Dimitrios Vranopoulos

Dimitrios Vranopoulos (Δημήτριος Βρανόπουλος 1900–1980) was a Greek lawyer and politician who served as director of various area arms of the Municipal Police, as well as in Parliament and as government minister.

[1] He was elected five times as a member of parliament for Athens with the National Radical Union party: in 1956, 1958, 1961, 1963 and 1964.

In the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis in 1961, he served as Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works, and later as Minister of Public Works, a position he held until 1963.

[1] In 1969 he was awarded by Yad Vashem the title of Righteous Among the Nations for his contribution to saving Jews during the Occupation.

He died at the age of 80 on February 19, 1980, and was buried the following day at the First Cemetery of Athens.