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Nelson Oil and Gas Field
The Nelson oil and gas field is a producing oil field in the UK Central North Sea, about 200 kilometers east of Aberdeen, discovered in 1988 and operated by Shell.
Nélson Oliveira
Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira (born 1991, Barcelos), Portuguese centre-forward, Benfica academy product; 17 caps, 2 goals for Portugal, Euro 2012 semi-finalist; 13 clubs including Norwich, AEK, Vitória SC, now SC Farense.
Nelson Pedreiro
Nelson Pedreiro is an aerospace engineer with a PhD from Stanford. He spent 28 years at Lockheed Martin, leading the NIRCam program for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz, founder of Trian Fund Management, is an American activist investor known for the Snapple turnaround, proxy fights at Heinz, Wendy's, P&G, and Disney, and board seats including Unilever.
Nelson Pierre
Nelson Pierre (Nelson Guichard Pierre), Haitian forward born 2005 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Union homegrown, Vancouver Whitecaps FC player, on loan to Halifax Wanderers FC; Haiti U-20 international.
Nelson Piquet
Nelson Piquet (born Nelson Sautomaior, 1952), Brazilian three-time Formula One world champion (1981, 1983, 1987) with Brabham and Williams; first turbo-era champion, father of Nelson Piquet Jr and Kelly Piquet.
Nelson Piquet Jr.
Nelson Piquet Jr. (Nelson Angelo Piquet, born 1985), Brazilian racing driver, son of three-time F1 champion Nelson Piquet; first Formula E champion 2014/15 with 144 points, and central figure in the 2008 Renault Crashgate scandal.
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle (1921-1985), American arranger, composer, and conductor, famed for Frank Sinatra's Capitol concept albums, Nat King Cole hits, the Gershwin Songbook, an Oscar for The Great Gatsby, and Linda Ronstadt's What's New.
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller Sr., served four terms as New York governor and was 41st vice president under Gerald Ford.
Nelson Rodrigues
Nelson Rodrigues (Nelson Falcão Rodrigues, 1912–1980) was a Brazilian journalist and playwright whose 1943 play Vestido de Noiva is credited as the start of modern theater in Brazil.
Nelson Ruiz‐Opazo
Nelson Ruiz-Opazo is a Chilean-trained molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Boston University's Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension genetics and the DEspR cancer target.
Nelson S. Román
Nelson S. Román, also known as Nelson Stephen Román, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Obama in 2013.
Nelson Saúte
Nelson Saúte is a Mozambican writer, born in Maputo in 1967, known for the novel Rio dos bons sinais and his anthologies of Mozambican poetry.
Nélson Semedo
Nélson Semedo, Portuguese right-back born 1993 in Lisbon; clubs Sintrense, Benfica, Barcelona (€30M, 2017), Wolves (2020), Fenerbahçe (2025); UEFA Nations League winner with Portugal in 2019 and 2025.
Nelson Spruston
Nelson Spruston is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who serves as Executive Director of HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and Vice President of HHMI, known for research on dendritic integration and hippocampal cell types.
Nelson Stepanyan
Nelson Stepanyan (Նելսոն Ստեփանյան, 1913–1944) was a Soviet naval assault pilot of Armenian origin who flew Il-2 aircraft in World War II and was twice a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Nelson Strait
Nelson Strait (Nelson, estrecho) is a strait in the South Shetland Islands between Nelson and Robert Islands at 62°20'S 59°18'W, formerly called Harmony Strait, King George's Strait, and Parrys Straits.
Nelson syndrome
Nelson syndrome: growth of an ACTH-secreting pituitary corticotroph tumor after bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing's disease, also called post-adrenalectomy syndrome; triad of hyperpigmentation, high ACTH, expanding sellar mass; about 26% prevalence; surgery first-line.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri: encyclopedic art museum opened 1933 from the Nelson and Atkins bequests, free admission since 1998, 45,000+ works, Bloch Building, and a WEISS/MANFREDI expansion.
Nelson-class battleship
The Nelson class was a pair of British battleships, HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney, built in the 1920s under the Washington Naval Treaty, with all nine 16-inch guns mounted forward.
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson, BC is a city of about 10,600 on Kootenay Lake's West Arm in the Selkirk Mountains, incorporated 1897, named for Lt.-Gov. Hugh Nelson, home to BC's first hydroelectric plant and 350 heritage buildings.
Nelson, Lancashire
Nelson, Lancashire: a Pendle mill town named after a railway station opened in 1849, once a major cotton-weaving center, now undergoing £25m Town Deal and £20m Pride in Place regeneration.
Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson (Whakatū) is a South Island New Zealand city of about 55,000 on Tasman Bay, founded by the New Zealand Company in 1842, noted for roughly 2,400 annual sunshine hours, its 422 km² unitary authority, and Port Nelson.
Nelson's Column
Nelson's Column, the Grade I listed memorial in Trafalgar Square, London, honoring Admiral Horatio Nelson; designed by William Railton with statue by E.H. Baily, built 1840–1843, about 51.6 m tall, with Landseer's bronze lions added 1867.
Nelson's Pillar
Nelson's Pillar, the Nelson Pillar, was a 121-foot granite Doric column with a Thomas Kirk statue of Horatio Nelson on O'Connell Street, Dublin, built 1808–1809 to Wilkins's design, opened 1809, bombed and destroyed in 1966, site now the Spire.
Nelum Pokuna Theatre
The Nelum Pokuna Theatre, commonly called the Lotus Pond Theatre, is Sri Lanka's national performing-arts theater in Colombo, built with Chinese assistance and opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2011.
Nelumbo
Nelumbo is the sole genus of Nelumbonaceae (Proteales), the true lotuses, with two species, Asian N. nucifera and American N. lutea; distinct from Nymphaea water lilies in leaves, fruit, and alkaloids, with seeds viable for over a millennium.
Nelumbo nucifera
Nelumbo nucifera, the sacred lotus (荷花, ハス, padma), is an aquatic perennial of Nelumbonaceae cultivated over 3,000 years in China for edible rhizomes, seeds, medicine, and religious symbolism; national flower of India and Vietnam.
Nelva G. Ramos
Nelva Gonzales Ramos, born 1965 in Port Lavaca, Texas, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Nelvana
Nelvana Limited is a Toronto-based Canadian children's animation studio founded in 1971 by Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, and Clive Smith, named after a 1941 comic heroine. Owned by Corus Entertainment; production halted in 2025.