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Nathanael S. Gray

Nathanael S. Gray is a chemical and systems biologist and the Krishnan-Shah Family Professor at Stanford University whose laboratory's cancer drug discovery informed ceritinib, osimertinib, and asciminib.

Nathania Ong

Nathania Ong (born 1998) is a Singaporean musical theatre actress, first Singaporean to play Éponine in Les Misérables on the West End and Eliza Hamilton in London's Hamilton; also Cinderella in Into the Woods and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde Singapore.

Nathaniel Arbiter

Nathaniel Arbiter (1911–2008) was an American mineral engineer and hydrometallurgist, Professor of Mineral Engineering at Columbia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Nathaniel Arcand

Nathaniel Arcand (born 1971, Edmonton) is a Plains Cree Canadian actor from Alexander First Nation, known for North of 60, Heartland's Scott Cardinal, FBI: Most Wanted's Clinton Skye, Chief Arnook in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Sinners and Train Dreams.

Nathaniel Ayers

Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Juilliard-trained double bassist from Cleveland, became homeless with paranoid schizophrenia on Los Angeles' Skid Row; Steve Lopez's columns produced The Soloist book and 2009 film.

Nathaniel B. Nichols

Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who created the Nichols chart, co-created the Ziegler–Nichols PID tuning rules, and co-wrote Theory of Servomechanisms.

Nathaniel B. Palmer

The RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer was an American icebreaking research vessel that served the U.S. Antarctic Program from 1992, the nation's first commercial icebreaking research ship, until its lease was terminated in October 2025.

Nathaniel Bar-Jonah

Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, born David Paul Brown (1957-2008), American convicted child molester and kidnapper sentenced to 130 years in Montana; accused, never convicted, of murdering and cannibalizing Zachary Ramsay.

Nathaniel Bern

Nathaniel Bern is a French healthtech entrepreneur and École Polytechnique-trained engineer who cofounded the teleconsultation company Medadom in Paris in 2017, serving as its chief technology officer.

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830) was an English orientalist in the East India Company's Bengal service, who translated Hindu law and wrote an early Bengali grammar.

Nathaniel Brown (infectious diseases expert)

Nathaniel A. Brown is an American infectious-diseases expert and pharmaceutical developer who led global clinical development of lamivudine and telbivudine for chronic hepatitis B, retiring in 2016.

Nathaniel Buzolic

Nathaniel Buzolic (b. 4 August 1983, Sydney) is an Australian actor of Croatian heritage known as Kol Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies, and for Hacksaw Ridge, Pretty Little Liars, Significant Mother, and hosting The Mint.

Nathaniel Chalobah

Nathaniel Nyakie Chalobah, born 1994 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is an English defensive midfielder, ex-Chelsea academy player, one-cap England international (2018), and older brother of Trevoh Chalobah.

Nathaniel Clyne

Nathaniel Clyne (Nathaniel Edwin Clyne, born 1991), English right-back; Crystal Palace academy graduate, Southampton, Liverpool (£12.5m, 103 apps), 14 England caps, Euro 2016, 2025 FA Cup winner.

Nathaniel Crosby

Nathaniel Crosby (Nathaniel Patrick Crosby, b. October 1961), son of Bing Crosby, American amateur golfer who won the 1981 U.S. Amateur at Olympic Club and captained winning U.S. Walker Cup teams in 2019 and 2021.

Nathaniel D. Daw

Nathaniel D. Daw is a computational and theoretical neuroscientist who holds the Huo Professorship at Princeton University, known for research on reinforcement learning and decision making.

Nathaniel David Mermin

N. David Mermin, born 1935 in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American theoretical physicist at Cornell University known for the Mermin–Wagner theorem and the textbook Solid State Physics.

Nathaniel de Rothschild

Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870) was an English-born banker of the Paris house de Rothschild Frères who bought Brane-Mouton at Pauillac in 1853, renaming it Château Mouton Rothschild.

Nathaniel Ferraro

Nathaniel M. Ferraro is an American plasma physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Deputy Head of its Theory Department since 2022 and a 2025 PECASE awardee.

Nathaniel Fick

Nathaniel Fick, Marine captain and author of One Bullet Away, led First Recon platoon in Iraq 2003; later CNAS CEO, Endgame CEO, and first U.S. cyber ambassador 2022-2025.

Nathaniel Gabor

Nathaniel Gabor is an American experimental condensed matter physicist at UC Riverside, known for energy transfer in atomically thin 2D materials and receiving the 2019 PECASE award.

Nathaniel Hackett

Nathaniel Hackett, known as Nate Hackett, is an American football coach, offensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals since 2026 and formerly head coach of the 2022 Denver Broncos.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American novelist and short-story writer born in Salem, Massachusetts; author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables; descendant of a Salem witch-trial judge.

Nathaniel Heintz

Nathaniel Heintz is an American molecular neuroscientist at Rockefeller University known for the GENSAT mouse atlas, the TRAP method, and co-discovering the DNA mark 5hmC.

Nathaniel Hendren

Nathaniel Hendren is an American economist, a professor at MIT since 2023 after teaching at Harvard, known for research on intergenerational mobility and health insurance markets.

Nathaniel Hitt

Nathaniel ("Than") Hitt is an American research fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in West Virginia, known for brook trout research and a 2014 PECASE award.

Nathaniel Horwitz

Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz is an American investor and media entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Hunterbrook Media and Hunterbrook Capital, a $100 million news-driven hedge fund launched in 2023.

Nathaniel J. Killian

Nathaniel J. Killian is a neuroscientist who, as a graduate student with Elizabeth A. Buffalo, first recorded grid cells in a non-human primate, now a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Nathaniel L. Rosi

Nathaniel L. Rosi (born 1976) is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for work on metal-organic frameworks and nanoparticle assembly.

Nathaniel Lardner

Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768) was an English nonconformist minister and writer whose multi-volume Credibility of the Gospel History made him the founder of modern critical research in early Christian literature.