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In this short note, the authors study the commutant of multiplication operators with certain polynomial symbols acting on a functional Banach space \({\mathcal E}\) of analytic functions on the open unit disk in \(\mathbb{C}\). For a bounded operator \(T\) acting on \({\mathcal E}\), the commutant of \(T\) is the set of all bounded operators \(S\) on \({\mathcal E}\) such that \(TS= ST\). The main result of the paper is the following Theorem. Suppose that \(p(z)\) is a polynomial of degree \(n\) with nonnegative coefficients such that \(p(0)= 0\), \(p'(0)= 1\) and \(p(z)- p(1)\) has \(n\) distinct zeros. Then an operator \(S\) acting on \({\mathcal E}\) is in the commutant of the multiplication operator \(M_p\) if and only if \(S= M_\psi\) for some \(\psi\in H^\infty\). The proof of this theorem follows almost line by line the proof of the analogous result for the Bergman space multiplication operators obtained by the reviewer and \textit{D. Fan} [Glasg. Math. J. 37, No. 3, 303--309 (1995; Zbl 0868.47020), Theorem 4]. Surprisingly, the present authors do not mention this result and do not cite the above paper in the references.