Georgios Panas

Georgios Panas (; Kranio, Cephalonia, 1 January 1876 – Athens, 6 August 1939) was a senior Greek Navy officer who fought in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, World War I, and the Asia Minor Campaign, and served as Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1928–31, and briefly minister in the Alexandros Othonaios emergency government in March 1933.

Life Georgios Panas was born in the village of Kranio on the island of Cephalonia, on 1 January 1876. He entered the Navy Academy on 8 September 1890 (serial number 84), and graduated on 19 July 1894 as a Line Ensign. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 on board the ironclad Spetsai. He went on voluntary retirement on 15 January 1934, with the rank of vice admiral.

In retirement, he was a founding member of the Yacht Club of Greece (1934), and served as a member of its board of directors until his death on 6 August 1939. His son, Epameinondas, also became a naval officer.