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Najm Din Abu Hafs Nasafi
Najm Din Abu Hafs Nasafi (نجم الدين النسفي, 1068–1142) was a Hanafi jurist and Maturidi theologian of Samarqand, best known for the short creed al-Aqida al-Nasafiyya.
Najm Hosain Syed
Najm Hosain Syed (نجم حسین سید, born 1936) is a Pakistani Punjabi poet, playwright, and literary critic, a central figure in the 1960s revival of Punjabi literature in Lahore.
Najm-ud-Daula
Najm-ud-Daula (نجم الدولہ), a minor of the Murshidabad dynasty, was Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa from 1765 to 1766, succeeding his father Mir Jafar as the East India Company took the diwani.
Najma Heptulla
Najma Heptulla (born 13 April 1940, Bhopal), Indian politician: four-term Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha (17 years), first woman IPU president, Congress leader who joined the BJP in 2004, Union Minister of Minority Affairs 2014-2016, and Governor of Manipur from 2016.
Najran
Najran, also known as al-Ukhdud, is an ancient walled oasis city in southwest Saudi Arabia, a caravan crossroads whose Christians were persecuted by the Himyarite king in 523.
Najran Region
Najran Region (منطقة نجران) is a southwest Saudi Arabian region on the Yemeni border, capital Najran city; 592,300 people (2022), seven governorates, ancient Al-Ukhdood and Hima UNESCO heritage, trade, mining, and agriculture economy.
Najwa Ghanem
Najwa Ghanem (نجوى غانم), Syrian first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, married 1974, mother of 11, left him before 9/11, co-authored the 2009 memoir Growing Up bin Laden.
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam (نجوى كرم) is a Lebanese singer and television personality known as Shams El-Ghinnieh, born in Zahle in 1966, with more than twenty albums since 1989.
Najwa Nimri
Najwa Nimri Urrutikoetxea (born 1972, Pamplona) is a Spanish actress and singer, of Najwajean with Carlos Jean, known for Zulema in Vis a vis and Alicia Sierra in La casa de papel.
Nak (สมเด็จพระสังฆราช (นาค))
Nak (นาค) was the 6th Supreme Patriarch of Rattanakosin, a Thai Buddhist monk appointed by King Rama III in 1843, resident at Wat Ratchaburana until his death in 1849.
Nakaab
Nakaab (2021) is a Hindi-language MX Player crime thriller web series directed by Soumik Sen, starring Esha Gupta, Mallika Sherawat, and Gautam Rode, about a police investigation into an actress's death; distinct from the 2023 and 2025 series Naqaab.
Nakagami fading
Nakagami fading is a statistical model of rapid radio signal fading whose envelope follows the Nakagami-m distribution, introduced by Minoru Nakagami in 1960; its shape parameter m tunes fading severity.
Nakagin Capsule Tower
The Nakagin Capsule Tower (中銀カプセルタワービル), a 1972 mixed-use residential and office tower in Ginza, Tokyo, was architect Kisho Kurokawa's leading built work of Metabolist capsule architecture.
Nakagusuku LNG Terminal
Nakagusuku LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Japan listed by the Global Energy Monitor at 9 Mtpa, owned by Okinawa Electric Power since 2013.
Nakahama Manjirō
Nakahama Manjirō (中浜万次郎), also known as John Mung, was a Japanese fisherman shipwrecked in 1841 and educated in Massachusetts, who later served the Tokugawa shogunate as an interpreter and educator.
Nakajima B5N
The Nakajima B5N, codenamed Kate, was a three-seat carrier torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy and its standard type from Pearl Harbor in 1941 to 1944.
Nakajima Ki-49
The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu, called Helen by the Allies, was a twin-engine bomber of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force that first flew in 1939 and proved underpowered.
Nakajima Ki-84 (キ84 疾風)
The Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, codenamed Frank by the Allies, was the Imperial Japanese Army's best World War II fighter, entering combat over China in 1944.
Nakam (נקם)
Nakam (נקם, "vengeance"), also called the Avengers (Nokmim) or Dam Yehudi Nakam, was a group of about fifty Holocaust survivors led by Abba Kovner who after 1945 plotted to kill six million Germans by poisoning city water and POW bread; only the 1946 Nuremberg bread attack occurred, sickening thousands with no deaths.
Nakaminato-shi
Nakaminato-shi (那珂湊市) was a fishing port city in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, formed in 1954 and merged with Katsuta City on 1 November 1994 to create Hitachinaka; its port, fish market, and Mito-domain historic sites remain.
Nakamura Fusetsu
Nakamura Fusetsu (中村不折; 1866–1943), real name Sekitarō, was a Japanese Western-style painter and calligrapher who founded the Calligraphy Museum in Tokyo's Negishi district in 1936 to house his collection of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.
Nakamura Kaho
Nakamura Kaho (中村佳穂) is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Kyoto, known for the acclaimed album AINOU and for voicing Suzu in the 2021 anime film Belle.
Nakamura Masanao
Nakamura Masanao (中村正直), known as Keiu, was a Japanese Confucian scholar and leading Meiji educator who translated Self-Help and On Liberty, founded the Dōjinsha academy, and advanced girls' education.
Nakamura number
The Nakamura number of a simple voting game is the smallest number of winning coalitions with an empty intersection, taken as infinite when a vetoer exists.
Nakano Family Quintuplets
Nakano Family Quintuplets (中野家の五つ子, Nakano-ke no Itsutsugo) is a five-member Japanese voice-actress unit formed in 2019 to record the theme songs of The Quintessential Quintuplets.
Nakano Shigeharu
Nakano Shigeharu (中野重治) was a Japanese poet, critic, and novelist, a leading theorist of the proletarian literature movement who served in the House of Councillors from 1947 to 1950.
Nakano, Tokyo
Nakano (中野区, Nakano-ku) is a special ward of western Tokyo adjacent to Shinjuku, formed in 1932, home to Nakano Broadway's otaku shopping, dense residential population, and a large station-area redevelopment program.
Nakaoka Shintarō
Nakaoka Shintarō (中岡慎太郎, 1838–1867) was a Japanese samurai and political activist from Tosa domain who, with Sakamoto Ryōma, brokered the 1866 Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance, organized the Rikuentai militia, and was assassinated alongside Ryōma in Kyoto in 1867.
Nakasendai Rebellion
The Nakasendai Rebellion (中先代の乱) was a 1335 uprising led by Hōjō Tokiyuki that briefly retook Kamakura; Ashikaga Takauji suppressed it and then broke with Emperor Go-Daigo, opening the Nanboku-chō period.
Nakaseomyces glabratus
Nakaseomyces glabratus, formerly Candida glabrata, is a haploid commensal yeast and the second most common cause of candidemia in several countries, marked by fluconazole resistance and echinocandin first-line therapy.