Antonio

Infobox Given Name
gender = Male

origin = Antonius

Antonio may refer to the fictional characters:
*Antonio (Merchant of Venice), the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
*Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
*Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
*Antonio, a character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
*Antonio, a character on the television show Monster Warriors.

Antonio may also refer to:
*The Great Antonio, Canadian giant and actor

Given Name

Antonio is an Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish first name. In the english language is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivates: Antonia, Antonietta, Antonella (Italian), Antónia, Antonieta (Portuguese), Antonieta (Spanish). It has also some male derivates such as: Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Toño, Tonino, Nantonio, Totò, Tó or Tony. The Portuguese equivalent is António or Antônio. In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used.

Antonio comes from the "Antonius" Latin family name group. The name's origin is said to be ancient Greece, coming either from the word "Antos" (a flower) or from Antonio, Greek king of Achaia.

The name is widely used in Italy, in Portugal and in Spain. After the Iberic peoples discovered the new world, many of them settled in the area, and, as a consequence, Antonio is one of the most popular first names in Latin America, as well as among Hispanics, and, to a small degree, North Americans in the United States.

Famous male bearers

Antonio

*Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer
*Antonio Abondio, Italian sculptor
*Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer
*Antonio Bamboccio, Italian painter and sculptor
*Antonio Banderas, Spaniard actor
*Antonio R. Barceló, Puerto Rican politician
*Antonio Bazzini, Italian violinist and composer
*Antonio di Benedetto, Argentine writer
*Antonio Bonazza, Italian sculptor
*Antonio Bosio, Italian scholar
*Antonio Broccoli Porto, Puerto Rican artist
*Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Italian violist, composer and conductor
*Antonio Caban Vale, Puerto Rican singer
*Antonio Caldara, Italian composer
*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 Castillo, former MLB pitcher
*Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter
*Antonio Cervantes, Colombian boxer
*Antonio Citterio, Italian furniture designer
*Ontonio Colon, Puerto Rican Pimp
*Antonio Corradini, Italian sculptor
*Antonio Correa Cotto, Puerto Rican criminal
*Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter
*Antonio Corti, Argentine boxer
*Antonio de La Gandara, painter
*Antonio de la Rúa, former first son of Argentina
*Antonio Esparragoza, Venezuelan boxer
*Antonio Felix, Mexican Millionare (Durango, Mexico)
*Antonio Ferreira de Oliveira Junior, Brazilian soccer player
*Antonio Fogazzaro, Italian novelist
*Antonio Gamoneda, Spanish poet
*Antonio Gherardi, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor
*Antonio Ghislieri, better known as Pope Pius V
*Antonio Gramsci, Italian writer, politician and political theorist
*Antonio Guzmán Blanco, former Venezuelan president
*Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler
*Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor
*Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian creator of the bossa nova
*Antonio Langella, Italian footballer
*Antonio Latimer, Puerto Rican basketball player
*Antonio Lewis, American football player
*Antonio Lombardo, Italian sculptor
*Antonio Machado, Spanish poet
*Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect
*Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer
*Antonio Martino, Italian politician
*Antonio McDyess, United States basketball player
*Antonio Meneses, Brazilian cellist
*Antonio Meucci, Italian-American inventor
*Antonio Monda, Italian film director
*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 Pigafetta, Italian explorer
*Antonio Pignatelli, better known as Pope Innocent XII
*Antonio Prieto, Spanish long-distance runner
*Antonio Puerta, Spanish international footballer
*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 Rossi, Italian canoer
*Antonio Roybal, Spanish American painter
*Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-American model and actor
*Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer
*Antonio Salieri, Austrian Court Composer, famous "mediocre" rival of Mozart
*Antonio Sánchez, Mexican musician
*Antonio Sanchez, Puerto Rican show host
*Antonio Santiago, Spaniard equestrian champion
*Antonio Segni, Italian politician
*Antonio Semini, Italian painter
*Antonio Silio, Argentine long-distance runner
*Antonio Stradivari, Italian luthier
*Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer
*Antonio Tarver, United States boxer
*Antonio Hernandez, Pokemon Master
*Antonio Travi, Italian painter
*Antonio Valero de Bernabe, Puerto Rican, helped Simon Bolivar liberate South America
*Antonio Maria Maraggiano, Italian sculptor
*Antonio Maria Vassallo, Italian painter
*Antonio Vivaldi, Venetian composer

Antonio as Middle Name

*Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, Italian painter
*Carlo Antonio Tavella, Italian painter
*Eugene Antonio Marino, first African American archbishop in the United States
*Francesco Antonio Franzoni, Italian sculptor
*Giacomo Antonio Arland, Italian painter
*Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
*Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian sculptor
*Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Italian architect and sculptor
*Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, better known as Pope Innocent IX
*Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian painter
*Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist
*Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexican boxer
*Marco Antonio Etcheverry, Paraguayan soccer player
*Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer
*Marco Antonio Muñiz, Puerto Rican singer, better known as Mark Anthony
*Marco Antonio Regil, Mexican show host
*Marco Antonio Solis, Mexican singer
*Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer
*Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer

Known as Tony

*Tony Alvarez (baseball), Major League Baseball center fielder
*Tony Alvarez (singer), Cuban singer
*Tony Alvarez (actor), Spanish-Australian actor
*Tony Ayala, Mexican American boxer
*Tony Baltazar, Mexican American boxer
*Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
*Tony Croatto, Italian-born Puerto Rican singer
*Tony Danza, Italian-American boxer and actor
*Tony Fratto, Deputy Press Secretary
*Tony Parker, Belgian basketball player
*Tony Plana, Cuban actor
*Tony Romo, American football quarterback
*Tony Sanchez, Texas businessman
*Tony Santiago, Puerto Rican military historian
*Tony Tursi, fmr Mafia godfather in Puerto Rico
*Tony Vega, Puerto Rican singer
*Tony Campos, Hispanic musician in American band static x

"Other, fictional male bearers include":
*Antonio "Tony" Montana "Scarface", the main character from the film Scarface
*Tony Stark, millionaire owner and head of invention at Stark Industries, a.k.a Iron Man