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Antonio Vergara

Antonio Vergara (born 2003, Frattaminore) is an Italian attacking midfielder and winger for SSC Napoli, an academy product who debuted in 2025, won the 2026 Italian Super Cup, and extended his contract to 2031.

Antonio Vidal-Puig

Antonio Vidal-Puig, often published as Toni Vidal-Puig, is a Spanish physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Cambridge, known for research on brown fat and obesity.

Antônio Vieira

Antônio Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and court preacher who served King John IV. He was a diplomat and a defender of enslaved Indians in colonial Brazil.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Antonio Villaraigosa (born Antonio Ramon Villar Jr., 1953) is an American Democratic politician, 41st mayor of Los Angeles 2005-2013, first Latino mayor since 1872, former California Assembly Speaker, later two-time losing gubernatorial candidate.

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741), the Red Priest, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist of the Ospedale della Pietà; his concertos fixed ritornello form, and The Four Seasons (Op. 8, 1725) became his signature work.

Antonio Vladimir Moura Lima

Antonio Vladimir Moura Lima is a Brazilian civil engineer from Salvador, Bahia, and a career public servant who became Minister of Cities in April 2026 under President Lula.

Antonio Wilson

Antonio Wilson is a licensed general contractor and business owner from Tallulah, Louisiana, and the Democratic Party-endorsed candidate for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District House seat in 2026.

António Zorzano

António Zorzano is a Spanish molecular biologist, Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, who studies how mitochondria contribute to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and liver disease.

Antonios G. Mikos

Antonios G. Mikos is a Greek-born biomaterials engineer at Rice University, where he is the Louis Calder Professor, known for biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue repair and drug delivery.

Antonios II Kauleas

Antonios II Kauleas (Ἀντώνιος Καυλέας) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 893 until his death in 901, a former abbot venerated as a saint for completing the reconciliation of the Photian and Ignatian parties.

Antonios III the Studite

Antonios III the Studite (Ἀντώνιος ὁ Στουδίτης) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 973 to 978, known for a decree protecting Hagia Sophia's clergy from heavy taxes.

Antonis Mor

Antonis Mor, also Anthonis Mor or Antonio Moro, was a Netherlandish portrait painter, court portraitist to the Habsburgs, who died in Antwerp in 1576 or 1577.

Antonis Papakanellos (Αντώνης Παπακανέλλος)

Antonis Papakanellos (Αντώνης Παπακανέλλος), born 2005 in Athens, is a Greek attacking midfielder, Olympiacos academy product and 2023-24 UEFA Youth League winner, now at Asteras Tripolis on loan, capped by Greece U19 and U21.

Antonis Rokas

Antonis Rokas is a Greek-born evolutionary biologist who holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair at Vanderbilt University, known for phylogenomics and genome-scale studies of budding yeasts and other fungi.

Antonius Colenbrander

Antonius Theodorus "Anton" Colenbrander (1889-1929), Dutch cavalry officer and Olympic equestrian; won team eventing gold on King of Hearts at Paris 1924, 29th in jumping at Amsterdam 1928; died after a fall at Zelhem.

Antonius Dieker

Antonius (Ton) Dieker is a Dutch applied probabilist known for exact simulation of stochastic processes, winner of a 2013 PECASE award and later a Columbia professor.

Antonius I Kassimatis

Antonius I Kassimatis, also Kassymatas, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 821 to 837; not recognized by Rome, he was anathematized after the 843 restoration of icon veneration.

Antonius IV

Antonius IV (Ἀντώνιος Δ΄), also written Antony IV, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, 1389 to 1390 and 1391 to 1397, during Ottoman vassalage, dying in Constantinople in May 1397.

Antonivka Road Bridge

The Antonivka Road Bridge was a road bridge across the Dnipro at Kherson, Ukraine, opened in 1985 and blown up by retreating Russian troops in November 2022.

Antonomasia

Antonomasia (Greek antonomazein, 'to name instead') is a rhetorical trope substituting an epithet for a proper name, or a proper name for a common noun; classical and Vossian types, from Quintilian to 'the Mozart of chess'.

Antonov

Antonov is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer founded by Oleg Antonov in 1946, known for the AN-124 Ruslan and the AN-225 Mriya, the world's largest transport plane.

Antonov A-40

The Antonov A-40, nicknamed the Krylyaty Tank or Flying Tank, was a Soviet 1942 experimental tank glider that attached biplane wings to a T-60 light tank for airborne delivery.

Antonov Airlines

Antonov Airlines, the international air cargo charter division of Ukraine's state-owned Antonov Company founded in 1989, specializes in super-heavy and oversized freight that other freighter aircraft cannot carry.

Antonov An-10

The Antonov An-10 (Ан-10), NATO name "Cat", was a Soviet four-engine turboprop airliner with Aeroflot from 1959, withdrawn in 1972 after a fatal metal-fatigue crash.

Antonov An-12

The Antonov An-12, NATO name "Cub," is a Soviet four-engine turboprop military transport that entered service in 1959 and was license-built in China as the Shaanxi Y-8.

Antonov An-124 Ruslan

The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Ан-124 «Руслан») is a Soviet heavy transport aircraft that first flew in 1982 and can carry up to 150 tons of cargo.

Antonov An-140

The Antonov An-140 (Ан-140) is a twin-engine turboprop regional airliner designed by Ukraine's Antonov bureau as a successor to the An-24, first flown in 1997.

Antonov An-148

The Antonov An-148 is a twin-engine regional jet developed by Antonov in Kyiv, first flown in 2004 and produced in Ukraine and Russia until 2018.

Antonov An-178

The Antonov An-178 (Ан-178) is a Ukrainian twin-engine medium transport jet developed by Antonov in Kyiv to replace the An-12, carrying 18 tonnes; it first flew in 2015.

Antonov An-2

The Antonov An-2, NATO name "Colt", is a Soviet single-engine utility biplane designed by Oleg Antonov's bureau, first flown in 1947, with more than 18,500 built.