2017 in Greece

Incumbents

• President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras

  Events

• 13 May – Three people are killed when a train derails in Adendro and hits a house.
• 12 June – The 6.3 Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, killing one and injuring ten.
• 21 July – The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII, killing two and injuring 480+.
• 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three.

  Deaths

• 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer.
• 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP
• 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP.
• 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Former Greek Prime Minister.
• 5 June – Giorgos Masadis, footballer