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Nirmal Pandey
Nirmal Pandey (निर्मल पांडे, 1962-2010), Indian stage and screen actor, NSD alumnus, played Vikram Mallah in Bandit Queen and won a shared Best Actress award at France's Valenciennes festival for Daayraa.
Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar Wapsi
Nirmal Pathak Ki Ghar Wapsi (निर्मल पाठक की घर वापसी) is a 2022 SonyLIV Hindi drama web series, 5 episodes, starring Vaibhav Tatwawadi as a man returning to his Bihar village after 24 years in Delhi.
Nirmal Purja (निर्मल पुर्जा)
Nirmal Purja (निर्मल पुर्जा), aka Nims or Nimsdai, Nepali-British mountaineer (1983–2026) who climbed all 14 8,000m peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, joined the first winter K2 ascent, and died in the 2026 Broad Peak avalanche.
Nirmal Saverimuttu
Nirmal Saverimuttu is a Zambia-born, Australia-raised business executive who wrote Virgin Voyages' original business plan, co-founded the adults-only cruise line, and has led it as CEO since 2023.
Nirmal Singh Maharaj
Nirmal Singh Maharaj, also called Guruji or Shukrana Guruji, was a Punjabi-born spiritual teacher based in Delhi whose devotees gather at the Bade Mandir in Chhatarpur.
Nirmal Verma
Nirmal Verma (निर्मल वर्मा, 1929–2005) was an Indian Hindi writer, novelist, and translator, a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
Nirmala
Nirmala (ਨਿਰਮਲ) is a celibate Sikh ascetic order trained in Sanskrit, traditionally traced to Guru Gobind Singh and known for the Faridkot Tika commentary on the Guru Granth Sahib.
Nirmala (निर्मला) (novel)
Nirmala (निर्मला) is a 1927 Hindi social novel by Munshi Premchand, serialized in the magazine Chand, about a fifteen-year-old girl married to a middle-aged widower through the dowry system.
Nirmala Bhuria
Nirmala Bhuria is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a cabinet minister for Women and Child Development in Madhya Pradesh.
Nirmala Devi (निर्मला देवी)
Nirmala Devi (निर्मला देवी), 1927–1996, Hindi cinema actress and Patiala-gharana classical vocalist, playback singer for Bawarchi and Ram Teri Ganga Maili, wife of Arun Ahuja and mother of Govinda; distinct from the 1938 film Nirmala and Shri Mataji.
Nirmala order
The Nirmala order (ਨਿਰਮਲ ਸੰਪ੍ਰਦਾਇ) is a Sikh scholarly and ascetic order whose celibate members specialize in Sanskrit learning and expound the Guru Granth Sahib, traditionally founded by Guru Gobind Singh around 1686.
Nirmala Sitharaman (நிர்மலா சீதாராமன்)
Nirmala Sitharaman (நிர்மலா சீதாராமன்), born 1959 in Madurai, is India's Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister since 2019 and former Defence Minister (2017-2019); first full-time woman in both posts, BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka.
Nirmala Srivastava
Nirmala Srivastava, known to followers as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded Sahaja Yoga in 1970 and led it until her death in 2011.
Nirmalya Chatterjee
Nirmalya Chatterjee is an Indian-born Drosophila geneticist who studies oxidative-stress signaling and energy metabolism, known for Nrf2 work and reviews of fly models of obesity and diabetes.
Nirmalya Kumar
Nirmalya Kumar is a marketing scholar and business executive, a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business who served on the Tata Sons Group Executive Council from 2013 to 2016.
Nirogacestat
Nirogacestat (Ogsiveo, PF-03084014) is SpringWorks' oral gamma secretase inhibitor blocking Notch signaling, approved by the FDA on November 27, 2023 as the first systemic therapy for progressing desmoid tumors.
Niron Magnetics
Niron Magnetics is a Minneapolis, Minnesota company commercializing rare-earth-free permanent magnets made from iron nitride, spun out of Jian-Ping Wang's University of Minnesota research and backed by automakers and the Department of Energy.
Nirosha (நிரோஷா)
Nirosha (நிரோஷா), also credited as Nirosha Ramki or Nirosha Radha, is an Indian actress who worked in Tamil and Telugu cinema from 1988, best known for Agni Natchathiram.
Nirosta Steel
Nirosta Steel, born Steven Hall in Scotland in 1957, is a musician who sang with Arthur Russell's Loose Joints in New York's 1980s downtown scene.
NIRPS
NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is a high-resolution near-infrared spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile, built to discover exoplanets around red dwarf stars.
NIRSpec
NIRSpec, the Near-Infrared Spectrograph, is a science instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope covering 0.6 to 5.3 micrometers, provided by the European Space Agency.
Niru Kajitsu
Niru Kajitsu (煮ル果実) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer, lyricist, composer, and arranger who debuted in 2018 and is signed to Universal Music's Virgin Music label.
Nirukta
The Nirukta (निरुक्त) is Yaska's commentary on the Nighantu, the oldest available dictionary of Vedic words, and the oldest Indian treatise on etymology, philology, and semantics.
Nirupa Roy (નિરુપા રોય)
Nirupa Roy (નિરુપા રોય), born Kokila Kishorechandra Balsara (1931–2004), was a Hindi and Gujarati film actress, Bollywood's most famous screen mother, known for Deewaar (1975) and mother roles opposite Amitabh Bachchan.
Nirupa Shankar
Nirupa Shankar is an Indian business executive who serves as Joint Managing Director of Brigade Enterprises and Managing Director of Brigade Hotel Ventures, elevated in October 2022 as part of her father M.R. Jaishankar's succession plan.
Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu
Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu (నిర్వచనోత్తర రామాయణము) is a 13th-century Telugu poetic adaptation of the Uttara Kanda, the final book of the Valmiki Ramayana, composed entirely in verse by Tikkana Somayaji.
Nirvana (1997 film)
Nirvana (1997) is an Italian-French cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert and Diego Abatantuono, about a game designer whose virtual character becomes self-aware and asks to be deleted.
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana: American grunge rock band formed 1987 in Aberdeen, Washington, by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl; Nevermind (1991) hit Billboard No. 1; ended by Cobain's 1994 death; Rock Hall 2014.
Nirvana (British band)
Nirvana (British band), also called the original or 1960s Nirvana, a London psychedelic/orchestral pop duo of Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos, first signed to Island Records, hit with "Rainbow Chaser" (UK No. 34, 1968), distinct from the Seattle grunge band of the same name.
Nirvana (Buddhism)
Nirvana, in Pali nibbāna and Thai นิพพาน, is the final goal of Buddhist practice: the extinguishing of greed, hate, and delusion that ends rebirth and suffering.