ANTONIO

'Antonio' is an Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish first name. It is the Italian and Spanish version of Anthony, and has some female derivates: 'Antonia', 'Antonietta' (Italian), 'Antonieta' (Spanish), 'Antonella' (Italian). It has also some male derivates such as: 'Antonino', 'Antonello', 'Tonio', 'Toño', 'Tonino', 'Totò', or 'Tony'. The Portuguese equivalent is 'António' or 'Antônio'.
Antonio comes from the ''Antonius'' Roman family name group. The name's origin is said to be ancient Greece, coming either from the word ''Anthos'' (a flower) or from Anthonio, Greek king of Achaia.
The name is widely used in Italy and in Spain. After the Spaniards discovered the new world, many of them settled in the area, and, as a consequence, Antonio is one of the most popular Spanish first names in Latin America, as well as among Hispanics, and, to a small degree, North Americans in the United States.

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Famous male bearers

Famous female bearers

Famous male bearers

★ Antonio Adams, Famous Immigrant Drug Addict

★ Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer

★ Antonio Banderas, Spaniard actor

★ Antonio R. Barceló, Puerto Rican politician

★ Antonio J. Bennazar Zequeira, Puerto Rican Lawyer and former president of the P.R. Civil rights commission and Inter-American Bar Association

★ Antonio di Benedetto, Argentine writer

★ Antonio Broccoli Porto, Puerto Rican artist

★ Antonio Caban Vale, Puerto Rican singer

★ Antonio Cabanillas, Puerto Rican television salesman

★ Antonio Canaletto, Italian painter

★ Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor

★ Antonio Benedetto Carpano, Italian distiller, famous for having invented the Vermouth and consequently the apéritif

★ Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter

★ Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter

★ Antonio Cervantes, Colombian boxer

★ Antonio Cianciarulo, Italian YGO Player and Street Fighter Pro

★ Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter

★ Antonio Correa Cotto, Puerto Rican criminal

★ Antonio de la Rúa, former first son of Argentina

★ Antonio De Vita, Italian businessman

★ Antonio Esparragoza, Venezuelan boxer

★ Antonio Faiola, Famous Soccer Hair from Montreal with an Italian Citizenship. He's also single ladies.

★ Antonio Ferre, Puerto Rican businessman

★ Antonio Ferreira de Oliveira Junior, Brazilian soccer player

★ Antonio Gamoneda, Spanish poet

★ Antonio Gramsci, Italian writer, politician and political theorist

★ Antonio Guzmán Blanco, former Venezuelan president

★ Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian creator of the bossa nova

★ Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler

★ Antonio Katrasca, Spaniard singer

★ Antonio Latimer, Puerto Rican basketball player

★ Antonio Luna, A Cool Guy

★ Antonio Machado, Spanish poet

★ Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer

★ Antonio McDyess, United States basketball player

★ Antonio Meucci, Italian-American inventor

★ Antonio Negri, Italian philosopher

★ Antonio Nocerino, Italian footballer

★ Antonio Pantojas, Puerto Rican actor

★ Antonio Paoli, Puerto Rican opera singer

★ Antonio Pappano, Italian conductor

★ Antonio S. Pedreira, Puerto Rican poet

★ Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican military hero

★ Antonio Rivera, Puerto Rican boxer

★ Antonio Rodríguez Balinas, Puerto Rican U.S. Army General

★ Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, Italian philosopher

★ Antonio Roybal, Spanish American painter

★ Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-American model and actor

★ Antonio Sánchez, Mexican musician

★ Antonio Sanchez, Puerto Rican show host

★ Antonio Salieri, Austrian Court Composer, famous "mediocre" rival of Mozart

★ Antonio Santiago, Spaniard equestrian champion

★ Antonio Santiago, Puerto Rican boxing beat writer

★ Antonio Segalini, Italian American businessman

★ Antonio Segni, Italian politician

★ Antonio Stradivari, Italian luthier

★ Antonio Tarver, United States boxer

★ Antonio Valero de Bernabe, Puerto Rican, helped Simon Bolivar liberate South America

★ Antonio Vivaldi, Venetian composer

★ Eugene Antonio Marino the first African American archbishop in the United States

★ Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexican boxer

★ Marco Antonio Etcheverry, Paraguayan soccer player

★ Marco Antonio Muniz, Mexican singer

★ Marco Antonio Muniz, Puerto Rican singer, better known as Mark Anthony

★ Marco Antonio Regil, Mexican show host

★ Marco Antonio Solis, Mexican singer

★ Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer

★ Tony Alvarez, Cuban singer

★ Tony Ayala, Mexican American boxer

★ Tony Baltazar, Mexican American boxer

★ Tony Croatto, Italian-born Puerto Rican singer

★ Tony Parker, French basketball player

★ Tony Plana, Cuban actor

★ Tony Sanchez, Texas businessman

★ Tony Tursi, fmr Mafia godfather in Puerto Rico

★ Tony Vega, Puerto Rican singer

★ The Great Antonio, Canadian giant and actor

Famous female bearers

★ Antonia Susan Byatt, English novelist and critic

★ Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican doctor

★ Antonia Pantojas, Puerto Rican educator

★ Maria Antonieta Collins, Mexican news reporter

★ Maria Antonieta de las Nieves, Mexican actress

★ Maria Antonieta Pons, Cuban actress