Antonio
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Antonio is a Greek
, Italian
, Portuguese
, and Spanish
first name. In the English language it is translated as Anthony
, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella. It also has some male derivatives, such as Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Totò, Tó , Toni and Toñito. The Portuguese equivalent is António or Antônio. In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used. The Greek version of the name is Antonios.
The name derives from Antonius
, a well known Latin family name, probably of Etruscan origin. Antonius has been said to derive from the Ancient Greek God "Adonis". This, however, is quite unlikely, since the Greek letter "δ" (delta) is equivalent to the Latin letter "d" and there is no recorded transformation of "δ" or "d" to "nt". The Roman general Marcus Antonius held that the origin of the name was Anthon, son of Hercules. This myth, recorded by Plutarch
, was probably created by Marcus Antonius himself, in order to claim divine parentage. The name was in use throughout the Roman world which, at its height, comprised the whole of the Mediterranean and much of Europe as well as the Near and Middle East. When the Roman Empire became Christian, the name continued in popularity because of the many great saints who bore the name. Later, the name was spread all around the world as Christianity was introduced into indigenous populations (e.g. the Far East, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa).
The name Antonio is widely used in Italy, in Portugal, in Spain and in Macedonia. After the Iberic peoples
discovered the new world
, many of them settled in the area, and, as a consequence, Antonio is one of the most popular first names in Latin America, as well as among Hispanic
s, and, to a small degree, North Americans in the United States.
Antonio may also refer to:
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
first name. In the English language it is translated as Anthony
Anthony (given name)
Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, , derived from Antonius, a Roman family name . That name seems to have come originally from the Etruscan language, although nothing further is known about this derivation...
, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella. It also has some male derivatives, such as Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Totò, Tó , Toni and Toñito. The Portuguese equivalent is António or Antônio. In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used. The Greek version of the name is Antonios.
The name derives from Antonius
Antonius
Antonius is the nomen of the gens Antonia, one of the most important plebeian families at Rome. It is also the source of the English personal name Anthony, as well as a number of similar names in various European languages....
, a well known Latin family name, probably of Etruscan origin. Antonius has been said to derive from the Ancient Greek God "Adonis". This, however, is quite unlikely, since the Greek letter "δ" (delta) is equivalent to the Latin letter "d" and there is no recorded transformation of "δ" or "d" to "nt". The Roman general Marcus Antonius held that the origin of the name was Anthon, son of Hercules. This myth, recorded by Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
, was probably created by Marcus Antonius himself, in order to claim divine parentage. The name was in use throughout the Roman world which, at its height, comprised the whole of the Mediterranean and much of Europe as well as the Near and Middle East. When the Roman Empire became Christian, the name continued in popularity because of the many great saints who bore the name. Later, the name was spread all around the world as Christianity was introduced into indigenous populations (e.g. the Far East, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa).
The name Antonio is widely used in Italy, in Portugal, in Spain and in Macedonia. After the Iberic peoples
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...
discovered the new world
New World
The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically America and sometimes Oceania . The term originated in the late 15th century, when America had been recently discovered by European explorers, expanding the geographical horizon of the people of the European middle...
, many of them settled in the area, and, as a consequence, Antonio is one of the most popular first names in Latin America, as well as among Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
s, and, to a small degree, North Americans in the United States.
Antonio
- Antonio AbettiAntonio AbettiAntonio Abetti was an Italian astronomer.Born in San Pietro di Gorizia , he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence...
, Italian astronomer - Antonio AbondioAntonio AbondioAntonio Abondio was an Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature.Born in Riva del Garda, he worked in Italy between 1552 and 1565, and thereafter mainly for the Habsburgs...
, Italian sculptor - Antonio AguilarAntonio AguilarJosé Pascual Antonio Aguilar Barraza most commonly known as Antonio Aguilar, nicknamed "El Charro de México", was a Mexican film actor, singer, producer and screenwriter. During his career, he made over 150 albums, which sold 25 million copies, and made 167 movies...
, Mexican singer - Antonio BamboccioAntonio BamboccioAntonio Bambocci was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Gothic period, active in and near Naples.He was born in Piperino, and came to Naples with his father Domenico, also a sculptor. He initially trained with Masuccio, and afterwards by Andrea Ciccione. His masters in painting were Colantino...
, Italian painter and sculptor - Antonio BanderasAntonio BanderasJosé Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...
