Kostas Charalampidis

Konstantinos "Kostas" Charalampidis (alternate spellings: Constantinos, Costas, Haralampidis, Haralambidis, Haralabidis, Charalambides) (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Χαραλαμπίδης; born April 4, 1976) is a retired Greek professional basketball player and basketball coach. During his playing career, he was a 6 ft 2½ in (1.89 m) tall point guard-shooting guard.

Charalampidis began his career playing with the Makedonikos Greece youth teams. He began his professional career with Makedonikos during the 1997–98 season, and he stayed there through the 2001–02 season. In 2002, he joined Olympia Larissa.

In 2004, he returned to Makedonikos. As a member of Makedonikos, he won the Greek Second Division championship twice, in the years 2000 and 2002. He was named the MVP of the Greek Second Division in 2002. He also played in the EuroCup Final with Makedonikos in 2005.

In 2006, he joined Maroussi. In 2009, he moved to Panellinios, where he was named to the All-EuroCup Second Team for the 2009-10 season. In 2010, he joined Aris Thessaloniki.

He joined KAOD in 2011, and he moved to the Italian Second Division club Brindisi in 2012. He then joined the Greek club PAOK for the 2012-13 season. He extended his contract with PAOK in 2014.

He officially announced his retirement from his basketball playing career in 2016, due to a serious knee injury. However, this was after he had not played in any games since November 2014.

Charalampidis played with Greece's junior national team at the 1999 World University Games. He was also been a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team.

• 2x Greek Second Division Champion: (2000, 2002)
• Greek Second Division MVP: (2002)
• 3x Greek League All-Star: (2009, 2010, 2013)
• All-EuroCup Second Team: (2010)