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Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser (born 27 August 1932, London), née Pakenham, is a British historian and biographer. Breakthrough Mary Queen of Scots (1969); also Cromwell, Marie Antoinette, the Jemima Shore mysteries; wife of Harold Pinter.

Antonia Kidman

Antonia Kidman (born 1970, Melbourne), also known as Antonia Marran, is an Australian journalist, TV presenter, parenting author, and family lawyer, and the younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman; hosted Foxtel's The Little Things and graduated in law from Macquarie University in 2019.

Antonia Lofaso

Antonia Lofaso, Los Angeles chef and TV personality, owns Black Market Liquor Bar, Scopa Italian Roots, and DAMA; Top Chef Season 4 alum and Tournament of Champions Season 6 winner (2025).

Antonia Salzano

Antonia Salzano Acutis (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian writer, mother of Saint Carlo Acutis, the first millennial Catholic saint canonized in 2025; author of Il segreto di mio figlio and speaker on her son's Eucharistic faith.

Antonia Thomas

Antonia Laura Thomas, English actress born 1986 in London, trained at Bristol Old Vic; known for Alisha in Misfits, Evie in Lovesick, and Dr. Claire Browne in The Good Doctor.

Antonia Wright

Antonia Wright (born 1979, Miami) is a Cuban-American multimedia artist in video, performance, and sound, known for I Scream Therefore I Exist, State of Labor, and the 2022 No Vacancy award with Ruben Millares.

Antoniadi (lunar crater)

Antoniadi is a 135-143 km transitional impact crater on the lunar far side within the South Pole-Aitken basin, holding the Moon's deepest point (-9.12 km), with a central peak, peak ring, and young 1.6 Ga mare volcanism; distinct from the Martian crater of the same name.

Antoniadi (Martian crater)

Antoniadi crater on Mars, also cataloged as a 394-401 km impact basin in Syrtis Major Planum at 21°N 61°E; large ancient lake basin with dendritic ridges debated as fluvial or volcanic.

Antoniadi Dorsum

Antoniadi Dorsum (also Antoniadi Dorsa), a high-relief ridge on Mercury in the Victoria quadrangle, formed by a blind high-angle reverse fault; part of the ~1,700 km Victoria-Endeavour-Antoniadi fold-and-thrust belt, active until ~3.7 Ga.

Antonian movement

The Antonian movement, or Antonianismo, was a religious and political movement in the Kingdom of Kongo, founded in 1704 by the prophet Kimpa Vita to reunify the divided kingdom.

Antonianism

Antonianism was a messianic religious and political movement in the Kingdom of Kongo, active from 1704 to 1706, led by the prophetess Beatriz Kimpa Vita.

Antonie Brixiova

Antonie Brixiová (Antonie Brixiova), born 15 June 1914, Czechoslovak race walker who set the first women's 20 km road walk world records, 2:24:00 (1931) and 2:14:07 as Antonie Odvárková, both in Prague.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) was a Dutch cloth merchant in Delft who was the first to observe bacteria, and is called the father of microbiology.

Antonietta Gonsalvus

Antonietta Gonsalvus, also recorded as Tognina, was a 16th-century girl with congenital hypertrichosis born in France. She is known primarily for a portrait painted by Lavinia Fontana around 1595.

Antonim

Antonim is an impartial combinatorial game, a variant of Nim in which no two heaps may have the same size, changing the legal positions and the winning strategy.

Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French writer, actor, and theorist of the Theatre of Cruelty in Le Théâtre et son Double (1938); surrealist, film actor, psychiatric patient at Rodez, and major influence on Brook, Grotowski, and the Living Theatre.

Antonín Barák

Antonín Barák (born 1994) is a Czech attacking midfielder, 190 cm, from Příbram via Slavia Praha; Serie A with Udinese, Hellas Verona, and Fiorentina, later Kasımpaşa, Sampdoria, and APOEL Nicosia; Czech international at EURO 2020 and EURO 2024.

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvořák was a Czech composer of the 19th century who directed the National Conservatory in New York and wrote over 400 works, including the "New World" Symphony.

Antonín Kinský (footballer, born 2003)

Antonín Kinský (born 2003, Prague), nicknamed Toni or Tonda, Czech goalkeeper; Slavia Prague 2021-2025, Tottenham Hotspur from January 2025, first-choice keeper under De Zerbi, new contract June 2026.

Antonín Novotný

Antonín Novotný was a Czech communist politician who led the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 and was president from 1957 until his fall in 1968.

Antonín Panenka

Antonín Panenka, born Prague 1948, is the Czechoslovak midfielder whose chipped winning penalty beat West Germany in the 1976 European Championship final shoot-out in Belgrade, giving his name to the panenka chip.

Antonin Poncet

Antonin Poncet (1849–1913) was a French surgeon of Lyon, professor of clinical surgery at the university, who described Poncet's disease and operated on President Sadi Carnot in 1894.

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1986–2016, Reagan nominee confirmed 98–0; leading originalist and textualist, author of Heller (2008); seat vacant until Gorsuch's 2017 confirmation.

Antonin Settari

Antonin (Tony) Settari is a petroleum engineer at the University of Calgary known for coupling reservoir simulation with geomechanics and co-authoring the textbook Petroleum Reservoir Simulation.

Antonina Roll‐Mecak

Antonina Roll-Mecak is a cell biologist and biophysicist who leads a unit at the National Institutes of Health, studying the tubulin code on microtubules since 2010.

Antonina Seredina

Antonina Seredina (Антонина Александровна Середина), Soviet sprint canoeist (1929–2016), double 1960 Rome Olympic champion in K-1 and K-2 500 m, 1968 K-2 bronze medalist, world and European champion.

Antonina Shevchenko (Антонина Шевченко)

Antonina Shevchenko (Антонина Шевченко), born 1984 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstani flyweight, elder sister of Valentina; 40-1 in Muay Thai/K-1, 10-4 MMA, 4-4 UFC, retired 2025 to become a pilot.

Antonine Plague

Antonine Plague (Plague of Galen), 165–180 CE epidemic of the Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius, spread by soldiers from the Parthian War; pathogen debated (possibly smallpox), mortality estimated 10–30 percent, possibly history's first pandemic.

Antonine Wall

Antonine Wall, Roman turf-and-stone frontier across Scotland's Forth-Clyde isthmus, built AD 142 under Antoninus Pius, 62 km long with 17 forts, abandoned by 165; Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site since 2008.

Antonino Lo Surdo

Antonino Lo Surdo (1880–1949) was an Italian experimental physicist who independently discovered the electric-field splitting of hydrogen spectral lines in 1913, later founding Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica.