill-ambassadors/marianna-vardinoyannis/|title=Marianna Vardinoyannis {{!}} United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|website=www.unesco.org|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> and an activist for the rights of children and the family, and against child sexual abuse via her Foundation for the Child and the Family. She was the President of the Elpida ({{lang-en|Hope}}) Association of friends of children with cancer.<ref name="EuMed">{{Cite web |title=THE FIRST ONGOLOGIST HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (original: ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΟΓΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ) |url=http://www.eumedline.eu/post/TO-PRWTO-OGKOLOGIKO-NOSOKOMEIO-GIA-PAIDIA |access-date=8 October 2021 |website=EU Medline}}</ref> She was married to Greek shipping magnate [[Vardis Vardinogiannis]].
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{{Infobox person
| name = Marianna Vardinogiannis
| image = Marianna Vardinoyannis.jpg
| caption = Vardinogiannis in 2018
| birth_name = Marianna Bournaki
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|06|2|df=y}}<ref name="iselida">{{cite web |title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: "Στον Βαρδή ερωτεύτηκα 100 άνδρες μαζί" |trans-title=Marianna Vardinogianni: "With Vardis I fell in love with 100 men together" |url=https://iselida.gr/index.php/anthropoi/item/17594-marianna-vardinogianni-ston-vardi-eroteytika-100-andres-mazi |website=iselida.gr |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=el |date=23 April 2020}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Athens]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|7|24|1937|6|2|df=y}}
| death_place = Athens, Greece
| resting_place = [[First Cemetery of Athens]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/1396270/marianna-vardinogianni-sto-a-nekrotafeio-i-tafi-tis/ |title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Στο Α' Νεκροταφείο η ταφή της |website=protothema.gr |language=el |date=26 July 2023 |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref>
| alma_mater = [[University of Denver]]
| occupation = [[Unesco]]{{cn|date=December 2021}}<br/>[[Vardinogiannis Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mvvfoundation.gr/el/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE/ |title=Marianna Vardinoyannis Foundation |website=mvvfoundation.gr |access-date=8 October 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128142210/http://www.mvvfoundation.gr/el/%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Vardis Vardinogiannis]]|1961}}
| children = 5, including [[Giannis Vardinogiannis]]
}}

'''Marianna V. Vardinogiannis''' ({{lang-el|Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη}}, ''[[Birth name|née]]'' Μπουρνάκη ''Bournaki''; 2 June 1937 – 24 July 2023) was a Greek [[UNESCO]] Goodwill Ambassador<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/goodwill-ambassadors/marianna-vardinoyannis/ |title=Marianna Vardinoyannis {{!}} United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |website=unesco.org |access-date=2020-02-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227215330/www.unesco.org/new/en/goodwill-ambassadors/marianna-vardinoyannis/ |archive-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> and an activist for the rights of children and the family, and against child sexual abuse via her Foundation for the Child and the Family. She was the President of the Elpida ({{lang-en|Hope}}) Association of friends of children with cancer.<ref name="EuMed">{{Cite web |title=THE FIRST ONGOLOGIST HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (original: ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΟΓΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ) |url=http://www.eumedline.eu/post/TO-PRWTO-OGKOLOGIKO-NOSOKOMEIO-GIA-PAIDIA |access-date=8 October 2021 |website=EU Medline}}</ref> She was married to Greek shipping magnate [[Vardis Vardinogiannis]].


