| Nabbes, Thomas (English dramatist, writer) |
1605-1641 |
| Nabhan, Gary Paul (American ecologist, ethnobotanist) |
b.1952 |
| Nabighah, an- (an-Nabighah adh-Dhubyani; Arab poet) |
fl. c.600 |
| Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (Russian-born American writer) |
1899-1977 |
| Nabuco de Araujo, Joaquim Aurelio Baretto (Braz. polit., dipl.) |
1849-1910 |
| Naburimanni (aka Naburianos; Babylonian astronomer) |
fl. c.491 BC |
| Nachtigal, Gustav (German explorer) |
1834-1885 |
| Nachtwey, James (American photographer) |
b.1948 |
| Nadel, Siegfried Frederick (Austrian anthropologist) |
1903-1956 |
| Nadelman, Elie (Polish-born American sculptor) |
1882-1946 |
| Nader, Ralph (American lawyer, consumer advocate) |
b.1934 |
| Nader, Rose Bouziane (Lebanese-born Am. writer, teacher) |
1906-2006 |
| Naevius, Gnaeus (Roman poet, playwright) |
c.270-c.199 BC |
| Nagai Sokichi (pseudonym Nagai Kafu; Japanese writer) |
1879-1959 |
| Nagano Osami (Japanese admiral; planned Pearl Harbor attack) |
1880-1947 |
| Nagarjuna (Indian religious) |
fl. c.150-250 |
| Nageli, Karl Wilhelm von (Swiss botanist) |
1817-1891 |
| Nagle, Nano Honoria (Irish religious) |
c.1718-1784 |
| Nahienaena (Hawaiian princess; daughter of Kamehameha I) |
1815-1836 |
| Nahl, Johann August (German sculptor, decorator) |
1710-1781 |
| Nahman ben Simhah of Bratslav (Rus. Hasidic rabbi, storyteller) |
c.1772-c.1811 |
| Nahum (Hebrew prophet) |
7th cent. BC |
| Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky (Ukrainian-born American dancer) |
1908-2006 |
| Naidu, Sarojini née Chattopadhyay (Indian poet, reformer) |
1879-1949 |
| Naima, Mustafa (Turkish historian) |
1655-1716 |
| Na'imah (or Nouayme or Naimy), Mikhail (Lebanese lit. critic) |
1889-1988 |
| Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad (Trinidadian writer, essayist) |
b.1932 |
| Nairne, Carolina née Oliphant (Scottish songwriter, poet) |
1766-1845 |
| Naismith, James A. (Canadian-born American physical educator) |
1861-1939 |
| Naka, John Yoshio (American bonsai master, writer) |
1914-2004 |
| Nakae Toju (born Gen; pseudonym Mokken; Japanese scholar) |
1608-1648 |
| Nakae Tokusuke (pseudonym Nakae Chomin; Japanese writer) |
1847-1901 |
| Nakasone Yasuhiro (Japanese prime minister 1982-1987) |
b.1918 |
| Nalkowska, Zofia (Polish writer, playwright) |
1884-1954 |
| Nambu, Yoichiro (Japanese-born American physicist, educator) |
b.1921 |
| Namdev (Indian poet, religious) |
1270?-1350? |
| Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein (Polish-born British historian) |
1888-1960 |
| Namora, Fernando Goncalves (Portuguese writer, poet, physician) |
1919-1989 |
| Nanak (Indian religious leader, Sikh founder; first Sikh guru) |
1469-1539? |
| Nana Sahib (born Dhondu Pant; Indian leader) |
c.1820-c.1859 |
| Nancarrow, Conlon (American-born Mexican composer) |
1912-1997 |
| Nance, Marvin John "Jack" (American actor) |
1943-1996 |
| Nanini (or Nanino), Giovanni Maria (Italian composer) |
1543/44-1607 |
| Nanino, Giovanni Bernardino (Italian composer: Roman School) |
c.1560-1623 |
| Nanni di Banco (Florentine sculptor) |
1380?/85?-1421 |
| Nansen, Fridtjof (Norwegian explorer, zoologist, statesman) |
1861-1930 |
| Nanteuil, Robert (French engraver, illustrator) |
1623/30-1678 |
| Napier, Sir Charles (Scottish naval commander) |
1786-1860 |
| Napier, Sir Charles James (British army officer) |
1782-1853 |
| Napier, Sir George Thomas (British army officer; bro. of C.J.) |
1784-1855 |
| Napier, John (Laird of Merchiston; Scottish mathematician) |
1550-1617 |
| Napier, MacVey (Scottish lawyer, editor) |
1776-1847 |
| Napier, Robert (Scottish marine engineer) |
1791-1876 |
| Napier, Robert Cornelis (Ceylon-born British army officer) |
1810-1890 |
| Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte; French emperor 1804-1815) |
1769-1821 |
| Napoleon II (Duc de Reichstadt; French son of Napoleon I) |
1811-1832 |
| Napoleon III (French emperor 1852-1870; nephew of Napoleon I) |
1808-1873 |
| Napravnik, Eduard Francevic (Czech pianist, conductor, comp.) |
1839-1916 |
| Nara, Yoshitomo (Japanese sculptor, painter) |
b.1959 |
| Narayan, Rasipuram Krishnaswami (Indian writer) |
1906-2001 |
| Narby, Jeremy (Canadian anthropologist) |
b.1959 |
| Nardi, Jacopo (Florentine politician, historian) |
1476-1563? |
| Nardini, Pietro (Italian violinist, composer) |
1722-1793 |
| Narihira, Ariwara no (Japanese hero) |
823-880 |
| Naruszewicz, Adam Stanislaw (Polish prelate, historian, poet) |
1733-1796 |
| Narutowicz, Gabriel (Polish engineer, politician) |
1865-1922 |
| Narvaez, Panfilo de (Spanish conqueror, soldier in America) |
c.1480-1528 |
| Navaez, Romon Maria (Spanish general, politician) |
1800-1868 |
| Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do (Filinto Elisio; Port. poet) |
1734-1819 |
| Naser-e Khosrow (Persian poet, theologian) |
1004-c.1072/77 |
| Nash, Francis (American Revolutionary officer) |
1742?-1777 |
| Nash, Frederic Ogden (American writer, poet) |
