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Anthimos V

Anthimos V (Πατριάρχης Άνθιμος Ε΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1841 to 1842, elected after the sultan removed Anthimos IV and dying in office.

Anthimos VI

Anthimos VI (Ἄνθιμος Στ´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times, in 1845–1848, 1853–1855, and 1871–1873, chairing the 1872 synod that condemned the Bulgarian Exarchate.

Anthimos VII

Anthimos VII (Ἄνθιμος Ζ΄), born Angelos Tsatsos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1895 to 1897, remembered for a 1895 encyclical rejecting Pope Leo XIII's reunion proposal and for the Skopje crisis that ended his reign.

Anthoni Salim

Anthoni Salim is an Indonesian businessman who leads the Salim Group conglomerate and has been President Director and CEO of Indofood, maker of Indomie noodles, since 2004.

Anthony A. Williams

Anthony A. Williams, fourth mayor of Washington, D.C. since home rule (1999-2007), former Clinton-appointed CFO who restored city finances, ended federal control board oversight, and revitalized the District.

Anthony Aguilar

Anthony Aguilar, a retired US Army Special Forces officer, alleged witnessing war crimes at Gaza aid sites in 2025. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation rejected his account.

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese, Australian Labor Party leader and 31st prime minister of Australia since 23 May 2022, member for Grayndler since 1996, re-elected 3 May 2025 with 94 of 150 seats and 55.3% two-party-preferred.

Anthony Allen Shore

Anthony Allen Shore, Houston's "Tourniquet Killer," was an American serial killer who strangled four females aged 9 to 21 between 1986 and 1995, was caught by a 2003 DNA match, and was executed in Texas on January 18, 2018.

Anthony Angelozzi

Anthony Angelozzi is an American Democratic politician and member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 8th district, previously a teacher and labor union leader in Hammonton.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), English philosopher and Whig politician, author of Characteristicks (1711); founder-figure of the British moral sense school influencing Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, and claimant that beauty and good are one.

Anthony Baldinucci

Anthony Baldinucci (Antonio Baldinucci; 1665–1717) was an Italian Jesuit priest who preached 448 barefoot penitential missions across central Italy and was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.

Anthony Bamford

Anthony Bamford, Lord Bamford, is a British industrialist who has chaired JCB since 1975, growing it into a global construction equipment maker, and sits as a Conservative in the House of Lords.

Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944–2017) was a British economist, a founder of modern inequality measurement who created the Atkinson index, studied long-run top incomes with Thomas Piketty, and chaired the World Bank's Commission on Global Poverty.

Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington is a Higgins Professor of Environment and Society at Clark University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a scholar of rural livelihoods and extractive-industry conflict in the Andes.

Anthony Blunt

Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), British art historian, Courtauld director and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was the Cambridge Five's 'fourth man', a wartime MI5 Soviet spy secretly confessed in 1964 and unmasked by Thatcher in 1979.

Anthony Broadman

Anthony Broadman is an American Democratic politician and attorney elected to the Oregon State Senate from District 27 in 2024, the first Democrat to win the seat in 44 years.

Anthony Broadwater

Anthony Broadwater, a Syracuse Black man wrongfully convicted in 1982 of raping author Alice Sebold, served 16 years, was exonerated in November 2021, and settled with New York State for $5.5 million.

Anthony Brown (Maryland politician)

Anthony Brown is an American Democratic politician serving as Attorney General of Maryland, after representing Maryland's 4th district in the US House from 2017 to 2023.

Anthony Casso

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (1942–2020), Lucchese crime family underboss in New York, corrupt-NYPD-payroll operator, 1994 Mafia informant whose cooperation deal was denied in 1998; died of COVID-19 in prison.

Anthony Clake

Anthony Clake is a British partner and portfolio manager at Marshall Wace who designed the TOPS alpha-capture system in 2001, now managing about $30 billion.

Anthony Comstock

Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), Connecticut-born anti-vice crusader, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and Postal Service special agent, drafted and lobbied the 1873 Comstock Act banning mailing obscene material, contraceptives, and abortifacients.

Anthony Constantino (New York politician)

Anthony Constantino is an American politician and businessman, founder and CEO of Sticker Mule, and the Republican nominee for New York's 21st Congressional District in the 2026 House election.

Anthony Corallo

Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo (1913–2000) was an American mobster, boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, nicknamed for dodging subpoenas and convicted in the 1980s Mafia Commission case.

Anthony Crosland

Anthony Crosland (1918–1977), British Labour revisionist thinker and minister; author of The Future of Socialism (1956); Education, Board of Trade, Local Government and Foreign Secretary; redefined socialism as equality, not nationalisation.

Anthony Cumia

Anthony Cumia is an American radio personality and podcaster, co-host of Opie & Anthony (1995-2014), fired by SiriusXM in 2014 over tweets, founder of Compound Media, now hosting a nationally syndicated 77 WABC show with Red Apple Audio Networks.

Anthony Curcio

Anthony Jay Curcio (born 1980), American armored car robber of Monroe, Washington, the 'D.B. Tuber' of the 2008 Brink's heist, later a motivational speaker convicted in 2026 of forging PSA trading card grades as 'Brendan Wooley'.

Anthony Czarnik (Illumina, Inc.)

Anthony Czarnik, known as Tony Czarnik, is an American chemist who co-founded genomics company Illumina in 1998 and served as its first chief scientific officer.

Anthony D. Johnstone

Anthony Devos Johnstone is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit since 2023, appointed by President Biden and based in Missoula, Montana.

Anthony Daniels (Alabama politician)

Anthony Daniels is an American Democratic politician who has served as Minority Leader of the Alabama House of Representatives since 2017, the first Black person to hold the post.

Anthony de Nicola

Anthony de Nicola is an American private equity investor who is Chairman of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a New York firm focused on healthcare and technology investments.