Konstantinos Despotopoulos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δεσποτόπουλος; 8 February 1913 – 7 February 2016) was a Greek philosopher and intellectual who became a university professor and the Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece.
Konstantinos Despotopoulos was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1913.
Following the destruction of the city and the flight of its Greek population at the end of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22, his family settled in Athens.
[1] As an active member of the National Liberation Front during the Axis occupation of Greece, following the outbreak of the Greek Civil War he was dismissed from his post at the university and spent the years 1947–50 in internal exile at Makronisos.
[1] From 1989 to 1990 he served as Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece in the caretaker cabinet of Ioannis Grivas and the ecumenical cabinet of Xenophon Zolotas, and was proposed by the leftist Synaspismos as its candidate in the 1990 Greek presidential election.