1902-1971 |
| Nash, John (English architect) |
1752-1835 |
| Nash, John Forbes Jr. (American mathematician, academic) |
1928-2015 |
| Nash, Jorgen (Danish artist: Situationist International) |
1920-2004 |
| Nash, Paul (English painter, printmaker, photographer) |
1889-1946 |
| Nash, Richard "Beau Nash" (English gamester, social arbiter) |
1674-1762 |
| Nash (or Nashe), Thomas (English pamphleteer, dramatist) |
1567-1601? |
| Nash, Sir Walter (English-born New Zealand politician) |
1882-1968 |
| Nasi, Joseph (born Joao Miquez; Port. financier, statesman) |
1520-1579 |
| Nasir-i Khusraw (Persian poet, theologian, propagandist) |
1004-c.1072/77 |
| Nasmyth, Alexander (Scottish painter) |
1758-1840 |
| Nasmyth, James (Scottish engineer; son of Alexander) |
1808-1890 |
| Nasser, Gamel Abdel (Egyptian soldier, politician) |
1918-1970 |
| Nast, Conde Montrose (American publisher) |
1873-1942 |
| Nast, Thomas (German-born American cartoonist) |
1840-1902 |
| Nathan, George Jean (American editor, drama critic, writer) |
1882-1958 |
| Nathans, Daniel (American microbiologist) |
1928-1999 |
| Nathorst, Alfred Gabriel (Swedish geologist, paleobotanist) |
1850-1921 |
| Nation, Carry Amelia née Moore (American temperance agitator) |
1846-1911 |
| Natorp, Paul Gerhard (German philosopher) |
1854-1924 |
| Natsume Kinosuke (pseudonym Natsume Soseki; Japanese writer) |
1867-1916 |
| Natta, Giulio (Italian chemist) |
1903-1979 |
| Nattier, Jean-Marc (French painter) |
1685-1766 |
| Natwick, Myron "Grim" (American animator, film director) |
1890-1990 |
| Naude, Gabriel (French physician, librarian, historian) |
1600-1653 |
| Naudot, Jacques-Christophe (French composer, type-setter) |
c.1690-1762 |
| Naughton, William John Francis "Bill" (Irish playwright) |
1910-1992 |
| Nauman, Bruce (American sculptor, photographer) |
b.1941 |
| Naumann, Joseph Friedrich (German clergyman, publicist, polit.) |
1860-1919 |
| Naumann, Johann Gottlieb (German composer) |
1741-1801 |
| Naumann, Karl Friedrich (German mineralogist, geologist) |
1797-1873 |
| Naundorff (or Naundorf), Karl Wilhelm (French clock-maker) |
1787-1845 |
| Naur, Peter (Danish computer scientist: inv. Backus-Naur form) |
b.1928 |
| Nava'i, Mir Ali Shir (Turkish poet, scholar) |
1441-1501 |
| Navarrete, Domingo Fernandez (Spanish missionary) |
1610-1686 |
| Navarrete, Juan Fernandez (el Mudo, the Mute; Spanish painter) |
c.1526-1579 |
| Navez, Francois Joseph (Belgian painter) |
1787-1869 |
| Navier, Claude-Louis-Marie-Henri (French civil engineer) |
1785-1836 |
| Naville, Edouard-Henri (Swiss Egyptologist) |
1844-1926 |
| Naville, Pierre (French writer, sociologist) |
1904-1993 |
| Nawrocki, Arnold N. (Am. engineer; dev. wrapped cheese slices) |
1925-2003 |
| Nayler, James (English religious leader) |
c.1617-1660 |
| Naylor, Gloria (American writer) |
b.1950 |
| Nazim Hikmet Ran (Turkish poet, playwright) |
1902-1963 |
| Nazimova, Alla (born Alla Leventon; Russian-born Am. actor) |
1878-1945 |
| Nazzam, Ibrahim an- (Muslim theologian) |
c.775-c.845 |
| Neagle, John (American painter) |
1796-1865 |
| Neal, Daniel (English clergyman, historian) |
1678-1743 |
| Neal, John (American writer, critic) |
1793-1876 |
| Neale, Edward Vansittart (English reformer) |
1810-1892 |
| Neale, John Mason (English hymnologist) |
1818-1866 |
| Neander, Johann August Wilhelm (German historian, theologian) |
1789-1850 |
| Nearing, Helen née Knothe (American homesteader, writer) |
1904-1995 |
| Nearing, Scott (American homesteader) |
1883-1983 |
| Nebuchadrezzar I (King of Babylon c.1124-1103) |
12th cent. BC |
| Nebuchadrezzar II (Chaldean king of Babylon 605-562) |
c.630-562 BC |
| Necati (or Nejati), Isa (Turkish poet) |
d.1509 |
| Nechayev, Sergey Gennadiyevich (Russian revolutionary) |
1847-1882 |
| Nechuv, Ivan (pseudonym Ivan Levitsky; Ukrainian writer) |
1838-1918 |
| Nechuy-Levitsky, Ivan (pseud. Ivan Levitsky; Ukrainian writer) |
1838-1918 |
| Neckam, Alexander (nicknamed Nequam, wicked; English scholar) |
1157-1217 |
| Necker, Jacques (Swiss-born French financier, statesman) |
1732-1804 |
| Nedbal, Oskar (Czech violinist, conductor, composer) |
1874-1930 |
| Neddermeyer, Seth Henry (American physicist) |
1907-1988 |
| Nedim, Ahmed (Turkish poet) |
1681-1730 |
| Needham, John Turberville (English naturalist) |
1713-1781 |
| Needham, Joseph (British biochemist, Sinologist) |
1900-1995 |
| Neefe, Christian Gottlob (German musician, composer) |
1748-1798 |
| Neel, Louis-Eugene-Felix (French physicist) |
1904-2000 |
| Neeman, Yuval (Israeli nuclear physicist, politician) |
1925-2006 |
| Neer, Aart (or Artnout) van der (Dutch painter) |
1603/4-1677 |
| Neer, Eglon Hendrick (Dutch painter; son of Aart) |
1634?-1703 |
| Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel (German botanist) |
1776-1858 |
| Nef, John Ulric (Swiss-born American chemist) |
1862-1915 |
| Nefertiti (aka Nofretete; Egyptian queen) |
14th cent. BC |
| Nefftzer, Auguste (French journalist) |
1820-1876 |
