Ezekias Papaioannou

Ezekias Papaioannou (; 8 October 1908 – 10 April 1988) was a Greek Cypriot communist politician and secretary general of AKEL.

He was born in the village of Kellaki, Limassol District, and received his secondary education at the American Academy of Larnaca with financial help from his brother. In his last year of school, because of health reasons, he moved to Nicosia where he finished his studies at The English School, Nicosia. He then worked as a miner in Skouriotissa (Foukasa) and as a manual worker in Piraeus port.

He moved to London in the early 1930s, where he actively worked with the Communist Party of Great Britain against different fascist factions. During this time he was arrested and jailed for three months by the British authorities. During his time in Britain he became a founding member of the Association of Cypriot Affairs which sought the expulsion of the British from Cyprus. Soon, he escaped and continued the fight until Independence in 1959.