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Neverway

Neverway is a 2027 horror life-sim action RPG by Vancouver studio Coldblood Inc., funded by Outersloth, co-created by Celeste pixel artist Pedro Medeiros with music by Disasterpeace; delayed from October 2026, with a free Steam prologue since April 9, 2026.

Neverwhere

Neverwhere is Neil Gaiman's urban fantasy, first a 1996 six-part BBC TV series devised with Lenny Henry, then his 1997 first solo novel about Richard Mayhew in London Below; later adapted for BBC Radio 4 and Vertigo comics.

Neverwhere (novel)

Neverwhere is Neil Gaiman's 1996 urban fantasy novel, a novelization of his BBC TV series devised with Lenny Henry, following Richard Mayhew into London Below; published in UK, US, and author's preferred texts.

Neverwinter (video game)

Neverwinter (2013) is Cryptic Studios' free-to-play action MMORPG set in the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, based on Dungeons & Dragons; announced 2010 as a co-op RPG, launched on PC June 20, 2013, later on PS4 and Xbox One, known for its Foundry user-content tool and 30+ modules.

Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights is a 2002 BioWare role-playing game published by Infogrames, using Dungeons & Dragons third edition rules and shipping with a toolset for building custom modules.

Neverwinter Nights 2

Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) is Obsidian Entertainment's 2006 Atari-published D&D Forgotten Realms RPG sequel to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights, with the King of Shadows campaign, 3.5 rules, and expansions Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir, and Mysteries of Westgate.

Neves-Corvo

Neves-Corvo is an underground copper, zinc, lead, and silver mine in the Alentejo district of southern Portugal, operated by Somincor and producing continuously since 1989.

Neves-Corvo Mine

The Neves-Corvo Mine is an underground copper, zinc, lead, tin, and silver mine in the Baixo Alentejo region of southern Portugal, opened in 1988 and operated since 2025 by Boliden.

Nevi'im (נְבִיאִים)

Nevi'im (נביאים), the Books of the Prophets, is the second division of the Hebrew Bible, covering Joshua through Kings and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve.

Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute, pen name of Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), British aeronautical engineer and novelist; R100 airship engineer and Airspeed founder who wrote 24 bestsellers including A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Nevil Sidgwick

Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952) was an English theoretical chemist at Oxford who systematized the dative bond, proposed the effective atomic number rule, and shaped VSEPR theory.

Nevill Coghill

Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) was an Irish-born English literary scholar, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, best known for his best-selling 1951 verse translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Neville Brand

Neville Brand (1920-1992), American character actor and decorated WWII soldier, played tough guys in D.O.A., Stalag 17, Riot in Cell Block 11, and starred as Texas Ranger Reese Bennett in NBC's Laredo.

Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), British Conservative Prime Minister 1937–1940, architect of appeasement and the 1938 Munich Agreement, declared war on Germany in 1939 and resigned in May 1940 after the Norway failure.

Neville G. W. Cook

Neville G. W. Cook (1938–1998) was a South African-born rock mechanics engineer who held a chair at UC Berkeley and pioneered research on rockbursts and mine safety.

Neville Longbottom

Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter's Gryffindor classmate in J.K. Rowling's series, son of tortured Aurors Frank and Alice, second prophecy candidate, Nagini's killer, later Herbology professor married to Hannah Abbott.

Neville Neville

Neville Neville (1949–2015), English football agent and Bury FC commercial director, father of Gary, Phil, and Tracey Neville; namesake of the Rebel Rebel chant and the Neville Neville Stand at Gigg Lane.

Neville R. Kallenbach

Neville R. Kallenbach was an American biophysical chemist and NYU chemistry professor known for protein hydrogen exchange and immobile nucleic acid junctions, a foundation of DNA nanotechnology.

Neville Sanjana

Neville Sanjana is an American functional genomicist at the New York Genome Center and NYU, known for genome-wide CRISPR screening and the 2017 PECASE award.

Neville Scott

Neville Ian Scott (1935-2005), New Zealand distance runner: 7th in 1500m at Melbourne 1956, 3-mile bronze at Cardiff 1958, overcame alcoholism to run the 5000m at Tokyo 1964 despite a hip injury.

Neville Southall

Neville Southall, Welsh goalkeeper born 1958 in Llandudno; Everton record 578 league appearances, two First Division titles, 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup, FWA Footballer of the Year 1985, and a then-record 92 Wales caps.

Neville Wadia

Neville Ness Wadia (1911–1996) was a Bombay industrialist who chaired the textile company Bombay Dyeing from 1952 to 1977 and was the son-in-law of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Nevin Galmarini

Nevin Galmarini, born 1986 in Sankt Gallen, is a Swiss alpine snowboarder, 2018 Olympic champion and 2014 silver medalist in parallel giant slalom, and 2018 World Cup overall winner.

Nevin Harrison

Nevin Harrison (born 2002, Seattle) is an American canoe sprint paddler; first Olympic women's C1 200m champion (Tokyo 2020), two-time world champion, and Paris 2024 silver medalist.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, also known as Nevin Scrimshaw, was an American nutritionist who founded INCAP in Guatemala, chaired MIT's nutrition department, and won the 1991 World Food Prize.

Nevinnomyssk

Nevinnomyssk (Невинномысск) is an industrial city in southwestern Stavropol Krai, Russia, on the Kuban River at the Bolshoy Zelenchuk confluence. Founded as a Cossack stanitsa in 1825, a city since 1939, about 113,000 residents, largest industrial city of the krai, home to Nevinnomyssky Azot.

Nevinnomysskaya GRES power station

Nevinnomysskaya GRES (Невинномысская ГРЭС) is a gas-fired thermal power station in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russia, owned by PJSC EL5-Energo and the largest condensing power source in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Nevirapine

Nevirapine (NVP), sold as Viramune, is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor approved in 1996 to treat HIV-1 infection, now limited by liver and skin toxicity.

Nevis

Nevis is the smaller, volcanic sister island of Saint Kitts in the Leeward Islands, capital Charlestown, about 13,000 people on 36 square miles, governed by the Nevis Island Administration under Premier Mark Brantley.

Nevruy

Nevruy (Неврюй) was a Mongol commander who in 1252 led the punitive expedition against Grand Prince Andrei Yaroslavich of Vladimir-Suzdal, defeating him and clearing the way for Alexander Nevsky to become grand prince.