Comments for the name Anton

Famous bearer: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the famous Russian playwright, writer and physician.

Main character in the musical "West Side Story".

Anton LaVey is the founder of the Church of Satan.

Famous bearer is Anton Bruckner, an Austrian Romantic composer.

Anton. Like the main charecter from Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, which by the way was one of my favourite books. But his full name was Antoshka Gorodetsky.

Actually, Writingmuse, I believe - please correct me if I'm wrong here - that "Antoshka" is just the familiar form of the name Anton. So I think it's actually Anton Gorodetsky.

Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer and director. He is well known for directing music videos, including Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box". He is famous for doing U2 and Depeche Mode's photography, filmography and sleeve artwork for more than twenty years.

Anton Pacino (born 2001), son of actor Al Pacino.

A famous bearer would be Anton Viktorovich Yelchin; known for being Charlie Bartlett, in the movie of the same name, as well as Pavel Checkov in the 2009 movie version of Star Trek and Kyle Reese in "Terminator Salvation".

Archduke Anton of Austria (1779-1835), son of Emperor Leopold II of the Holy Roman Empire.

Anton (1690-1690) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and his first wife Maria Antonia.

Anton (1755-1836) was the son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and his wife Maria Antonia.