What is "rallis"

The surname Rallis, Ralli or Ralles refers to descendants or claimed descendants of the Frankish-Byzantine Raoul/Ralles family:

From the Athenian branch

• Dimitrios Rallis (1844–1921), Prime Minister of Greece 1897
• Georgios Rallis (1918–2006), Prime Minister of Greece 1980–1981
• Ioannis Rallis (1878–1946), Prime Minister of Greece 1943–1944

From the Chios branch

• Ralli Brothers, expatriate Greek family and merchant business in Victorian-era England
  • Ralli Hall, house in Hove, built by the Ralli brothers
  • Ralli car, type of horse-drawn cart named after the Ralli family
• Pandeli Ralli (1845–1928), British Member of Parliament
• Ralli baronets, title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, created in 1912 for Lucas Ralli
• Théodore Ralli (1852–1909), Greek-French orientalist painter

Other people named Rallis

• Evangelos Rallis, Greek tennis player who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens
• Giovanna Ralli (born 1935), Italian actress
• Sophia Ralli (born 1988), Greek alpine skier who competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Zamfir Ralli-Arbore (1848-1933), Romanian political activist
• Dionysus Rallis, Metropolitan of Tarnovo and leader of the First Tarnovo Uprising