, Spanish actor - Antonio R. BarcelóAntonio R. BarcelóAntonio Rafael Barceló y Martinez was a lawyer, businessman and the patriarch of what was to become one of Puerto Rico's most prominent political families...
, Puerto Rican politician - Antonio BassolinoAntonio BassolinoAntonio Bassolino, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian politician. He has been President of the Campania region from 2000 to 2010.-Biography:Bassolino was born in Afragola, Campania...
, Italian politician - Antonio BaroliniAntonio BaroliniAntonio Barolini was an Italian poet and novelist who was born in Vicenza on 29 May 1910, and died in Rome on 21 January 1971. His stories, translated into English by his wife, Helen Barolini, appeared in The New Yorker and then were collected and published as The Last Family Countess, and other...
, Italian writer - Antonio BazziniAntonio BazziniAntonio Joseph Bazzini was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. As a composer his most enduring work is his chamber music which has earned him a central place in the Italian instrumental renaissance of the 19th century...
, Italian violinist and composer - Antonio di BenedettoAntonio di BenedettoAntonio di Benedetto , was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Publishing Career:...
, Argentine writer - Antonio BerettaAntonio BerettaAntonio Beretta was the first mayor of Milan under the Kingdom of Italy from 1860 to 1867. He was appointed Senator for life by Victor Emmanuel II in 1862. He was a member of the Società Storica Lombarda. He died in Rome in 1891....
, first mayor of Milan under the Kingdom of Italy from 1860 to 1867 - Antonio BonazzaAntonio BonazzaAntonio Bonazza was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo.Antonio was the son of Giovanni Bonazza, a prominent sculptor active in Padua , and member of a large family of sculptors. He may have been influenced by Orazio Marinali of Vicenza...
, Italian sculptor - Antonio BosioAntonio BosioAntonio Bosio was an Italian scholar, the first systematic explorer of subterranean Rome , author of Roma Sotterranea and first urban spelunker.-Biography:Bosio was born in Malta....
, Italian scholar - Antonio Broccoli PortoAntonio Broccoli PortoAntonio Broccoli Porto is a renowned Puerto Rican artist, visual artist and sculptor.-Early years:Broccoli Porto's father was an Italian national and his mother's family, Porto, claim their Puerto Rican heritage, having originally settled in the town of Cayey. His parents met and married in New...
, Puerto Rican artist - Antonio Bartolomeo BruniAntonio Bartolomeo BruniAntonio Bartolomeo Bruni was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor. Bruni was born and died in Cuneo, Italy. During most of his life he resided, played and composed in Paris....
, Italian violist, composer and conductor - Antonio Cabán ValeAntonio Cabán ValeAntonio Cabán Vale a.k.a. "El Topo" , is a guitarist, singer and composer of Puerto Rican folklore themes. He is one of the founders of the "new song" movement of the early 1970s...
, Puerto Rican singer - Antonio CaldaraAntonio CaldaraAntonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer.Caldara was born in Venice , the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi...
, Italian composer - Antonio Canaletto, Italian painter
- Antonio CandrevaAntonio CandrevaAntonio Candreva is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cesena on loan from Udinese. He usually plays in a more central role as a play maker but can also play out wide in a three-man midfield.-Ternana:...
, Italian footballer - Antonio CanovaAntonio CanovaAntonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh...
, Italian sculptor - Antonio Benedetto CarpanoAntonio Benedetto CarpanoAntonio Benedetto Carpano was an Italian distiller, famous for having invented Vermouth and consequently the apéritif....
, Italian distiller, famous for having invented the VermouthVermouthVermouth is a fortified wine flavored with various dry ingredients. The modern versions of the beverage were first produced around the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Italy and France...
and consequently the apéritifAperitifApéritifs and digestifs are alcoholic drinks that are normally served with meals.-Apéritifs:An apéritif is usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite. This contrasts with digestifs, which are served after a meal for the purpose of aiding digestion... - Antonio Marziale CarracciAntonio Marziale CarracciAntonio Marziale Carracci was an Italian painter. He was the natural son of Agostino Carracci.-Life:Carracci was born in the parish of Sta Lucia in Venice, probably in 1583, the product of an affair with a courtesan called Isabella, occurring on his father first visit to Venice...
, Italian painter - Antonio CassanoAntonio CassanoAntonio Cassano is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan as a striker. Nicknamed Il Gioiello di Bari Vecchia , he is known for his short temper as much as his ability on the pitch, which led to the coining of the neologism Cassanata by his former coach, Fabio Capello, in November...
