Anatol
Anatol is a masculine given name, derived from the Greek name Ανατολιος Anatolius, meaning "sunrise."
The Russian version of the name is Anatoly. The French version is Anatole. A rarer variant is Anatolio.
Saint Anatolius of Laodicea was a third-century saint from Alexandria in Egypt. Anatolius was also the name of the first Patriarch of Constantinople.People
Notable people with the name include:
- Anatol Chiriac, Moldovan composer
- Anatol Ciobanu, Moldovan professor
- Anatol Codru, Moldovan writer
- Anatol Dumitraș, Moldovan singer
- Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet
- Anatol Fejgin, Polish intelligence officer
- Anatol Heintz, Norwegian palaeontologist
- Anatol, artist's name of Anatol Herzfeld, German sculptor
- Anatol Hrytskievich, Belarusian historian
- Anatol Josepho, Siberian-American inventor
- Anatol Lieven, British author
- Anatol Petrencu, Moldovan politician
- Anatol Pikas, Swedish psychologist
- Anatol Provazník, Czech organist
- Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist
- Anatol Rosenfeld, German philosopher
- Anatol Roshko, American engineer
- Anatol Șalaru, Moldovan politician
- Anatol Stern, Polish poet
- Anatol Țăranu, Moldovan politician
- Anatol Teslev, Moldovan football coach
- Anatol Tschepurnoff, Russian-Finnish chess player
- Anatol Vasilyevich Kuragin, a fictional character in Tolstoy's War and Peace
- Anatol Vidrașcu, Moldovan writer
- Anatol Vieru, Romanian composer
- Anatol Yusef, British actor
- Anatol Zhabotinsky, Russian physicist
Fictional character
- Anatole Kuragin from Tolstoy's War and Peace
Other
- Cyclone Anatol was the name given to a European windstorm that struck in early December 1999.
