Anatol is a masculine given name, derived from the Greek name Ἀνατόλιος ''Anatolius'', meaning "sunrise".
The Russian version of the name is
Anatoly (also transliterated as
Anatoliy
Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Ana ...
and
Anatoli
Anatoli ( el, Ανατολή) is a town and a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southe ...
). The French version is
Anatole. A rarer variant is
Anatolio.
Saint
Anatolius of Laodicea
Anatolius of Laodicea (early 3rd century – July 3, 283), also known as Anatolios of Alexandria, became Bishop of Laodicea on the Mediterranean coast of Roman Syria in AD 268. He was not only one of the foremost scholars of his day in the phys ...
was a third-century saint from
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
in Egypt.
''Anatolius''
in ''Behind the Name''. Anatolius was also the name of the first Patriarch of Constantinople.
People
Notable people with the name include:
* Anatol Chiriac
Anatol Chiriac is a Moldovan composer.
Biography
Born in 1953. In 1979 he completed Stefan Neaga music college in Chişinău.
In 1983 he recorded his first instrumental works LP, which has strong influence of James Last (e. g. use of panflut ...
(born 1947), Moldovan composer
* Anatol Ciobanu
Anatol Ciobanu (May 14, 1934 – April 8, 2016) was a Moldovan professor and researcher. He was head of the Department of Romanian language at Moldova State University, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and a leader of ...
(born 1934), Moldovan professor
* Anatol Codru
Anatol Codru (1 May 1936 - 17 August 2010) was a writer and film director from Moldova. He was the head of the Union of Cinematographers of Moldova and a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.
Biography
Anatol Codru was born to ...
(1936–2010), Moldovan writer
* Anatol Dumitraș (1955–2016), Moldovan singer
* Anatol E. Baconsky (1925–1977), Romanian poet
* Anatol Fejgin (1909–2002), Polish intelligence officer
* Anatol Heintz
Anatol Heintz (9 February 1898 – 23 February 1975) was a Russo-Norwegian palaeontologist.
He was born in Petrograd to the geophysicist Yevgeniy Alfredovich Heintz (1869–1918) and Olga Fyodorovna Hoffmann (1871–1958). He had two older si ...
(1898–1975), Norwegian palaeontologist
* Anatol, artist's name of Anatol Herzfeld
Anatol Herzfeld (born Karl-Heinz Herzfeld; 21 January 1931 – 10 May 2019) was a German sculptor and mixed-media artist, and also a policeman. A student of Joseph Beuys, he primarily used wood, iron and stone as materials. As an artist, he simpl ...
(1931–2019), German sculptor
* Anatol Hrytskievich
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Anatol Hrytskievich ( be, Анатоль Грыцкевіч; January 31, 1929 – January 20, 2015) was a Belarusian historian. He was a correspondent member of the International Academy of Science of Eurasia (1996–2015), doctor of his ...
(born 1929), Belarusian historian
* Anatol Josepho
Anatol Marco Josepho (born Anatolу Markovich Yozefovich, russian: Анатолий Маркович Йозефович, later germanized as Anatol Josephewitz; March 31, 1894 – December 16, 1980), was a Jewish immigrant to the United States ...
(1894–1980), Siberian-American inventor
* Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst best known for his expertise on the Taliban of Afghanistan. He is currently a visiting professor at King's College London and senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Respons ...
(born 1960), British author
* Anatol Petrencu
Anatol Petrencu (born 22 May 1954, Căuşeni) is a politician, historian and academic from the Republic of Moldova. In 1990-1992 he was the dean of the Faculty of History of the State University of Moldova, and between 1998 and 2006 he was presid ...
(born 1954), Moldovan politician
* Anatol Pikas
Anatol Pikas (29 November 1928 - 1 November 2021), creator of the Shared Concern method, SCm, is a retired associate professor in Educational Psychology from Uppsala University, Sweden.
Pikas was born in Viljandi, Estonia, and raised in Norrk ...
(born 1928), Swedish psychologist
* Anatol Provazník
Anatol Provazník (10 March 1887 in Rychnov nad Kněžnou – 24 September 1950 in Prague) was a Czech organist and composer.
Anatol Provazník was son of Alois Provazník, a regional composer. He studied at the gymnasium in Rychnov nad Kněžno ...
(1887–1950), Czech organist
* Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport ( uk, Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to genera ...
(1911–2007), Russian-American psychologist
* Anatol Rosenfeld Anatol Rosenfeld (28 August 1912 – 11 December 1973) was a German-Brazilian philosopher and art critic. In 1937, as a Jew fleeing Nazism, Anatol Rosenfeld emigrated to Brazil and died there, in 1973.
In Brazil, Rosenfeld is a noted scholar for hi ...
(1912–1973), German philosopher
* Anatol Roshko
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Anatol Roshko (15 July 1923 – 23 January 2017) was a Canadian-born physicist and engineer. He was the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Roshko is know ...
(born 1923), American engineer
* Anatol Șalaru
Anatol Șalaru (born 7 February 1962) is a Moldovan politician who served as Minister of Transport and Roads Infrastructure from 2009 to 2013 and Minister of Defense from 2015 to 2016. He was member of Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1994 a ...
(born 1962), Moldovan politician
* Anatol Stern
Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in Warsaw – 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. Born 24 October 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern studied at the Polish Studies Faculty of the University ...
(1899–1968), Polish poet
* Anatol Țăranu
Anatol Țăranu (born 19 October 1951) is a Moldovan politician.
Biography
Țăranu holds a Ph.D. in history, 1986, and served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1993, 2005–2009). Țăranu has also been a chief expert for the C ...
(born 1951), Moldovan politician
* Anatol Teslev
Anatol Teslev is a Moldovan association football head coach and former player.
Player career
He won UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship
for USSR in 1966 (now U-19 event). Former clubs include Moldova Chişinău, FC Dynamo Vologda, ...
(born 1947), Moldovan football coach
* Anatol Tschepurnoff (1871–1942), Russian-Finnish chess player
* Anatol Vasilyevich Kuragin
Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace'', its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as w ...
, a fictional character in Tolstoy's ''War and Peace''
* Anatol Vidrașcu (born 1949), Moldovan writer
* Anatol Vieru Anatol Vieru (; 8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian-Jewish music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, and chamber music. He also wrote t ...
(1926–1998), Romanian composer
* Anatol Yusef
Anatol Yusef is an English stage, film and television actor, writer, director. He is best known for his work at The Royal Shakespeare Company, for his portrayal of Meyer Lansky in the television series ''Boardwalk Empire'', and Channel 4's ''S ...
(born 1978), British actor
* Anatol Zhabotinsky
Anatol Markovich Zhabotinsky (Анато́лий Ма́ркович Жаботи́нский) (January 17, 1938 – September 16, 2008) was a Soviet biophysicist who created a theory of the chemical clock known as Belousov–Zhabotinsky reactio ...
(1938–2008), Russian physicist
Fictional character
* Anatole Kuragin
Anatole Vasilyevich Kuragin (russian: Анатолий (Анатоль) Васильевич Курагин) is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace'', its various cinematic adaptations, and an operatic adaptation as w ...
from Tolstoy's ''War and Peace''
Other
* Cyclone Anatol
Anatol is the name given by the Free University of Berlin (the Danish TV2 channel named it "Adam" also often referred to as ''århundredets orkan'' (storm of the century) or ''Decemberorkanen'' (December Hurricane) in Denmark, and commonly as Caro ...
was the name given to a European windstorm that struck in early December 1999.
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