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Anton LaVey

Anton LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey (1930–1997), was an American author who founded the atheistic Church of Satan in San Francisco in 1966 and wrote The Satanic Bible.

Anton Makarenko

Anton Makarenko (1888 to 1939) was a Soviet pedagogue and writer who founded the Gorky Labor Colony in 1920, headed the Dzerzhinsky Commune, and pioneered education through the collective.

Anton Mussert

Anton Mussert (Anton Adriaan Mussert, 1894–1946), Dutch hydraulic engineer who founded and led the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) from 1931, collaborated with the German occupiers as nominal 'Leader of the Dutch People', and was executed for treason in 1946.

Anton Osika

Anton Osika is a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Lovable, a Stockholm startup whose product turns plain-language descriptions into working software, reaching $100 million in revenue within eight months of its 2024 launch.

Anton Piëch

Anton Piëch is a son of Ferdinand Piëch, who led Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002, and holds documented board presidencies in Swiss-registered Piëch family companies.

Anton Scholz

Anton Scholz (1829–1908) was a German Roman Catholic priest and Old Testament scholar who taught exegesis and Biblical oriental languages at the University of Würzburg from 1872 to 1903.

Anton Seitz

Anton Seitz (1869–1951) was a German Catholic priest and theologian who taught at Würzburg and held the professorship of apologetics at Munich, publishing an anti-modernist defense of papal primacy in 1911.

Anton Siluanov

Anton Siluanov is a Russian politician who has served as Minister of Finance since 2011 and was First Deputy Prime Minister from 2018 to 2020.

Anton Vaino

Anton Vaino, born in Tallinn in 1972, is a Russian politician who has served as Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office since 2016.

Anton Westbergh

Anton Westbergh, born 1985, is a Swedish video game executive who co-founded Coffee Stain in Skövde in 2010 and has been its chief executive ever since, creating Goat Simulator.

Anton Wilhelm Amo

Anton Wilhelm Amo was a philosopher born near Axim on the Gold Coast around 1700, brought to Europe as a child, who taught at German universities and argued against the legality of enslaving Africans.

Antonela Roccuzzo

Antonela Roccuzzo (born 1988, Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine entrepreneur, model, and influencer, wife of Lionel Messi since their 2017 Rosario wedding; mother of Thiago, Mateo, and Ciro; co-founder of children's brand Enfans.

Antong

Antong (安童) was a Yuan dynasty statesman and fourth-generation descendant of the general Mu Huali, who served as right chancellor of the Secretariat under Kublai Khan.

Antoni Chruściel

Antoni Chruściel (1895–1960), known by the nom de guerre "Monter", was a Polish brigadier general who commanded the Polish insurgent forces in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Antoni Dudek

Antoni Dudek is a Polish historian and political scientist, born in Kraków in 1966, who studies post-war Poland and was among the first to treat post-1989 Poland academically.

Antoni Madaliński

Antoni Madaliński (1739–1804) was a Polish cavalry general who, ordered to disband his brigade, marched it from Ostrołęka toward Kraków in March 1794, triggering the Kościuszko Insurrection.

Antonia Kidman

Antonia Kidman (born 1970, Melbourne), also known as Antonia Marran, is an Australian journalist, TV presenter, parenting author, and family lawyer, and the younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman; hosted Foxtel's The Little Things and graduated in law from Macquarie University in 2019.

Antonia Salzano

Antonia Salzano Acutis (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian writer, mother of Saint Carlo Acutis, the first millennial Catholic saint canonized in 2025; author of Il segreto di mio figlio and speaker on her son's Eucharistic faith.

Antonian movement

The Antonian movement, or Antonianismo, was a religious and political movement in the Kingdom of Kongo, founded in 1704 by the prophet Kimpa Vita to reunify the divided kingdom.

Antonianism

Antonianism was a messianic religious and political movement in the Kingdom of Kongo, active from 1704 to 1706, led by the prophetess Beatriz Kimpa Vita.

Antonín Novotný

Antonín Novotný was a Czech communist politician who led the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 and was president from 1957 until his fall in 1968.

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1986–2016, Reagan nominee confirmed 98–0; leading originalist and textualist, author of Heller (2008); seat vacant until Gorsuch's 2017 confirmation.

Antonine Wall

Antonine Wall, Roman turf-and-stone frontier across Scotland's Forth-Clyde isthmus, built AD 142 under Antoninus Pius, 62 km long with 17 forts, abandoned by 165; Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site since 2008.

Antoninus of Florence

Antoninus of Florence (Antonino Pierozzi, 1389–1459) was a Dominican friar who became archbishop of Florence in 1446 and wrote the Summa theologica, a landmark of moral theology.

Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius (Imperator T. Aelius Aurelius Antoninus) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 138 to 161 CE. He was the fourth of the five good emperors.

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (1947–2022) was a Brazilian international lawyer who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2009 until his death.

Antonio Ballerini

Antonio Ballerini (1805–1881) was an Italian Jesuit moral theologian and professor at the Collegio Romano, known for his annotated Gury editions, his defense of probabilism, and the seven-volume Opus theologicum morale.

Antonio Barberini

Antonio Barberini, called seniore (1569–1646), was an Italian Capuchin friar and brother of Pope Urban VIII who became a cardinal in 1624 and served as Secretary of the Holy Office and Grand Penitentiary.

Antonio Bonchristiano

Antonio Roberto Bonchristiano is a Brazilian investment executive, Co-Chairman of GP Investments and its chief executive from 2014 to 2024, at the firm described as Brazil's private equity pioneer.

Antonio Borrero

Antonio Borrero y Cortázar was an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician from Cuenca who served as President of Ecuador from December 1875 until his overthrow in December 1876.