Anatoly

Anatoly is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name Anatolios, meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli. The Ukrainian transliteration is Anatoliy or Anatolii. The French version of the name is Anatole. Other variants are Anatol and more rarely Anatolio.
Saint Anatolius of Alexandria was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople in 451.
Anatoly was one of the five most popular names for baby boys born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. One in every 35,110 Americans are named Anatoly and the popularity of the name Anatoly is 28.48 people per million.
The name of Anatolia – a vast plateau that occupies a large portion of Asia Minor in modern day Turkey – shares the same linguistic origin.
People
Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballer
Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footballer
Anatoli Aslamov (born 1953), Russian football coach
Anatoli Balaluyev (born 1976), Russian footballer
Anatoli Bashashkin (1924–2002), Russian footballer
Anatoli Blagonravov (1895–1975), Russian physicist
Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian footballer
Anatoli Boisa (born 1983), Georgian basketball player
Anatoli Boukreev (1958–1997), Russian climber
Anatoli Bugorski (born 1942), Russian scientist
Anatoli Bulakov (1930–1994), Soviet boxer
Anatoly Bulgakov, Russian footballer
Anatoly Chepiga (born 1979), Russian intelligence officer
Anatoly Chubais (born 1955), Russian politician
Anatoli Davydov (born 1953), Russian football coach
Anatoly Demitkov (1926–2005), Soviet canoeist
Anatoly Dobrynin (1919–2010), Russian politician
Anatoli Droga (born 1969), Ukrainian judoka
Anatoly Dyatlov (1931–1995), Russian nuclear engineer.
Anatoli Fedotov (born 1966), Soviet ice hockey player
Anatoli Fedyukin (1952–2020), Russian handball player
Anatoly Filipchenko (1928–2022), Soviet cosmonaut
Anatoli Firsov (1941–2000), Russian ice hockey player
Anatoly Fomenko (born 1945), Russian mathematician
Anatolii Horelik (1890–1956), Ukrainian activist
Anatoli Ivanishin (born 1969), Russian cosmonaut
Anatoly Karatsuba (1937–2008), Russian mathematician
Anatoly Karpov (born 1951), Russian chess grandmaster (World Champion)
Anatoli Nankov (born 1969), Bulgarian footballer and a coach
Anatoly Onoprienko (1959–2013), prolific Ukrainian serial killer and mass murderer
Anatoly Papanov (1922–1987), Soviet actor
Anatoly Puzach (1941-2006), Soviet-Ukrainian former footballer and coach
Anatoly Rasskazov (born 1960), Russian photographer and artist
Anatoly Samoilenko (1938–2020), Russian mathematician
Anatoly Shariy (born 1978), Ukrainian investigative journalist
Anatoly Slivko (1938–1989), Soviet serial killer
Anatoly Sobchak (1937–2000), Russian politician
Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934–1982), Russian actor
Anatoly Stessel (1848–1915), Russian military leader
Anatoliy Tymoschuk (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer
Anatoli Tarasov (1918–1995), Russian ice hockey player and coach
Anatoly Vaneyev (1872–1899), Russian revolutionary
Fictional
Anatoli Knyazev (also known as KGBeast), a fictional character appearing in DC Comics
Anatoli (Anatole) Kuragin, a character in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
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Given names
Given names of Greek language origin
Russian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Ukrainian masculine given names