, Italian footballer - Antonio CavallucciAntonio CavallucciAntonio Cavallucci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque.-Biography:Cavallucci was born in Sermoneta in the Lazio. His artistic talents were recognized in an early stage by Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta in 1738-1810...
, Italian painter - Antonio CervantesAntonio CervantesAntonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion. He successfully defended the title 16 times. Cervantes fought 21 world title fights, keeping the 140 pounds title for almost 8 years...
, Colombian boxer - Antonio CitterioAntonio CitterioAntonio Citterio is an Italian furniture designer and industrial designer who lives and works in Milan.Citterio graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and since 1972 has worked for many leading manufacturers such as Ansorg, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hackman, Iittala, Hansgrohe,...
, Italian furniture designer - Antonio ConteAntonio ConteAntonio Conte is an Italian former footballer and manager. He is the current manager of Juventus.-Playing career:...
, Italian former footballer - Antonio CorradiniAntonio CorradiniAntonio Corradini was a Venetian Rococo sculptor.Corradini was born in Este and worked mainly in the Veneto, but also completed commissions for work outside Venice, including Naples....
, Italian sculptor - Antonio Correa CottoAntonio Correa CottoAntonio Correa Cotto, also known simply as Correa Cotto, , was the first outlaw to gain legendary status in Puerto Rico.-Early years:Correa Cotto was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico...
, Puerto Rican criminal - Antonio da CorreggioAntonio da CorreggioAntonio Allegri da Correggio , usually known as Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century...
, Italian painter - Antonio CortiAntonio CortiHugo Antonio Corti is a retired boxer from Argentina, who competed in the middleweight division . He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he was stopped in the second round by Yugoslavia's Damir Škaro...
, Argentine boxer - Antonio DavisAntonio DavisAntonio Lee Davis is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association .-College career:...
, US Basketball player - Antonio di NataleAntonio di NataleAntonio Di Natale is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Udinese.A versatile striker with a lethal eye for goal, Di Natale can play anywhere in the front line, as a lone striker or out wide in an attacking trident. He is notable for his dribbling skills, pace and for his ability to...
, Italian footballer - Antonio DixonAntonio DixonAntonio Dixon is an American football defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League . He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Washington Redskins in 2009. He played college football at the University of Miami.-Early years:Dixon grew up in at least six...
, American football player - Antonio de La GandaraAntonio de La GandaraAntonio de la Gándara was a French painter, pastellist and draughtsman.-Biography:He was born in Paris, France, but his father was of Spanish ancestry, born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and his mother was from England. La Gandara's talent was strongly influenced by both cultures...
, painter - Antonio de la RúaAntonio de la RúaAntonio de la Rúa , is the oldest son of former Argentine president, Fernando de la Rúa and Inés Pertiné...
, former first son of Argentina - Antonio de NigrisAntonio de NigrisAntonio de Nigris Guajardo was a Mexican footballer who played as a striker.During his career, which was cut short at 31 by a fatal heart attack, he played in six different countries, also representing twelve clubs in nine years.-Club career:Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, de Nigris became...
(1978–2009), Mexican footballer - Antonio Escobar Núñez, SpanishSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
music composer, music producer, sound designer - Antonio EsparragozaAntonio EsparragozaAntonio Esparragoza Betancourt was a boxer in the featherweight division from Venezuela.- Amateur career :Esparragoza represented Venezuela as a Featherweight at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.*1st round bye...
, Venezuelan boxer - Antonio Ferreira de Oliveira JuniorAntonio Ferreira de Oliveira JuniorAntonio Ferreira de Oliveira Junior is a football defender from Brazil. He currently plays for FC Terek Grozny.-Career:...
, Brazilian soccer player - Antonio Floro FloresAntonio Floro FloresAntonio Mariano Floro Flores is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Udinese Calcio in Serie A.Floro Flores was born in Naples, and started his career at Napoli. He made his Serie A debut on 28 January 2001 against Roma. After six months on loan to Serie A Sampdoria, Floro Flores...
, Italian footballer - Antonio FogazzaroAntonio FogazzaroAntonio Fogazzaro was an Italian novelist.-Biography:Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin...
, Italian novelist - Antonio GamonedaAntonio GamonedaAntonio Gamoneda is a Spanish poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006.- Biography :Antonio Gamoneda was born in Oviedo, Asturias, on May 30, 1931. His father, named Antonio, was a modernist poet who published only one book, Otra más alta vida in 1919. In 1934, already an orphan, he moved with...
, Spanish poet - Antonio GarayAntonio GarayAntonio Garay is an American football defensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League.He played college football at Boston College...
, American football players (San Diego Chargers) - Antonio GatesAntonio GatesAntonio Gates is an American football tight end for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2003 after playing college basketball at Kent State University...
, American player of American football - Antonio GherardiAntonio GherardiAntonio Gherardi was an Italian painter, architect, and sculptor of the Baroque style, active mainly in and near Rome and his native city of Rieti....
, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor - Antonio Ghislieri, better known as Pope Pius V
- Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
, Italian writer, politician and political theorist - Antonio Guzmán BlancoAntonio Guzmán BlancoAntonio Leocadio Guzmán Blanco was President of Venezuela for three separate terms, from 1870–1877, from 1879–1884, and from 1886–1887....
, former Venezuelan president - Antonio HernándezAntonio HernándezAntonio Hernández is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.In 1994, he created the TV company Zeppelín Televisión.-Director:*1980: F.E.N.*1981: Apaga.....
, filmmaker, Genius, patenter of the word fresh. - Antonio InokiAntonio Inokiis a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...
, Japanese wrestler - Antonio JanigroAntonio JanigroAntonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Milan, he began studying piano when he was six and cello when he was eight. Initially taught by Giovanni Berti, Janigro enrolled in the Verdi Conservatory of Milan, where he was instructed by Gilberto Crepax...
, Italian cellist and conductor - Antonio Carlos JobimAntônio Carlos JobimAntônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
, Brazilian creator of the bossa nova - Antonio LangellaAntonio LangellaAntonio Langella is an Italian football striker/winger .-Football career:After playing for a number of lower-rank Sardinian clubs in the beginning of his career, Langella joined Cagliari Calcio in March 2002, then in Serie B...
, Italian footballer - Antonio LatimerAntonio LatimerAntonio Latimer Rivera is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Latimer has played in the NCAA and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico with Ponce Lions, Coamo Marathon Runners, Mayagüez Tainos, and Bayamon Cowboys. Latimer has also played internationally in Israel and...
, Puerto Rican basketball player - Antonio Lo Surdo (1880–1949), Italian physicist and co-discoverer of the Stark effectStark effectThe Stark effect is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to presence of an external static electric field. The amount of splitting and or shifting is called the Stark splitting or Stark shift. In general one distinguishes first- and second-order Stark effects...
- Antonio LombardoAntonio Lombardo (sculptor)Antonio Lombardo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, brother of Tullio Lombardo and son of Pietro Lombardo. He was born in Venice. The Lombardo family worked together to sculpt church decorations and tombs. He died in Ferrara, where he worked as marble master for Duke Alfonso I...
, Italian sculptor - Antonio LopezAntonio Lopez (illustrator)Antonio Lopez was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Interview and The New York Times. Several books collecting his illustrations have been published...
, United States illustrator who signed his work "Antonio." - Antonio LottiAntonio LottiAntonio Lotti was an Italian composer of classical music.Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church...
, Italian composer - Antonio Maceo GrajalesAntonio Maceo GrajalesLt. General José Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales was second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence....
, Cuban general - Antonio MachadoAntonio MachadoAntonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98....
, Spanish poet - Antonio ManciniAntonio ManciniAntonio Mancini was an Italian painter.-Biography:Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist...
, Italian painter - Antonio ManettiAntonio ManettiAntonio Manetti was an Italian mathematician and architect from Florence. He was also the biographer of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi....
, Italian mathematician and architect - Antonio MargaritoAntonio MargaritoAntonio Margarito Montiel is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former WBA, WBO, & IBF welterweight champion...
, American boxer - Antonio MartinoAntonio MartinoAntonio Martino is an Italian politician, who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994 and Italian Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2006. He is a founding member of Forza Italia, holding party card no. 2.-Career:...
, Italian politician - Antonio McDyessAntonio McDyessAntonio Keithflen McDyess is an American professional basketball player. McDyess is listed at 6'9" , 245 lb. and is a power forward/center. In 2009 he signed a 3-year contract with the San Antonio Spurs....
