Panos Panagiotopoulos

{{Short description|Greek politician (born 1957)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Panos Panagiotopoulos
{{small|Πάνος Παναγιωτόπουλος}}

|image = Παναγιωτόπουλος.jpg

|office = Minister for Culture and Sport

|primeminister = Antonis Samaras

|term_start = 25 June 2013

|term_end = 10 June 2014

|predecessor = Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos {{small|(Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport)}}

|successor = Konstantinos Tasoulas

|office1 = Minister for National Defence

|primeminister1 = Antonis Samaras

|term_start1 = 21 June 2012

|term_end1 = 25 June 2013

|predecessor1 = Frangoulis Frangos

|successor1 = Dimitris Avramopoulos

|office2 = Minister for Employment and Social Protection

|primeminister2 = Kostas Karamanlis

|term_start2 = 10 March 2004

|term_end2 = 15 February 2006

|predecessor2 = Dimitris Reppas

|successor2 = Savvas Tsitouridis

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|12|11|df=y}}

|birth_place = Athens, Greece

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = New Democracy

|spouse = Maouzi Tsaldari

|children = 1

|alma_mater = University of Athens
Paris 8 University

}}

Panos Panagiotopoulos (Greek: Πάνος Παναγιωτόπουλος; born 11 December 1957) is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party.

Panagiotopoulos was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. He was the spokesman for the Hellenic Government (2007) as well as for New Democracy party (November 2009 – January 2011). He also served as the Minister of Employment and Social Protection in Kostas Karamanlis's 2004 cabinet. He has served as Minister for Culture and Sport from June 2013 to June 2014 and as Minister for Defence from June 2012 to June 2013.