All articles starting with N
16,460 articles
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator who has directed New York City's Hayden Planetarium since 1996 and hosted the 2014 series Cosmos.
Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond (born 1941), American singer-songwriter and Brill Building writer behind "Sweet Caroline," "Cracklin' Rosie," and the Monkees' "I'm a Believer"; 130 million albums sold, retired from touring in 2018 due to Parkinson's disease.
Neil Druckmann (ניל דרוקמן)
Neil Druckmann (ניל דרוקמן), born 1978 in Israel, is the Israeli-American game designer, writer, and studio head of Naughty Dog, creator of The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II, co-creator of HBO's adaptation, and director of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Neil Dudgeon
Neil Dudgeon is the British actor who plays DCI John Barnaby, cousin of Tom Barnaby, as the lead of ITV's Midsomer Murders after John Nettles; also known for Son of Rambow and The Street.
Neil E. Todreas
Neil E. Todreas is an emeritus MIT professor of nuclear engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, known for reactor thermal hydraulics and the textbook Nuclear Systems.
Neil Ellice
Neil Ellice is a British actor and voiceover artist who plays John "Soap" MacTavish in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and Modern Warfare II (2022), and Hunter D-90 in Loki; not the same person as narrator Neil Hellegers.
Neil Etheridge
Neil Leonard Dula Etheridge (born 1990, Enfield Town, England) is a Filipino-English goalkeeper; first Filipino in the Premier League with Cardiff City, 82 caps for the Philippines, retired from international duty June 2026.
Neil F. Johnson
Neil F. Johnson is a British-trained physicist and professor at George Washington University since 2018 who applies many-body physics to online hate, extremism, insurgency, and finance.
Neil Fingleton
Neil Fingleton (1980–2017), English basketball player and actor, 7 ft 7.5 in (2.33 m), Guinness-recognized tallest man in the UK; played Mag the Mighty in Game of Thrones and the Fisher King in Doctor Who.
Neil Finn
Neil Finn (born 1958), New Zealand singer-songwriter and OBE, frontman of Crowded House and former member of Split Enz; wrote "Don't Dream It's Over" and "I Got You", recorded solo albums, joined Fleetwood Mac in 2018, and leads Crowded House's current lineup with sons Liam and Elroy.
Neil Flynn
Neil Flynn (born 1960, Chicago) is an American actor and comedian, the Janitor on Scrubs (2001-2010) and Mike Heck on The Middle (2009-2018), trained at Bradley University and Chicago's Second City improv scene.
Neil Frances
Neil Frances is a Los Angeles electronic pop duo formed in 2016 by Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry, known for their Stardust cover, the albums There Is No Neil Frances (2022) and It's All a Bit Fuzzy (2023), and Nettwerk releases; distinct from musician Neal Francis.
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, British author of The Sandman comics and novels American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book; Newbery, Hugo, and Nebula winner; later faced sexual assault allegations and publisher consequences.
Neil Gaiman bibliography
The Neil Gaiman bibliography is the published body of work by Neil Gaiman (born 1960), an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theater, and films.
Neil Gehrels
Neil Gehrels (1952–2017) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who led the Swift gamma-ray burst mission and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, formerly called Swift and renamed in 2018 for its first principal investigator, is a NASA space telescope launched in 2004 to rapidly detect and follow up gamma-ray bursts.
Neil Gershenfeld
Neil Gershenfeld is an MIT physicist who directs the Center for Bits and Atoms and originated the global fab lab network, community workshops offering public access to digital fabrication tools.
Neil Giraldo
Neil "Spyder" Giraldo (born 1955, Cleveland) is an American guitarist, producer, and songwriter, Pat Benatar's musical partner and husband since 1982, first guitarist on MTV, and co-creator of hits including "Love Is a Battlefield."
Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since April 10, 2017, Trump's first appointee, succeeding Scalia; originalist and textualist, author of McGirt v. Oklahoma, confirmed 54-45 on April 7, 2017.
Neil Gray
Neil Gray is a Scottish National Party politician who has served as Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Justice since May 2026, having been the MP for Airdrie and Shotts from 2015.
Neil Greenham
Neil C. Greenham is a Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, known for polymer LEDs and hybrid solar cells, and received the Royal Society Kavli Medal in 2013.
Neil H Riordan
Neil H Riordan is an American stem cell researcher and entrepreneur who founded the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, which treats diseases with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells.
Neil H. Raskin
Neil H. Raskin (1935–2026) was an American neurologist and headache medicine researcher, professor emeritus at UCSF, known for describing hypnic and thunderclap headache, the Raskin Protocol for migraine, and the textbook Headache.
Neil H. Shubin
Neil H. Shubin, also known as Neil Shubin, is an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago, best known for discovering the fossil fish Tiktaalik roseae.
Neil Hamilton (actor)
Neil Hamilton, full name James Neil Hamilton, was an American actor from the silent era through television, best remembered as Police Commissioner Gordon on the 1966–1968 Batman series.
Neil Hamilton (politician)
Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a British former barrister and Conservative MP for Tatton from 1983 to 1997 who resigned as a minister in the 1994 cash-for-questions affair.
Neil Hamilton Fairley
Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891–1966) was an Australian physician and army officer who led Allied malaria control in the Second World War, proving atebrin could suppress the disease.
Neil Hannon
Neil Hannon (born 1970, Derry) is the Northern Irish singer-songwriter behind The Divine Comedy, known for Casanova, the Father Ted theme, and the Wonka soundtrack; thirteen albums through Rainy Sunday Afternoon (2025).
Neil Harbisson
Neil Harbisson is a British-born artist and cyborg activist born with achromatopsia. His antenna implant converts light frequencies into sound, enabling him to hear colors beyond the human spectrum.
Neil Harris (footballer, born 1977)
Neil Harris (born 1977) is an English football manager and former striker, Millwall's all-time leading scorer with 138 goals in 431 appearances, now manager of Cambridge United after spells at Millwall, Cardiff, and Gillingham.