Sir Reo Stakis (born Argyros Anastasis) (13 March 1913 – 28 August 2001) was a Cypriot hotel magnate, longtime head of Stakis Hotels. He was born in Kato Drys, Cyprus, 13 March 1913 and left for Great Britain in 1928, aged 14. He started selling his mother's handmade lace door-to-door and gradually headed north, settling in Glasgow. By the 1940s, Stakis was involved in his first restaurant, the Victory in Glasgow, whose affordable prices began to change the way Scottish people dined out. By the 1960s, he had a chain of thirty restaurants and hotels throughout Scotland. In 1962, he bought the , which was run-down yet within six months he had returned it to profit. Stakis was to make his home in the grounds of that hotel.