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Lykoudis

family name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ56539666
Source-derived summary

Lykoudis (Greek: Λυκούδης) is a Greek surname, derived from the Greek word for wolf (Greek: λύκος, lykos).

Notable people with the surname include:

Georgios Lykoudis (born 1964), Greek volleyball player

John Lykoudis (1910–1980), Greek doctor

Spyros Lykoudis (born 1945), Greek politician

Stylianos Lykoudis (1878–1958), Greek admiral

Likoudis

This surname can also be transliterated Likoudis, especially outside of Greek speaking countries.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lykoudis” as family name. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1910, 1980, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lykoudis, family and name can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as family name. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q56539666. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1910, 1980 and 1945.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Lykoudis primary sources, Lykoudis archive and Lykoudis research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Lykoudis” 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.