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Anton Alikhanov
Anton Alikhanov is a Russian politician serving as Minister of Industry and Trade, who has reported to President Putin on manufacturing growth and the New Materials and Chemistry project.
Anton Aškerc
Anton Aškerc (1856–1912) was a Slovene poet, priest, and editor, published under the pseudonym Gorazd, and served as the first city archivist of Ljubljana from 1898.
Anton Basansky
Anton Basansky is a Russian politician and former State Duma deputy who serves as State Secretary and Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic.
Anton Berns
Anton Berns, born 1945 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch molecular geneticist who used mouse models to find cancer genes, including Pim-1, during his career at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Austrian composer and organist from Ansfelden, wrote nine numbered symphonies plus masses and a Te Deum; famous for lifelong revisions creating multiple competing versions and the Haas/Nowak edition problem.
Anton Cermak
Anton Cermak (Antonín Čermák), 1873–1933, was a Bohemia-born mayor of Chicago who built the multiethnic Democratic machine and died of wounds from Zangara's 1933 attempt on Roosevelt.
Anton Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов)
Anton Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов), Russian writer and physician (1860–1904), master of the modern short story and author of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard; died in Badenweiler of tuberculosis.
Anton Chigurh
Anton Chigurh is the fictional hitman antagonist of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men and its 2007 Coen brothers film, played by Oscar-winning Javier Bardem; known for his cattle stun gun and fate-deciding coin toss.
Anton Chupkov
Anton Chupkov (Антон Чупков), Russian breaststroke swimmer born 1997 in Moscow; Olympic 200 m breaststroke bronze at Rio 2016, world champion 2017 and 2019, world record 2:06.12 (2019–2022); retired November 2024.
Anton Corbijn
Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and filmmaker born 1955 in Strijen; known for grainy high-contrast black-and-white portraits and decades-long visual direction for Depeche Mode and U2, plus films Control, The American, and A Most Wanted Man.
Anton Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин)
Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин), 1872–1947, Russian general, commander of the White Armed Forces of South Russia; led the 1919 Moscow offensive, resigned to Wrangel in 1920, died in exile in Michigan, reburied at Moscow's Donskoy Monastery in 2005.
Anton Dohrn
Felix Anton Dohrn (1840–1909) was a German zoologist who founded the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, an independent marine laboratory where visiting scientists pursued their own research.
Anton Dostler
Anton Dostler (1891–1945), German General of Infantry commanding the 75th Army Corps, first Axis general executed for war crimes after WWII, shot 1 December 1945 for ordering the execution of 15 captured American soldiers of the Ginny Mission near La Spezia.
Anton Drexler
Anton Drexler (1884-1942), Munich locksmith and völkisch politician, co-founded the German Workers' Party (DAP) with Karl Harrer on 5 January 1919, became first NSDAP chairman, co-wrote the 25-point program, and lost the leadership to Hitler in 1921.
Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke (born Anton Beke, 1966), also Anthony Paul Beke, is a British ballroom dancer famous for 18 series as a Strictly Come Dancing professional and, since 2021, a judge.
Anton Eduard van Arkel
Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976) was a Dutch chemist who devised the van Arkel–Ketelaar triangle for classifying chemical bonding and the iodide process for refining high-purity metals.
Anton Eiselsberg
Anton Eiselsberg (1860–1939) was an Austrian surgeon who led the First Surgical University Clinic in Vienna from 1901 to 1931, performed Austria's first neurosurgical operation, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Anton Elschnig
Anton Elschnig, in full Anton Philipp Elschnig (1863–1939), was an Austrian ophthalmologist, professor at the German University in Prague from 1907 to 1933, remembered for Elschnig pearls.
Anton Ferdinand
Anton Ferdinand (born 1985, Peckham) is an English retired defender; West Ham, Sunderland, QPR, Reading, Southend, St Mirren; younger brother of Rio Ferdinand, cousin of Les Ferdinand.
Anton Fier
Anton Fier (1956-2022), American drummer, producer, and bandleader from Cleveland; founder and sole constant member of the Golden Palominos; drummer on the Feelies' Crazy Rhythms, Lounge Lizards, and Pere Ubu; died by assisted suicide in Basel, Switzerland.
Anton Frondell
Anton Frondell (born 2007) is a Swedish center from Trångsund drafted third overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2025; SHL rookie goal leader, 2026 world junior gold medalist and Best Forward, NHL debut March 24, 2026.
Anton Geesink
Anton Geesink (Antonius Johannes Geesink, 1934-2010), Dutch judoka, 1964 Tokyo Olympic open-class champion who beat Akio Kaminaga, first non-Japanese world champion (1961), 21-time European champion, 10th dan, IOC member 1987-2010.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890–1960) was an Italian photographer, filmmaker, and theater director who invented photodynamism with his brother Arturo between 1911 and 1913, becoming the intellectual leader of Italian Futurist photography.
Anton Hansen Tammsaare
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940) was an Estonian prose writer, playwright, and essayist whose epic five-part novel Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice), published 1926–1933, is regarded as one of the defining works of Estonian literature.
Anton Heida
Anton Heida (Antonín Hejda), born 1878 in Prague, was an American gymnast of the Philadelphia Turngemeinde who won 5 gold and 1 silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
Anton Huiskes
Anton Huiskes (Antonius Albertus Jozef Huiskes, 1928–2008), Dutch long-track speed skater from Wierden; 3000 m world record holder (4:40.2, Davos 1953) and coach of Ard Schenk, Kees Verkerk, and Sweden's Johnny Höglin.
Anton Joseph Binterim
Anton Joseph Binterim (1779–1855) was a German Franciscan theologian and church historian who served fifty years as parish priest of Düsseldorf-Bilk and championed Ultramontanism in the Rhineland.
Anton Julen
Anton Julen (1898–1982), Swiss cross-country skier and army corporal from Zermatt; won gold in military ski patrol at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics with brother Alfons, Aufdenblatten, and Vaucher.
Anton Julius Carlson
Anton Julius Carlson (1875–1956) was a Swedish-born American physiologist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1920, known for showing that stomach contractions cause hunger.
Anton Korošec
Anton Korošec (1872–1940) was a Slovene Catholic priest and politician who led the Slovene People's Party and in 1928 became the first non-Serb prime minister of Yugoslavia.