, United States basketball player - Antonio Tobias MendezAntonio Tobias MendezAntonio Tobias Mendez is an American sculptor.-Works:Mendez has produced over twenty public monuments: his sculptures include Thurgood Marshall, Don Shula, Mohandas Gandhi, Major Taylor, and part of the United States Navy Memorial.as well as being nominated as one of the three finalists to...
, American sculptor - Antonio MenesesAntonio MenesesAntônio Meneses Neto is a Brazilian cellist.He won the VI Tchaikovsky competition. A member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Meneses combines an intense soloist concert career with chamber music performances. He is a teacher at Bern's Hochschule der Künste.- References :* *...
, Brazilian cellist - Antonio MeucciAntonio MeucciAntonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor, a compatriot of revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone....
, Italian-American inventor - Antonio MondaAntonio MondaAntonio Monda is an Italian writer, film director, journalist, and professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is a well-connected figure in and promoter of the arts, particularly film and literature....
, Italian film director - Antonio NegriAntonio NegriAntonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
, Italian philosopher - Antonio NocerinoAntonio NocerinoAntonio Nocerino is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Milan and the Italian national team.-Juventus and early career:...
, Italian footballer - Antônio Rodrigo NogueiraAntonio Rodrigo NogueiraAntônio Rodrigo Nogueira is a Brazilian mixed martial artist known for his technical mastery of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He competes in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he is a former UFCInterim Heavyweight Champion...
and his brother Antônio Rogério NogueiraAntonio Rogerio NogueiraAntônio Rogério Nogueira is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist currently signed with the UFC. He is the twin brother of Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira. A proficient amateur boxer, he was the 2006 and 2007 Brazilian Super Heavyweight Champion. He also won a bronze medal in the 2007 Pan...
, both Brazilian mixed martial artists - Antonio PantojasAntonio PantojasAntonio Pantojas is an actor, comedian, dancer and a pioneer in the art of drag.-Early years:...
, Puerto Rican actor - Antonio PaoliAntonio PaolíAntonio Paoli was a Puerto Rican tenor. He was known at the height of his fame as "The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings." He is considered to be the first Puerto Rican to reach international fame in the musical arts...
, Puerto Rican opera singer - Antonio PappanoAntonio PappanoAntonio Pappano is a British conductor and pianist of Italian parentage.Pappano's family relocated to England from Castelfranco in Miscano near Benevento, Italy in 1958 and at the time of his birth his parents worked in the restaurant business, but Pasquale Pappano, his father, was by vocation a...
, British conductor - Antonio S. PedreiraAntonio S. PedreiraDr. Antonio S. Pedreira , was a renowned Puerto Rican author and educator.-Early years:Pedreira was born into a well-to-do family in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. He became interested in the art of writing stories as a child during his primary and secondary school years...
, Puerto Rican poet - Antonio PigafettaAntonio PigafettaAntonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice. He travelled with the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew on their voyage to the Indies. During the expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant and kept an accurate journal which later assisted him...
, Italian explorer - Antonio Pignatelli, better known as Pope Innocent XII
- Antonio PollaiuoloAntonio PollaiuoloAntonio del Pollaiolo , also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance.-Biography:...
, Italian painter - Antonio PrietoAntonio Prieto (athlete)António Prieto Velasco is a retired long-distance runner from Spain, who represented his native country three times in the men's 10,000 metres at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 ....
, Spanish long-distance runner - Antonio PuertaAntonio PuertaAntonio José Puerta Pérez was a Spanish footballer who played solely for Sevilla.Mainly a left midfielder who could also operate as an offensive left back, he died on 28 August 2007, affected with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, three days after suffering a series of cardiac...
, Spanish international footballer - Antonio de los Reyes CorreaAntonio de los Reyes CorreaCapt. Antonio de los Reyes Correa , also known as El Capitán Correa, was a Puerto Rican soldier who defended the town of Arecibo from a British invasion.-Early years:...
, Puerto Rican military hero - Antonio RiveraAntonio RiveraJosé Antonio Rivera was a well known Puerto Rican boxer. He was much better known as El Gallo Rivera or Tonito Rivera, and was a prominent boxer during the decade of the 1980s.-Professional career:...
, Puerto Rican boxer - Antonio Rodríguez BalinasAntonio Rodriguez BalinasBrigadier General Antonio Rodríguez Balinas was the first commander of the Office of the First U.S. Army Deputy Command.-Early years:...
