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Antoine Arnault

Antoine Arnault, born 1977, is a French businessman, eldest son of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who leads the family holding company Christian Dior SE and formerly ran Berluti.

Antoine Béchamp

Antoine Béchamp (1816–1908) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and biologist known for his microzymas theory of life and a decades-long priority dispute with Louis Pasteur over fermentation.

Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle, born Émile Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), was a French sculptor and influential teacher who worked for Rodin, made Héraklès archer (1909), and taught Giacometti.

Antoine Brizard

Antoine Brizard, French volleyball setter born 1994 in Poitiers, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), FIVB world player of the year 2022, plays for Osaka Bluteon in Japan's SV.LEAGUE.

Antoine Browaeys

Antoine Browaeys (born 1972) is a French experimental physicist and CNRS research director at the Institut d'Optique known for quantum simulators built from neutral atoms in optical tweezers, and co-founded Pasqal in 2019.

Antoine Claudet

Antoine Claudet was a French-born daguerreotypist and inventor who learned the process directly from Louis Daguerre, ran London portrait studios from 1841, and improved exposure times.

Antoine de Chandieu

Antoine de Chandieu, also known as Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534–1591), was a French Reformed pastor and theologian who helped draft the Gallican Confession in 1559.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French aviator and writer, Aéropostale line pilot and author of Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, and Le Petit Prince; disappeared on a 1944 reconnaissance flight, wreckage identified off Marseille in 2003–2004.

Antoine Deneriaz

Antoine Dénériaz (born 1976, Bonneville, France), French alpine skier; Olympic downhill gold at Turin 2006 in 1:48.80; 142 World Cup starts, 3 wins; later founded the Dénériaz handmade ski manufacture in Doussard.

Antoine Dodson

Antoine Dodson (Kevin Antoine Dodson), Huntsville man famous for the 2010 WAFF-48 'hide yo kids, hide yo wife' interview and the Gregory Brothers' Billboard-charting 'Bed Intruder Song' remix.

Antoine Dupont

Antoine Dupont, France rugby union scrum-half and captain, Stade Toulousain No. 9; World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year 2021, 2022 Grand Slam, and Paris 2024 Olympic sevens gold.

Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie

Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (born 1943) is a French astronomer who invented speckle interferometry in 1970 and first made starlight from two separated telescopes interfere.

Antoine equation

The Antoine equation, proposed in 1888 by Louis Charles Antoine, is a three-parameter correlation giving the vapor pressure of a pure substance as a function of temperature.

Antoine Fillet

Antoine Fillet is a French quantitative finance executive, partner of Squarepoint Capital, and one of its four majority owners; he joined the team in 2003 after graduating from École Polytechnique.

Antoine Froment

Antoine Froment was a French Reformed evangelist, schoolmaster, and pastor who helped bring Protestant preaching to Geneva in 1532 and 1533, working with Farel and Calvin.

Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua, American film director and producer (Training Day; Antoine Fuqua, director). Born 1965 in Pittsburgh; rose from music videos including Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" to direct Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning Training Day, the Equalizer trilogy, and the 2026 Michael Jackson biopic Michael.

Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland (1646–1715), French orientalist, numismatist, and first European translator of the Thousand and One Nights (Les mille et une nuits, 1704–1717); king's antiquary, Académie des Inscriptions member, and Collège de France Arabic professor who added Aladdin and Ali Baba from Hanna Diyab.

Antoine Gelinas Beaulieu

Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu, Canadian long track speed skater born 1992 in Sherbrooke, Québec; two-time world team sprint champion (2023, 2024), mass start world medallist, and Olympian at Beijing 2022 and Milano Cortina 2026.

Antoine Georges

Antoine Georges, born in Paris in 1961, is a French theoretical condensed-matter physicist who co-invented dynamical mean-field theory and directs the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Quantum Physics.

Antoine Gizenga

Antoine Gizenga (1925–2019) was a Congolese statesman who served as deputy prime minister under Patrice Lumumba and as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2006 to 2008.

Antoine Godeau

Antoine Godeau (1605–1672) was a French poet and bishop of Grasse and then Vence, elected to the Académie française in 1634 and named bishop by Richelieu.

Antoine Gouy

Antoine Gouy (born 1980) is a French actor trained at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSAD), known for the title role in Yves (2019), Benjamin Ferel in Lupin, and theater work with the Théâtre des Cerises.

Antoine Griezmann

Antoine Griezmann (born 1991, Mâcon) is a French forward, 2018 World Cup winner and Atlético Madrid's all-time top scorer with 211 goals, who played for Real Sociedad and Barcelona, holds the LaLiga foreigner appearance record, and retired from France duty in 2024.

Antoine Guisan

Antoine Guisan is a Swiss ecologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the ECOSPAT Spatial Ecology group and works on species distribution modeling.

Antoine Hakim

Antoine M. Hakim is a Canadian neurologist who characterized the salvageable penumbra around a stroke, helped set the treatment window for clot-busting drugs, and founded the Canadian Stroke Network.

Antoîne Italiano

Antoine Italiano is a French medical oncologist specializing in sarcomas and early-phase trials, who directs SARCOTARGET at Institut Bergonié and leads precision oncology at Gustave Roussy.

Antoine Joux

Antoine Joux is a French cryptographer known for the 2004 multicollision attack on iterated hash functions, co-invention of pairing-based cryptography, and discrete-logarithm algorithms; he is a researcher at CISPA in Saarbrücken.

Antoine Kahn

Antoine Kahn is an electrical engineer and named professor at Princeton University who studies semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, including organic and perovskite materials for LEDs and solar cells.

Antoine Kina

Antoine Kina (Antoine Sylvain Kina) is a Belgian field hockey player for Gantoise who won Olympic gold, the 2018 World Cup, and a European title with Belgium.

Antoine Lacassagne

Antoine Lacassagne (1884–1971) was a French physician and biologist who pioneered radiobiology at the Institut du Radium, Paris, and showed in 1932 that hormones could produce breast cancer.