Giorgos Koumanakos

Georgios Koumanakos (, 1913 – 2003) was a Greek Army officer and peace activist.

Born in Gytheio, Mani in 1913, he fought in World War II, in the Greek Civil War against the Communists and commanded the Greek Expeditionary Force in Korea with distinction. By 1967, he had reached the rank of Lieutenant General. As an opponent of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974, he was retired from the army and sent for three years into internal exile by the military regime. Koumanakos later stated he had been approached to join the 1967 coup by an official from the US embassy, but had refused to become involved.

In 1971 he returned to Athens from exile and was admitted to the state hospital there for treatment of a hearing problem and rheumatism.