, Puerto Rican U.S. Army General - Antonio Rosmini-SerbatiAntonio Rosmini-SerbatiBlessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. He founded the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity or Societas a charitate nuncupata.-Biography:...
, Italian philosopher - Antonio RossiAntonio RossiAntonio Rossi is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds , one silver , and one bronze .Rossi has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World...
, Italian canoer - Antonio RoybalAntonio RoybalAntonio Roybal is an American fine-art painter and sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico.-History:Antonio is the son of David and Aggie Roybal, born in Santa Fe but raised in Southern California. He lived in San Diego during the earliest years of his childhood. He has three sisters. One of his...
, Spanish American painter - Antonio RukavinaAntonio RukavinaAntonio Rukavina is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for TSV 1860 München.-Club career:...
, Serbian footballer - Antonio Sabàto, Jr.Antonio Sabàto, Jr.Antonio Sabàto, Jr. is an American actor and model. Born in Italy and raised in the U.S., Sabàto first became known as a Calvin Klein model and for his role on the soap opera General Hospital. He continued appearing in films and television series throughout the 1990s and 2000s.-Early life:Sabàto...
, Italian-American model and actor - Antonio SacchiniAntonio SacchiniAntonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini was an Italian opera composer.Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where...
, Italian composer - António de Oliveira SalazarAntónio de Oliveira SalazarAntónio de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He also served as acting President of the Republic briefly in 1951. He founded and led the Estado Novo , the authoritarian, right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal...
, 20th Century Portuguese Dictator - Antonio SalieriAntonio SalieriAntonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
, Austrian Court Composer, famous "mediocre" rival of Mozart - António SalvadorAntónio Salvador (athlete)António Salvador is a retired male long-distance runner from Portugal. He set his personal best in the men's marathon on April 5, 1998 in the Paris Marathon, clocking 2:12:39.-Achievements:-References:...
, Portuguese long-distance runner - Antonio Sánchez, Mexican musician
- Antonio SánchezAntonio Sánchez (Puerto Rican host)Antonio Sánchez is a Puerto Rican radio and television personality, show host and producer. Very famous across Puerto Rico for his crass humor, he is also known for his nickname: El Gangster...
, Puerto Rican show host - Antonio SegniAntonio SegniAntonio Segni was an Italian politician who was the 35th Prime Minister of Italy , and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964...
, Italian politician - Antonio SeminiAntonio SeminiAntonio Semini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance, active in his native Genoa.He was born and trained in Genoa and died in Milan. He was the pupil of Ludovico Brea, and painted in collaboration with Teramo Piaggio. Andrea painted a Nativity for S. Domenico, Savona, One of his pupils...
, Italian painter - Antonio SilioAntonio SilioAntonio Fabián Silio Alaguire is a retired long-distance runner from Argentina, who won the bronze medal in the men's 5.000 metres at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba...
, Argentine long-distance runner - Antonio Starabba, Marchese di RudinìAntonio Starabba, Marchese di RudinìMarquis Antonio Starabba di Rudinì was the 18th and 21st Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898.-Biography:...
, Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898 - Antonio StradivariAntonio StradivariAntonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Stradivari is generally considered the most significant artisan in this field. The Latinized form of his surname, Stradivarius, as well as the colloquial, "Strad", is...
, Italian luthier - Antonio TabucchiAntonio TabucchiAntonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....
, Italian writer - Antonio TarverAntonio TarverAntonio Deon Tarver , nicknamed the "Magic Man", is a professional boxer from Orlando, Florida and the former WBC, WBA, IBF, & The Ring light heavyweight champion....
, United States boxer - Antonio TraviAntonio TraviAntonio Travi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Sestri, near Genoa, was generally known as Il Sordo di Sestri on account of his deafness. He was originally a color-grinder to Bernardo Strozzi, who instructed him in design, and he afterwards studied landscape painting...
, Italian painter - Antonio Valero de BernabeAntonio Valero de BernabeBrigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé , aka The Liberator from Puerto Rico, was a military leader who fought for the independence of South America together with Simón Bolívar and who wanted the independence of Puerto Rico...
, Puerto Rican, helped Simón BolívarSimón BolívarSimón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
liberate South America - Antonio Maria Maraggiano, Italian sculptor
- Antonio Maria VassalloAntonio Maria VassalloAntonio Maria Vassallo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, and painting mythologic scenes and still lifes....
