Stella Soulioti (b.Limassol, Cyprus, 1920 – d. 2012, Limassol, Cyprus) was a Cypriot attorney and politician.She was born in Limassol, the daughter of the lawyer Sir Panayiotis Cacoyannnis, and the sister of the film director Michael Cacoyannis. Soulioti was the first Cypriot woman to join the RAF during World War II. She received her education in Cyprus and in Egypt before being called to the bar as a member of Gray’s Inn in the UK in 1951. She returned to Cyprus, practicing law in her birth city from 1952 until 1960. In 1960 she was named justice minister of Cyprus, the first woman in the world to hold such a position.
