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Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs (Leonie Sachs, 1891–1970), German-Swedish poet and playwright, 1966 Nobel laureate in Literature with S.Y. Agnon; Holocaust poetry in German, exile in Stockholm from 1940, famed correspondence with Paul Celan.

Oct 22, 2026

Nelly Sachs Prize

The Nelly Sachs Prize (Nelly-Sachs-Preis) is a literary prize awarded every two years by the German city of Dortmund, named after poet Nelly Sachs, its first laureate in 1961.

Nellyville

Nellyville is Nelly's second studio album, released June 25, 2002 on Universal/Fo' Reel. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 714,000 first-week copies, sold about seven million, and produced the Grammy-winning hits Hot in Herre and Dilemma.

Nels Edlefsen

Nels Edlefsen, born 1893, was an American physicist who built the first crude cyclotron chambers in 1930 as Ernest Lawrence's first Ph.D. student at Berkeley, co-announced the method, and later worked in soil science.

Nels Elde

Nels Elde is an American evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, and an HHMI Investigator known for studying host-pathogen conflict.

Nelsan Ellis

Nelsan Ellis (Nelson Leon Ellis, 1977–2017), American actor and Juilliard-trained playwright best known as Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's True Blood (2008–2014), winner of a 2008 Satellite Award, also Bobby Byrd in Get on Up and MLK in The Butler; died of heart failure from alcohol-withdrawal complications.

Nelson

Nelson, here the Nelson River in Manitoba, Canada: fourth longest Canadian river, draining over 1.2 million km2 from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay and anchoring Manitoba Hydro's regulated hydroelectric system.

Nelson Agholor

Nelson Agholor, NFL wide receiver (USC), drafted 20th overall by the Eagles in 2015; Super Bowl LII champion, 896-yard 2020 season with Raiders, later Patriots and Ravens.

Oct 22, 2026

Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren, born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham, was an American novelist and essayist who wrote about Chicago's outcasts and won the first National Book Award for fiction for The Man with the Golden Arm.

Sep 21, 2026

Nelson B. Freimer

Nelson B. Freimer is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at UCLA who directs the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge and studies the genetics of depression.

Oct 15, 2026

Nelson Complexity Index

The Nelson Complexity Index (NCI) is a measure of the sophistication and capital intensity of a petroleum refinery, developed by Wilbur L. Nelson in the 1960s; refineries scoring above 15 are very complex.

Nelson Cruz

Nelson Cruz (Boomstick), Dominican MLB designated hitter born 1980; 19 seasons, 464 home runs, 2011 ALCS MVP with Rangers, oldest 30-homer season, Roberto Clemente Award winner.

Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille (Nelson Richard DeMille, 1943-2024), American thriller novelist, author of the John Corey series (Plum Island), By the Rivers of Babylon, and The General's Daughter; Vietnam veteran, 17-time New York Times bestseller, died September 17, 2024.

Nelson Diebel

Nelson Diebel (born 1970, Hinsdale, Illinois) is an American former breaststroke swimmer who won two golds at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics: the 100 m breaststroke in an Olympic record 1:01.50 and the world-record-tying 4x100 m medley relay.

Nelson Dilipkumar

Nelson Dilipkumar (நெல்சன் திலீப்குமார்), Tamil film director and screenwriter born 1984 in Vellore; directed Kolamaavu Kokila, Doctor, Beast, and the Rs 600-crore Rajinikanth hit Jailer (2023), and is making Jailer 2 and KHxRK.

Nelson Dunford

Nelson Dunford was a mathematician at Yale University known for functional analysis, who defined spectral operators and co-wrote the three-volume treatise Linear Operators with Jacob Schwartz.

Nelson Eddy

Nelson Eddy (1901–1967), American concert and operatic baritone, starred with Jeanette MacDonald in eight MGM operetta films from Naughty Marietta (1935) to I Married an Angel (1942); Rose Marie was 1936's top earner.

Nelson Epee

Nelson Épée (Nelson Junior Épée), French rugby winger born 2001 in Toulouse, Stade Toulousain and France sevens player; won Olympic gold in men's rugby sevens at Paris 2024 after entering the squad as an injury replacement.

Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman (1906–1998), American philosopher of the grue paradox, mereology, irrealism, and the symbol theory of Languages of Art; taught at Penn, Brandeis, and Harvard, founding Project Zero.

Nelson hold

Nelson hold: wrestling grip from behind with arms under the opponent's arms and hands on the neck's back; half nelson (one arm, 1885–90), full nelson (both arms, 1920–25, illegal in amateur wrestling), plus quarter and three-quarter variants.

Nelson Horatio Darton

Nelson Horatio Darton was an American geologist with the United States Geological Survey who mapped the Great Plains and Black Hills and named the Ogallala formation.

Nelson Island

Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: 22 km by 13 km island southwest of King George Island, 95% covered by a temperate ice cap, with protected Harmony Point (ASPA 133) and its chinstrap penguin colony. Distinct from Nelson Island, British Columbia.

Nelson James Terrell

Nelson James Terrell, born 1923, was an American physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who showed in 1959 that a fast-moving object appears rotated, not contracted, in photographs.

Sep 21, 2026

Nelson L. Michael

Nelson L. Michael is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand, the first to show protection, and developed the Army's ZPIV Zika vaccine.

Oct 20, 2026

Nelson Lakes National Park

Nelson Lakes National Park: South Island, New Zealand park established 1956 around glacial Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa; 101,880 ha of northernmost Southern Alps, beech forest, St Arnaud gateway.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba; 1918-2013), South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate with F.W. de Klerk; imprisoned 27 years, elected 1994 as South Africa's first democratically elected president, served 1994-1999.

Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality

Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape metro seated in Gqeberha, established 2000 from Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, and Despatch; population about 1.15 million; known for automotive industry, seaports, and a troubled audit and service delivery record.