What is "anatol"

Anatol is a masculine given name, derived from the Greek name Ανατολιος 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 was a third-century saint from Alexandria in Egypt.

Notable people with the name include:

• Anatol Chiriac (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 Herzfeld (born 1931), German sculptor
• Anatol Hrytskievich (born 1929), Belarusian historian
• Anatol Josepho (1894-1980), Siberian-American inventor
• Anatol Lieven (born 1960), British author
• Anatol Petrencu (born 1954), Moldovan politician
• Anatol Pikas (born 1928), Swedish psychologist
• Anatol Provazník (1887-1950), Czech organist
• Anatol Rapoport (1911-2007), Russian-American psychologist
• Anatol Rosenfeld (1912-1973), German philosopher
• Anatol Roshko (21st century), American engineer
• Anatol Şalaru (born 1962), Moldovan politician
• Anatol Stern (1899-1968), Polish poet
• Anatol Ţăranu (born 1951), Moldovan politician
• Anatol Teslev (born 1947), Moldovan football coach
• Anatol Tschepurnoff (1871-1942), Russian-Finnish chess player
• Anatol Vasilyevich Kuragin, a fictional character
• Anatol Vidraşcu (born 1949), Moldovan writer
• Anatol Vieru (1926-1998), Romanian composer
• Anatol Yusef, British actor
• Anatol Zhabotinsky (1938-2008), Russian physicist
• Anatol Stott (1976-) Australian champion

Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893. The introduction was written by Loris, a pseudonym of the young Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who was a friend of Schnitzler. It is a seven- act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the many shallow and immature relationships of bourgeois playboy Anatol. The first act, Die Frage an das Schicksal ("The question to fate"), earned Schnitzler the title of Psychologischer Tiefenforscher ("psychological depth researcher") from Sigmund Freud.