Anton (given name)
Anton is a Bulgarian, Greek, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Macedonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, and Ukrainian given name, from Latin Antonius. 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.
People
- Anton of Schauenburg, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
- Anton I of Georgia, Catholicos–Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church
- Anton II of Georgia, King of Kartli and Kakheti, and Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia, canonized by the Georgian church in 2011
- Anton I, Prince Esterházy, a prince of Hungary
- Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode, chief minister in Magdeburg, governor of the Prussian Province of Saxony and Prussian Minister of State
- Prince Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German prince and soldier
- Anton Adolf Kuyten, Dutch writer
- Anton Anton, Romanian engineer and politician
- Anton Apriantono, Indonesian politician
- Anton I. Arion, Romanian politician
- Antun Augustinčić, Croatian sculptor
- Anton Ažbe, Slovenian painter
- Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- Anton Bacalbașa, Romanian political journalist
- Anton Bakov, Russian politician
- Anton Barten, Belgian economist
- Heinrich Anton de Bary, German surgeon and biologist
- Anton du Beke, English dancer
- Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
- Anton Burger, Austrian-German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer
- Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and video director
- Anton Coșa, Romanian Catholic bishop
- Anton Davidoglu, Romanian mathematician
- Anton Denikin, Russian military commander
- Anton Dermota, Slovenian tenor
- Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer
- Anton Docher, priest and missionary
- Anton Dostler, German general executed for war crimes
- Anton Drexler, Founder of the Nazi Party
- Anton Durcovici, Romanian Catholic bishop
- Anton Ewald, Swedish singer and dancer
- Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
- Anton Fokin, Uzbek gymnast
- Anton Fugger, German merchant
- Anton Gavel, German basketball player
- Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka
- Anton Golopenția, Romanian sociologist
- Anton Jude Gomes, Sri Lankan actor and comedian
- Anton Gubankov, Russian TV journalist and civil servant
- Anton Gunn, American politician
- Anton Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian writer
- Anton thor Helle, Baltic German clergyman and translator
- Anton Hofreiter, German politician
- Anton Holban, Romanian novelist
- Anton Hysén, British football player
- Anton Irv, Estonian military commander
- Anton Janša, Slovenian beekeeper and painter
- Anton Jones, Sri Lankan singer
- Anton Kaindl, German SS concentration camp commandant
- Anton Karas, Austrian zither player
- Anton Khudobin, Kazakhstani-Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
- Anton Koolmann, Estonian wrestler
- Anton Korošec, Slovenian politician
- Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
- Anton Maresch, Austrian basketball player
- Anton Moisescu, Romanian politician
- Anton Muttukumaru, first indigenous Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
- Anton Nilson, Swedish Communist militant
- Anton Tomaž Linhart, Slovenian playwright and historian
- Anton Newcombe, American musician
- Apolo Anton Ohno, American speed skater
- Anton Õunapuu, Estonian scouting activist
- Anton Pann, Ottoman-born Wallachian composer
- Anton Peschka, Austrian painter
- Anton Pettersson, perpetrator of the 2015 Trollhättan school attack
- Anton Pieck, Dutch artist
- Anton Raadik, Estonian boxer
- Anton Rabie, Canadian billionaire businessman
- Anton Rodgers, English actor
- Anton Rödin, Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer and conductor
- Anton Santesson, Swedish ice hockey defenceman
- Anton Shipulin, Russian biathlete
- Anton Martin Slomšek, Slovenian bishop
- Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet
- Anton Heinrich Springer, German art historian and writer
- Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
- Anton Tabakov, Russian actor
- Anton Thernes, German Nazi SS deputy commandant of concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer
- Anton Vaino, Russian diplomat and politician
- Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- Antun Vrdoljak, Croatian film director
- Anton Webern, Austrian composer
- Anton Wright, adventurer and entrepreneur
- Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor
- Anton Yugov, Bulgarian politician
- Anton Zaslavski also known as Zedd, 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