P. J. Vatikiotis, Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997)
Panayiotis Jerasimof Vatikiotis (5 February 1928 – 15 December 1997) was a Greek-American political scientist and historian of the Middle East. He was Professor of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.Vatikiotis was born in Jerusalem, the son of Paraskevi and Jerasimos Vatikiotis, and grew up in Haifa. He was educated at Greek and English private schools in Mandatory Palestine, before studying at the American University in Cairo and Johns Hopkins University. In the 1960s he moved to London University where he helped get Middle Eastern Studies established.A festschrift was published in his honour in 1993.