Kourkouas

Famous members

• John Kourkouas, Domestic of the Hikanatoi regiment and conspirator against Basil I
• John Kourkouas, grandson of the above, Domestic of the Schools of the East and famous general under Romanos I Lekapenos
• Theophilos Kourkouas, brother of John, strategos of Chaldia and later Domestic of the Schools
• Romanos Kourkouas, son of John Kourkouas and Domestic of the Schools of the West
• John Kourkouas, son of Romanos, Domestic of the Schools of the East, killed in the Siege of Dorostolon
• John I Tzimiskes, grandson of Theophilos Kourkouas, Byzantine Emperor in 969–976
• John Kourkouas, Catepan of Italy in 1008–1010
• Gregory Kourkouas, doux of Philippopolis in 1089–1091
• Michael II Kourkouas, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1143–1146.