Famous People with Name Antonio

António Agostinho Neto            Origin/Culture/Country: African

António Agostinho Neto: served as the first President of Angola (1975–1979), leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence and the civil war. His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes Day, a public holiday in Angola.

Antonio Ghomsi            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Antonio Ghomsi: is a professional football defender He is currently playing for Avellino in Italy.

António Sebastião Dembo            Origin/Culture/Country: African

António Sebastião Dembo: served as Vice President (1992-2002) and later President (2002) of UNITA, an anti-Communist rebel group that fought against the MPLA in the Angolan Civil War.

António Jacinto            Origin/Culture/Country: African

António Jacinto: was an Angolan poet.After having obtained his license in Luanda, he started working as a civil servant. He stood out as a protesting poet, and as a result of his political militancy, was arrested and sent to the Tarrafal concentration camp in Cape Verde from 1960 to 1972. He was then transferred to Lisbon where, on parole, he worked as an accountant. He escaped in 1973 to join the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. As soon as independence was declared in 1975 and until 1978, he carried out the function of Minister of Education and Cultural Secretary of State.

Antonio Dias Cardoso            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Antonio Dias Cardoso: served as the President of the Democratic Movement of Angola until he joined the MPLA in 1975.Cardoso was born in Luanda. He was arrested in 1961 by the Portuguese Secret Police and exiled to Cape Verde. He died of prostate cancer in Portugal. He worked as the editor of Progresso newspaper of the MPLA after independence. He is the author of many books and poetry, including Poemas de Circunstancia (1961), Panfleto (1979), Poemas da Cadeia (1979), and Economia Politica (1979).

Lydia Antonio            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Lydia Antonio: a Filipina actress. She made her film debut for Deegar Cinema Inc. Lydia Antonio has also appeared in productions by Larry Santiago Production.Later she transferred to Lvn Pictures and made only a few movies.

George Rowlands Antonio            Origin/Culture/Country: British

George Rowlands Antonio: was an English professional footballer who started with non-league Oswestry Town F.C., then in 1935 signed for Stoke City playing 84 times and scoring 13 goals. During the 1945-1946 season, he guested for Ipswich Town, before joining Derby County in 1946. In the year he was at Derby he played 18 matches and scored twice.

Peggy Antonio            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Peggy Antonio: was an Australian women's Test cricketer, known as the "Girl Grimmett".Antonio was raised in Port Melbourne, Victoria, a working class suburb of Melbourne. Her father was a Chilean docker of French and Spanish descent who died when she was 15 months.[1] With the encouragement of her uncle she learnt her cricket from the boys in her neighbourhood streets. As a young girl during the Great Depression, she was lucky enough to find work at a shoe factory in the industrial suburb of Collingwood.[1] The factory was home to a women's cricket team where Antonio came to the attention of Eddie Conlon, a club cricketer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game. With the assistance of Conlon, Antonio developed a rare mix of leg spin and off spin, including a top spinner and a wrong'un.[1]

Luis Antonio            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Luis Antonio: a fashion designer and businessman.Antonio launched his first collection in 1983, and two years later, he moved to New York, where he attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he studied fashion design. He graduated high school in 1984 from Nuestra Senora de la Merced High School in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. He showed a keen eye for fashion then when attending different school functions.During the 1990s, his work went through a boom, and he became a popular designer in Puerto Rico, Latin America, Europe and the United States. He was hired by such companies as Pepsi, Budweiser, CoverGirl, Coors, Heineken International, etc., to dress their models. In addition, his designs were shown in top magazine covers, and he has worked as the personal designer for stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Astrid Munoz, Paulina Rubio, Myriam Hernandez, Luis Fonsi, Raymond Arrieta and many more.

Teo Antonio            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Teo Antonio: is a very important Filipino poet. He was born in Sampaloc, Manila. He was educated at the University of Santo Tomas where he studied Fine Arts. Antonio is the son of Emilio Mar Antonio, hari ng balagtasan (King of Balagtasan--a Filipino form of poetic joust) during the 1950s.