Anatol is a masculine given name, derived from the Greek name Ἀνατόλιος ''Anatolius'', meaning "sunrise". The Russian version of the name is

Anatoly 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 ...

(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 Anatolio is a masculine given name, a rare variant of "Anatoly Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', m ...

. Saint Anatolius of Laodicea was a third-century saint from Alexandria in Egypt.''Anatolius''
in ''Behind the Name''.

Anatolius Anatolius is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Anatolius of Laodicea (died 283), Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, also known as Anatolius of Alexandria * Anatolius, Vicarius of the Diocese of Asia in 35 ...

was also the name of the first

Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...

People

Notable people with the name include: * Anatol Chiriac (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 Anatol Dumitraș (November 14, 1955 – June 14, 2016) was a Moldovan singer. Discography * ''Sus paharul'' (2000) * ''Ultima seară'' (2003) * ''Azi la masa mare'' (2005) * ''Anii mei, destinul meu'' (2007) * ''Roata vieții'' (2008) Referen ...

(1955–2016), Moldovan singer *

Anatol E. Baconsky Anatol E. Baconsky (; June 16, 1925 – March 4, 1977), also known as A. E. Bakonsky, Baconschi or Baconski, was a Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic. Praised for his late approach to poetry ...

(1925–1977), Romanian poet *

Anatol Fejgin Anatol Fejgin (25 September 1909 – 28 July 2002) was a Polish communist activist before World War II, and after 1949, commander of the Stalinist political police at the Ministry of Public Security of Poland, in charge of its notorious Special Bu ...

(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 (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 (born 1960), British author * Anatol Petrencu (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 Norrköp ...

(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 Kněžnou ...

(1887–1950), Czech organist * Anatol Rapoport (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 __NOTOC__ 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 known f ...

(born 1923), American engineer *

Anatol Șalaru Anatol Șalaru (born 7 February 1962) is a Moldovan politician who served as Ministry of Transport and Roads Infrastructure, Minister of Transport and Roads Infrastructure from 2009 to 2013 and Ministry of Defense (Moldova), Minister of Defense ...

(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 Anatol (Anatoly) Tschepurnoff (Tchepurnoff, Chepurnov, Czepurnow) (19 December 1871, Loviisa – 29 April 1942, Helsinki) was a Russian–Finnish chess master. Before World War I, he played in many tournaments at Saint Petersburg. In 1903, ...

(1871–1942), Russian-Finnish chess player * Anatol Vasilyevich Kuragin, a fictional character in Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' *

Anatol Vidrașcu Anatol Vidrașcu (born 2 April 1949) is an editor and activist from Moldova. He serves as CEO of the Editorial Group "Litera"

(born 1949), Moldovan writer * Anatol Vieru (1926–1998), Romanian composer * Anatol Yusef (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 from Tolstoy's ''War and Peace''

Other

* Cyclone Anatol was the name given to a

European windstorm European windstorms are powerful extratropical cyclones which form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. They can occur throughout the year, but are most frequent between October and March, with peak intensit ...

that struck in early December 1999.

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