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Oikonomou

family name (Οικονόμου)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ21484779
Source-derived summary

Oikonomou (Greek: Οικονόμου), also transliterated as Ikonomou and Economou, is a Greek surname, deriving from the word oikonomos, "housekeeper, steward". It can refer to:

Aikaterini Oikonomou, birth name of Ketty Diridaoua, Greek actress

Antonis Oikonomou (1785–1821), naval captain in the Greek War of Independence

Constantin von Economo (1876–1931), Austrian neurologist

Demetris Economou (born 1992), Cypriot association football player

Dimitrios Oikonomou (1883–1957), Greek admiral

Eleftherios N. Economou (born 1940), Greek Professor of Physics, father of Sophia

Eleftherios Oikonomou (born 1956), Greek Chief of Police

Evangelos Ikonomou (born 1987), Greek association football player

George Economou (poet) (1934–2019), American poet

George Economou (Shipbuilder) (born 1953), Greek billionaire shipowner

George A. Economou, Sr. (1923–2003), optical systems expert

Ioannis Ikonomou.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oikonomou” as family name (Οικονόμου). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oikonomou, family and name.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1785, 1821, 1876, 1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oikonomou, family and name providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21484779. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1785, 1821, 1876 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from Oikonomou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.