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 footballer
Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footballer
Anatoli Aslamov (born 1953), Russian football coach
Anatoli Baklanov (born 1980), Russian footballer
Anatoli Balaluyev (born 1976), Russian footballer
Anatoli Bashashkin (1924–2002), Russian footballer
Anatoli Belyakov (born 1992), Russian footballer
Anatoli Blagonravov (1895–1975), Russian physicist
Anatoli Bogdanov (footballer) (born 1981), Russian footballer
Anatoli Boukreev (1958–1997), Russian climber
Anatoli Bugorski (born 1942), Russian scientist
Anatoli Bulakov (1930–1994), Soviet boxer
Anatoly Bulgakov (footballer, born 1979), Russian footballer
Anatoli Butov (born 1989), Russian footballer
Anatoli Davydov (born 1953), Russian football coach
Anatoly Demitkov (born 1926), Soviet canoeist
Anatoli Dmitriyev (born 1991), Russian footballer
Anatoly Dobrynin (1919–2010), Russian politician
Anatoli Droga (21st century), Ukrainian judoka
Anatoly Dyatlov (1931–1995), Russian Nuclear Engineer, Vice-Chief during 1986 Chernobyl disaster
Anatoli Efimoff (1897–1981), Russian artist
Anatoli Fedotov (born 1966), Soviet ice hockey player
Anatoli Fedyukin (born 1952), Russian handball player
Anatoly Filipchenko (born 1928), Soviet cosmonaut
Anatoli Firsov (1941–2000), Russian ice hockey player
Anatoly Fomenko (born 1945), Russian mathematician
Anatoli Ivanishin (born 1969), Russian cosmonaut
Anatoly Karpov (born 1951), Russian chess grandmaster (World Champion)
Anatoli Nankov (born 1969), Bulgarian footballer and a coach
Anatoly Papanov (1922-1987), Soviet actor
Anatoly Rasskazov (born 1960), Russian photographer and artist
Anatoly Shariy (born 1978), Ukrainian investigative journalist
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
