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Nithish Sahadev

Nithish Sahadev (born 1991) is an Indian film director, writer, and producer in Malayalam cinema, known for Falimy (2023) with Basil Joseph, the Tamil debut Thalaivar Thambi Thalaimaiyil (2026) with Jiiva, and the upcoming Mammootty film Mela.

Nithya Menen (നിത്യ മേനൻ)

Nithya Menen (നിത്യ മേനൻ), born 1988, Indian actress and singer in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi cinema; National Film Award Best Actress for Thiruchitrambalam; founder of Keyuri Productions.

Nithya Ramanathan

Nithya Ramanathan is a computer scientist who co-founded Nexleaf Analytics in 2009, a nonprofit whose ColdTrace temperature sensors protect vaccine supplies in India, Kenya, and other countries.

Nithyasree Mahadevan

Nithyasree Mahadevan (நித்யஸ்ரீ மகாதேவன்), also S. Nithyashri, born 1973, is a Carnatic vocalist and playback singer, granddaughter of D.K. Pattammal, debut hit "Kannodu Kaanbadhellam" from Jeans (1998).

NITI Aayog (नीति आयोग)

NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) is India's apex policy think tank, created by Cabinet resolution on 1 January 2015 to replace the Planning Commission; it advises on policy and cooperative federalism but allocates no plan funds.

Niti literature

Niti literature (நீதி இலக்கியம், neethi ilakkiyam) is the Tamil didactic genre of moral verse, flourishing between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE; its central work is the Tirukkuṟaḷ.

Nitidulidae

Nitidulidae, the sap beetles, are a beetle family of about 4,500 species in 350 genera and ten subfamilies, feeding on sap, fungi, and fermenting fruit; Carpophilus species are pests of corn, dried fruit, and stored grain.

NiTiHf high-temperature shape memory alloy

NiTiHf is a ternary nickel–titanium shape memory alloy in which hafnium raises actuation temperatures above 100 °C, offering higher work output than NiTi at far lower cost than platinum-based alternatives.

Nitijela

The Nitijela is the national parliament of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a 33-member chamber that elects the President and holds the country's legislative power.

Nitin Chandra

Nitin Chandra (नितिन चंद्रा), aka Nitin Neera Chandra, is a National Film Award-winning Indian director from Bihar working in Bhojpuri, Maithili and Hindi; brother of actress Neetu Chandra; directed Deswa (2011) and Mithila Makhaan (2016), runs Champaran Talkies and the Bejod platform.

Nitin Chandrakant Desai (नितिन चंद्रकांत देसाई)

Nitin Chandrakant Desai (नितिन चंद्रकांत देसाई, 1965–2023), Indian art director and production designer of Lagaan, Devdas, Jodhaa Akbar, and Kaun Banega Crorepati; four National Film Awards; founder of ND Studios, Karjat.

Nitin Gadkari (नितीन जयराम गडकरी)

Nitin Jairam Gadkari (नितीन जयराम गडकरी), born 1957, is India's Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, a BJP Lok Sabha member from Nagpur, and a former BJP national president (2009).

Nitin Gajria

Nitin Gajria is a technology executive who serves as Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Google, based in Johannesburg since June 2019, overseeing its $1 billion investment program.

Nitin Khanna

Nitin Khanna is an entrepreneur and investor, best known as co-founder of Saber Corp., a Portland, Oregon government software company sold to EDS in 2007.

Nitin Mehta

Nitin Mehta is a venture investor and technology executive who co-founded the Zero Trust cybersecurity company ColorTokens in 2015 and served as its chief executive until 2021.

Nitin Mukesh (नितिन मुकेश माथुर)

Nitin Mukesh (नितिन मुकेश माथुर), full name Nitin Mukesh Mathur, born 1950, Indian Hindi-film playback singer and bhajan singer, son of singer Mukesh; known for So Gaya Yeh Jahan (Tezaab) and Zindagi Ki Na Toote Ladi (Kranti), father of actor Neil Nitin Mukesh.

Nitin Nabin

Nitin Nabin, born in 1980 in Ranchi, is an Indian politician who became the BJP's national president in 2026, the youngest in the party's history and the first from Bihar.

Nitin Nohria

Nitin Nohria is an Indian-born American scholar of leadership and organizational behavior who served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School in Boston from 2010 to 2020.

Nitin P. Padture

Nitin P. Padture is an American materials scientist and engineer, Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University, known for perovskite solar cells and gas-turbine ceramic coatings.

Nitin Patil

Nitin Patil is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party who represents Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, elected unopposed in a 2024 bypoll after serving as chairman of the Satara District Central Cooperative Bank.

Nitin S. Baliga

Nitin S. Baliga is an Indian-born American systems biologist, a founding member and director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, known for predicting cellular responses.

Nitin Saxena

Nitin Saxena, born 1981 in Prayagraj, India, is an Indian computer scientist who co-created the AKS primality test as an IIT Kanpur undergraduate, winning the 2006 Gödel Prize.

Nitin Sharma

Nitin Sharma is an Indian venture capital investor who co-founded and serves as general partner of Antler India, a Bengaluru-based pre-seed firm, after earlier roles at NEA and Lightbox Ventures.

Nitisataka

The Nitisataka (नीतिशतकम्, "hundred verses on conduct") is a Sanskrit collection of didactic verses on ethics and worldly wisdom attributed to Bhartrihari, part of his Shatakatraya.

Nitish Bharadwaj

Nitish Bharadwaj (नितीश भारद्वाज), born 1963, Indian actor, veterinary surgeon, and former Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur (1996, BJP), famous as Lord Krishna in B.R. Chopra's Mahabharat (1988) and later director of Pitruroon and stage Krishna in Chakravyuh.

Nitish Kumar (नीतीश कुमार)

Nitish Kumar (नीतीश कुमार), born 1951, Janata Dal (United) leader and record ten-time Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005, known as Sushasan Babu, moved to the Rajya Sabha in 2026.

Nitish Kumar Reddy

Nitish Kumar Reddy (Kaki Nitish Kumar Reddy, born 2003, Visakhapatnam) is an Indian seam-bowling all-rounder for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Andhra; Test debut 2024, MCG century 114 at No.8, IPL 2024 Emerging Player.

Nitish Mishra

Nitish Mishra, born 1973, is an Indian BJP politician and Bihar minister holding the housing, urban development, and information technology portfolios, and a five-time MLA from Jhanjharpur.

Nitish Padmanaban

Nitish Padmanaban is a computational imaging and near-eye display researcher at Sesame working on eye tracking, who co-founded Zinn Labs and earned a Stanford PhD in 2020.

Nitish Rajput (नितिश राजपूत)

Nitish Rajput (नितिश राजपूत) is an Indian Hindi-language commentary YouTuber, author of The Broken Pillars of Democracy, born 1989 in Sultanpur, known for politics and scam explainers, fact-check incidents, and the 2025 Pakistan channel block.