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Marianna Bournaki was born in 1937<ref>Marianna Vardinogianni: ''With Vardis I fell in love with 100 men together'' (''Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη:Στον Βαρδή ερωτεύτηκα 100 άνδρες μαζί''), iselida.gr, 23/4/2020 [https://iselida.gr/index.php/anthropoi/item/17594-marianna-vardinogianni-ston-vardi-eroteytika-100-andres-mazi]</ref>, in [[Athens]], Greece,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pagenews.gr/2018/06/23/ellada/marianna-bardinogianni-i-zoi-san-paramythi-kai-to-terastio-ergo/|title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Η ζωή σαν παραμύθι και το τεράστιο έργο|date=23 June 2018}}</ref> and raised in Ermione, birthplace of her mother, Evangelia. Her father was George Bournakis, who hailed from the village of Sampatiki, in the province of [[Cynuria|Kynouria]], in [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]].<ref name="biography">{{Cite web|url=http://www.womantime.gr/other_articles/famous-women/26563.html|title=Marianna Vardinogiannis: The Goodwill Ambassador (original: Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Η Πρέσβειρα Καλής Θελήσεως)|website=WomanTime|access-date=8 October 2018}}</ref> She studied Economics at the [[University of Denver]] in [[Colorado]] after graduating from high school in Athens.<ref name="biography" />
Marianna Bournaki was born on 2 June<ref>{{Cite web |title=Τα γενέθλια μιας σημαντικής γυναίκας… |url=https://www.inewsgr.com/197/ta-genethlia-mias-simantikis-gynaikas.htm |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=iNewsgr.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Τα γενέθλια μιας σημαντικής γυναίκας… |url=https://www.zinapost.gr/lifestyle/54895_ta-genethlia-mias-simantikis-gynaikas/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=zinapost.gr |language=el}}</ref> 1937,<ref name="iselida" /> in [[Athens]], Greece,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pagenews.gr/2018/06/23/ellada/marianna-bardinogianni-i-zoi-san-paramythi-kai-to-terastio-ergo/ |title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Η ζωή σαν παραμύθι και το τεράστιο έργο |website=pagenews.gr |language=el |date=23 June 2018 |access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref> and raised in Ermione, birthplace of her mother, Evangelia. Her father was George Bournakis, who hailed from the village of Sampatiki, in the province of [[Cynuria|Kynouria]], in [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]].<ref name="biography">{{Cite web |url=http://www.womantime.gr/other_articles/famous-women/26563.html |title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Η Πρέσβειρα Καλής Θελήσεως |trans-title=Marianna Vardinogiannis: The Goodwill Ambassador |website=WomanTime |language=el |access-date=8 October 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829222135/http://www.womantime.gr/other_articles/famous-women/26563.html |archive-date=29 August 2021}}</ref> She studied Economics at the [[University of Denver]] in [[Colorado]] after graduating from high school in Athens.<ref name="biography" />


==International and regional activities==
==International and regional activities==
Vardinogiannis began her activities as a member of various organizations, associations and philanthropic organizations, from which she has fought for international peace and global solidarity, although her primary focus has been mainly on the problems of children: health, education, social welfare and poverty, child abuse and exploitation. At the same time, she supported vulnerable social groups, refugees and schools throughout the Greek territory as well as areas and people that had been affected by natural disasters such as the village of Makistos which was revived after being destroyed by fires.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Έφυγε από τη ζωή η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη |url=https://www.zougla.gr/greece/article/pe8ane-i-mariana-vardinogiani |access-date=24 July 2023|website=zougla.gr |language=el}}</ref>
Vardinogiannis began her activities as a member of various organizations, associations and philanthropic organizations, from which she has fought for international peace and global solidarity, although her primary focus has been mainly on the problems of children: health, education, social welfare and poverty, child abuse and exploitation. At the same time, she supported vulnerable social groups, refugees and schools throughout the Greek territory as well as areas and people that had been affected by natural disasters such as the village of Makistos which was revived after being destroyed by fires.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Έφυγε από τη ζωή η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη |url=https://www.zougla.gr/greece/article/pe8ane-i-mariana-vardinogiani |date=24 July 2023 |access-date=24 July 2023 |website=zougla.gr |language=el}}</ref>


