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Nadezhda Chizhova
Nadezhda Chizhova (Надежда Владимировна Чижова, born 1945) is a Soviet shot putter, 1968-1972-1976 Olympic medalist, first woman over 20 and 21 meters, personal best 21.45.
Nadezhda Kolesnikova Ilyina
Nadezhda Kolesnikova-Ilyina (Надежда Колесникова-Ильина), also Nadezhda Ilyina, Soviet 400 m sprinter born 1949; 1976 Olympic 4x400 m relay bronze medalist and world indoor 400 m record holder; mother of tennis player Nadiya Petrova.
Nadezhda Konyayeva
Nadezhda Konyayeva (Надежда Ефимовна Коняева), Soviet javelin thrower born 5 October 1931 in Chapkina; three-time 1954 world record setter (best 55.48 m) and 1956 Melbourne Olympic bronze medalist.
Nadezhda Krupskaya (Надежда Константиновна Крупская)
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Надежда Константиновна Крупская), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, pedagogue, and Lenin's wife from 1898; Iskra secretary, author of The Woman Worker, and Soviet deputy education commissar 1929–1939 who led literacy campaigns.
Nadezhda Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам)
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам), born Khazina (1899-1980), Russian memoirist, wife of Osip Mandelstam, who preserved his poetry and wrote Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned.
Nadezhda Olizarenko
Nadezhda Olizarenko (Надежда Олизаренко, née Mushta), Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner; 1980 Olympic 800m champion in world record 1:53.43, still the Olympic record, plus 1500m bronze and 1986 European gold.
Nadezhda Radzevich
Nadezhda Radzevich (born 1953) is a retired Soviet volleyball player who won the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold medal and three European titles with the Soviet Union team.
Nadezhda Ryashkina
Nadezhda Ryashkina (Надежда Ряшкина), Soviet and Russian race walker born 1967; world record holder for the 10,000 m track walk at 41:56.23 since the 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games, and 1999 20 km world best co-holder.
Nadezhda Shuvayeva Olkhova
Nadezhda Shuvayeva-Olkhova (Надежда Александровна Шуваева-Ольхова), born 1952 in Barnaul, is a Soviet basketball player, two-time Olympic champion (1976, 1980), two-time world and six-time European champion, later a Kazakh sports official.
Nadezhda Talanova
Nadezhda Talanova (Надежда Александровна Таланова), born 1967 in Kizner, Russian biathlete; 1994 Lillehammer Olympic relay gold skiing the first leg, world and European medals, later Smolensk coach and deputy.
Nadezhda Tkachenko
Nadezhda Tkachenko (Nadiya Volodymyrivna Tkachenko-Sapronova), born 1948, Soviet Ukrainian pentathlete; 1980 Olympic champion with the final and only 5,000-plus pentathlon world record, 5,083 points; distinct from the judoka Nadezhda Tatarchenko.
Nadezhda Zakharova
Nadezhda Dmitriyevna Zakharova (Надежда Дмитриевна Захарова), born 1945, Soviet basketball player; 1976 Olympic gold, World Cup 1971 and 1975, five EuroBasket titles; not the 1980 refusenik of the same name.
NADH
NADH, or reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, is the reduced form of the coenzyme NAD. It carries electrons from glycolysis and the citric acid cycle into the mitochondrial electron transport chain, yielding about 2.5 ATP per molecule.
NADH oxidase
NADH oxidase (NOX), FAD-dependent flavoprotein oxidizing NADH to NAD+ with oxygen, forming water or hydrogen peroxide; microbial redox homeostasis enzyme, NAD+-regeneration biocatalyst, and distinct from NADPH oxidase; also mimicked by NOX nanozymes.
NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase, ESSS subunit
ESSS subunit (NDUFB11, CI-ESSS, Np17.3): X-linked accessory subunit of mitochondrial complex I, 153 aa precursor, essential for complex I assembly, cAMP-phosphorylated at Ser20, mutated in MLS syndrome and lethal infantile mitochondrial disorder.
Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi (born 1967, Baghdad) is a British Conservative politician, co-founder of YouGov, MP for Stratford-on-Avon 2010-2024, vaccine deployment minister, Education Secretary, and Chancellor, dismissed in January 2023 over an HMRC settlement.
Nadhira Al Harthy
Nadhira Al Harthy (نظيرة بنت أحمد عبد الله الحارثي), Omani mountaineer and educator, first Omani woman to summit Everest (May 23, 2019), later climbed K2, Nanga Parbat, and Manaslu; died in the July 2026 Broad Peak avalanche.
Nadhiya
Nadhiya, born Zareena Moidu and also credited Nadia Moidu, is an Indian actress in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu films who debuted at 18 in Nokketha Doorathu Kannum Nattu (1984).
Nadi (yoga)
Nāḍī (नाडी) in yoga: subtle-body channels carrying prāṇa, distinct from physical nerves. Counts range from 101 to 727.2 million; iḍā, piṅgalā, suṣumnā are the three principal channels purified by nāḍī-śodhana breathing.
Nadi astrology
Nadi astrology, or Nadi Jodhidam, is a South Indian form of divination in which a reader locates a palm-leaf manuscript said to record the seeker's life, centered on Vaitheeswaran Koil in Tamil Nadu.
Nadi International Airport
Nadi Airport is the main international airport of Fiji, on the west coast of Viti Levu, handling 97 percent of the country's international passengers and serving as Fiji Airways' hub.
Nadi ke Dweep
Nadi ke Dweep (नदी के द्वीप) is a 1951 Hindi psychological novel by Agyeya about four educated people whose lives unfold through conversation and letters.
Nadia
Nadia (Надя; Arabic نَادِيَا) is a feminine given name meaning "hope" in Slavic tradition and "tender" in Arabic, popularized by gymnast Nadia Comăneci and borne by Boulanger, Murad, and Nadim.
Nadia Alexander
Nadia Alexander, American actress born 1994, in Columbia, South Carolina; won Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for Blame; also known for The Dark and Not Okay.
Nadia Ali (actress)
Nadia Ali, also known as Onai Malik, is a Pakistani-born American former adult film performer active from 2015 to 2016.
Nadia Ali (ندیا علی) (singer)
Nadia Ali (ندیا علی), born 1980 in Tripoli, Libya, is a Pakistani-American singer-songwriter, frontwoman of iiO on the 2001 hit "Rapture", later solo artist (Embers), HYLLS founder, and Grammy- and Juno-nominated dance vocalist.
Nadia Almada
Nadia Almada (Jorge Leodoro), Portuguese-born winner of Big Brother UK series 5 in 2004, its first transgender winner, taking 74% of the vote and a £63,500 prize.
Nadia Bjorlin
Nadia Alexandra Bjorlin, American actress and singer born 1980 in Newport, Rhode Island; known for Chloe Lane on Days of Our Lives (1999-2023), Redline, Venice the Series, and daughter of composer Ulf Bjorlin.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber (born 1969) is an American Lutheran pastor, author, and public theologian who founded Denver's House for All Sinners and Saints and wrote three New York Times bestselling memoirs.
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger (Juliette Nadia Boulanger, 1887–1979), French composer, organist, conductor, and composition teacher at the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau; students included Copland, Glass, Carter, Bernstein, and Quincy Jones.