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Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (نواف الأحمد الجابر الصباح)

Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (نواف الأحمد الجابر الصباح), 16th Amir of Kuwait (2020-2023), former interior and defense minister, Crown Prince from 2006, died 16 December 2023 aged 86, succeeded by half-brother Meshal.

Nawaf al-Hazmi

Nawaf al-Hazmi was a Saudi member of al Qaeda and a hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah

Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, born in 1971, is a Kuwaiti member of the ruling Al-Sabah family who has led the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation as CEO since 2022.

Nawal

Nawal, also known as Nawal El Kuwaitia (نوال), is a Kuwaiti singer born Nawal Thaher Habib Al-Zaid in 1966, a Khaliji superstar popular across the Persian Gulf states.

Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي)

Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي), 1931–2021, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and feminist; author of Women and Sex and Woman at Point Zero; jailed under Sadat in 1981, exiled under death threats, wrote over 50 works.

Nawal El-Moutawakel

Nawal El-Moutawakel (نوال المتوكل-بنيس), born 1962 in Casablanca, is a Moroccan hurdler who won the first Olympic women's 400 m hurdles in 1984 (54.61), the first Moroccan, African, Arab, and Muslim woman Olympic champion, later an IOC Vice-President and Moroccan sports minister.

Sep 23, 2026

Nawal Kishore

Nawal Kishore (منشی نول کشور), also known as Munshi Nawal Kishore, was an Indian publisher who founded the Nawal Kishore Press at Lucknow in 1858.

Sep 23, 2026

Nawanagar State

Nawanagar State (નવાનગર) was a princely state in Saurashtra, India, ruled by the Jadeja Rajputs and founded by Jam Rawal, who laid out its capital in 1540.

Nawar

Nawar was a Hurrian land or polity in Upper Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC, best known from the royal title "king of Urkesh and Nawar".

Oct 15, 2026

Nawara Gas Field

The Nawara Gas Field is Tunisia's largest gas development, an onshore field in the Ghadames Basin in southern Tunisia owned by ETAP and OMV, producing since 2020.

Nawaz Sharif (میاں محمد نواز شریف)

Nawaz Sharif (میاں محمد نواز شریف), born 1949 in Lahore, is a Pakistani businessman-politician, PML-N leader, and three-time prime minister (1990–93, 1997–99, 2013–17), ousted each time by president, coup, and Supreme Court disqualification respectively.

Oct 10, 2026

Nawazish Mirza

Nawazish Mirza (Mirza Nawazish Elahi) is a French-based finance economist and full professor at Excelia Business School in La Rochelle, researching green finance and ESG.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui (नवाज़ुद्दीन सिद्दीकी)

Nawazuddin Siddiqui (नवाज़ुद्दीन सिद्दीकी), born 1974 in Budhana, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian actor, NSD graduate, known for Gangs of Wasseypur, Sacred Games, a 2012 National Film Award Special Jury Award, and 2013 Filmfare Award.

Sep 24, 2026

Naweji of Lunda

Naweji, also known as Nawej or Mwaant Yaav Naweej, is the first Mwant Yav of Lunda tradition, credited with fortifying the capital and naming governors in the 17th century.

Nawidemak

Nawidemak, also known as Naldamak, was a kandake, or queen, of the Kingdom of Kush in the Meroitic period, the fourth in the succession of Kush's female rulers.

Nawish (crater on Ceres)

Nawish is a 77-km-wide impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 18.28°N, 193.79°E, IAU-approved in 2015 and named for the Acoma guardian of the field; it namesakes the Ac-H-8 equatorial mapping quadrangle.

Oct 10, 2026

Nawruz

Nawruz, also Nowruz, was a Mongol emir who ruled Khorasan, rebelled twice against the Ilkhanate, helped Ghazan Khan take power and convert to Islam, and was executed in 1297.

Nawwal bint Tariq

Nawwal bint Tariq (نوال بنت طارق), born 1951, Omani royal of Al Said, daughter of Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur, sister of Sultan Haitham, and the only recorded wife of Sultan Qaboos, married 1976, marriage ended, no children.

Naxalism

Naxalism, or Left-Wing Extremism, is India's Maoist armed insurgency named after the 1967 Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal. Led since 2004 by the banned CPI (Maoist) and its PLGA, it peaked around 2010 and declined sharply under India's combined security and development strategy.

Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: India's long-running communist rebellion led since 2004 by the CPI (Maoist) and its People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, rooted in the 1967 Naxalbari uprising, active in the mineral-rich red corridor and targeted for elimination by March 2026.

Naxitamab

Naxitamab (Danyelza, naxitamab-gqgk, hu3F8) is a humanized anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody FDA-approved in 2020 with GM-CSF for relapsed/refractory high-risk neuroblastoma in bone or bone marrow; Trial 201 showed 50% ORR.

Naxos (settlement)

Naxos (Νάξος): two ancient Greek settlements sharing one name, the principal city on the Cycladic island of Naxos (Grotta, Panermos, Yria) and the first Greek colony in Sicily, founded 734 BC, destroyed 403 BC.

Naxos (Νάξος)

Naxos (Νάξος) is the largest and most fertile island of the Cyclades, Greece, at 37°N 25°E: 435 km², Mount Zas 1,004 m, Palaeolithic Stelida site, the Portara temple gate, and an AOP potato and gravièra cheese economy.

Naxos disease

Naxos disease, also called keratoderma with woolly hair type I, is a rare autosomal recessive cardiocutaneous disorder combining arrhythmic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, woolly hair, and palmoplantar keratoderma, usually caused by a homozygous JUP plakoglobin deletion.