She developed strong relationships with several international personalities, such as [[Queen Rania of Jordan]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fayscontrol.gr/i-rania-tis-iordanias-i-marianna-v-vardinogianni-sta-kentra-prosfigon-sti-mitilini/|title=Η Ράνια της Ιορδανίας & η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη στα κέντρα προσφύγων στη Μυτιλήνη|website=fayscontrol.gr|date=25 April 2016|access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref> [[Suzanne Mubarak]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/691643/dialexi-sto-megaro-moysikis-apo-tin-proti-kyria-tis-aigyptoy-k-suzanne-mubarak-ti-deytera-2-ioynioy/|title=Διάλεξη στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής από την πρώτη κυρία της Αιγύπτου κ. Suzanne Mubarak, τη Δευτέρα 2 Ιουνίου|website=Kathimerini|author=Eleni Mpistika|date=20 May 2003|access-date=8 October 2018}}</ref> several networks, collaborations and organizations such as the Global Coalition Women Defending Peace.<ref name="organizations">{{Cite news|url=https://hazliseconomist.com/en/past_speakercv/Marianna_Vardinogiannis|title=Marianna Vardinoyannis|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=8 October 2018}}</ref>
She developed strong relationships with several international personalities, such as [[Queen Rania of Jordan]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fayscontrol.gr/i-rania-tis-iordanias-i-marianna-v-vardinogianni-sta-kentra-prosfigon-sti-mitilini/ |title=Η Ράνια της Ιορδανίας & η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη στα κέντρα προσφύγων στη Μυτιλήνη |website=fayscontrol.gr |language=el |date=25 April 2016 |access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref> [[Suzanne Mubarak]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/691643/dialexi-sto-megaro-moysikis-apo-tin-proti-kyria-tis-aigyptoy-k-suzanne-mubarak-ti-deytera-2-ioynioy/ |last1=Mpistika |first1=Eleni |title=Διάλεξη στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής από την πρώτη κυρία της Αιγύπτου κ. Suzanne Mubarak, τη Δευτέρα 2 Ιουνίου |website=Kathimerini |date=20 May 2003 |access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref> several networks, collaborations and organizations such as the Global Coalition Women Defending Peace.<ref name="organizations">{{Cite news |url=https://hazliseconomist.com/en/past_speakercv/Marianna_Vardinogiannis |title=Marianna Vardinoyannis |language=en |newspaper=The Economist |access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref>


On 14 October 2010, the Elpida (Hope) Children's Oncology located in [[Athens]], Greece, which focuses on child cancer, was inaugurated and opened to the public.<ref name="EuMed" />
On 14 October 2010, the Elpida (Hope) Children's Oncology located in [[Athens]], Greece, which focuses on child cancer, was inaugurated and opened to the public.<ref name="EuMed" />


==Personal life and death==
==Personal life and death==
Marianna Bournaki married Greek shipping magnate [[Vardis Vardinogiannis]] {{When|date=July 2023}}; they had five children.<ref name="biography" /> She died on 24 July 2023, at the age of 86. {{Where|date=July 2023}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Vardinogiannis family announcement |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1216219/philanthropist-marianna-vardinogianni-passes-away/ |access-date=25 July 2023 |publisher=Ekathimerini |date=24 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/272228/mariannabardinogiannhpethanesehlikia80eton|title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Πέθανε σε ηλικία 80 ετών|trans-title=Marianna Vardinogiannis passes away|website=Ethnos|date=24 July 2023|access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/pethane-i-marianna-vardinogianni.10124685.html|trans-title=Marianna Vardinoyannis Passes Away|title=Πέθανε η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη|quote=Την τελευταία της πνοή, σε ηλικία 80 ετών, άφησε η Μαριάννα Β. Βαρδινογιάννη, πρέσβειρα Καλής Θελήσεως της UNESCO και πρόεδρος του Συλλόγου Φίλων Παιδιών με καρκίνο «ΕΛΠΙΔΑ».|trans-quote=At the age of 80, Marianna V. Vardinogiannis, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and president of the Association of Friends of Children with Cancer "ELPIDA", passed away.|website=News247|date=24 July 2023|access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref>
Marianna Bournaki married Greek shipping magnate [[Vardis Vardinogiannis]];{{When|date=July 2023}} they had five children.<ref name="biography" /> She died on 24 July 2023, at the age of 86. {{Where|date=July 2023}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Vardinogiannis family announcement |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1216219/philanthropist-marianna-vardinogianni-passes-away/ |publisher=Ekathimerini |language=en |date=24 July 2023 |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/272228/mariannabardinogiannhpethanesehlikia80eton |title=Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Πέθανε σε ηλικία 80 ετών |trans-title=Marianna Vardinogiannis passes away |website=Ethnos |language=el |date=24 July 2023 |access-date=24 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/pethane-i-marianna-vardinogianni.10124685.html |trans-title=Marianna Vardinoyannis Passes Away |title=Πέθανε η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη |quote=Την τελευταία της πνοή, σε ηλικία 80 ετών, άφησε η Μαριάννα Β. Βαρδινογιάννη, πρέσβειρα Καλής Θελήσεως της UNESCO και πρόεδρος του Συλλόγου Φίλων Παιδιών με καρκίνο «ΕΛΠΙΔΑ». |trans-quote=At the age of 80, Marianna V. Vardinogiannis, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and president of the Association of Friends of Children with Cancer "ELPIDA", passed away. |language=el |website=News247 |date=24 July 2023 |access-date=24 July 2023}}</ref>


