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Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver (born 1967) is a Scottish archaeologist, author and broadcaster, presenter of BBC's Coast and A History of Scotland, later a GB News host known for lockdown, vaccine and climate commentary.
Neil Osheroff
Neil Osheroff is an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine known for research on type II topoisomerases and the anticancer and antibacterial drugs targeting them.
Neil P. King
Neil P. King is a biochemist and protein designer, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, whose computationally designed nanoparticle vaccine was approved in 2022 as SKYCovione.
Neil Parish
Neil Parish (born 1956) was the British Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton from 2010 to 2022 and EFRA committee chair; he resigned in May 2022 after admitting watching pornography twice in the Commons chamber.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born 1973, Albuquerque) is an American actor, singer, and awards host, known for Doogie Howser, M.D., Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, and his 2014 Tony-winning Hedwig on Broadway.
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce is a New Zealand epidemiologist and biostatistician, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known for asthma research and co-founding ISAAC.
Neil Pearson
Neil Pearson (born 1959) is a British actor known for Dave Charnley in Drop the Dead Donkey, Tony Clark in Between the Lines (1994 BAFTA nomination), Richard Finch in all four Bridget Jones films, and his London rare book dealership.
Neil Peart
Neil Peart (1952-2020), Canadian drummer and primary lyricist of Rush from 1974, known for compositional drum parts, 2112, Moving Pictures, and the 2026 documentary No One's Disciple.
Neil Postman
Neil Postman (1931–2003) was an American media theorist, educator, and social critic who taught at New York University and is best known for Amusing Ourselves to Death, his 1985 critique of television.
Neil Q. McDonald
Neil Q. McDonald, also known as Neil McDonald, is a structural biologist and Professor at Birkbeck, joint with the Francis Crick Institute, known for the 1991 nerve growth factor structure.
Neil R Poulter
Neil R Poulter is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London since 1997, and Chief Investigator of May Measurement Month.
Neil R. Blacklow
Neil R. Blacklow is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and founding chief of its Division of Infectious Diseases.
Neil R. Branda
Neil R. Branda is a Canadian materials chemist at Simon Fraser University known for molecular switches triggered by light, and for founding 4D LABS and SWITCH Materials.
Neil R. Cashman
Neil R. Cashman is a Canadian neurologist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for showing that misfolded SOD1 spreads in a prion-like manner in ALS.
Neil R. Powe
Neil R. Powe is an American physician-scientist who has served as chief of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and professor at UCSF since 2009.
Neil Reagan
Neil Reagan (John Neil Reagan, 1908-1996), nicknamed Moon, was an American radio broadcaster, CBS producer, and McCann-Erickson advertising executive, older brother of President Ronald Reagan, whom he directed in Death Valley Days.
Neil Rimer
Neil Rimer is a Swiss-Canadian venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures in Geneva in 1996 and led early investments in Betfair, Supercell, Revolut, and Roblox before stepping back in 2021.
Neil Risch
Neil Risch is an American statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist who directs human genetics at UCSF, co-leads a large Kaiser Permanente biobank, and won the 2023 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award.
Neil Robertson
Neil Robertson (born 1982, Melbourne) is an Australian snooker player, 2010 world champion, former world number one, and the most successful player from outside the UK, with 26 ranking titles and a career triple crown.
Neil Robertson (graph theorist)
Neil Robertson (George Neil Robertson) is a graph theorist, Faculty Emeritus at Ohio State University, known for the 23-paper Graph Minors series with Paul Seymour proving Wagner's conjecture.
Neil Ruddock
Neil 'Razor' Ruddock, born 1968 in Wandsworth, London, is an English former centre-back and TV personality. Clubs included Millwall, Tottenham, Southampton, Liverpool (152 apps, 1995 League Cup), West Ham; one England cap in 1994.
Neil Sandilands
Neil Joseph William Sandilands (born 1975, Randfontein) is a South African actor, filmmaker, and musician known for General Abbot in Sweet Tooth (Emmy-nominated), The Thinker in The Flash, Titus in The 100, and News of the World.
Neil Scolding
Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.
Neil Sean
Neil Sean, British entertainment and royal journalist born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, to entertainers Ann Montini and Alan Scott. Former Sky News showbiz reporter, Fox News royal reporter from 2008, Metro "Green Room" gossip columnist.
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (1939–2026), American singer-songwriter and pianist of Brill Building pop; hits 'Oh! Carol' and 'Breaking Up Is Hard to Do', 1970s comeback with 'Laughter in the Rain'; born Brooklyn, died Los Angeles at 86.
Neil Shen (沈南鹏)
Neil Shen (沈南鹏) is a Chinese venture capital investor, founding and managing partner of HongShan, known as Sequoia China until 2023, and co-founder of Ctrip and Home Inns.
Neil Siegel
Neil Gilbert Siegel is an American systems engineer who led the U.S. Army's first digital battlefield system and won the 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Neil Simon
Neil Simon (Marvin Neil Simon, 1927-2018), American playwright and screenwriter of The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, and Pulitzer-winning Lost in Yonkers; three Tonys, four Oscar nominations, Neil Simon Theatre named for him in 1983.
Neil Sloane
Neil Sloane, born in 1939, is a Welsh-born mathematician and coding theorist best known as the creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
Neil Smelser
Neil Smelser (1930–2017) was an American sociologist and university administrator at UC Berkeley, known for his 1962 Theory of Collective Behavior and as a foundational figure in economic sociology.