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Anthony Field

Anthony Field (born 1963) is the Australian musician known as the Blue Wiggle, founding member of The Wiggles in 1991, formerly of the Cockroaches, last original member still performing.

Anthony Fokker

Anthony Fokker (Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker) was a Dutch aviation pioneer and manufacturer whose synchronizer gear created the first fighter planes in World War I.

Anthony Foley

Anthony Foley (1973-2016), nicknamed Axel, Irish rugby union number eight: 201 Munster caps and 62 Ireland caps, captain of Munster's 2006 Heineken Cup win, later Munster head coach, died suddenly in Paris aged 42.

Anthony Forster (molecular biologist)

Anthony C. Forster is a molecular biologist and physician who heads the Program in Molecular Biology at Uppsala University, known for hammerhead RNA structure work and external guide sequences.

Anthony Forwood

Anthony Forwood (1915–1988), English actor and writer, films include Knights of the Round Table; ex-husband of Glynis Johns; Dirk Bogarde's life partner and manager for nearly forty years until his 1988 death.

Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo, 1928–2006), American actor billed as Tony Franciosa, Oscar-nominated for A Hatful of Rain (1957), Venice Best Actor winner, and star of TV's The Name of the Game.

Anthony G Marson

Anthony G Marson is a British neurologist and epilepsy researcher who is Professor of Neurology at the University of Liverpool, known for leading the SANAD trials of antiseizure drugs.

Anthony G. Evans

Anthony G. Evans was a Welsh-born materials scientist who pioneered the engineering use of brittle ceramics in jet engines, space-shuttle tiles, silicon chips, and vehicle armor.

Anthony G. Greenwald

Anthony G. Greenwald is a psychologist of social cognition at the University of Washington who developed the Implicit Association Test and founded implicit social cognition research in 1995.

Anthony G. Phillips

Anthony G. Phillips is a Canadian behavioral neuroscientist and psychiatry professor at the University of British Columbia whose work established dopamine's role in motivation, addiction, and memory.

Anthony Gaggi

Anthony Frank "Nino" Gaggi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, indicted with Paul Castellano in 1984 on racketeering charges involving 25 murders, convicted in a 1986 federal stolen-car trial, and the subject of a released FBI file.

Anthony Geary

Anthony Geary (1947-2025), American actor, Luke Spencer on General Hospital 1978-2015; record eight Daytime Emmys; Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding drew 30 million viewers; died in Amsterdam.

Anthony Giacalone

Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone (died February 23, 2001) was a reputed Detroit Mafia capo and longtime street boss, brother of Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, and the man Jimmy Hoffa was due to meet at the Machus Red Fox on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; convicted of bribery and tax evasion.

Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens (born 1938) is a British sociologist, LSE Director 1997-2003, and Labour peer known for structuration theory, late modernity and globalization theory, time-space distanciation, and the Third Way politics behind New Labour.

Anthony Gordon (footballer)

Anthony Gordon, born 2001, English winger from Everton's academy; £45m Newcastle signing January 2023, 2023-24 breakout, 2025 Carabao Cup winner, £69m-reported 2025 Barcelona transfer, England Euro 2024 and 2026 World Cup squad member.

Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton is an American historian of Renaissance scholarship and the classical tradition who taught at Princeton from 1975 and won the 2002 Balzan Prize for the History of the Humanities.

Anthony Graziano

Anthony Graziano: name shared by a Bonanno crime family consigliere who led its New Jersey operations, a New Jersey man sentenced to 35 years for 2011-2012 synagogue arsons, and a California man killed by deputies in 2022 after abducting his daughter.

Anthony Green (musician)

Anthony Green: American post-hardcore vocalist from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, singer of Saosin (Translating the Name), founder of Circa Survive, member of The Sound of Animals Fighting and L.S. Dunes, and solo artist from Avalon (2008) onward.

Anthony H. Futerman

Anthony H. Futerman is a biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for work on ceramide synthesis and Gaucher disease; in 2025 he became Vice President for Innovation.

Anthony Hamilton (musician)

Anthony Cornelius Hamilton (born 1971, Charlotte, NC), American soul/R&B singer-songwriter-producer; breakout 2003 platinum album Comin' From Where I'm From; one Grammy win (with Al Green) from 17 nominations; Django Unchained "Freedom"; label My Music Box.

Anthony Hamilton (racing manager)

Anthony Hamilton is a British racing manager, father and manager of Lewis Hamilton from karting through his 2008 world title, taking an FIA development role in 2025.

Anthony Head

Anthony Stewart Head (1954-2026), English actor known as Tony Head; famous as the Gold Blend coffee ad lead, Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Uther in Merlin, and Rupert Mannion in Ted Lasso.

Anthony Head filmography

Anthony Head (Anthony Stewart Head, 1954–2026) was an English actor known as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (121 episodes), Uther Pendragon in Merlin, Rupert Mannion in Ted Lasso, the Gold Blend coffee ads, and film roles in Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Iron Lady.

Anthony Heald

Anthony Heald (Philip Anthony Mair Heald), American character actor born 1944; two-time Tony nominee and Obie winner, Dr. Chilton in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, Scott Guber on Boston Public, 12 seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was an American poet and critic known for formal, allusive verse confronting atrocity, winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for The Hard Hours.

Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937, Port Talbot, Wales), Welsh actor and composer, two-time Best Actor Oscar winner for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2021), knighted 1993, BAFTA Fellow 2008, and Decca Classics recording artist with the album Life Is a Dream (2026).

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz (born 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter, creator of Alex Rider, Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders, and the only writer authorized by both the Conan Doyle and Fleming estates for Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels.

Anthony Howell (actor)

Anthony Matthew Howell (born 1971, Lake District) is an English actor known for Sgt. Paul Milner in Foyle's War and for voicing Margit and Morgott in Elden Ring, Samuels in Alien: Isolation, and Jonathan Reid in Vampyr.

Anthony Hyman

Anthony A. Hyman, born 1962 in Haifa, is a molecular cell biologist who pioneered the concept of biomolecular condensates and became EMBL Director General in 2026.

Anthony Indelicato

Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, Bonanno crime family mobster, son of murdered capo Sonny Red; gunman in Carmine Galante's 1979 murder, convicted in the 1986 Mafia Commission trial, pleaded guilty in 2008 to a 2001 murder.