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
She received many honorary titles and awards including the Academy of Athens Prize, the Archon of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Grand Prize of the Charter of Paris against Cancer, and the "Ripple of Hope" prize awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, among others.
She received many honorary titles and awards including the Academy of Athens Prize, the Archon of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Grand Prize of the [[Charter of Paris against cancer]], and the "Ripple of Hope" prize awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, among others.


The most notable included:
The most notable included:


* [[Légion d'Honneur]]. Title [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur|conferred]] in 2006 by the [[French Republic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lepetitjournal.com/athenes/a-la-une-athenes/9278-portrait-marianna-vardinoyannis-honorpour-ses-combats.html |title=PORTRAIT - Marianna Vardinoyannis honorpour ses combats |publisher=Lepetitjournal.com |accessdate=27 September 2015|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928185442/http://www.lepetitjournal.com/athenes/a-la-une-athenes/9278-portrait-marianna-vardinoyannis-honorpour-ses-combats.html |archivedate=28 September 2015 }}</ref> Title of ''Officier'' conferred in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/239192/i-marianna-vardinogianni-anakiryhthike-axiomatikos-tis-legeonas-tis-timis-eikones|title=Η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη ανακηρύχθηκε αξιωματικός της Λεγεώνας της Τιμής|trans-title=Marianna Vardinogianni decorated Officer of the Légion d'Honneur|newspaper=iefimerida.gr|language=Greek|accessdate=10 July 2019}}</ref>
* [[Légion d'Honneur]]. Title [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur|conferred]] in 2006 by the [[French Republic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lepetitjournal.com/athenes/a-la-une-athenes/9278-portrait-marianna-vardinoyannis-honorpour-ses-combats.html |last1=Prifti |first1=Delphine Millet |title=PORTRAIT - Marianna Vardinoyannis honorée pour ses combats |publisher=lepetitjournal.com |language=fr |date=26 June 2006 |access-date=27 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928185442/http://www.lepetitjournal.com/athenes/a-la-une-athenes/9278-portrait-marianna-vardinoyannis-honorpour-ses-combats.html |archive-date=28 September 2015}}</ref> Title of ''Officier'' conferred in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/239192/i-marianna-vardinogianni-anakiryhthike-axiomatikos-tis-legeonas-tis-timis-eikones |title=Η Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη ανακηρύχθηκε αξιωματικός της Λεγεώνας της Τιμής |trans-title=Marianna Vardinogianni decorated Officer of the Légion d'Honneur |newspaper=iefimerida.gr |language=el |date=4 December 2015 |access-date=10 July 2019}}</ref>
* Golden Cross of the [[Order of Beneficence]] by the [[Hellenic Republic]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mentorinternational.org/people.php?nav=3-26-88&id=31 |title=Trustees - Marianna V. Vardinoyannis |publisher=Mentor International |date=4 October 1947 |accessdate=27 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927122504/http://mentorinternational.org/people.php?nav=3-26-88&id=31 |archivedate=27 September 2015}}</ref>
* Golden Cross of the [[Order of Beneficence]] by the [[Hellenic Republic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mentorinternational.org/people.php?nav=3-26-88&id=31 |title=Trustees - Marianna V. Vardinoyannis |publisher=Mentor International |language=en |accessdate=27 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927122504/http://mentorinternational.org/people.php?nav=3-26-88&id=31 |archive-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>
*The 2020 [[United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize|Nelson Mandela Prize]] by the [[United Nations]] [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 July 2020|title=Mandela Prize awarded to Greek and Guinean rights activists|url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1068571|access-date=13 December 2020|website=UN News|language=en}}</ref>
*The 2020 [[United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize|Nelson Mandela Prize]] by the [[United Nations]] [[United Nations General Assembly|General Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mandela Prize awarded to Greek and Guinean rights activists |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/07/1068571 |date=17 July 2020 |access-date=13 December 2020 |website=UN News |language=en}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 06:57, 15 July 2024

