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Antonios II Kauleas
Antonios II Kauleas (Ἀντώνιος Καυλέας) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 893 until his death in 901, a former abbot venerated as a saint for completing the reconciliation of the Photian and Ignatian parties.
Antonios III the Studite
Antonios III the Studite (Ἀντώνιος ὁ Στουδίτης) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 973 to 978, known for a decree protecting Hagia Sophia's clergy from heavy taxes.
Antonius I Kassimatis
Antonius I Kassimatis, also Kassymatas, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 821 to 837; not recognized by Rome, he was anathematized after the 843 restoration of icon veneration.
Antonius IV
Antonius IV (Ἀντώνιος Δ΄), also written Antony IV, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, 1389 to 1390 and 1391 to 1397, during Ottoman vassalage, dying in Constantinople in May 1397.
Antonomasia
Antonomasia (Greek antonomazein, 'to name instead') is a rhetorical trope substituting an epithet for a proper name, or a proper name for a common noun; classical and Vossian types, from Quintilian to 'the Mozart of chess'.
Antony Anghie
Antony Anghie (Antony Terence Anghie), Sri Lankan-born professor of law at the University of Utah and National University of Singapore, TWAIL scholar, author of Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (2005) and 2023 Manley O. Hudson Medalist.
Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor (born 1946) is a British military historian and former 11th Hussars officer, author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day, and The Second World War, with over nine million books sold and a knighthood in 2017.
Antony Blinken
Antony John Blinken (born 1962), 71st U.S. Secretary of State (2021–2025) under Biden; former deputy secretary of state, NSC aide, and Clinton speechwriter; led alliances, AUKUS, and China policy.
Antony Kidman
Antony David "Tony" Kidman AM (1938–2014), Australian clinical psychologist and biochemist, father of Nicole and Antonia Kidman; directed UTS Health Psychology Unit 30 years, Order of Australia 2005, died in Singapore 2014, later accused of child abuse.
Antony Kohlmann
Antony Kohlmann, also Anthony or Antoine, was an Alsatian-born Jesuit priest who headed Georgetown College and won a landmark 1813 New York case protecting the seal of confession.
Ants Piip
Ants Piip (1884–1942) was an Estonian diplomat, professor of international law, and statesman who served as Estonia's first head of state and negotiated the Tartu Peace Treaty.
Antti Arponen
Antti Arponen is a Finnish fintech entrepreneur, co-founder of the Abu Dhabi payments company Pyypl, which he led as Group CEO from January 2020 to September 2024.
Antti Häkkänen
Antti Häkkänen, born 1985, is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician who has served as Minister of Defence since 2023 and was Minister of Justice from 2017 to 2019.
Antti Rinne
Antti Rinne (b. 3 November 1962), Finnish SDP lawyer, trade union leader, and politician: finance minister 2014–2015, SDP chair 2014–2020, and Prime Minister of Finland 6 June–10 December 2019 before resigning over the postal dispute.
Antun Sa'adeh
Antun Sa'adeh (أنطون سعادة), born 1904 in Mount Lebanon, founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party seeking a unified Greater Syria; Lebanon executed him in 1949.
Antwan McClellan
Antwan McClellan is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 1st district in the General Assembly since 2020, and is the first African American Republican in the legislature since 2002.
Antwerp diamond heist
The Antwerp diamond heist (February 2003): the School of Turin, led by Leonardo Notarbartolo, opened the Antwerp Diamond Center vault and stole over $100 million in diamonds, the largest diamond heist on record; almost none of the loot was recovered.
Antyesti
Antyesti, also known as Antim Sanskar, is the Hindu funeral rite, the last of the sixteen saṁskāras, generally involving cremation by the eldest son and immersion of the ashes in a sacred river.
Ant迪科 (Jiangyuan Andyco)
Jiangyuan Andyco, also known as Dongcheng Andyco (东诚安迪科), is a Chinese radiopharmaceutical manufacturer founded in Nanjing in 2006 and owned by Dongcheng Pharmaceutical since 2018, producing PET tracers such as 18F-FDG.
Anu
Anu (Sumerian An, meaning "sky") was the Mesopotamian sky god and original supreme deity of the pantheon, source of kingship and the anûtu, displaced by Enlil and Marduk but worshipped at Uruk into the Hellenistic period.
Anu Puusa
Anu Puusa is a Finnish professor of management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School, known for her research on organizational identity and the dual nature of cooperatives.
Anu ziggurat
Anu ziggurat: prehistoric temple platform at Uruk (Warka), Iraq, begun c. 4000 BCE and expanded through fourteen phases; carries the White Temple, a ~22 x 17.5 m tripartite lime-plastered shrine of the late 4th millennium BCE. Also called the Anu Ziggurat of Uruk; distinguished from later step-tower ziggurats and from the Eanna precinct.
Anubanini
Anubanini was a king of Lullubum in the Zagros mountains of western Iran around 2000 BC, known from a rock relief and Akkadian inscription at Sar-e Pol-e Zahab.
Anubanini rock relief
The Anubanini rock relief, also read Anobanini, is a victory monument at Sar-e Pol-e Zahab in western Iran, made for Anubanini, king of Lullubum, around 2000 BCE.
Anubhava Mantapa
Anubhava Mantapa (ಅನುಭವ ಮಂಟಪ) was a twelfth-century assembly of mystics, poets, and reformers at Basavakalyana in Karnataka, founded by Basavanna and often called the first spiritual parliament.
Anubis
Anubis, ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of embalming, mummification, and cemeteries and protector of graves; weighed hearts against Ma'at's feather and merged with Hermes as Hermanubis in the Greco-Roman world.
Anubis Shrine
The Anubis Shrine is a gilded wooden statue of the jackal god Anubis on a shrine and sledge, placed to guard the Treasury of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Anund Jacob
Anund Jacob (Swedish: Anund Jakob), king of Sweden from about 1022 to 1050, allied with Olav of Norway against Cnut the Great and struck coins at Sigtuna.
Anunnaki
Anunnaki (Sumerian Anunna, Akkadian Anunnaku): a collective group of major Mesopotamian deities, distinct from the Igigi; since Sitchin's 1976 The 12th Planet also a rejected ancient-astronaut claim about Nibiru.
Anup Dhotre
Anup Sanjay Dhotre, born 1984, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Akola, Maharashtra, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, succeeding his father Sanjay Dhotre.