Anton (given name)

Anton is a 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]

Anton
Gendermale
Origin
Word/nameAntonius
Anthony
Variations of the given name
Blended variations of the given name
Variations of the surname
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People

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
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See also

References
  1. "Anton" (in Swedish). Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  2. "Anton". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
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