, Italian painter - Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorian footballer
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
, Venetian composer - Antonio ZarroAntonio ZarroAntonio Zarro is an Academy Award-winning Italian-American screenwriter, director and actor. Zarro received a Student Academy Award in 1987 for Bird in a Cage, a 60 minute 1986 student film made while attending the Christian Broadcasting Network University which received a positive review in the...
, Academy Award-winning Italian screenwriter
Antonio may also refer to:
- The Great AntonioGreat AntonioAntonio Barichievich, known as the Great Antonio , was a Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric.-Early life:He was born Anton Baričević in Zagreb, Croatia...
, Canadian actor
Antonio as middle name
- Carlo Antonio BuffagnottiCarlo Antonio BuffagnottiCarlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after Francesco Galli Bibiena, and others after...
, Italian painter - Carlo Antonio TavellaCarlo Antonio TavellaCarlo Antonio Tavella was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.Tavella was born in Milan to a Genoese merchant, and died in Genoa. He was initially the pupil of the painter Giuseppe Merati, then later of a painter by the name of Johann Gruembroech or Greuenbrech,...
, Italian painter - Eugene Antonio MarinoEugene Antonio MarinoEugene Antonio Marino was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia from 1988 until 1990, becoming the first African American archbishop in United States of America. He was of both African American and Puerto Rican descent.He was also the fourth African American to...
, first African American archbishop in the United States - Francesco Antonio FranzoniFrancesco Antonio FranzoniFrancesco Antonio Franzoni was an Italian sculptor, born and trained in the marble city of Carrara, who settled in Rome in the 1760s and established a workshop that specialised in the restoration of antique Roman sculpture, for which there was an insatiable demand, scarcely supplied by redoubled...
, Italian sculptor - Giacomo Antonio ArlandGiacomo Antonio ArlandGiacomo Antonio Arland was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa, and at age 20, he traveled to Paris, where he was patronized by the Duke of Orleans. He became renowned as a portrait miniature painter. He returns in 1729 to Genoa, as a wealthy man.-References:...
, Italian painter - Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
- Giovanni Antonio AmadeoGiovanni Antonio Amadeothumb|260px|The Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo.Giovanni Antonio Amadeo was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect, and engineer....
, Italian sculptor - Giovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio Dosio was an Italian architect and sculptor.He was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome and Florence , with some commissions that took him to Naples.During his early years in Rome, where he...
, Italian architect and sculptor - Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, better known as Pope Innocent IX
- Giovanni Antonio PellegriniGiovanni Antonio PellegriniGiovanni Antonio Pellegrini was a widely-travelled Rococo decorative painter from Venice, where he was born and died...
, Italian painter - Giovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
, Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist - José Antonio de la GarzaJosé Antonio de la GarzaJosé Antonio de la Garza , was a Tejano who was noted for being the first employer in San Antonio, Texas and the first man to create a coin in this state. José Antonio de la Garza was elected mayor of San Antonio in 1813.- Biography :...
, Mexican-American politician - Juan Antonio MarichalJuan MarichalJuan Antonio Marichal Sánchez is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Playing for the San Francisco Giants most of his career, Marichal was known for his high leg kick, pinpoint control and intimidation tactics, which included aiming pitches directly at the opposing batters'...
, Dominican baseball player - Luis Antonio ValenciaLuis Antonio ValenciaLuis Antonio Valencia Mosquera , commonly known as Antonio Valencia, is an Ecuadorian footballer who currently plays as a winger for Manchester United and the Ecuadorian national team...
, Ecadorian footballer - Marco Antonio BarreraMarco Antonio BarreraMarco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...
, Mexican boxer - Marco Antonio EtcheverryMarco EtcheverryMarco Antonio Etcheverry Vargas is a retired Bolivian footballer, considered one of the greatest Bolivian players of all time.-Career:...
, Bolivian soccer player - Marco Antonio MuñizMarc AnthonyMarc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...
, Puerto Rican singer, better known as Mark Anthony - Marco Antonio RegilMarco Antonio RegilMarco Antonio Regil is a Mexican television personality and game show host, born in Tijuana, Mexico. He began his career as a Radio D.J. when he was 15 years old...
, Mexican show host - Marco Antonio SolísMarco Antonio SolísMarco Antonio Solís is a Mexican musician, composer, and record producer. Throughout his career, he has sold over 80 million records and written over 300 songs, arguably making him one of the most successful singer-songwriters in Latin America.-Early life and career:Marco Antonio Solís started his...
