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Antiy Labs (安天实验室)

Antiy Labs, also known as 安天科技, is a Chinese cybersecurity company founded in Harbin in 2000, known for threat detection engines embedded in over 1.3 million network devices.

Antler India

Antler India is the Bengaluru-based pre-seed arm of Antler, a Singapore-headquartered venture firm, backing idea-stage founders since 2020 through a residency program and a $75 million fund.

Anto Antony

Anto Antony, born 1957, in Kottayam district, Kerala, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Pathanamthitta in the Lok Sabha continuously since 2009.

Antoine Armand

Antoine Armand is a French politician, a former deputy and Minister of the Economy, elected Mayor of Annecy in March 2026 with more than 49 percent of the vote.

Antoine Arnault

Antoine Arnault, born 1977, is a French businessman, eldest son of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who leads the family holding company Christian Dior SE and formerly ran Berluti.

Antoine de Chandieu

Antoine de Chandieu, also known as Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534–1591), was a French Reformed pastor and theologian who helped draft the Gallican Confession in 1559.

Antoine Fillet

Antoine Fillet is a French quantitative finance executive, partner of Squarepoint Capital, and one of its four majority owners; he joined the team in 2003 after graduating from École Polytechnique.

Antoine Froment

Antoine Froment was a French Reformed evangelist, schoolmaster, and pastor who helped bring Protestant preaching to Geneva in 1532 and 1533, working with Farel and Calvin.

Antoine Gizenga

Antoine Gizenga (1925–2019) was a Congolese statesman who served as deputy prime minister under Patrice Lumumba and as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2006 to 2008.

Antoine Pagi

Antoine Pagi (1624–1699) was a French Franciscan friar of Provence, four times provincial of his order, whose Critica historico-chronologica corrected chronological errors in Baronius's Annales ecclesiastici year by year.

Antoine Papiernik

Antoine Papiernik is a French venture capitalist who leads Sofinnova Partners, a Paris-based European life sciences firm he joined in 1997, and twice made the Forbes Midas List.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517–1586) was a cardinal and statesman of the Franche-Comté who served the Habsburgs as viceroy of Naples and Philip II's secretary of state.

Antoine Poussier

Antoine Poussier (born 1974) is a French prefect and former naval officer, prefect of the region Guyane since 21 August 2023, previously overseas-territories adviser to Prime Ministers Castex and Borne and secretary general of the Martinique prefecture.

Antoine Riboud

Antoine Riboud (1918–2002) was a French industrialist who founded the glass group BSN in 1966 and rebuilt it over thirty years into Danone, one of Europe's largest food companies.

Antoine Touron

Antoine Touron (1686–1775) was a French Dominican friar, biographer, and historian who wrote some thirty volumes, chiefly on the history of the Order of Preachers.

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (1813–1853) was a French Catholic literary scholar and Sorbonne professor who founded the Society of St Vincent de Paul in 1833 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

Antoine-Simon Maillard

Antoine-Simon Maillard (c. 1710 to 1762) was a French Catholic priest who served as a missionary to the Mi'kmaq of Acadia from 1735 until his death.

Antoine, Duke of Lorraine

Antoine the Good (Antoine le Bon), 1489–1544, Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1508; kept strict neutrality between Francis I and Charles V, won the Treaty of Nuremberg (1542) recognizing Lorraine's independence, and defeated Alsatian peasant rebels in 1525.

Antoinette Bourignon

Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680) was a French mystic who claimed to be illuminated by God to reform spiritual life, running a home for poor girls in Lille from 1653 to 1662.

Antoinette Frank

Antoinette Frank (born 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer and death row inmate for the 1995 Kim Anh Restaurant triple murder of officer Ronald Williams II and siblings Ha and Cuong Vu with Rogers LaCaze, the only woman on Louisiana's death row.

Antoinette Schoar

Antoinette Schoar is an American-based financial economist who holds a professorship at MIT Sloan and co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research's Corporate Finance program.

Anton Alikhanov

Anton Alikhanov is a Russian politician serving as Minister of Industry and Trade, who has reported to President Putin on manufacturing growth and the New Materials and Chemistry project.

Anton Basansky

Anton Basansky is a Russian politician and former State Duma deputy who serves as State Secretary and Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic.

Anton Cermak

Anton Cermak (Antonín Čermák), 1873–1933, was a Bohemia-born mayor of Chicago who built the multiethnic Democratic machine and died of wounds from Zangara's 1933 attempt on Roosevelt.

Anton Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин)

Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Антон Иванович Деникин), 1872–1947, Russian general, commander of the White Armed Forces of South Russia; led the 1919 Moscow offensive, resigned to Wrangel in 1920, died in exile in Michigan, reburied at Moscow's Donskoy Monastery in 2005.

Anton Dostler

Anton Dostler (1891–1945), German General of Infantry commanding the 75th Army Corps, first Axis general executed for war crimes after WWII, shot 1 December 1945 for ordering the execution of 15 captured American soldiers of the Ginny Mission near La Spezia.

Anton Drexler

Anton Drexler (1884-1942), Munich locksmith and völkisch politician, co-founded the German Workers' Party (DAP) with Karl Harrer on 5 January 1919, became first NSDAP chairman, co-wrote the 25-point program, and lost the leadership to Hitler in 1921.

Anton Joseph Binterim

Anton Joseph Binterim (1779–1855) was a German Franciscan theologian and church historian who served fifty years as parish priest of Düsseldorf-Bilk and championed Ultramontanism in the Rhineland.

Anton Korošec

Anton Korošec (1872–1940) was a Slovene Catholic priest and politician who led the Slovene People's Party and in 1928 became the first non-Serb prime minister of Yugoslavia.

Anton Kotyakov

Anton Kotyakov (born 1980) is a Russian politician serving as Minister of Labour and Social Protection since 2020, after serving as Deputy Minister of Finance.