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Neal Mankad

Neal P. Mankad is an American organometallic and bioinorganic chemist, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2012, known for catalysts pairing two cooperating metals.

Neal Marshall

Neal Marshall (Neal Gregory Marshall, born 1969, Victoria, BC), Canadian long track speed skater; three-time Olympian (1992, 1994, 1998), 1997 1,500 m world record holder (1:50.05), 1997 World Single Distances bronze medalist.

Neal Maupay

Neal Maupay, born 1996 in Versailles, is a French-Argentine forward and Nice academy product who played for Saint-Etienne, Brest, Brentford, Brighton, Everton, Marseille, and Sevilla, with 108 career goals.

Neal McCoy

Neal McCoy (Hubert Neal McGaughey Jr.), American country singer from Jacksonville, Texas; 1990s honky-tonk hitmaker with the number-one singles "No Doubt About It" and "Wink" and three platinum albums; Charley Pride protege, still touring.

Neal McDonough

Neal McDonough (born 1966, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is an American character actor known for Band of Brothers' Buck Compton, Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America: The First Avenger, and Damien Darhk, and for his no-kissing contract clause.

Neal Mohan

Neal Mohan, American executive, CEO of YouTube since 2023 after serving as its Chief Product Officer; earlier led DoubleClick and Google display advertising; TIME's 2025 CEO of the Year.

Neal Morse

Neal Morse (born 1960) is an American progressive rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer; founder of Spock's Beard, member of Transatlantic, Flying Colors, and the Neal Morse Band, and creator of Christian-themed solo concept albums.

Neal Patterson

Neal Patterson (1949–2017) was an American business executive who co-founded the health IT company Cerner in 1979, built it to $4.7 billion in projected 2015 revenue, and led it until his death.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are a British screenwriting duo who wrote or co-wrote seven Eon James Bond films from The World Is Not Enough (1999) to No Time to Die (2021), plus Let Him Have It, Plunkett & Macleane, Johnny English, and SS-GB, before departing when Amazon took creative control.

Neal Rosen

Neal Rosen is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for showing that feedback reactivation of parallel signaling pathways causes resistance to cancer drugs.

Neal S. Bergano

Neal S. Bergano is an engineer in optical fiber communications who spent his career at Bell Labs and TE SubCom, advancing transoceanic submarine cable capacity.

Neal S. Blaisdell Center

Neal S. Blaisdell Center, formerly Honolulu International Center, is Honolulu's 22.4-acre city-owned events complex opened in 1964, with an 8,800-seat arena, 2,157-seat concert hall, and 65,000 sq ft exhibition hall.

Neal S. Bricker

Neal S. Bricker (1927–2015) was an American nephrologist who proposed the intact nephron and trade-off hypotheses and was the first president of the American Society of Nephrology.

Neal S. Young

Neal S. Young, also known as Neal Young, is an American hematologist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute known for work on aplastic anemia.

Neal Schon

Neal Schon, American guitarist born 1954, Santana alumnus, co-founder and sole constant member of Journey; Rock Hall 2017; 11 solo albums; "Don't Stop Believin'" Les Paul sold for $254,000 in 2026.

Neal Scott Silverman

Neal Scott Silverman is an American immunologist known for defining what activates the Drosophila Imd pathway and for leading the University of Arizona's immunobiology department from 2026.

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson (born 1959, Fort Meade, Maryland) is an American novelist, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, Seveneves, and the Bomb Light series; he coined the term metaverse and consulted for Blue Origin from 1999 to 2006.

Neale

Lake Neale: intermittent salt lake (playa) in the Petermann locality, Northern Territory, Australia, northwest of Lake Amadeus; named 1930 for pilot Frank Neale; part of the Hopkins-to-Finke salt lake chain in the Amadeus Basin.

Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch, also known as Neale Walsch, is an American author whose Conversations with God series, begun in 1995, became an international bestseller in 37 languages.

Neale Lavis

Neale John Lavis (1930–2019) was an Australian eventing rider who won team gold and individual silver on Mirrabooka at the 1960 Rome Olympics, rode at Tokyo 1964, and later bred the Melbourne Cup winner Just a Dash.

Neamţ

Neamț County (Județul Neamț), a county in Romania's North-East Region with seat Piatra Neamț; 5,896 km², 444,666 residents (2026, provisional), rank 18 of 42, reestablished 1968 from former Neamț and Roman counties.

Neanderthal

Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis, Neandertal): extinct human species of Europe and western-central Asia, 400,000-40,000 years ago; closest extinct relative of Homo sapiens; stocky build, Mousterian tools, deliberate burial; interbreeding left about 2% Neanderthal DNA in non-Africans.

Neanderthal extinction

Neanderthal extinction is the disappearance of the Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago after roughly 400,000 years, attributed to competition with modern humans, climate change, and demographic fragility, leaving up to 4% DNA in non-Africans.

Neanderthal genetics

Neanderthal genetics studies Neanderthal DNA and the 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry, from admixture 50–60,000 years ago, carried today by non-African humans, plus Denisovan and ghost hominin introgression.

Neap tide

A neap tide is a moderate tide occurring twice each lunar month, at the Moon's first and third quarters, when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other.

Neapolis (Sardinia)

Neapolis was a Phoenician, Punic, and Roman city on the southern Gulf of Oristano in western Sardinia, near Guspini, whose remains include the Grandi Terme, Roman baths still under their original roof.

Neapolis (Ukraine)

Neapolis (Scythian Neapolis, Неаполь Скіфський), ancient fortified capital of the Late Scythian kingdom on the Salhyr River at Simferopol, Crimea, 2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE, with Greek-style palace, walls, and royal mausoleums of Skiluros and Argotos.

Neapolis of Syracuse

Neapolis of Syracuse: the youngest of the five ancient districts of Syracuse, Sicily, now its main archaeological park, holding the Greek theatre, the 196 m Altar of Hieron II, a Roman amphitheatre, and the latomie quarries.

Neapolis Theodorias

Neapolis Theodorias, the new city of Theodorias, was a Byzantine city refounded in 539 CE by Justinian on the site of Olbia in Cyrenaica, Libya, known for its sixth-century church mosaics at Qasr Libya.

Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great

The Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great were two expeditions by Louis I of Hungary in 1347 and 1350 to avenge his brother Andrew's murder and claim Naples.