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 and Anatoli). 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 (born 1934), Moldovan professor * Anatol Codru (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 (1898–1975), Norwegian palaeontologist * Anatol, artist's name of Anatol Herzfeld (1931–2019), German sculptor *

Anatol Hrytskievich __NOTOC__ 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 (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 __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 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 (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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