| Negri, Ada (Italian poet) |
1870-1945 |
| Negri, Antonio "Toni" (Italian Marxist political philosopher) |
b.1933 |
| Negri, Marcantonio (Italian composer, singer musical director) |
d.1624 |
| Negroponte, Nicholas P. (Am. architect, computer scientist) |
b.1943 |
| Negruzzi, Costache (Romanian writer) |
1808-1868 |
| Neher, Erwin (German biologist) |
b.1944 |
| Nehru, Jawaharlal (Indian political leader; son of Pandit) |
1889-1964 |
| Nehru, Pandit Motlilal (Indian political leader) |
1861-1931 |
| Neidhart von Reuenthal (Bav. knight, Middle High German poet) |
c.1180-c.1250 |
| Neihardt, John Gneisenau (American poet, writer, lit. critic) |
1881-1973 |
| Neill, Ben (American musician, composer) |
b.1957 |
| Neill, James George Smith (Scottish-born British army officer) |
1810-1857 |
| Neilson, James Beaumont (Scottish inventor) |
1792-1865 |
| Neilson, Julia Emilie (English actor) |
1868-1957 |
| Neilson, William Allen (Scottish-born American scholar) |
1869-1946 |
| Neisser, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund (German physician) |
1855-1916 |
| Nekrasov, Nikolay Alekseyevich (Russian poet, journalist) |
1821-1877 |
| Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovich (Russian writer) |
1911-1987 |
| Nell, William Cooper (American writer) |
1816-1874 |
| Nelligan, Emile (French-Canadian poet) |
1879-1941 |
| Nelson, Gaylord Anton (Am. politician; founded Earth Day 1970) |
1916-2005 |
| Nelson, Horatio (Viscount Nelson; British naval officer) |
1758-1805 |
| Nelson, Jerry (American puppeteer, singer) |
b.1934 |
| Nelson, Samuel (American Supreme Court justice 1845-1872) |
1792-1873 |
| Nelson, Stanley Earl Jr. (Am. documentary filmmaker, producer) |
b.1951 |
| Nelson, Thomas (American Revolutionary politician) |
1738-1789 |
| Nelson, Thomas (Scottish publisher) |
1780-1861 |
| Nelson, Thomas (Scottish publisher; son of Thomas) |
1822-1892 |
| Nelson, William (Scottish publisher; son of Thomas) |
1816-1887 |
| Nelson, William Rockhill (American journalist) |
1841-1915 |
| Nemenyi, Paul Felix (Hungarian-born American? physicist) |
1895-1952 |
| Nemerov, Howard (American writer, poet; poet laureate 1988-90) |
1920-1991 |
| Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympus (Roman poet) |
fl. c.280 |
| Nemesius of Emesa (Christian philosopher) |
4th cent. |
| Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich (Russian playwright) |
1858-1943 |
| Nennius (Welsh compiler) |
fl. c.800 |
| Nepos, Cornelius (Roman historian) |
c.100-c.25 BC |
| Nepos, Julius (Roman emperor in the West 474-480) |
d.480 |
| Nepveu (or Neveu), Pierre (aka Trinqueau; French architect) |
d.1542 |
| Neri, Saint Philip (Filippo Neri; Italian clergyman, mystic) |
1515-1595 |
| Nernst, Walther Hermann (German physicist, chemist) |
1864-1941 |
| Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus; Roman emp. 54-68) |
AD 37-68 |
| Neruda, Jan (Czech poet, writer, journalist) |
1834-1891 |
| Neruda, Pablo (b. Ricardo Neftali Reyes Basoalto; Chilean poet) |
1904-1973 |
| Nerva, Marcus Cocceius (Roman emperor 96-98) |
AD c.30-98 |
| Nervi, Pier Luigi (Italian architect, engineer) |
1891-1979 |
| Nervo, Amado (b. Juan C. Ruiz de Nervo; Mexican poet, diplomat) |
1870-1919 |
| Nesbit, Edith (English writer, poet) |
1858-1924 |
| Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin (Turkish mystic, poet) |
d.c.1418 |
| Nesri (Huseyin ibn Eyne Beg; Turkish historian) |
d.c.1520 |
| Nestle, Henri (German-born Swiss businessman) |
1814-1890 |
| Nestor (Russian monk, chronicler) |
c.1056-1113 |
| Nestorius (Persian prelate) |
d.c.451 |
| Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius (Austrian dramatist) |
1801-1862 |
| Neto, Antonio Agostinho (Angolan poet, physician, politician) |
1922-1979 |
| Netscher, Caspar (German pointer) |
c.1635-1684 |
| Neuber, Friederike Caroline née Weissenborn (German actor) |
1697-1760 |
| Neuberg, Carl (German biochemist) |
1877-1956 |
| Neuburger, Max (Austrian physician) |
1868-1955 |
| Neufeld, Elizabeth née Fondal (France-born American geneticist) |
b.1928 |
| Neuhof (or Neuhoff), Theodor von (German adventurer) |
1694-1756 |
| Neujmin, Grigory Nikolaevich (Russian astronomer; asteroid) |
1886-1946 |
| Neukomm, Sigismund von (Austrian composer, pianist, scholar) |
1778-1858 |
| Meumann, Alfred (German writer, translator) |
1895-1952 |
| Neumann, Franz Ernst (German physicist, mineralogist) |
1798-1895 |
| Neumann, Johann Balthasar (German architect) |
1687-1753 |
| Neumann, John von (Hungarian-born American mathematician) |
1903-1957 |
| Neumann, Saint John Nepomucene (Bohemian-born American prelate) |
1811-1860 |
| Neumann, Karl (German mathematician, physicist) |
1832-1925 |
| Neumann, Stanislav Kostka (Czech poet, editor) |
1875-1947 |
| Neumann, Therese (German stigmatic) |
1898-1962 |
| Neumark, Georg (German writer) |
1621-1681 |
| Neurath, Konstantin von (German diplomat) |
1873-1956 |
| Neurath, Otto (German philosopher, sociologist) |
1882-1945 |
| Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon (Ger. painter, etcher, illustrator) |
1806-1882 |
| Neutra, Richard Josef (Austrian-born American architect) |
1892-1970 |
| Neuville, Alphonse-Marie de (French painter) |
1836-1885 |
| Neva'i, 'Ali Shir (Turkish poet, scholar) |
1441-1501 |
| Nevelson, Louise née Leah Berliawsky (Ukrainian-born Am. artist) |
1899-1988 |
| Nevin, Ethelbert Woodbridge (American composer) |
1862-1901 |
| Nevin, John Williamson (American theologian) |
1803-1886 |
| Nevins, Allan (American historian, biographer, journalist) |
1890-1971 |
| Newbery, John (English publisher; eponym of Newbery Medal) |
1713-1767 |
| Newbolt, Sir Henry John (English poet, man of letters) |
1862-1938 |
| Newby, Percy Howard (Eng. writer, broadcasting administrator) |
1918-1997 |
| Newcomb, Simon (Canadian-born American astronomer, math.) |
1835-1909 |
| Newcomen, Thomas (English blacksmith, inventor) |
1663-1729 |
| Newdigate, Sir Roger (English antiquary) |
1719-1806 |
| Newell, Allen (American computer scientist) |
1927-1992 |
| Newell, Frederick Haynes (American civil engineer) |
1862-1932 |
| Newell, Norman Dennis (American paleontologist, educator) |
1909-2005 |
| Newell, Peter Sheaf Hersey (American cartoonist, illustrator) |
1862-1924 |
| Newhall, Beaumont (Am. curator, art historian, photographer) |
1908-1993 |
| Newlands, Francis Griffith (American politician) |
1848-1917 |
| Newlands, John Alexander Reina (English chemist) |
1837-1898 |
| Newlin, Dika (American composer, musicologist) |
1923-2006 |
| Newlove, John (Canadian poet) |
b.1938 |
| Newman, Arnold Abner (American photographer) |
1918-2006 |
| Newman, Barnett (American painter) |
1905-1970 |
| Newman, Ernest (born William Roberts; English music critic) |
1868-1959 |
| Newman, Francis William (English scholar; brother of J.H.) |
1805-1897 |
| Newman, John Henry (English prelate, theologian) |
1801-1890 |
| Newman, Laraine (American actor) |
b.1952 |
| Newman, Randall Stuart "Randy" (American singer, songwriter) |
b.1943 |
| Newmark, Craig Alexander (American entrepreneur: Craigslist) |
b.1952 |
| Newnes, Sir George (English publisher) |
1851-1910 |
| Newsom, Joanna (American musician, singer, songwriter) |
b.1982 |
| Newsom, Thomas Penn "Tommy" (American musician, bandleader) |
1929-2007 |
| Newton, Alfred (English zoologist) |
1829-1907 |
| Newton, Sir Charles Thomas (English archaeologist) |
1816-1894 |
| Newton, Hubert Anson (American astronomer) |
1830-1896 |
| Newton, Huey Percy (American activist, Black Panther leader) |
1942-1989 |
| Newton, Sir Isaac (English physicist, mathematician; asteroid) |
1642-1727 |
| Newton, John (English clergyman) |
1725-1807 |
| Nexo, Martin Andersen (Danish writer) |
1869-1954 |
| Ney, Elisabet (German-born American sculptor) |
1833-1907 |
| Ney, Michel (Prussian-born French soldier, marshal of France) |
1769-1815 |
| Nezami (Elyas Yusof Nezami Ganjavi; Persian poet) |
c.1141-1209 |
| Nezval, Vitezslav (Czech poet, writer, playwright, essayist) |
1900-1958 |
| Ngata, Sir Apirana Turupa (Maori leader) |
1874-1950 |
| Ngcobo, Lauretta (South African writer, editor) |
b.1931 |
| Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnamese politician) |
1901-1963 |
| Ngo Quyen (Vietnamese leader) |
896/7-944 |
| Ngo Van Chieu (Vietnamese religious leader; fd. Cao Dai sect) |
1878-1926 |
| Ng Poon Chew (South Chinese-born American clergyman, editor) |
1866-1931 |
| Ngubane, Jordan Kush (Zulu writer, scholar, editor) |
1917-1985? |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o (aka James Ngugi; Kenyan writer, dramatist) |
b.1938 |
| Nguyen-Du Thanh-Hien (pseudonym To Nhu; Vietnamese poet) |
1765-1820 |
| Nguyen Hue (Tay Son brother; Vietnamese revolutionary, ruler) |
c.1752-1792 |
| Nguyen Lu (Tay Son brother; Vietnamese revolutionary, ruler) |
c.1752-1792 |
| Nguyen Nhac (Tay Son brother; Vietnamese revolutionary, ruler) |
c.1752-1793 |
| Nguyen Tri Phuong (Vietnamese general) |
1806-1873 |
| Nguyen Truong To (Vietnamese politician) |
1828-1871 |
| Nguyen Van Trinh (Vietnamese politician) |
d.1946 |
| Nhat Chi Mai (Vietnamese student; self-immolation suicide) |
?-1967 |
| Niane, Djibril Tamsir (Guinean historian, playwright, writer) |
b.1932 |
| Niblo, William (Irish-born American hotel, theater proprietor) |
1789-1878 |
| Niblock, Phill (American composer, filmmaker, videographer) |
b.1933 |
| Nicander (Greek poet, physician, grammarian) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Nicander, Karl August (Swedish poet) |
1799-1839 |
| Niccolini, Giovanni Battista (Italian playwright) |
1782-1861 |
| Niccolo dell'Arca (aka Niccolo da Bari; Bolognese sculptor) |
fl. c.1460-1494 |
| Niccolo de' Niccoli (Florentine Humanist) |
c.1364-1437 |
| Niceforo, Alfredo (Italian sociologist) |
1876-1960 |
| Nicephorus I, Saint (aka Nikephoros; Greek prelate) |
c.758-829 |
| Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos (Byzantine historian) |
c.1256-c.1335 |
| Nicetas of Remesiana (Greek prelate, theologian, poet) |
