AdamantiosAndroutsopoulos (1919 – 10 November 2000) was a lawyer, professor, and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1973 to 1974 appointed by junta strongman Dimitrios Ioannides.
Born in Psari Trifyllias, he studied at the University of Athens and University of Chicago.
When Papadopoulos was overthrown in 1973 by Ioannides, Androutsopoulos was appointed Head of Government, and also Finance Minister, until the return of democratic government in 1974 during the metapolitefsi.
Taxiarkhos Dimitrios Ioannides, a disgruntled Junta hardliner, used the uprising as a pretext to reestablish "law and order," and staged a counter-coup that overthrew George Papadopoulos and Spiros Markezinis on November 25 the same year.
Military law was reinstated, and the new Junta appointed General Phaedon Gkizikis as President and economist AdamantiosAndroutsopoulos as Prime Minister, although Ioannides remained the behind-the-scenes strongman.
Ioannides' abortive coup attempt on June 14, 1974 against Archbishop Makarios III, then President of Cyprus, was met by an invasion of Cyprus by Turkey.
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