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. It is sometimes a surname and is transliterated as Antonios and Andonis. Antonis is a cognate of the English language name Anthony. People bearing the name Antonis or Antónis include:

Given name

* Antonis Antoniadis (born 1946), Greek footballer * Antonis Antoniadis (born 1946), Greek naval officer *

Antonis Aresti Antonis Aresti is a former Track and field, athlete and Paralympian from Cyprus who competed mainly in category T46 and T47 sprint events. He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a silver medal in the men's 200 ...

(born 1983), Cypriot track and field paralympian athlete * Antonis Benakis (1873–1954), Greek art collector and museum founder * Antonis Bourselis (born 1994), Greek footballer * Antonis Constantinides (born 1974), Cypriot basketball coach * Antonis Christeas (1937–2011), Greek basketball player * Antonis Daglis (1974–1997), Greek serial killer * Antonis Dedakis (born 1995), Greek footballer * Antonis Diamantidis (1892–1945), Greek

rebetiko Rebetiko (, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and develope ...

musician * Antonis Drossoyannis (1922–2006), Greek Army general and politician * Antonis Fostieris (born 1953), Greek poet * Antonis Fotiadis (1899–19??), Greek footballer * Antonis Fotsis (born 1981), Greek basketball player * Antonis Georgallides (born 1982), Cypriot footballer * Antonis Georgiades, Cypriot politician * Antonis Georgiadis (1933–2020), Greek footballer * Antonis Iliadis (born 1993), Greek footballer * Antonis Kablionis (born 1991), Greek footballer * Antonis Kafetzopoulos (born 1951), Greek actor * Antonis Kanakis (born 1969), Greek television host and an actor * Antonis Kapnidis (born 1992), Greek footballer * Antonis Katsantonis (c. 1775–1808), Greek

klepht Klephts (; Greek κλέφτης, ''kléftis'', pl. κλέφτες, ''kléftes'', which means "thieves" and perhaps originally meant just "brigand": "Other Greeks, taking to the mountains, became unofficial, self-appointed armatoles and were know ...

* Antonis Katsis (born 1989), Cypriot footballer * Antonis Koniaris (born 1997), Greek basketball player * Antonis Kotsakas (born 1947), Greek politician * Antonis Ladakis (born 1982), Greek footballer * Antonis Makris (born 1981), Cypriot footballer * Antonis Manikas (born 1959), Greek footballer and manager * Antonis Manitakis (born 1944), Greek politician and educator * Antonis Mantzaris (born 1986), Greek basketball player * Antonis Martasidis (born 1992), Greek-Cypriot weightlifter * Antonis Michaloglou (born 1988), Greek basketball player * Antonis Migiakis (1911–1999), Greek footballer * Antonis Minou (born 1958), Greek footballer * Antonis Natsouras (born 1979), Greek footballer * Antonis Nikolaidis (born 1967), British-Cypriot sport shooter * Antonis Oikonomou (1785–1821), Greek naval captain * Antonis Panagi (born 1983), Cypriot footballer * Antonis Papadakis (1893–1980), Greek Cretan lyra musician * Antonis Papasavvas (born 1995), Greek footballer * Antonis Paschalides (born 1952), Greek-Cypriot politician and lawyer * Antonis Petropoulos (born 1986), Greek footballer * Antonis Ranos (born 1993), Greek footballer * Antonis Remos (born 1970), Greek singer * Antonis Rikka (born 1986), French-Greek footballer * Antonis Roupakiotis, Greek lawyer and politician * Antonis Samarakis (1919–2003), Greek writer *

Antonis Samaras Antonis Samaras (, ; born 23 May 1951) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. Samaras started his na ...

(born 1951), Greek politician. former Prime Minister of Greece * Antonis Siatounis (born 2002), Greek footballer * Antonis Tritsis (1937–1992), Greek politician * Antonis Tsiaras (born 1993), Greek footballer * Antonis Tsotras (born 1990), Greek sport sailor * Antonis Vardis (1948–2014), Greek composer and singer * Antonis Volanis (born 1948), Greek automobile and industrial designer * Antonis Vratsanos (1919–2008), Greek communist saboteur *

Antonis Xylouris Antonios "Antonis" Xylouris (; born September 6, 1937), nicknamed Psarantonis (), is a Greek composer, singer and performer of Lyra (Cretan), lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine ly ...

(born 1937), Greek composer, singer,

Cretan lyra The Cretan lyra () is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greece, Greek Violin, a traditional Greek musical instruments, musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Islands, Aegean Ar ...

performer

Surname

* Carlos De Antonis, Argentine opera singer * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian footballer

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