, Mexican singer - Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer
- Tomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio VitaliTomaso Antonio Vitali was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali...
, Italian composer
Known as Tony
- Tony Alvarez (baseball), Major League Baseball center fielder
- Tony Alvarez (singer), Cuban singer
- Tony Alvarez (actor)Tony Alvarez (actor)Tony Alvarez was a Spanish born actor resident in Australia.He is probably best remembered for his on-going role as Dr Tony Garcia in the long running Australian soap opera The Young Doctors. He appeared in the role from 1977 until 1979...
, Spanish-Australian actor - Tony Ayala, Mexican-American boxer
- Tony BaltazarTony BaltazarAntonio Baltazar is a former Mexican-American boxer. He competed in the Lightweight division. After an amateur career where he won various titles, he turned professional in the late 1970s, and has boxed the likes of Robin Blake, former world champion Roger Mayweather, Hector Macho Camacho and...
, Mexican-American boxer - Tony CamposTony CamposTony Campos is a Mexican American musician. He is the bass guitarist for the heavy metal band Soulfly and former bass guitarist of industrial metal band Static-X and frontman/bassist for Asesino. Campos was the final bassist for Ministry, which retired in 2008, though he rejoined when the band...
, Mexican-American musician - Tony DanzaTony DanzaTony Danza is an American actor best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards...
, Italian-American boxer and actor - Tony FrattoTony FrattoSalvatore Antonio "Tony" Fratto was Deputy Assistant and Deputy Press Secretary to former United States President George W. Bush.-Career:...
, Deputy Press Secretary - Tony PlanaTony PlanaTony Plana is a Cuban-American actor and director. He is well known for playing Betty Suarez's father, Ignacio Suarez, on the ABC show Ugly Betty.-Personal life:...
, Cuban actor - Tony RomoTony RomoAntonio Ramiro "Tony" Romo is a professional American football quarterback in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys. Romo's career passer rating - at 95.8 - ranks third-best all time. Tony Romo didn't play in the regular season in 2003, 2004, or 2005...
, American football quarterback - Tony Sanchez, Texas businessman
- Tony VegaTony VegaTony Vega is a renowned salsa singer and bandleader.-Early years:Vega received his primary education in his hometown. He was born into a family of musicians and therefore learned how to play the bongos and conga at an early age. In 1967, when he was 10 years old, he played the conga for a kids...
, Puerto Rican singer - Tony PenaTony PeñaAntonio Francisco Peña Padilla is a former professional baseball player, manager and current coach. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Pirates, Cardinals, Red Sox, Indians, White Sox, and Astros. Peña was the manager of the Kansas City Royals between 2002 and 2005. He...
, retired Major League Baseball player - Tony PerezTony PérezAtanasio Pérez Rigal , more commonly known as Tony Pérez, is a former Major League Baseball player. He was also known by the nickname "Big Dog," "Big Doggie," and "Doggie."...
, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player
Fictional characters
Antonio may refer to the fictional characters:- Antonio (Merchant of Venice)Antonio (Merchant of Venice)Antonio is the title character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He is a middle-aged bachelor and merchant by trade who has his financial interests tied up in overseas shipments when the play begins. He is kind, generous, honest and confident, and is loved and revered by all the Christians...
, the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic... - Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About NothingMuch Ado About NothingMuch Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
- Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's The TempestThe TempestThe Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
- Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Antonio Bologna, a character in Webster's The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
- Antonio, a character on the television show Monster WarriorsMonster WarriorsMonster Warriors is an original Canadian television series, which airs on YTV in Canada, and also on Jetix since April 2006 in the United Kingdom. It was created by Wilson Coneybeare and produced by Coneybeare Stories Inc...
- Tony MontanaTony MontanaAntonio Raimundo "Tony" Montana is a fictional character from the 1983 film Scarface. He is portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie, and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. Tony Montana has become a cultural icon and is one of the most famous movie...
, the main character in the film Scarface (1983 film)Scarface (1983 film)Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana... - Antonio, a character in the video game Assassin's Creed 2
- Antonio the male otter, a character in the animated TV show The Penguins of MadagascarThe Penguins of MadagascarThe Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper , Kowalski , Private , and Rico ; the lemurs King Julien , Maurice , and Mort...
- Antonio Fernández Carriedo, the personification of SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
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