4th-5th cent. |
| Nicetas Stethatos (Byzantine mystic, theologian) |
c.1000-c.1080 |
| Nichiren (Zenshobo Rencho; Japanese Buddhist leader) |
1222-1282 |
| Nichol, Barrie Phillip (Canadian poet, writer) |
1944-1988 |
| Nichol, John (Scotish academic) |
1833-1894 |
| Nicholas, Fayard (American tap dancer) |
1914-2006 |
| Nicholas, Harold (American tap dancer) |
1921-2000 |
| Nicholas of Autrecourt (French philosopher, theologian) |
c.1300-3150? |
| Nicholas of Clemanges (born Nicolas Poillevilain; Fr. theol.) |
c.1363-1437 |
| Nicholas of Cusa (German prelate, philosopher, mathematician) |
1401-1464 |
| Nicholas of Damascus (Nicolaus Damascenus; Greek historian) |
1st cent. BC |
| Nicholas of Flue (born Nikolaus Lowenbrugger; Swiss religious) |
1417-1487 |
| Nicholas of Hereford (English theologian) |
d.1417? |
| Nicholas of Lyra (Nicolaus Lyranus; French scholar) |
c.1270-1349 |
| Nicholas of Verdun (Flemish goldsmith, enamellist) |
fl. c.1150-1210 |
| Nichols, Anne (American playwright) |
1891-1966 |
| Nichols, David E. (American pharmacologist, medicinal chemist) |
b.1944 |
| Nichols, Edward Leamington (English-born American physicist) |
1854-1937 |
| Nichols, Ernest Fox (American physicist, educator) |
1869-1924 |
| Nichols, Ernest Loring "Red" (American musician) |
1905-1965 |
| Nichols, John (English printer, writer, antiquary) |
1745-1826 |
| Nichols, John Bowyer (English publisher, writer; son of John) |
1779-1863 |
| Nichols, John Gough (English editor; son of John Bowyer) |
1806-1873 |
| Nichols, John Richard "Jack" (Am. writer, editor, activist) |
1938-2005 |
| Nichols, Kenneth David (American army officer, engineer) |
1907-2000 |
| Nichols, Peter (English dramatist) |
b.1927 |
| Nicholson, Ben (British painter) |
1894-1981 |
| Nicholson, Joseph Shield (English economist) |
1850-1927 |
| Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne (English Orientalist) |
1868-1945 |
| Nicholson, Seth Barnes (American astronomer; asteroid, crater) |
1891-1963 |
| Nicholson, William (English scientist) |
1753-1815 |
| Nicholson, Sir William Newzam Prior (English painter, engraver) |
1872-1949 |
| Nicias (Athenian general, politician) |
d.413 BC |
| Nicias of Athens (Greek painter) |
4th cent. BC |
| Nickson, James Joseph (Am. physician, radiation oncologist) |
1915-1985 |
| Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Saint (Greek religious) |
1748-1809 |
| Nicol, Abioseh (Dr. Davidson Nicol; Sierra Leonean poet,writer) |
1924-1994 |
| Nicol, William (Scottish physicist) |
1768-1851 |
| Nicolai, Carl Otto Ehrenfried (German composer, conductor) |
1810-1849 |
| Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich (Ger. writer, critic, bookseller) |
1733-1811 |
| Nicolaier, Arthur (German physician) |
1862-1942 |
| Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris (English antiquary) |
1799-1848 |
| Nicolay, John George (Bavarian-born American biographer) |
1832-1901 |
| Nicole, Francois (French mathematician) |
1683-1758 |
| Nicole, Pierre (French theologian) |
1625-1695 |
| Nicolet, Jean (French explorer in North America) |
1598-1642 |
| Nicoll, Sir William Robertson (Scottish man of letters) |
1851-1923 |
| Nicolle, Charles-Jean-Henri (French bacteriologist, physician) |
1866-1936 |
| Nicolls, Richard (British colonialist) |
1624-1672 |
| Nicolson, Sir Harold George (British diplomat, man of letters) |
1886-1968 |
| Nicomachus (Greek painter) |
4th cent. BC |
| Nicomachus of Gerasa (Greek philosopher, mathematician) |
fl. c.100 AD |
| Nicomedes (Greek mathematician) |
fl. c.250 BC |
| Nicot, Jean (French diplomat, scholar; eponym of "nicotine") |
c.1530-1600 |
| Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala (Irish poet) |
b.1952 |
| Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (German historian; son of Carsten) |
1776-1831 |
| Niebuhr, Carsten (German traveler, explorer) |
1733-1815 |
| Niebuhr, Reinhold (American clergyman, theologian) |
1892-1971 |
| Niedecker, Lorine (American poet) |
1903-1970 |
| Niedermeyer, Abraham Louis (Swiss composer) |
1802-1861 |
| Niehaus, Charles Henry (American sculptor) |
1855-1935 |
| Nielsen, Arthur Charles (American marketing analyst) |
1897-1980 |
| Nielsen, Carl August (Danish composer, conductor, violinist) |
1865-1931 |
| Nielsen, Morten (Danish poet) |
1922-1944 |
| Niembsch von Strehlenau, Nikolaus Franz (Austrian poet) |
1802-1850 |
| Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn (Polish patriot, man of letters) |
1758-1841 |
| Niemeyer Soares Filho, Oscar (Brazilian architect) |
1907-2012 |
| Niemoller, Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin (German theologian) |
1892-1984 |
| Nienhuys, Jacobus (Dutch businessman, planter) |
1836-1927 |
| Niepce, Joseph-Nicephore (French physicist, inventor) |
1765-1833 |
| Niepce, Claude-Felix-Abel (French physicist; brother of Joseph) |
1805-1870 |
| Nier, Alfred Otto Carl (Am. physicist; dev. mass spectrometry) |
1911-1994 |
| Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio (Spanish Jesuit naturalist, writer) |
1595-1658 |
| Nieto Caballero, Luis Eduardo (Colombian politician, writer) |
1887-1957 |
| Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (German philosopher, poet) |
1844-1900 |
| Nieuport, Edouard (French aviator, airplane builder) |
1875-1911 |
| Nieuwenhuys, Constant Anton (aka Constant; Dutch painter) |
1920-2005 |
| Nieuwland, Julius Arthur (Belgian-born Am. chemist, botanist) |
1878-1936 |
| Nievo, Ippolito (Italian writer, poet) |
1831-1861 |
| Nifo, Agostino (aka Augustinus Niphus; Italian philosopher) |
1473?-1538? |
| Nigel (English prelate, statesman) |
d.1169 |
| Nigel (Nigellus; surnamed Wireker; English monk, satirist) |
fl. 1190 |
| Niggli, Paul (Swiss mineralogist) |
1888-1953 |
| Nightingale, Florence (English nurse, philanthropist) |
1820-1910 |
| Nigra, Constantino (Italian diplomat) |
1828-1907 |
| Nijhoff, Martinus (Dutch poet, essayist) |
1894-1953 |
| Nijinska, Bronislawa Fominitshna (Russ. dancer, choreographer) |
1891-1972 |
| Nijinsky, Vaslav Fomich (Russian dancer, choreographer) |
1890-1950 |
| Nijlen, Jan van (Flemish poet) |
1884-1965 |
| Nijo Yoshimoto (Japanese government official, poet) |
1320-1388 |
| Nikisch, Arthur (Hungarian musician, conductor) |
1855-1922 |
| Nikitin, Afansay (Russian writer, traveler) |
fl. 1466-1472 |
| Nikitin, Ivan Savvich (Russian poet) |
1824-1861 |
| Nikkyo Niwano (Japanese Buddhist religious leader) |
1906-1999 |
| Nikolayev, Andrian Grigoryevich (Russian astronaut) |
1929-2004 |
| Nikulin, Yuri Vladimirovich (Russian clown, actor) |
1921-1997 |
| Niles, Hezekiah (American editor) |
1777-1839 |
| Nilssen-Love, Paal (Norwegian musician) |
b.1974 |
| Nilsson, Birgit (born Marta Birgit Svensson; Swedish soprano) |
1918-2005 |
| Nilsson, Harry (born Harry Edward Nelson III; Am. musician) |
1941-1994 |
| Nilson, Lars Fredrik (Swedish physicist) |
1840-1899 |
| Nilsson, Harry Edward III (American singer, songwriter) |
1941-1994 |
| Nilus the Ascetic, Saint (Greek Byzantine abbot, writer) |
d.c.430 |
| Nilus of Rossano, Saint (aka Nilus the Younger; Italian abbot) |
c.905-1005 |
| Nimbarka (Indian Brahmin, philosopher, astronomer) |
12th/13th cent.? |
| Nimitz, Chester William (American naval officer) |
1885-1966 |
| Nims, John Frederick (American poet, translator, writer) |
1913-1999 |
| Nin, Anais (French-born American writer) |
1903-1977 |
| Nino, Pedro Alonso "el Negro" (Spanish navigator w/ Columbus) |
1468?-1505? |
| Ninomiya Sontoku (born Kinjaro; Japanese agrarian reformer) |
1787-1856 |
| Nintoku (born Osasagino-Mikoto; Japanese emperor 313-399) |
290-399 |
| Nin y Castellano, Joaquin (Cuban-born Span. pianist, composer) |
1879-1949 |
| Niobid Painter (Greek vase painter) |
fl. c.475-450 BC |
| Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb (German engineer) |
1860-1940 |
| Nirenberg, Louis (Canadian-born American mathematician) |
b.1925 |
| Nirenberg, Marshall Warren (American biochemist, geneticist) |
1927-2010 |
| Nisard, Jean-Marie-Napolean-Desire (French journalist, critic) |
1806-1888 |
| Nisbett (or Nesbitt), Louisa Cranstoun (English comedy actor) |
1812-1858 |
| Nishi Amane (Japanese scholar, politician) |
1829-1897 |
| Nishida Kitaro (Japanese philosopher) |
1870-1945 |
| Nishikawa Sukenobu (born Yusuke; Japanese painter) |
1671-1751 |
| Nishiyama Soin (born Nishiyama Toyoichi; Japanese poet) |
1605-1682 |
| Nishizuka, Yasutomi (Japanese biologist, educator) |
1932-2004 |
| Nithard (Frankish historian) |
790?-844 |
| Ni Tsan (Chinese painter) |
1301-1374 |
| Nitta Yoshisada (Japanese warrior) |
1301-1338 |
| Nitti, Francesco Saverio (Italian economist, politician) |
1868-1953 |
| Nittis, Giuseppe de (Italian painter) |
1846-1884 |
| Nitzsch, Karl Immanuel (German Protestant theologian) |
1787-1868 |
| Niven, Frederick John (Chiliean-born Scottish writer) |
1878-1944 |
| Niven, Laurence Van Cott "Larry" (American writer) |
b.1938 |
| Nivers, Guillaume-Gabriel (French musician, composer) |
1632-1714 |
| Nixon, Thelma Catherine Patricia née Ryan (American first lady) |
1912-1993 |
| Nixon, Richard Milhous (37th U.S. president, 1969-1974) |
1913-1994 |
| Niza, Marcos de (Savoyard Franciscan missionary, explorer) |
c.1495-1558 |
| Nizzoli, Mario (Marius Nizolius; Italian Humanist) |
1498-1576 |
| Nkosi, Lewis (South African writer, critic, journalist) |
b.1936 |
| Nkrumah, Kwame (Ghanaian politician) |
1909-1972 |
| Noah, Mordecai Manuel (American journalist) |
1785-1851 |
| Noailles, Anna-Elisabeth de (Princess Brancovan; French poet) |
1876-1933 |
| Noami (born Nakao Sanenori; Shinno; Japanese poet, painter) |
1397-1494 |
| Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (Swedish manufacturer, inventor) |
1833-1896 |
| Nobile, Umberto (Italian aeronautical engineer, explorer) |
1885-1978 |
| Noble, Sir Andrew (Scottish physicist, artillerist) |
1831-1915 |
| Noble-Bell, Kay (born Mary Charlene Noble; American wrestler) |
1940-2006 |
| Nobre, Antonio (Portuguese poet) |
