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Nina Gordon
Nina Gordon (Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon), American singer-songwriter and guitarist, co-founder of Veruca Salt, wrote "Seether" and "Volcano Girls", recorded solo albums Tonight and the Rest of My Life (2000) and Bleeding Heart Graffiti (2006), and rejoined the band for Ghost Notes (2015).
Nina Hagen
Nina Hagen, born Catharina Hagen in 1955 in East Berlin, is a German singer known as the "Godmother of German Punk" whose career spans five decades.
Nina Hartley
Nina Hartley (Marie Louise Hartman, born 1959) is an American adult film performer, director, author, and sex educator, active since 1984, known for Boogie Nights, her Guide series, and AVN, XRCO, and XBIZ awards.
Nina Hoss
Nina Hoss, German actress born 1975 in Stuttgart, stage and film performer. Known for six films with Christian Petzold (Yella, Barbara, Phoenix), Silver Bear 2007, Homeland, Tár, Schaubühne ensemble member.
Nina Hossain
Nina Hossain is a British broadcast journalist and ITN newscaster, born in Huddersfield, who leads the ITV Lunchtime News and presents ITV News at Ten as a relief presenter.
Nina Karpova
Nina Karpova names several unrelated women; the best documented is the Soviet runner in the 3 x 800 m relay world record of 7:25.7 (Moscow, 12 September 1935), with Freiberg and Mamayeva.
Nina Kennedy
Nina Kennedy (born 1997, Busselton, Western Australia) is an Australian pole vaulter, Olympic champion at Paris 2024 (4.90m), 2023 world co-champion with Katie Moon, and Australian record holder at 4.95m.
Nina Kraviz
Nina Kraviz (Нина Кравиц), Russian techno DJ, producer, and vocalist from Irkutsk, Siberia; former dentist, breakout hit "Ghetto Kraviz" (2011), 2012 debut album, and founder of the трип (Trip) label.
Nina Kristensen
Nina Broni Kristensen, born 1972, is a British video game executive who co-founded Ninja Theory in Cambridge and led development of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Nina Kucsik
Nina Kucsik, spelled Nina Kuscsik in records (1939-2025), American marathoner; first official women's Boston Marathon winner (1972, 3:10:26), two-time NYC Marathon champion, and pioneer advocate who ended AAU rules barring women from distance running.
Nina Lobova
Nina Lobova (Нина Романовна Лобова, Nina Lobova-Getsko), Soviet and Ukrainian handball goalkeeper born 1957 in Zestaponi; won gold with the USSR in the first Olympic women's handball tournament at Montreal 1976 and the 1982 world title.
Nina Matviienko
Nina Matviienko (Ніна Матвієнко; 1947–2023) was a Ukrainian soprano and soloist of the Veryovka Folk Choir who became a defining voice of Ukrainian folk song.
Nina N. Wang
Nina N. Wang, also known as Nina Nin-Yuen Wang, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in Colorado since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Nina Nesbitt
Nina Nesbitt (Nina Lindberg Nesbitt), Scottish singer-songwriter born 1994 in Edinburgh; four albums from Peroxide (2014, UK No. 11) to Mountain Music (2024) on her label Apple Tree Records; discovered via Ed Sheeran.
Nina Ortlieb
Nina Ortlieb (born 1996, Innsbruck) is an Austrian alpine skier, daughter of Olympic downhill champion Patrick Ortlieb; 2023 world downhill silver medalist, two-time World Cup Super-G winner, 23 operations, competed at Milano Cortina 2026.
Nina Otkalenko
Nina Pletnyova (Нина Плетнёва), later Nina Otkalenko (1928–2015), Soviet middle-distance runner who set successive women's 800 m world records from 2:12.0 (1951) to 2:05.0 (1955) and won the 1954 European 800 m title.
Niña Pastori
Niña Pastori, stage name of María Rosa García García, is a Spanish flamenco-rooted pop singer from San Fernando, Cádiz, born in 1978, with more than two million records sold.
Nina Persson
Nina Persson, Swedish singer and lyricist born 1974 in Örebro, frontwoman of the Cardigans ('Lovefool'), also of A Camp, solo album Animal Heart, and collaborations with Manic Street Preachers and James Yorkston.
Nina R. Morrison
Nina R. Morrison, born Nina Rauh Morrison in 1970, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2022.
Nina Rindt
Nina Rindt (née Lincoln, born 1943), Finnish fashion model, wife of Jochen Rindt; timed his laps from the pit wall, was widowed at Monza in 1970, and accepted the only posthumous F1 championship trophy.
Nina Romashkova Ponomaryova
Nina Romashkova Ponomaryova (Нина Аполлоновна Ромашкова-Пономарёва), Soviet discus thrower (1929-2016), first Soviet Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952, 51.42 m), again Olympic champion 1960, bronze 1956, 1954 European champion.
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, born Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von Lerchenfeld (1913–2006), was the wife of Claus von Stauffenberg, who led the 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Nina Simone
Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon, 1933-2003), the High Priestess of Soul, was an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist whose classical training shaped a genre-defying style and protest songs like Mississippi Goddam.
Nina Sky
Nina Sky is the New York duo of identical twin sisters Nicole and Natalie Albino, known for the 2004 dancehall-pop hit "Move Ya Body" (No. 4 Hot 100) and N.O.R.E.'s "Oye Mi Canto," later independent as self-released artists and DJs.
Nina Smoleyeva
Nina Smoleyeva (Нина Николаевна Смолеева, born Nina Nikitina, 1948) is a Soviet volleyball attacker, double Olympic champion (1968, 1972) and 1976 silver medalist, 1970 world champion, four-time European champion, and 2006 Volleyball Hall of Fame inductee.
Nina Sosanya
Nina Sosanya (Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya), English stage, TV, film and radio actress born 1969 in London; known for Teachers, W1A, Love Actually, Good Omens, His Dark Materials, Baby Reindeer, Screw, and WAR.
Nina Statkevich
Nina Statkevich (Нина Андреевна Статкевич), born 1944 in Leningrad, Soviet speed skater; 1971 world allround champion, 1970 and 1971 European champion, 1500 m world record holder, Olympian in 1972 and 1976.
Nina Strokata
Nina Strokata (Ніна Строката; full name Nina Antonivna Strokata-Karavanska) was a Ukrainian microbiologist and human rights activist who was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976.
Nina Tandon
Nina Tandon is an American tissue engineering researcher and biotech entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, which brought stem-cell grown living bone into human clinical trials.
Nina Totenberg
Nina Totenberg, born 1944, is NPR's legal affairs correspondent since 1975 and one of its founding mothers; she broke the 1991 Anita Hill and 1987 Douglas Ginsburg stories and wrote the memoir Dinners with Ruth.