Anthon (given name)

Anthon is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian and Swedish masculine given name that is used in Greenland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Republic of Karelia, Estonia, Namibia, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.^[1] Notable people with this name include the following:

• Anthon Bang (1809 – 1870), Norwegian writer and publisher
• Anthon Eriksson (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
• Anthon Frederiksen, Greenlandic politician
• Anthon Grimsmo (born 1968), Norwegian curler
• Anthon H. Lund (1844 – 1921), Danish Mormon apostle
• Anthon B. Nilsen (1855 – 1936), Norwegian businessman and politician
• Anthon Olsen (1889 – 1972), Danish footballer
• Anthon van Rappard (1858 – 1892), Dutch painter and draughtsman