1867-1900 |
| Nobrega, Manuel de (Portuguese Jesuit missionary) |
1517-1570 |
| Nocard, Edmond-Isidore-Etienne (French veterinarian, biologist) |
1850-1903 |
| Nock, Albert Jay (American writer) |
1870-1945 |
| Nock, Demetrius Alexandro Claudio Amadeus Bello (Am. clown) |
b.1968 |
| Nodier, Jean-Charles-Emmanuel (French man of letters) |
1780-1844 |
| Noe, Jerre D. (Am. banking computerization expert, researcher) |
1923-2005 |
| Noel, Alexandre (Alexander Natalis; French theologian) |
1639-1724 |
| Noel-Baker, Philip John (English politician, academic) |
1889-1982 |
| Noether, Amalie Emmy (German mathematician) |
1882-1935 |
| Nogami Yaeko (Japanese writer) |
1885-1985 |
| Noguchi, Hideyo (Japanese-born American bacteriologist) |
1876-1928 |
| Noguchi, Isamu (American sculptor) |
1904-1988 |
| Noir, Victor (born Yves Salmon; French journalist) |
1848-1870 |
| Nolan, Christopher (English filmmaker) |
b.1970 |
| Noland, Kenneth (American painter) |
b.1924 |
| Nolde, Emil (orig. surname Hansen; German painter, printmaker) |
1867-1956 |
| Noldeke, Theodor (German Orientalist) |
1836-1930 |
| Nolhac, Anet Marie Pierre Girauld de (French writer) |
1859-1936 |
| Nollekens, Joseph (English sculptor) |
1737-1823 |
| Nollet, Jean-Antoine (French physicist) |
1700-1770 |
| Noma Hiroshi (Japanese writer) |
1915-1991 |
| Nonell y Monturiol, Isidro (Spanish painter) |
1873-1911 |
| Nonius Marcellus (African Latin grammarian, lexicographer) |
4th cent. |
| Nonnus (Greek epic poet) |
5th cent. |
| Nono, Luigi (Italian composer) |
1924-1990 |
| Nonomura Ninsei (Ninsei; Seibei; Seisuke; Japanese potter) |
c.1574-1660/6 |
| Noon, Sir Firoz Khan (Pakistani politician) |
1893-1970 |
| Noonan, Fred J. (American aviator; lost with Amelia Earhart) |
1893-1937 |
| Noot, Henri van der (Belgian politician) |
1731-1827 |
| Noot, Jan Baptista van der "Jonker Jan" (Dutch poet) |
c.1540-c.1595 |
| Nooteboom, Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" (Dutch poet) |
b.1933 |
| Norbert, Saint (German ecclesiastic) |
c.1080-1134 |
| Nordal, Sigurdur Johannesson (Icelandic philologist, critic) |
1886-1974 |
| Nordau, Max Simon (Hung.-born Ger. physician, writer, Zionist) |
1849-1923 |
| Norden, Carl Lukas (Java-born Dutch inventor) |
1880-1965 |
| Nordenflycht, Hedvig Charlotta (Swedish poet) |
1718-1763 |
| Nordenskiold, Nils Adolf Erik (Swedish geologist, explorer) |
1832-1901 |
| Nordenskiold, Nils Erland Herbert (Swedish ethnologist) |
1877-1932 |
| Nordenskjold, Nils Otto Gustaf (Swedish geologist, explorer) |
1869-1928 |
| Nordgren, Pehr Henrik (Finnish composer) |
b.1944 |
| Nordheim, Arne (Norwegian composer) |
1931-2010 |
| Nordhoff, Charles (Prussian-born American writer) |
1830-1901 |
| Nordhoff, Charles Bernard (English-born American writer) |
1887-1947 |
| Nordica, Lillian (born Lillian Norton; American soprano) |
1857-1914 |
| Nordine, Kenneth Edward "Ken" (American word jazz artist) |
b.1920 |
| Nordraak, Rikard (Norwegian composer; friend of Edvard Grieg) |
1842-1866 |
| Nordstrom, Ludvig Anselm (Swedish writer) |
1882-1942 |
| Noren, Lars (Swedish poet, writer, playwright) |
b.1944 |
| Norgard, Per (Danish composer, writer) |
b.1932 |
| Norholm, Ib (Danish composer, organist, teacher, music critic) |
b.1931 |
| Norinaga (Motoori Norinaga; Japanese literary scholar) |
1730-1801 |
| Norman, Marsha (American playwright) |
b.1947 |
| Normand, Mabel Ethelreid (American actor) |
1893?-1930 |
| Norodom (aka Norottama; King of Cambodia 1860-1904) |
1834-1904 |
| Norris, Benjamin Franklin "Frank" (American writer) |
1870-1902 |
| Norris, Charles Gilman (American writer; brother of Frank) |
1881-1945 |
| Norris, Dale (American musician, teacher) |
1938?-2005 |
| Norris, George William (American politician) |
1861-1944 |
| Norris, John (English philosopher, clergyman) |
1657-1711 |
| Norris, Kathleen née Thompson (American writer) |
1880-1966 |
| Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford (English chemist) |
1897-1978 |
| Norse, Harold (American writer, poet) |
1916-2009 |
| Norstein, Yuriy Borisovich (Russian animator) |
b.1941 |
| North, Douglass Cecil (American economist, photographer) |
b.1920 |
| North, Frank Joshua (American soldier, frontiersman) |
1840-1885 |
| North, Lord Frederick (English statesman; prime min. 1770-1782) |
1732-1792 |
| North, Roger (English lawyer, historian, biographer) |
1653-1734 |
| North, Simeon (American firearms manufacturer) |
1765-1852 |
| North, Sir Thomas (English translator) |
1535-1603? |
| Northcote, James (English painter) |
1746-1831 |
| Northcote, Sir Stafford Henry (English politician, financier) |
1818-1887 |
| Northrop, John Howard (American biochemist) |
1891-1987 |
| Northrop, John Knudsen (American engineer, industrialist) |
1895-1981 |
| Norton, Andre (born Alice Mary Norton; American writer) |
1912-2005 |
| Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah née Sheridan (English writer) |
1808-1877 |
| Norton, Charles Eliot (American writer, educator) |
