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. Notable people with this name include the following:

Given name

Arts

* Antonina Houbraken (1686–1736), Dutch draughtswoman * Antonina Koptiaeva (1909–1991), Soviet novelist * Antonina Kymytval (1938–2015), Russian writer * Antonina Liedtke, Polish writer * Antonina Niemiryczowa (1702–1780), Polish poet * Antonina Riasanovsky (1895–1985), Russian author * Antonina Rzhevskaya (1861–1934), Russian painter * Antonina Żabińska (1908–1971), was a Polish writer

Entertainment

* Antonina Abarinova (1842–1901), Russian opera singer * Antonina Girycz (1939–2022), Polish actress * Antonina Hoffmann (1842–1897), Polish theatre actress * Antonina Krzysztoń (born 1954), Polish singer-songwriter * Antonina Matviyenko (born 1981), Ukrainian singer * Antonina Miliukova (1848–1917), wife of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * Antonina Nezhdanova (1873–1950), Russian opera singer * Antonina Prusinowska (fl. 1767), Polish stage actress * Antonina Shuranova (1936–2003), Russian actress *Antonina Szumowska, birthname of Antoinette Szumowska (1868–1938), Polish pianist

Military/War

* Antonina Grégoire (1914–1952) Belgian business engineer, feminist, communist, ran an intelligence gathering section in Belgian Partisans Armés resistance during Second World War. * Antonina Khudyakova (1917–1998), Soviet Air Force officer * Antonina Lebedeva (1916–1943), Soviet Air Force officer * Antonina Makarova (1921–1979), Soviet war criminal * Antonina Petrova (1915–1941), Soviet partisan and medic * Antonina Tomaszewska (1814–1883), Polish noblewoman and rebel * Antonina Wyrzykowska (1916–2011), Polish Righteous Among the Nations honoree * Antonina Zubkova (1920–1950), Soviet Air Force officer

Politics

* Antonina Kravchuk (born 1935), Ukrainian First Lady * Antonina Stoyanova (born 1952), Bulgarian IP lawyer, diplomat and social activist, who was the Bulgarian First Lady * Antonina Uccello (1922–2023), American politician

Science

Antonina Borissova Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970) was a Soviet botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia. Borissova authored 195 land plant species names, the ninth-highest number of such names authored by any ...

(1903–1970), Russian botanist * Antonina Dvoryanets (1952–2014), Ukrainian hydraulic engineer and political activist * Antonina Pirozhkova (1909–2010), Russian civil engineer * Antonina Pojarkova (1897–1980), Russian botanist * Antonina Prikhot'ko (1906–1995), Russian physicist

Sports

* Antonina Dragašević (born 1948), Bulgarian chess player * Antonina Dubinina (born 1996), Serbian figure skater * Antonina Ivanova (1932–2006), Soviet shot putter * Antonina Koshel (born 1954), Soviet artistic gymnast * Antonina Krivoshapka (born 1987), Russian middle-distance athlete * Antonina Latinik-Rieger (1906–1989), Polish fencer * Antonina Lazareva (born 1941), Soviet high jump athlete * Antonina Melnikova (born 1958), Belarusian canoer * Antonina Nastoburko (born 1959), Ukrainian sprint athlete * Antonina Ordina (born 1962), Swedish cross country skier * Antonina Popova (born 1935), Soviet discus athlete * Antonina Pustovit (born 1955), Ukrainian former rower * Antonina Rubtsova (born 1984), Kazakhstani volleyball player * Antonina Rudenko (born 1950), Soviet swimmer * Antonina Ryzhova (1934–2020), Soviet volleyball player * Antonina Seredina (1929–2016), Russian sprint canoeist * Antonina Shevchenko (born 1984), Kyrgyzstani Muay Thai fighter and mixed martial artist * Antonina Skorobogatchenko (born 1999), Russian handballer * Antonina Yefremova (born 1981), Ukrainian middle-distance athlete * Antonina Zelikovich (born 1958), Russian rower * Antonina Zetova (born 1973), Bulgarian volleyball player

Other

* Antonina (wife of Belisarius) (c. 495 – after 565), Byzantine patrikia and wife of Belisarius * Antonina Bludova (1813–1891), Russian philanthropist and lady-in-waiting * Antonina W. Bouis, American translator * Blessed Antonina De Angelis (1880–1962), Italian Roman Catholic * Antonina Kłoskowska (1919–2001), Polish sociologist * Antonina Roxa (c. 1807 – 1869), Falkland Island colonist *Saint Antonina of Antonina and Alexander (died 313), Roman martyr

Middle name

* Hanna Antonina Wojcik Slak (born 1975), Polish-born Slovenian film director and screenwriter * Blessed Maria Antonina Kratochwil (1881–1942), Austro-Hungarian Catholic saint * Rachel Fanny Antonina Lee (1770s – 1829), British kidnap victim

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