Marianna Vardinogiannis
Vardinogiannis in 2018
Born
Marianna Bournaki

(1937-06-02)2 June 1937[1]
Died24 July 2023(2023-07-24) (aged 86)
Athens, Greece
Resting placeFirst Cemetery of Athens[2]
Alma materUniversity of Denver
Occupation(s)Unesco[citation needed]
Vardinogiannis Foundation[3]
Spouse
(m. 1961)
Children5, including Giannis Vardinogiannis

Marianna V. Vardinogiannis (Greek: Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη, née Μπουρνάκη Bournaki; 2 June 1937 – 24 July 2023) was a Greek UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador[4] and an activist for the rights of children and the family, and against child sexual abuse via her Foundation for the Child and the Family. She was the President of the Elpida (English: Hope) Association of friends of children with cancer.[5] She was married to Greek shipping magnate Vardis Vardinogiannis.

Early life and education

Marianna Bournaki was born on 2 June[6][7] 1937,[1] in Athens, Greece,[8] and raised in Ermione, birthplace of her mother, Evangelia. Her father was George Bournakis, who hailed from the village of Sampatiki, in the province of Kynouria, in Arcadia.[9] She studied Economics at the University of Denver in Colorado after graduating from high school in Athens.[9]

International and regional activities

Vardinogiannis began her activities as a member of various organizations, associations and philanthropic organizations, from which she has fought for international peace and global solidarity, although her primary focus has been mainly on the problems of children: health, education, social welfare and poverty, child abuse and exploitation. At the same time, she supported vulnerable social groups, refugees and schools throughout the Greek territory as well as areas and people that had been affected by natural disasters such as the village of Makistos which was revived after being destroyed by fires.[10]

She developed strong relationships with several international personalities, such as Queen Rania of Jordan,[11] Suzanne Mubarak,[12] several networks, collaborations and organizations such as the Global Coalition Women Defending Peace.[13]

On 14 October 2010, the Elpida (Hope) Children's Oncology located in Athens, Greece, which focuses on child cancer, was inaugurated and opened to the public.[5]

Personal life and death

Marianna Bournaki married Greek shipping magnate Vardis Vardinogiannis;[when?] they had five children.[9] She died on 24 July 2023, at the age of 86. [where?][14][15][16]

Awards and honors

She received many honorary titles and awards including the Academy of Athens Prize, the Archon of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Grand Prize of the Charter of Paris against cancer, and the "Ripple of Hope" prize awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, among others.

The most notable included:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: "Στον Βαρδή ερωτεύτηκα 100 άνδρες μαζί"" [Marianna Vardinogianni: "With Vardis I fell in love with 100 men together"]. iselida.gr (in Greek). 23 April 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη: Στο Α' Νεκροταφείο η ταφή της". protothema.gr (in Greek). 26 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Marianna Vardinoyannis Foundation". mvvfoundation.gr. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Marianna Vardinoyannis | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". unesco.org. Archived from the original on 27 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b "THE FIRST ONGOLOGIST HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (original: ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΟΓΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟ ΓΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ)". EU Medline. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Τα γενέθλια μιας σημαντικής γυναίκας…". iNewsgr.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
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