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Kyriakos Velopoulos (Greek: Κυριάκος Βελόπουλος; born 24 October 1965) is a Greek nationalist politician and parliament member, and television personality. Born in Germany, his parents were refugee peasants. After his graduation from Dendropotamos high school, he studied journalism and was awarded a scholarship.

During his compulsory military service in the Greek Army, he served as an officer on the islands of North-Eastern Aegean Sea, and the Greek mainland. He is a member of the Academy of the Greek language in Germany and a member of the Union of Writers of Northern Greece. He was a member of PASOK Youth until 1988 and ideologically defines himself as belonging to the "patriotic PASOK".[1]

As a journalist he has worked in a number of radio and television stations, such as "TV Thessaloniki", "ΕΡΜΗΣ", "BEST", "TOP", "OPION", "TeleAsty", where he presented his two major shows "Η ΒΟΥΛΗ" and "ΕΛΛΗΝΟΡΑΜΑ", in which he promotes his books.

He is the author of Greece Bleeds, which he claims deals with the corruption of Greek society, army, legal system and politics, and Alexander, the Greatest of the Greeks, a detailed biography of Alexander the Great which includes arguments on the subject's Greek origins.

He is a member of Popular Orthodox Rally, the nationalist populist party of Georgios Karatzaferis and was a candidate in the 2004 Greek parliamentary elections in B prefecture of Thessaloniki. He also was a candidate for the local elections of 2006 as Governor of Pella Prefecture where he came third with 7.11% and 2 seats.

He was again a candidate in the 2007 parliamentary elections where he got elected in the B prefecture of Salonica first among his party comrades with 6128 votes.