Anatoly, Анатолий (Russian), is a common Russian and Ukrainian male name, derived from the Greek name Ανατολιος Anatolios, meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli. The Ukrainian transliteration is Anatolii. The French version of the name is Anatole. Other variants are Anatol and more rarely Anatolio.
Saint Anatolius was a third-century saint from Alexandria in Egypt.
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 region located to the east from the Greeks' point of view – shares the same linguistic origin.
Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballerAnatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footballerAnatoli Aslamov (born 1953), Russian football coachAnatoli Baklanov (born 1980), Russian footballerAnatoli Balaluyev (born 1976), Russian footballerAnatoli Bashashkin (1924–2002), Russian footballerAnatoli Belyakov (born 1992), Russian footballerAnatoli Blagonravov (1895–1975), Russian physicistAnatoli Bogdanov (footballer) (born 1981), Russian footballerAnatoli Boukreev (1958–1997), Russian climberAnatoli Bugorski (born 1942), Russian scientistAnatoli Bulakov (1930–1994), Soviet boxerAnatoly Bulgakov (footballer, born 1979), Russian footballerAnatoli Butov (born 1989), Russian footballerAnatoli Davydov (born 1953), Russian football coachAnatoly Demitkov (born 1926), Soviet canoeistAnatoli Dmitriyev (born 1991), Russian footballerAnatoly Dobrynin (1919–2010), Russian politicianAnatoli Droga (21st century), Ukrainian judokaAnatoly Dyatlov (1931–1995), Russian Nuclear Engineer, Vice-Chief during 1986 Chernobyl disasterAnatoli Efimoff (1897–1981), Russian artistAnatoli Fedotov (born 1966), Soviet ice hockey playerAnatoli Fedyukin (born 1952), Russian handball playerAnatoly Filipchenko (born 1928), Soviet cosmonautAnatoli Firsov (1941–2000), Russian ice hockey playerAnatoly Fomenko (born 1945), Russian mathematicianAnatoli Ivanishin (born 1969), Russian cosmonautAnatoly Karpov (born 1951), Russian chess grandmaster (World Champion)Anatoli Nankov (born 1969), Bulgarian footballer and a coachAnatoly Papanov (1922-1987), Soviet actorAnatoly Rasskazov (born 1960), Russian photographer and artistAnatoly Shariy (born 1978), Ukrainian investigative journalistAnatoly Solonitsyn (1934–1982), Russian actorAnatoly Stessel (1848–1915), Russian military leaderAnatoliy Tymoschuk (born 1979), Ukrainian footballerAnatoli Tarasov (1918 -1995), Russian ice hockey player and coach