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Antoine Lacroix

Alfred Lacroix, born François Antoine Alfred Lacroix (1863–1948), was a French mineralogist and volcanologist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, known for first describing Mont Pelée's nuées ardentes.

Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier (Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier) was a French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; he named oxygen and hydrogen and died on the guillotine in 1794.

Antoine M. van Oijen

Antoine M. van Oijen is a single-molecule biophysicist known for developing microscopy methods that watch individual DNA molecules being copied in real time, leading groups at Harvard, Groningen, and Wollongong.

Antoine Pagi

Antoine Pagi (1624–1699) was a French Franciscan friar of Provence, four times provincial of his order, whose Critica historico-chronologica corrected chronological errors in Baronius's Annales ecclesiastici year by year.

Sep 19, 2026

Antoine Papiernik

Antoine Papiernik is a French venture capitalist who leads Sofinnova Partners, a Paris-based European life sciences firm he joined in 1997, and twice made the Forbes Midas List.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517–1586) was a cardinal and statesman of the Franche-Comté who served the Habsburgs as viceroy of Naples and Philip II's secretary of state.

Antoine Peters

Antoine H.F.M. Peters is a Dutch mouse geneticist studying epigenetics and chromatin biology at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2004, known for the 2001 Suv39h Cell paper.

Antoine Poussier

Antoine Poussier (born 1974) is a French prefect and former naval officer, prefect of the region Guyane since 21 August 2023, previously overseas-territories adviser to Prime Ministers Castex and Borne and secretary general of the Martinique prefecture.

Sep 19, 2026

Antoine Riboud

Antoine Riboud (1918–2002) was a French industrialist who founded the glass group BSN in 1966 and rebuilt it over thirty years into Danone, one of Europe's largest food companies.

Antoine Semenyo

Antoine Semenyo, born London 2000, Ghanaian winger and forward; Bournemouth star under Iraola, signed by Manchester City January 2026 for an initial £62.5m, No 42, first Ghanaian in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year.

Antoine Touron

Antoine Touron (1686–1775) was a French Dominican friar, biographer, and historian who wrote some thirty volumes, chiefly on the history of the Order of Preachers.

Antoine Walker

Antoine Walker, born 1976, Chicago; NBA forward, 6th pick 1996 draft, 3x All-Star, 2006 champion with Miami Heat; earned $108 million, filed bankruptcy 2010, now financial-literacy advocate.

Oct 22, 2026

Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau, full name Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), was a French painter and draftsman born in Valenciennes who created the fête galante genre and became the seminal figure of the French Rococo.

Antoine Winfield Jr.

Antoine Winfield Jr., Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety drafted 45th overall in 2020 from Minnesota; Super Bowl LV champion, 2023 AP first-team All-Pro, and NFL leader among defensive backs in sacks since 2020.

Oct 21, 2026

Antoine Zeghdar

Antoine Zeghdar, born 1999 in Monaco, is a French rugby union centre for Top 14 club Castres Olympique who won gold with France in men's rugby sevens at the Paris 2024 Olympics, beating Fiji 28-7.

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), French military pharmacist and agronomist, promoter of the potato in France after Prussian captivity; Sablons 1786 trial, 1789 Traité, bread reform, Institut 1795; guarded-field theft story is a debunked legend.

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (1813–1853) was a French Catholic literary scholar and Sorbonne professor who founded the Society of St Vincent de Paul in 1833 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

Antoine-Jean Gros

Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), French painter and David pupil, painter of the Napoleonic epic with works like Bonaparte at Arcole, Jaffa, and Eylau; a forerunner of Romanticism.

Antoine-Simon Maillard

Antoine-Simon Maillard (c. 1710 to 1762) was a French Catholic priest who served as a missionary to the Mi'kmaq of Acadia from 1735 until his death.

Antoine, Duke of Lorraine

Antoine the Good (Antoine le Bon), 1489–1544, Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1508; kept strict neutrality between Francis I and Charles V, won the Treaty of Nuremberg (1542) recognizing Lorraine's independence, and defeated Alsatian peasant rebels in 1525.

Antoinette Bourignon

Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680) was a French mystic who claimed to be illuminated by God to reform spiritual life, running a home for poor girls in Lille from 1653 to 1662.

Antoinette Bower

Antoinette Bower (1932–2026), German-born British-American actress; played Sylvia in Star Trek's 'Catspaw' and Eve Norda in The Twilight Zone; films include Prom Night and The Evil That Men Do; retired 1992 after Neon Rider.

Antoinette Crowe-Legacy

Antoinette Crowe-Legacy is an American actress known as Elise Johnson on Godfather of Harlem (2019–2025) and for originating Kaneisha in Slave Play at Yale in 2017, later on Broadway; also Felise in Passing (2021).

Oct 21, 2026

Antoinette de Jong

Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong (born 1995, Heerenveen), Dutch speed skater; Olympic 1500 m champion at Milan-Cortina 2026, four-time European Allround champion, six world titles including four team pursuit crowns.

Antoinette Frank

Antoinette Frank (born 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer and death row inmate for the 1995 Kim Anh Restaurant triple murder of officer Ronald Williams II and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu with Rogers LaCaze, the only woman on Louisiana's death row.

Antoinette Moran

Antoinette Moran is an American pediatric endocrinologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for research on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and type 1 diabetes prevention trials.

Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee

Antoinette Eno Pinchot Bradlee (1924–2011), also known as Tony Pinchot and Antoinette Pinchot Pittman, was an American ceramicist, jeweler, and painter, second wife of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and sister of murdered painter Mary Pinchot Meyer.