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Nahdlatul Ulama
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is an Indonesian mass Islamic organization, founded by East Java pesantren leaders in 1926 and generally described as the largest in Indonesia and perhaps the world.
Naheed Nenshi
Naheed Nenshi (born 1972), Canadian politician, mayor of Calgary 2010-2021 (36th mayor, first Muslim mayor of a major North American city, World Mayor Prize 2015) and leader of the Alberta NDP since June 22, 2024; MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona and Leader of the Official Opposition.
Nahete Colles
Nahete Colles, a 400 km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Venus at 38°N, 241°E, IAU-approved 1997, named for the Fon (Benin) wife of the sea god Agbe.
Nahhunte-Utu
Nahhunte-Utu (Naḫḫunte-Utu) was an Elamite queen of the Shutrukid dynasty in the 12th century BC, known from royal inscriptions and one of only two politically important Middle Elamite women.
Nahid Akhtar
Nahid Akhtar, also spelled Naheed Akhtar and known as Nahid Niazi, is a Pakistani playback singer born in 1956 whose song in the film Shama made her famous in 1974.
Nahid Islam (নাহিদ ইসলাম)
Nahid Islam (নাহিদ ইসলাম), born 1998, is a Bangladeshi politician, convener of the National Citizen Party, former adviser in the Yunus interim government, coordinator of the 2024 Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, and MP for Dhaka-11 and Opposition Chief Whip since 2026.
Nahid Valles
Nahid Valles, a 500-km channel system (vallis) on Venus at 55.1S, 171E in southern Nsomeka Planitia, named in 1997 after the Persian word for the planet Venus.
Nahida (Genshin Impact)
Nahida (Lesser Lord Kusanali, Buer) is the Dendro Archon and a playable five-star Dendro catalyst in Genshin Impact, released in version 3.2. Her skill marks up to 8 enemies, triggering Tri-Karma Purification reaction damage scaling off ATK and Elemental Mastery.
Nāhiʻenaʻena
Nāhiʻenaʻena (c. 1815–1836) was a Hawaiian princess, the only daughter of King Kamehameha I and Keōpūolani and sister of Kamehameha II and III, known for her 1834 marriage to her brother and a celebrated feather skirt.
Nahir Galarza case
Nahir Galarza case: Argentine life sentence for Nahir Mariana Galarza, convicted 3 July 2018 of killing boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo in Gualeguaychú on 29 December 2017; youngest woman given life in Argentina, now under review.
Nahirqo
Nahirqo was a kandake, or ruling queen, of the Kingdom of Kush in the middle 2nd century BC, buried in pyramid Beg. N 11 at Meroe.
Nahj al-balagha
Nahj al-balagha (نهج البلاغة, Peak of Eloquence) is a compilation of sermons, letters, and sayings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib, assembled by al-Sharif al-Radi and completed in 1010.
Nahki Wells
Nahki Wells (born 1990, Hamilton, Bermuda), Bermudian striker for Luton Town and Bermuda; 20 international goals, fastest Gold Cup goal (17 seconds), 26-goal Bradford season, played for Huddersfield, Burnley, QPR, Bristol City.
Nahko and Medicine for the People
Nahko and Medicine for the People is an American folk-rock and world music band formed in 2008 under singer-songwriter Nahko Bear, whose 2016 album HOKA won a Native American Music Award.
Nahla Ake
Nahla Ake is the fictional Human-Lanthanite hybrid Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and captain of the USS Athena in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, played by Holly Hunter; born 2773, 422 years old, she leads the reopened post-Burn academy.
Nahnatchka Khan
Nahnatchka Khan (born 1973) is an American TV writer, showrunner, and director, creator of Fresh Off the Boat and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, director of Always Be My Maybe, and founder of Fierce Baby Productions.
Nahnmwarki
The Nahnmwarki is the paramount chief, or traditional king, of each of the five autonomous chiefdoms of Pohnpei island in Micronesia, a title that remains in force today.
Nahr al-Kabir al-Shamali
Nahr al-Kabir al-Shamali (نهر الكبير الشمالي), the Great Northern River, is a 56 km coastal river in north-western Syria that flows past Ugarit into the Mediterranean south of Latakia.
Nahr al-Kalb monuments
The Stelae of Nahr el-Kalb are 22 rock-cut inscriptions on the Dog River near Beirut, Lebanon, carved from Ramesses II's time in the 13th century BCE to 2000.
Nahr Bin Umar Oil and Gas Field
Nahr Bin Umar, also written Nahr Bin Omar, is a giant oil and gas field in Basra Governorate, southeastern Iraq, north of the city of Basra.
Nahrawan Canal
The Nahrawan Canal, also called Nahrwān or al-Qāṭul al-Kesrawi, was a large irrigation canal in Iraq attributed to Khosrow I that supplied eastern Abbasid Baghdad before failing around 1150.
Nahuan dialects and varieties
Nahuan dialects and varieties are the regional forms of Nahuatl, a Uto-Aztecan language of central Mexico and El Salvador with 30 recognized varieties of highly variable mutual intelligibility.
Nahuas
Nahuas: the peoples of Mexico speaking Nahuatl, the Mexican language; 1,651,958 speakers in the 2020 census, distributed across ten-plus states, heirs of Central Mexican pre-Hispanic cultures, with 30 recognized language variants and medium-risk vitality.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl (nawatlahtolli), a Uto-Aztecan language group of Mexico with about 1.5 million speakers in 30 variants; Classical Nahuatl was the Aztec empire's lingua franca and Mexico's most spoken indigenous language.
Nahuatl annals
Nahuatl annals are a genre of indigenous historical writing from central Mexico in which Nahua communities recorded their past year by year in Nahuatl, mixing pictographic imagery with alphabetic text.
Nahuatl literature
Nahuatl literature is the oral and written literature of the Nahuas, the Aztec people of central Mexico, ranging from pre-Hispanic songs like Nezahualcóyotl's to colonial codices and contemporary poetry.
Nahuel Molina
Nahuel Molina (Nahuel Molina Lucero), Argentine right back born 1998 in Embalse; Boca, Udinese, Atlético Madrid, now AS Roma. 2022 World Cup and Copa América 2021/2024 winner, 2026 runner-up.
Nahum (Exilarch)
Nahum was, according to traditional lists, the first named Exilarch, or Resh Galuta, of Babylonian Jewry, dated to the mid-second century CE after the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Nahum (נחום)
Nahum of Gamzu (נחום איש גם זו) was a tanna, an early rabbinic sage, known for the motto gam zu le-tovah, "this too is for the good."
Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg is a Canadian biochemist at McGill University who discovered eIF4E and IRES-mediated translation initiation, showing that faulty translational control underlies cancer and neurological disease.