1827-1908 |
| Norton, Gale Ann (American bureaucrat) |
b.1954 |
| Norton, John (English-born American Puritan clergyman) |
1606-1663 |
| Norton, Mary née Pearson (English children's writer) |
1903-1992 |
| Norton, Thomas (English lawyer, poet) |
1532-1584 |
| Norway, Nevil Shute (pseud. Nevil Shute; Eng. engineer, writer) |
1899-1960 |
| Norwid, Cyprian Kamil (Polish writer, poet, playwright) |
1821-1883 |
| Nouge, Paul (Belgian poet, philosopher, biochemist) |
1895-1967 |
| Nourbese Philip, Marlene (Tobagonian-Canadian poet, writer) |
b.1947 |
| Noske, Gustav (German politician) |
1868-1946 |
| Noskowski, Zygmunt (Polish composer, conductor) |
1846-1909 |
| Nostredame, Michel de (Nostradamus; Fr. physician, astrologer) |
1503-1566 |
| Noth, Martin (German biblical scholar) |
1902-1968 |
| Notker (Balbulus; the Stammerer; Swiss monk, musician, poet) |
840?-912 |
| Notker (aka Labeo; Swiss-German Benedictine scholar) |
c.950-1022 |
| Notley, Alice (American poet, essayist, teacher) |
b.1945 |
| Nottage, Lynn (American playwright) |
b.1964 |
| Nour, Nawal M. (Sudanese obstetrician, gynecologist) |
b.1966? |
| Nouvel, Jean (French architect) |
b.1945 |
| Nova, Juan de (or Joao da; Spanish navigator) |
d.1509 |
| Novak, Michael (Am. philosopher, journalist, writer, diplomat) |
b.1933 |
| Novak, Vitezslav Augustin Rudolf (Czech composer) |
1870-1949 |
| Novakovic, Stojan (Serbian writer, politician) |
1842-1915 |
| Novatian (Novatianus; Roman Christian sectarian) |
c.200-c.258 |
| Novello, Antonia née Coello (American Surgeon General 1990-93) |
b.1944 |
| Novello, Don (American writer, film director, actor, comedian) |
b.1943 |
| Novello, Ivor (English actor, composer, playwright) |
1893-1951 |
| Novello, Vincent (English organist, composer) |
1781-1861 |
| Noverre, Jean-Georges (French dancer, choreographer) |
1727-1810 |
| Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian journalist, philanthropist) |
1744-1818 |
| Novikov, Sergei Petrovich (Russian mathematician, educator) |
b.1938 |
| Novotny, Antonin (Czech politician) |
1904-1975 |
| Novy, Frederick George (American bacteriologist) |
1864-1957 |
| Nowell (or Nowel, Noel), Alexander (English clergyman) |
c.1507-1602 |
| Nowlan, Alden (Canadian poet, writer) |
b.1933 |
| Nowowiejski, Feliks (Polish composer) |
1877-1946 |
| Noyes, Alfred (English poet, critic, essayist) |
1880-1958 |
| Noyes, Arthur Amos (American physical chemist) |
1866-1936 |
| Noyes, Clara Dutton (American nurse) |
1869-1936 |
| Noyes, John Humphrey (Am. social reformer; fnd. Oneida comm.) |
1811-1886 |
| Noyori Ryoji (Japanese chemist, educator) |
b.1938 |
| Noyse, La Verne (American manufacturer, inventor) |
1849-1919 |
| Nozieres, Philippe (French physicist, educator) |
b.1932 |
| Nubar Pasha (aka Nubar Pasha Nubarian; Egyptian politician) |
1825-1899 |
| Nucius (aka Nux, Nucis), Johannes (German composer, theorist) |
c.1556-1620 |
| Nugent, Elliott (American actor, playwright; son of John) |
1899-1980 |
| Nugent, John Charles (American actor, playwright) |
1878-1947 |
| Nugent, Laval (Count Nugent von Westmeath; Irish soldier) |
1777-1862 |
| Nugent, Richard Bruce (American writer, artist, actor) |
1906-1987 |
| Numan, Gary (b. Gary Anthony James Webb; Eng. singer, composer) |
b.1958 |
| Numenius (Greek philosopher) |
2nd cent. |
| Nunes, Pedro (aka Petrus Nonius; Portuguese mathematician) |
1492-1577 |
| Nunes Garcia, Jose Mauricio (Brazilian musician, composer) |
1767-1830 |
| Nunez de Arce, Gaspar (Spanish poet, playwright, politician) |
1834-1903 |
| Nunez de Balboa, Vasco (Spanish explorer) |
1475-1519 |
| Nunn May, Alan (English physicist, Soviet spy) |
1911-2003 |
| Nuno, Jaime (Catalan conductor, composer) |
1824-1908 |
| Nureyev, Rudolf Hametovich (Russian-born British ballet dancer) |
1938-1993 |
| Nurhachi (aka Kundulun Khan; T'ien-Ming; Manchurian chieftain) |
1559-1626 |
| Nuri as-Said (Iraqi politician) |
1888-1958 |
| Nurse, Sir Paul Maxime (English biochemist) |
b.1949 |
| Nusslein-Volhard, Christiane (German biologist) |
b.1942 |
| Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner (Am.-born British biologist) |
1862-1937 |
| Nuttall, Thomas (English-born American botanist, ornithologist) |
1786-1859 |
| Nuttall, Zelia Maria Magdalena (American archaeologist) |
1857-1933 |
| Nutting, Wallace (American clergyman, painter, antiquarian) |
1861-1941 |
| Nuvolari, Tazio Giorgio (Italian racing driver) |
1892-1953 |
| Nwapa, Flora (Nigerian writer, publisher) |
1931-1993 |
| Nye, Edgar Wilson "Bill" (American humorist, journalist) |
1850-1896 |
| Nygaard, Kristen (Norwegian mathematician, computer scientist) |
1926-2002 |
| Nygaardsvold, Johan (Norwegian politician) |
1879-1952 |
| Nyiregyhazi, Ervin (Hungarian-born American pianist) |
1903-1987 |
| Nykvist, Sven Vilhem (Swedish cinematographer) |
1922-2006 |
| Nyman, Michael Laurence (English composer, pianist, librettist) |
b.1944 |
| Nzekwu, Onuora (Nigerian teacher, writer, editor) |
b.1928 |