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Antonio de Solís

Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra (1610–1686) was a Spanish dramatist and historian, Cronista Mayor de Indias, best known for his Historia de la conquista de México, printed in Madrid in 1684.

Antonio de Torres Jurado

Antonio de Torres Jurado, also known as Antonio De Torres, was a Spanish luthier whose larger body, fan bracing, and 650 mm scale established the modern classical guitar.

Antonio de Ulloa

Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) was a Spanish naval officer and scientist of the Enlightenment who co-led the geodesic mission to Quito, described platinum, and served as governor of Louisiana.

Antonio Decaro

Antonio Decaro, born in Bari in 1970, is an Italian politician serving as President of Apulia since 2026 after ten years as Mayor of Bari.

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, born Antonio Benci, was an Italian Renaissance goldsmith, sculptor, painter, and engraver in Florence, known for the Battle of the Nudes engraving.

Antonio Delgado

Antonio Delgado is an American Democratic politician serving as Lieutenant Governor of New York, appointed in 2022 after representing New York's 19th Congressional District in the House.

Antonio Di Natale

Antonio Di Natale, known as Totò Di Natale, is a retired Italian striker, born in 1977 in Naples, who scored 209 Serie A goals, mostly for Udinese.

Antonio Domenicali

Antonio (Tonino) Domenicali, Italian track cyclist (1936-2002), won gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics with Faggin, Gasparella, and Gandini, and set a 1960 one-hour motor-paced world record.

Antonio Donato Nobre

Antonio Donato Nobre, born 1958, is a Brazilian agronomist and Earth scientist who spent decades at INPA and INPE quantifying the Amazon's flying rivers and championing the biotic pump theory.

Antonio Donnarumma

Antonio Donnarumma, born 1990 in Castellammare di Stabia, Italian goalkeeper, older brother of Gianluigi; Milan youth product, Serie A debut with Genoa 2013, three clean-sheet wins for Milan 2017-21, later Padova, Torino, Salernitana.

Antônio Ermírio de Moraes

Antônio Ermírio de Moraes (1928–2014) was a Brazilian industrialist who chaired the family-owned Grupo Votorantim for roughly four decades and was an original Forbes billionaire in 1987.

Antonio Escohotado

Antonio Escohotado (1941–2021) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist, a professor at UNED from 1983 to 2013, known for his anti-prohibitionist General History of Drugs.

Antonio Facchetti

Antonio Facchetti is an Italian materials chemist working on organic and printable electronics, Hightower Professor at Georgia Tech and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas, born Antonio Juan Fargas in 1946, is an American actor who played Huggy Bear on Starsky & Hutch and appeared in 1970s blaxploitation films.

Antônio Filipe Camarão

Antônio Filipe Camarão, known before his 1612 baptism as Poti, was a Potiguar Indigenous chief who fought for Portugal against the Dutch from 1630 until his death in 1648.

Antonio Filosa

Antonio Filosa, born in 1973 in Naples, is an Italian automotive executive who became CEO of Stellantis in June 2025 after leading its Americas operations and the Jeep brand.

Antonio Fogazzaro

Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) was an Italian novelist, poet, and senator from Vicenza, ranked after Verga as the greatest late-19th-century Italian novelist; his Il Santo was placed on the Index.

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares, known as Mar Julius I, was a Goan Catholic priest who joined the Syriac Orthodox Church and became a metropolitan in 1889.

Antonio Galves

Antonio Galves (1947–2023) was a Brazilian probabilist and professor at the University of São Paulo, best known for the Galves–Löcherbach model of spiking neural networks.

Antonio García-Bellido

Antonio García-Bellido (1936–2025) was a Spanish developmental geneticist who worked on Drosophila at the CSIC in Madrid, discovered developmental compartments, and won the 1984 Prince of Asturias Award.

Antonio Gasbarrini

Antonio Gasbarrini (born 1963 in Bologna) is an Italian physician and gastroenterologist, full professor of internal medicine in Rome, known for research on the gut microbiota and liver disease.

Antonio Gates

Antonio Gates (born 1980, Detroit) is a Hall of Fame tight end who played all 16 NFL seasons (2003-18) for the Chargers after starring in college basketball at Kent State, never playing college football; his 116 touchdowns are the most ever by a tight end.

Antonio Giordano

Antonio Giordano (born 1962, Naples) is an Italian-American molecular oncologist, professor at Temple University and director of the Sbarro Institute, known for discovering Rb2/p130, CDK9, and CDK10.

Antonio Giovinazzi

Antonio Giovinazzi (born 1993, Martina Franca) is an Italian racing driver; ex-Formula 1 driver for Sauber and Alfa Romeo (2017–2021, 62 starts), now Ferrari AF Corse 499P Hypercar driver and 2025 FIA WEC world champion.

Antonio Giraldez

Antonio Giraldez, also known as Antonio J. Giraldez, is a Spanish-born developmental biologist and geneticist at Yale School of Medicine who studies how embryos' own genes take over development.

Antonio Girolami

Antonio Girolami is an Italian hematologist who founded the Thrombosis and Hemostasis group at the University of Padua and became a leader in diagnosing congenital bleeding disorders.

Antonio Gracias

Antonio Gracias is an American private equity investor, founder, CEO, and chief investment officer of Valor Equity Partners in Chicago, Tesla's first institutional investor, and a 2025 DOGE volunteer.

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italian Marxist theorist, journalist, and leader of the Communist Party of Italy; author of the Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere), written under Fascist imprisonment. Known for hegemony, organic intellectuals, and the philosophy of praxis.

Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras Holmes was a Cuban revolutionary socialist, interior minister in Grau San Martín's 1933 government and founder of Joven Cuba, killed by Batista's soldiers in 1935.

António Guterres

António Guterres is a Portuguese statesman and diplomat who led the UN refugee agency from 2005 to 2015 and has been the ninth UN Secretary-General since 2017.