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        | N - 77 biographies |  
        | Nabokov, Vladimir - (1899-1977), novelist Nabonidus - (6th century BC), last King of Babylon
 Nabopolassar - (7th century BC), Babylonian king
 Nabors, Jim - (born 1930), actor and musician
 Nabu-rimanni - (circa 560 BC-480 BC), astronomer
 Nachtwey, James - (born 1948), photographer
 Nadar - (1820-1910), photographer
 Nader, Ralph - (born 1934), US politician
 Nafisi, Azar - (born c. 1955) Iranian writer
 Nagarjuna - (150-250?), Indian philosopher
 Nagata, Linda - (born 1960), author
 Nagel, Steven - (born 1946), astronaut
 Nagel, Thomas - (born 1937), philosopher
 Nagumo, Chuichi - (1886-1944), Japanese WW2 Admiral
 Nagurski, Bronko - (1908-1990), player with Chicago Bears
 Nagy, Imre - (1896-1958), former Premier of Hungary
 Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad - (born 1932), writer
 Nair, Mira - (born 1957), Indian director
 Naismith, James - (1861-1939), Teacher, invented Basketball
 Naito Torajiro - (1866-1934), Japanese historian
 Najera, Eduardo - (born 1976), NBA basketball player, Dallas Mavericks
 Najimy, Kathy - (born 1957), actress, comedian
 Naka Yuji - (born 1965), head of Sonic Team
 Nakasone Yasuhiro - (born 1917), Japanese prime minister
 Nalbandian, David - (born 1982), Argentinan tennis player
 Nam Sung-yong - (1912-2001), Marathon runner
 Namath, Joe - (born 1943), American football star
 Namatjira, Albert - (1902-1959), painter
 Nanak, Guru - (born 1469), the founder of Sikhism
 Nancarrow, Conlon - (1912-1997), composer
 Nannen, Henri - (1913-1966), journalist and publisher
 Nansen, Eigil - humanist and architect
 Nansen, Fridtjof - (1861-1930), Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, statesman
 Naoroji, Dadabhai - (1825-1917), Indian and British politician
 Naosuke, Ii - (1815-60), Japanese political leader
 Napier, John - (1550-1617), mathematician, inventor
 Napoleon - (1769-1821), French marshal, emperor
 Napoleon II of France - (1811-1832), son of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte
 Napoleon III of France - (1808-1873), President and Emperor
 Napoles, Mantequilla - (born 1940), Cuban/Mexican boxing championworld champion boxer
 Napolitano, Janet - (born 1957), Governor of Arizona
 Narai of Thailand - (died 1688)
 Narayan, R K - (1906-2001), novelist
 Nariaki, Tokugawa - (1800-1860), Japanese political leader
 Narrayen, Irene Jai - (born 1932), Fijian politician
 Narseh of Persia - (3rd century AD), King of Persia from 293 to 302
 Narses - (478-573), general in service of Justinian I
 Naruhito - (born 1960), crown prince of Japan
 Narutowicz, Gabriel - (1865-1922), President of Poland and assassination victim
 Nas - aka Nasir Jones, (born 1973), American rapper
 Nascimento, Milton - (born 1942), singer
 Nash Jr., John Forbes - (born 1928), mathematician
 Nash, Charles W. - (1864-1948) US auto entrepenuer
 Nash, Clarence - (1904-1985), Disney voice actor
 Nash, Graham - (born 1942), singer-songwriter
 Nash, John - (1752-1835), architect
 Nash, Johnny - (born 1940), singer
 Nash, Knowlton - (born 1927), iconic Canadian newscaster
 Nash, Ogden - (1902-1971), master of light verse
 Nash, Steve - (born 1974), basketball player
 Nashe, Thomas - (1567-1601), poet
 Nasmyth, Alexander - (1758-1840), Scottish painter
 Nasmyth, James - (1802-1890), inventor
 Nast, Thomas - (1840-1902), cartoonist
 Nastase, Ilie - (born 1946), Romanian tennis player
 Nation, Carry - (1846-1911), US saloon smasher
 Nauman, Bruce - (born 1941), painter
 Naundorff, Karl Wilhelm - (1785?-1845), impostor who claimed to be Louis XVII of France
 Naur, Peter - (born 1928), pioneer in computer science
 Navarro, Fats - (1923-1950), musician
 Navratilova, Martina - (born 1956), Czech-born tennis player
 Nayanar, E.K. - (1919-2004), three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India
 Nazareth, Ernesto - (1863-1934), composer
 Nazario, Ednita - (born c. 1954), international singing star
 Nazianzus, Gregory - (329-389), patriarch of Constantinople
 Näff, Wilhelm Matthias - (1802-1881), member of the Swiss Federal Council
 Neruda, Pablo - (1904-1973), Nobel laureate in 1971
 
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