Panagiotis Aravantinos was a Greek scholar and educator who was born in Parga. He worked primarily in Epirus, which was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. As with many Greek names, his names appears in English literature in a variety of Romanizations, e.g. the first name as Panagiōtēs or Panayiotis etc., and the last name, as Aravandinos.