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Antonio Guzmán Blanco

Antonio Guzmán Blanco was a Venezuelan lawyer and general who ruled Venezuela from 1870 to 1888, known for education reform and promoting the cult of Bolívar.

Antonio Guzmán Fernández

Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911–1982), Dominican president 1978–1982 for the PRD, first opposition winner of free elections, inaugurated 16 August 1978; depoliticized the armed forces, freed political prisoners, died of a gunshot 4 July 1982, succeeded by Jacobo Majluta.

Antonio Hayes

Antonio Hayes is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 40 in Baltimore in the Maryland State Senate since 2019, after serving in the House of Delegates from 2015 to 2018.

Antonio Helio Castro Neto

Antonio Helio Castro Neto is a condensed matter theorist known for the theory of graphene, and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore leading its Centre for Advanced 2D Materials.

Antônio Houaiss

Antônio Houaiss (1915–1999) was a Brazilian professor, diplomat, and philologist best known for the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa and for presiding over the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1996.

Antonio Huachaca

Antonio Huachaca, later José Antonio Navala de Huachaca, was an indigenous Peruvian peasant and muleteer who served Spain as a guerrilla commander and led the Iquicha rebellion of 1825 to 1828.

Antonio I of Kongo

Antonio I of Kongo (António I Nvita a Nkanga) was king of Kongo from 1661 to 1665, killed by Portuguese forces at the Battle of Mbwila.

Antonio Iannone

Antonio Iannone is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who serves as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and has been a Senator.

Antonio Iavarone

Antonio Iavarone is a physician-scientist and neuro-oncologist who studies glioblastoma genetics, known for discovering FGFR3-TACC3 gene fusions and now deputy director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami.

Antonio Inoki

Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木), born Kanji Inoki (1943-2022), Japanese pro wrestler who founded New Japan Pro-Wrestling in 1972, fought Muhammad Ali in the 1976 mixed-rules draw, served in Japan's Diet, and was the first Japanese WWE Hall of Fame inductee.

Antonio J. Conejo

Antonio J. Conejo is a professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for power systems planning and electricity markets.

António Jacinto

António Jacinto, pen name of António Jacinto do Amaral Martins (1924–1991), was an Angolan poet and nationalist who was imprisoned at Tarrafal and later served as Minister of Education and Culture.

Antonio José (musician)

Antonio José is a Spanish pop singer who won La Voz España in 2015 and has since released nine albums, including 'El Viaje' and 'El Pacto'.

Antônio José da Silva

Antônio José da Silva, known as O Judeu, was a Brazilian-born playwright who wrote comic operas for Lisbon's marionette theater before the Inquisition executed him in 1739.

Antonio José de Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre, also known as Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, was a Venezuelan independence leader and soldier. He fought with Simón Bolívar and assumed command of Bolivia in 1826.

Antonio L. Elias

Antonio L. Elias is an American aerospace engineer who led the design of the Pegasus air-launched rocket at Orbital Sciences and retired as Orbital ATK's chief technical officer.

Antonio Lanzavecchia

Antonio Lanzavecchia, born 1951, is an Italian immunologist known for work on antigen presentation and immunological memory, and founding director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona.

António Leitão Amaro

António Leitão Amaro is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party who serves as Minister of the Presidency, a leading voice of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's government.

António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026), Portuguese novelist and psychiatrist, debuted in 1979 with Memória de Elefante and Os Cus de Judas; served 27 months as an army doctor in Angola, which shaped his fiction; won the Prémio Camões in 2007 and wrote more than 30 novels translated into over fifteen languages.

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794–1876), caudillo and six-time president of Mexico, 1833–1855; hero of Tampico 1829, commander at the Alamo and defeated at San Jacinto 1836, lost the Mexican-American War, sold the Mesilla Valley, overthrown by the Plan de Ayutla in 1855.

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish People's Party politician, a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 who chairs the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Antonio Luna

Antonio Luna (1866-1899), Filipino chemist, journalist, and general of the First Philippine Republic; brother of painter Juan Luna; founded La Independencia and the Malolos military academy; assassinated at Cabanatuan in 1899.

Antonio M. Echavarren

Antonio M. Echavarren is a Spanish organic chemist, born in Bilbao, who leads a group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and is known for gold(I)-catalyzed alkyne activation.

Antonio M. Gotto

Antonio M. Gotto is an American cardiologist and lipid researcher whose trials established cholesterol lowering as heart attack prevention, and who was dean of Weill Cornell Medical College from 1997 to 2011.

Antonio Maceo

Antonio Maceo (1845–1896) was a Cuban general in both wars of independence, remembered for the Protesta de Baraguá of 1878 and killed in combat in 1896.

Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado (Antonio Machado y Ruiz) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '98, born in Seville in 1875 and died in exile in France in 1939.

Antonio Manuel ne Vunda

Antonio Manuel ne Vunda (António Manuel ne Vunda) was a Kongo nobleman and marquis of Vunda sent as ambassador to Pope Paul V, dying in Rome in 1608.

Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito, "El Tornado de Tijuana", Mexican welterweight world champion (WBO, WBA) famed for pressure fighting and his 2008 TKO of Miguel Cotto, undone by a 2009 plaster hand-wrap scandal and license revocation.

Antonio Margil

Antonio Margil, also known as Antonio Margil de Jesús, was a Spanish Franciscan missionary (1657–1726) who founded Mission San José at San Antonio and the missionary college at Zacatecas.

Antônio Maria

Antônio Maria, full name Antônio Maria Araújo de Moraes (1921–1964), was a Brazilian chronicler, broadcaster, and composer from Recife who co-wrote the classic "Manhã de Carnaval".