Theodoros Modis

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Theodoros Modis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Μόδης) was a Greek lumber merchant and scholar from Monastiri (today's Bitola, in North Macedonia).Theodore Modis, Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2018, pp. 11-16,41-49.Γεώργιος Χ. Μόδης, Αναμνήσεις, Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004 (published posthumously), pp. 65-66, 79-80.

He was among those who helped the founders of the Revolutionary Internal Organization in its formation, in order to defend Greek interests in Macedonia (Ottoman Empire at the time.).{{cite journal |last=Vakalopoulos |first=Konstantinos |title=Η εθνική δράση του Γεωργίου και Ιωάννου Ξανθού (Γευγελή) και του Αλεξ. Ζουμετίκου (Μοναστήρι) κατά το Μακεδονικό Αγώνα |journal=Makedonika |date=1981 |volume=21 |page= 400 |url=https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/makedonika/article/download/6003/5741 |doi= 10.12681/makedonika.442|doi-access=free }} He was assassinated in his shop by Bulgarian komitadji on September 4, 1904. His assassination, like the killing of Pavlos Melas a month later, is among the violent events that marked the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle (Μακεδονικός Αγώνας in Greek).Σταμάτης Ράπτης, Ιστορία του Mακεδονικού Αγώνος, Athens: Αναγνωστόπουλος & Πετράκος, 1925, pp. 6, 20-24.

He is the grandfather of Theodore Modis, the great-grandfather of Yorgo Modis, and the uncle of Georgios Modis.