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Anthony Mikovsky

Anthony Mikovsky is an American bishop who has served as the seventh Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church since his installation in 2010.

Anthony Mirra

Anthony "Tony" Mirra was an American mobster in the Bonanno crime family who introduced undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, "Donnie Brasco," and was murdered in 1982.

Anthony Muse

Anthony Muse is an American Democratic politician representing District 26 in Prince George's County in the Maryland State Senate, serving from 2007 to 2019 and again since 2023.

Anthony Norris Groves

Anthony Norris Groves (1795–1853) was an English dentist who gave up a lucrative Exeter practice to become a missionary in Baghdad and India, pioneering living by faith in mission.

Anthony of Padua

Anthony of Padua, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões in Lisbon around 1195, was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and preacher canonized in 1232, a Doctor of the Church invoked for lost things.

Anthony of the Caves

Anthony of the Caves, in Russian Антоний Печерский, was a monk from Lyubech tonsured on Mount Athos who founded the Kiev Caves monastery around 1051, clashed with Prince Iziaslav, and died in 1073.

Anthony Pangilinan

Anthony N. Pangilinan is a Filipino management trainer and media personality who chairs the training firm BusinessWorks and the production company MediaWorks, and hosted CNN Philippines' The Boardroom.

Anthony Parkinson

Anthony Parkinson, in religion Cuthbert, was an English Franciscan friar and historian, twice Minister Provincial of the English province, who compiled the Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica in 1726.

Anthony Pellicano

Anthony Pellicano (born 1944), Hollywood private investigator and audio-forensics expert, ran the Pellicano Investigative Agency; convicted in 2008 of racketeering and wiretapping, sentenced to 15 years, released in 2019.

Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal

The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal was a federal investigation of Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who wiretapped celebrities' opponents for clients and was convicted in 2008.

Anthony Poshepny

Anthony "Tony Poe" Poshepny (1924-2003), American CIA paramilitary officer and Iwo Jima Marine; trained Hmong for Vang Pao and led hill tribes from Nam Yu in Laos' secret war; described as the Apocalypse Now Kurtz prototype.

Anthony Provenzano

Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, Genovese family member and Teamsters Local 560 (Union City, NJ) boss from the 1950s, convicted labor racketeer, prime suspect in Jimmy Hoffa's 1975 disappearance, died in prison December 12, 1988.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Anthony Ray Hinton is an American man who spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for two 1985 murders he did not commit and was exonerated in 2015.

Anthony Robinson (serial killer)

Anthony Eugene Robinson (born 1986), the "Shopping Cart Killer", is a Washington, D.C. man convicted in 2025 of murdering Beth Redmon and Tonita Smith in Harrisonburg, Virginia, sentenced in 2026 to two life terms; suspected but uncharged in Fairfax County and D.C. deaths.

Anthony Russell (murderer)

Anthony Russell (born 1982) is a Coventry triple murderer who killed Julie Williams, David Williams, and Nicole McGregor in October 2020, received a whole-life order in 2022, and was charged in 2026 with murdering Ian Huntley at HMP Frankland.

Anthony Sadler

Anthony Sadler, American author and public speaker from Sacramento, California, who with friends Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos subdued gunman Ayoub El-Khazzani on Thalys train 9364 in 2015, receiving the French Legion of Honor and later co-authoring The 15:17 to Paris.

Anthony Salerno

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, Genovese crime family boss in New York, convicted in the 1986 Mafia Commission case; central figure in concrete bid-rigging and Teamsters racketeering, and namesake of the Salerno bail-detention rulings.

Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci, known as "The Mooch," is an American financier who founded SkyBridge Capital and served 11 days as White House communications director in 2017.

Anthony Shriver

Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born 1965), son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, American social entrepreneur who founded Best Buddies International in 1989; its founder, Chairman & CEO, living in Miami Beach.

Anthony Shuber

Anthony Shuber is an American molecular-diagnostics scientist and executive who was Chief Technology Officer of Exact Sciences until 2006 and is described as a co-founder of Exact Sciences and Predictive Biosciences.

Anthony Sowell

Anthony Edward Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler, was an American serial killer who murdered 11 Black women in Cleveland, Ohio, hiding their remains at his Imperial Avenue house.

Anthony Spilotro

Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro (1938-1986), Chicago Outfit enforcer who protected the Las Vegas casino skim from 1971, led the Hole in the Wall Gang, and was beaten to death with his brother Michael in 1986; basis for Nicky Santoro in Casino.

Anthony T. Rossi

Anthony T. Rossi (1900–1993) was a Sicilian-born American businessman who founded Tropicana Products in Florida in 1947, pioneered flash-pasteurized not-from-concentrate orange juice, and sold the company for $490 million in 1978.

Anthony Tan

Anthony Tan (陈炳耀) is a businessman who co-founded Grab in 2012 as a Malaysian taxi-booking app and leads it as Group CEO through its growth into Southeast Asia's super-app.

Anthony the Great

Anthony the Great, also called Anthony of Egypt, was an Egyptian Christian ascetic (c. 251–356) known as the Father of Monks, who lived in Egypt's Eastern Desert.

Anthony Thomson (British businessman)

Anthony Thomson is a British financial-services entrepreneur who co-founded Metro Bank, the first new UK high street bank in over 100 years, and founded Atom Bank.

Anthony Todd

Anthony (Tony) Todd is a British financier who co-founded Aspect Capital, a London quantitative manager specializing in trend following, in 1997 and leads it as chief executive.

Anthony Tutwiler

Anthony Tutwiler is a recruiting specialist who has led campus recruiting for quantitative trading at Five Rings, a New York proprietary trading firm, since November 2025.

Anthony Verrelli

Anthony S. Verrelli is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 15th district in the General Assembly since 2018, after serving as a Mercer County freeholder and union carpenter.

Anthony von Mandl

Anthony von Mandl, born in 1950, is a Canadian beverage entrepreneur who founded the Mark Anthony Group in Vancouver in 1972, behind Mike's Hard Lemonade and White Claw Hard Seltzer.