What is "anthony"

masc. proper name, from Latin Antonius, name of a Roman gens (with excrescent -h- probably suggested by many Greek loan words beginning anth-, such as anthros "flower," anthropos "man"); St. Anthony (4c.), Egyptian hermit, patron saint of swineherds, to whom one of each litter was usually vowed, hence Anthony for "smallest pig of the litter (1660s; in condensed form tantony pig from 1590s). St. Anthony's Fire (1520s), popular name for erysipelas, is said to be so called from the tradition that those who sought his intercession recovered from that distemper during a fatal epidemic in 1089.

The name Anthony is derived from the Latin name Antonius. A variant of the given name is Antony.

Anthony is an Raj comics character, . The character and the plot is inspired by The Crow created by James O'Barr.

Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the Antonii, a gens ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) belonged. There was an ancient tradition that the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. (Plut. Ant. 4)

"Anthony" is equivalent to Antoine in French; Antonio in Italian and Spanish; António or Antônio in Portuguese; Anton in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; Antal in Hungarian; and Antun or Ante in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form is Tony (sometimes "Tone" or "Ant" or "Anth"). Its use as a Christian name was due to the veneration of St Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism, particularly in Egypt . Also significant was the later cult of St Antony of Padua. The spelling with "h" is not found until the 16th century when William Camden incorrectly claimed that the name derived from the Greek (anthos, flower or possibly a small yellow bird such as a wagtail). The spelling pronunciation later became usual in the United States but not in the British Isles.

In the United States, it is the seventh most popular male name as of 2008, according to the Social Security Administration. When the background is Italian, Nino or Toni, shortened from Antonino, are used. Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1940s, in 1944 it was the sixth most popular male name and was still as high as 14th in 1964.

Anthony (born Llewellyn Anthony Gonsalves on 11 September 1973 in Chennai, India) is a Tamil film editor. He has worked in over twenty Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu language films. This makes him one of the few editors to have worked for the four biggest film industries in India.

Ma Liang (Chinese: 马亮), who writes under the pen name Anthony (Chinese: 安东尼), is a Chinese young-adult fiction writer.

He is best known for his first book, A Journey, through Time, with Anthony, published in 2008. The book was made into a movie, Les Aventures d'Anthony, released in November 2015.

In 2010, Anthony published his second book, Picturing My Love, Honey, a collaboration with the illustrator Echo. It has sold more than 800,000 copies.

Anthony or (rarely) Anthoney can be a surname:

• Anthony Anthony, creator of the 16th century naval record called the Anthony Roll
• Barbara Cox Anthony, heiress and director of Director of Cox Enterprises
• Byron Anthony, Welsh footballer
• Carmelo Anthony, an American professional basketball player
• Casey Anthony, a Florida woman accused of murdering her young child (trial: 2011)
• Charles Anthony (disambiguation)
• Daniel Anthony (disambiguation)
• David Anthony (disambiguation)
• Doug Anthony, an Australian politician
• Earl Anthony, a left-handed American professional bowler
• Earle C. Anthony, a pioneer businessman based in Los Angeles, California
• Florence Anthony, (1947–2010), American poet and educator
• Frank Anthony, a prominent leader of the Anglo-Indian community in India, and nominated representative in the Parliament of India
• George T. Anthony, seventh Governor of Kansas
• Gerald Anthony, an American actor
• Greg Anthony, an American former NBA basketball player and personality on the ESPN family of networks
• James C. Anthony, an American professor and prominent psychiatric epidemiologist
• Jasmine Jessica Anthony, an American actress
• Joel Anthony, an American professional basketball player
• John Gould Anthony, an American naturalist and malacologist
• Julie Anthony (disambiguation)
• Kenny Anthony, 7th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
• Lysette Anthony, an English film, television, and theatre actress
• Mark Anthony (disambiguation)
• Matt Anthony (ice hockey) (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• Matt Anthony (Canadian football) (1921–2000), Canadian football player
• Michael Anthony (disambiguation)
• Patricia Anthony, an American science fiction and Slipstream author
• Piers Anthony, an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
• Ray Anthony, an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor
• Sean Anthony (disambiguation)
• Susan B. Anthony, a prominent American civil rights leader for women's suffrage in the United States
• Tony Anthony (disambiguation)

• Ernest Anthoney South Australian politician

Metropolitan Anthony of San Francisco was the first Metropolitan Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco, a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, under the spiritual authority of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. His first bishopric was that of the Eighth Archdiocesan District of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. He was subsequently enthroned as Bishop Anthony of San Francisco as the first bishop of the newly formed Greek Orthodox Diocese of San Francisco. He became titular Metropolitan of the Dardanelles, but retained leadership of the diocese. When diocese was elevated to the status of Metropolis of San Francisco, Metropolitan Anthony was named the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of San Francisco.