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Anthony Delaney

Anthony Delaney is an Irish historian, actor, and broadcaster from Kilkenny, PhD holder from the University of Exeter, co-host of History Hit's After Dark podcast, and author of the 2025 debut Queer Georgians (US: Queer Enlightenments).

Anthony DeLuca (Illinois politician)

Anthony DeLuca is an American politician and businessman serving as a Democratic Illinois House member from the 80th district, and previously mayor of Chicago Heights from 2003 to 2009.

Anthony DiLorenzo

Anthony DiLorenzo (born 1964) is an American politician and businessman who is the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New Hampshire's 1st District in 2026, running his first campaign.

Anthony Eden

Sir Anthony Eden (1st Earl of Avon), British Conservative prime minister April 1955 to January 1957 and three-time Foreign Secretary (1935-38, 1940-45, 1951-55), forced to resign after the failed 1956 Suez invasion colluding with France and Israel.

Anthony Eisen

Anthony Eisen is an Australian chartered accountant and fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the buy-now-pay-later company Afterpay in 2014 and led it as co-CEO until Block acquired it for about US$29 billion in 2022.

Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony F. C. Wallace (1923–2015) was a Canadian-born American psychological anthropologist and ethnohistorian at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his theory of revitalization movements.

Anthony Fenn Kemp

Anthony Fenn Kemp (1773-1868), New South Wales Corps officer in the Rum Rebellion against Bligh and pioneering merchant-grazier of Van Diemen's Land, called 'the Father of Tasmania', agitator for Tasmanian self-government.

Anthony G. Greenwald

Anthony G. Greenwald is a psychologist of social cognition at the University of Washington who developed the Implicit Association Test and founded implicit social cognition research in 1995.

Anthony Gaggi

Anthony Frank "Nino" Gaggi was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, indicted with Paul Castellano in 1984 on racketeering charges involving 25 murders, convicted in a 1986 federal stolen-car trial, and the subject of a released FBI file.

Anthony Giacalone

Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone (died February 23, 2001) was a reputed Detroit Mafia capo and longtime street boss, brother of Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone, and the man Jimmy Hoffa was due to meet at the Machus Red Fox on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; convicted of bribery and tax evasion.

Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens (born 1938) is a British sociologist, LSE Director 1997-2003, and Labour peer known for structuration theory, late modernity and globalization theory, time-space distanciation, and the Third Way politics behind New Labour.

Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton is an American historian of Renaissance scholarship and the classical tradition who taught at Princeton from 1975 and won the 2002 Balzan Prize for the History of the Humanities.

Anthony Graziano

Anthony Graziano: name shared by a Bonanno crime family consigliere who led its New Jersey operations, a New Jersey man sentenced to 35 years for 2011-2012 synagogue arsons, and a California man killed by deputies in 2022 after abducting his daughter.

Anthony Indelicato

Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, Bonanno crime family mobster, son of murdered capo Sonny Red; gunman in Carmine Galante's 1979 murder, convicted in the 1986 Mafia Commission trial, pleaded guilty in 2008 to a 2001 murder.

Anthony J. Battaglia

Anthony J. Battaglia is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California, appointed by Barack Obama in 2011.

Anthony J. Brindisi

Anthony Joseph Brindisi, born in 1978, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of New York since 2024.

Anthony J. Powell

Anthony John Powell (born 1962) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Kansas since 2026, sitting in Wichita.

Anthony J. Scirica

Anthony J. Scirica, born 1940, is a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed by Reagan in 1987 and chief judge from 2003 to 2010.

Anthony J. Trenga

Anthony John Trenga, born 1949, is a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, nominated by President George W. Bush and serving since 2008.

Anthony J. Venables

Anthony J. Venables, born in Newport, UK, in 1953, is a British economist who co-developed the new economic geography with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita.

Anthony James Barr

Anthony James Barr, known as Tony or Jim Barr, is an American software developer who wrote the original SAS language, co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, and later founded Barr Systems.

Anthony Jenkinson

Anthony Jenkinson (Энтони Дженкинсон) was an English merchant and diplomat who served the Muscovy Company as envoy to Ivan the Terrible, visiting Russia four times between 1557 and 1572.

Anthony John Maas

Anthony John Maas (1858–1927) was a German-born American Jesuit priest and Catholic exegete who taught Scripture at Woodstock College and served as a Jesuit provincial.

Anthony Johnson (colonist)

Anthony Johnson (colonist), also Antonio a negro, was an Angolan brought to Virginia in 1621 who gained freedom, owned 250 acres, and in the 1655 Northampton County Casor case won a court ruling binding John Casor to him for life.

Anthony Julius

Anthony Julius, British solicitor and Deputy Chairman of Mishcon de Reya, acted for Diana, Princess of Wales and Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving, and wrote T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form.

Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy (born 1936, Sacramento) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1988-2018, the frequent swing vote who wrote Obergefell and Citizens United and retired July 31, 2018.

Anthony M. Bucco

Anthony M. Bucco is an American Republican politician serving in the New Jersey Senate since 2019 as Senate Republican Leader, after nine years in the General Assembly.

Anthony Martin Sinatra

Anthony Martin (Antonino Martino) "Marty" Sinatra, Sicilian-born bantamweight boxer who fought as Marty O'Brien, later Hoboken tavern keeper and fire captain; father of Frank Sinatra.

Anthony Mason (judge)

Sir Anthony Frank Mason (1925–2026), Australian jurist, High Court Justice 1972–87 and Chief Justice 1987–95; led the Mason Court (Mabo, Cole v Whitfield, implied freedom of political communication); former Commonwealth Solicitor-General.

Anthony McAuliffe

Anthony C. McAuliffe (1898–1975), U.S. Army general, acting commander of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge; famous for replying "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand on 22 December 1944; later Chief of Chemical Corps and commander of U.S. Army Europe.