Anton (given name)
Anton is a Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German,[1] Macedonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian given name, from Latin Antonius.[1] The name is used in Greenland, Suriname, Namibia, South Africa, Indonesia, Vietnam, Catalan Countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Eastern Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, parts of Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Israel, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.[2]
| Gender | male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Antonius |
People
- Anton of Schauenburg (died 1558), Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
- Anton I of Georgia, Catholicos–Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church (1744–1755 and 1764–1788)
- Anton II of Georgia (1762 or 1763-1827), King of Kartli and Kakheti, and Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia, canonized by the Georgian church in 2011
- Anton I, Prince Esterházy (1738-1794), a prince of Hungary
- Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1785-1854), chief minister in Magdeburg, governor of the Prussian Province of Saxony and Prussian Minister of State
- Prince Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1841-1866), German prince and soldier
- Anton Adolf Kuyten (1937-2017), Dutch writer
- Anton Anton (born 1949), Romanian engineer and politician
- Anton Apriantono (born 1959), Indonesian politician
- Anton I. Arion (1824-1897), Romanian politician
- Antun Augustinčić (1900–1979), Croatian sculptor
- Anton Ažbe (1862–1905), Slovenian painter
- Anton Babchuk (born 1984), Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- Anton Bacalbașa (1865-1899), Romanian political journalist
- Anton Bakov (born 1965), Russian politician
- Anton Barten, Belgian economist
- Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888), German surgeon and biologist
- Anton du Beke (born 1966), English dancer
- Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer
- Anton Burger (1911–1991), Austrian-German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
- Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian writer
- Anton Corbijn (born 1955), Dutch photographer and video director
- Anton Coșa (born 1961), Romanian Catholic bishop
- Anton Davidoglu (1876-1958), Romanian mathematician
- Anton Denikin (1872–1947), Russian military commander
- Anton Dermota (1910–1989), Slovenian tenor
- Anton Diabelli (1781–1858), Austrian composer
- Anton Docher (1852-1928), priest and missionary
- Anton Dostler (1891-1945), German general executed for war crimes
- Anton Drexler (1884-1942), Founder of the Nazi Party
- Anton Durcovici (1888-1951), Romanian Catholic bishop
- Anton Ewald (born 1993), Swedish singer and dancer
- Anton Ferdinand (born 1985), English footballer
- Anton Fokin (born 1982), Uzbek gymnast
- Anton Fugger (1493–1560), German merchant
- Anton Gavel (born 1984), German basketball player
- Anton Geesink (1934–2010), Dutch judoka
- Anton Golopenția (1909-1951), Romanian sociologist
- Anton Jude Gomes (1960-2012), Sri Lankan actor and comedian
- Anton Gubankov (1965-2016), Russian TV journalist and civil servant
- Anton Gunn (born 1973), American politician
- Anton Gustafsson (born 1990), Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare (A. H. Tammsaare; 1878–1940), Estonian writer
- Anton thor Helle (1683–1748), Baltic German clergyman and translator
- Anton Hofreiter (born 1970), German politician
- Anton Holban (1902-1937), Romanian novelist
- Anton Hysén (born 1990), Swedish football player
- Anton Irv (1886–1919), Estonian military commander
- Anton Janša (1734–1773), Slovenian beekeeper and painter
- Anton Jones, Sri Lankan singer
- Anton Kaindl (1902–1948), German SS concentration camp commandant
- Anton Karas (1906–1985), Austrian zither player
- Anton Kazarnovski (born 1985), Israeli-Russian basketball player
- Anton Khudobin (born 1986), Kazakhstani-Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Anton Koolmann (1899–1953), Estonian wrestler
- Anton Korošec (1872–1940), Slovenian politician
- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- Anton Lesser, English actor
- Anton Lundell (born 2001), Finnish ice hockey player
- Anton Maresch (born 1991), Austrian basketball player
- Anton Moisescu (1913-1997), Romanian politician
- Anton Muttukumaru (1908-2001), first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
- Anton Nilson (1887–1989), Swedish Communist militant
- Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795), Slovenian playwright and historian
- Anton Newcombe (born 1967), American musician
- Apolo Anton Ohno, American speed skater
- Anton Õunapuu (1887–1919), Estonian scouting activist
- Anton Pann (1790s-1854), Ottoman-born Wallachian composer
- Anton Peschka (1885–1940), Austrian painter
- Anton Pettersson (1994-2015), perpetrator of the 2015 Trollhättan school attack
- Anton Pieck (1895–1987), Dutch artist
- Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam (born 1966), Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic priest, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Colombo
- Anton Raadik (1917–1999), Estonian boxer
- Anton Rabie, Canadian billionaire businessman
- Anton Rodgers, English actor
- Anton Rödin (born 1990), Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894), Russian pianist, composer and conductor
- Anton Santesson (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
- Anton Shipulin (born 1987), Russian biathlete
- Anton Shoutvin (born 1989), Israeli basketball player
- Antun Branko Šimić (1898–1925), Croatian poet
- Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862), Slovenian bishop
- Anton Heinrich Springer (1825–1891), German art historian and writer
- Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Tabakov (born 1960), Russian actor
- Anton Thernes (1892–1944), German Nazi SS deputy commandant of concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Anton Uesson (1879–1942), Estonian politician and engineer
- Anton Vaino (born 1972), Russian diplomat and politician
- Anton Volchenkov (born 1982), Russian ice hockey player
- Antun Vrdoljak (born 1931), Croatian film director
- Anton Webern (1883–1945), Austrian composer
- Anton Wilfer (1901–1976), Czechoslovak luthier
- Anton Wright (born 1974), adventurer and entrepreneur
- Anton Yelchin (1989–2016), Russian-American actor
- Anton Yugov (1904–1991), Bulgarian politician
- Anton Zaslavski also known as Zedd (born 1989), Russian-German music producer and DJ
Fictional characters
- Anton, mythological son of Hercules created by Mark Antony, and from whom he claimed descent
- Anton, aka Tony, former co-leader of the gang, the Jets, from West Side Story
- Anton O'Neill, title role of feature film Anton, directed by Graham Cantwell
- Anton, fictional geneticist, credited with discovering Anton's Key, in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card
- Anton Chigurh, antagonist in the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men and the 2007 movie of the same title
- Anton Phibes, murderous organist in two cult movies starring Vincent Price
- Anton Steenwijk, protagonist in the Harry Mulisch novel The Assault
- Anton Jackson, a homeless person portrayed by Damon Wayans in the American comedy sketch show In Living Color
- Anton Ego, food critic in the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille
- Anton Gorodetsky, hero and narrator of most of the Watch novels by Sergei Lukyanenko
- Anton Herzen, supposed vampire in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box who lived in Herzen Castle
- Anton Tobias, main character in the horror comedy film Idle Hands, played by actor Devon Sawa
- Anton Shudder, side character in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. Owner of the Midnight Hotel.
- Anton Hofmiller, main character in the book Beware of Pity, written by Stefan Zweig
- Anton Vanko, name of two Marvel Comics characters: Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash
- Anton Zeck, a master thief hired to steal Shredder's helmet in TMNT 2012.
- Anton Krieg, a German black market kingpin in Wolfenstein 2009
- Frederick Anton Reiker, male protagonist in the book Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene.
- Anton, a character from The Amazing World of Gumball
- Anton, Gilfoyle's server in Silicon Valley.
- Antoine Roquentin, diarist/narrator of Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea
- Anton Lavrentievich G______v, narrator of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Demons
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Anton
- All pages with titles containing Anton
- Anton (disambiguation)
- Anton (surname)
- Anthon (given name)
- Antona (name)
- Antono (name)
- Antos (name)
- Antoun
- Antton (name)
- Antxon, name
References
- "Anton" (in Swedish). Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- "Anton". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
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