Kalinikos Kreanga (born March 8, 1972) is a Greek (formerly Romanian) table tennis player.

[1][2] Born as Călin Creangă, he chose to defect from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17 (with his father) while he was participating in the European Table Tennis Youth Championships in Luxembourg in 1989.

[3] Born in Bistriţa, Romania, Kreanga started to play table tennis at the age of 7.

[3] He has been one of the dominant European table tennis players since the beginning of the 1990s, and uses the shakehand grip to hold the racket.

His backhand topspin is regarded as one of the most devastating in the history of the game, not limited by its unorthodox technique.