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Nobody's Girl (memoir)

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous 2025 Knopf memoir, co-written with Amy Wallace, covering her Epstein trafficking allegations; distinct from Barbara Amaya's 2015 memoir of the same title.

Nobody's Girl (Tate McRae song)

NOBODY'S GIRL is a 2025 breakup-empowerment song by Canadian singer Tate McRae, track three on the deluxe edition of So Close To What (RCA Records). Written by McRae, Amy Allen, Ryan Tedder, and Emile Haynie; peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100.

nobodyknows+

nobodyknows+ is a Japanese hip-hop group of four MCs and a DJ based in Nagoya, formed in 1999, whose 2004 hit "Kokoro Odoru" led to its NHK Kōhaku debut.

Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura

Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura (登別伊達時代村), also called Noboribetsu Date Historic Village, is an Edo-period history theme park in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, opened April 23, 1992 by Jidaimura Co., Ltd., with ninja, oiran, and samurai shows.

Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe

Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe (登別マリンパークニクス) is a 1990 aquarium in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, inside Nixe Castle modeled on Denmark's Egeskov Castle, with about 20,000 animals of 400 species, penguin parades, and dolphin shows.

Noboru Kikuchi

Noboru Kikuchi is a Japanese mechanical engineer, University of Michigan professor emeritus and former president of Toyota Central R&D Labs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Noboru Mizushima

Noboru Mizushima (水島 昇) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for defining how autophagy, the cellular recycling process, works in mammals.

Noboru Sueoka

Noboru Sueoka (1929–2021) was a Japanese-born American molecular biologist and geneticist, based at Princeton and Colorado Boulder, known for the 1959 DNA density discovery and the directional mutation pressure hypothesis.

Noboru Terada

Noboru Terada (寺田登, later Ito Noboru), Japanese swimmer (1917–1986) who won gold in the men's 1,500 m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, beating Jack Medica; ISHOF Pioneer Swimmer, 1994.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Nobu Matsuhisa (born 1949, Saitama) is the Japanese chef behind Matsuhisa Beverly Hills and the Nobu restaurant-hotel empire with Robert De Niro and Meir Teper, known for Japanese-Peruvian fusion (Nikkei) dishes like black cod miso.

Nobuharu Iwasawa

Nobuharu Iwasawa (岩澤 伸治), born 1957, is a Japanese organic chemist and Tokyo Institute of Technology professor whose catalytic CO2 fixation won the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2023.

Nobuhide Takemura

Nobuhide Takemura is a Japanese politician, first elected in 2012 for Shiga 3rd District, who chairs the House Committee on Financial Affairs and became Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice in 2026.

Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦)

Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦) is a Japanese developmental and stem-cell biologist who has been an assistant professor at the University of Washington since 2023, known for reconstituting oocyte development and early embryogenesis in vitro.

Nobuhiko Kamada

Nobuhiko Kamada (鎌田 信彦) is a Japanese-born immunologist and microbiome researcher, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, known for work on gut bacteria and inflammatory bowel disease.

Nobuhiko Kayagaki

Nobuhiko Kayagaki is an immunologist at Genentech in South San Francisco, California, known for discovering the non-canonical inflammasome pathway and showing that NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture.

Nobuhiko Okamoto (岡本信彦)

Nobuhiko Okamoto (岡本信彦), Japanese voice actor and singer born 1986 in Tokyo, known for Bakugo in My Hero Academia, Accelerator, Rin Okumura, Himmel in Frieren; Seiyu Awards winner and Raccoon Dog co-founder.

Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月伸宏)

Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月伸宏), real name Nishiwaki Nobuhiro, is a Japanese manga artist best known for Rurouni Kenshin, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999.

Nobuhiro Yamada

Nobuhiro Yamada is a Japanese endocrinologist and professor at the University of Tsukuba whose laboratory studies lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, including the Elovl6 fatty acid elongase.

Nobukazu Teranishi

Nobukazu Teranishi (寺西 信一) is a Japanese engineer who invented the pinned photodiode at NEC in 1980, used in almost all image sensors, earning the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize.

Nobumasa Tsutsui

Nobumasa Tsutsui (筒井 宣政) is a Japanese medical-device entrepreneur, born in 1941 in Aichi Prefecture, who founded Tokai Medical Products and developed Japan's first domestic IABP catheter.

Nobunaga Shimazaki (島﨑 信長)

Nobunaga Shimazaki (島﨑信長) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator born 1988 in Shiogama, Miyagi, with Aoni Production; known for Free!'s Haruka Nanase, Eugeo, Nagi, Mahito, and Seiyu Awards wins.

Nobunaga's Ambition (信長の野望)

Nobunaga's Ambition (信長の野望, Nobunaga no Yabō) is Koei's historical grand strategy series, first released 1983, set in Sengoku-era Japan where players as daimyo unify Japan; distinct from Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Nobuo Kawakami

Nobuo Kawakami (川上量生), born 1968, is a Japanese internet entrepreneur who founded Dwango in 1997, built the niconico video platform, and later led KADOKAWA DWANGO.

Nobuo Kimizuka

Nobuo Kimizuka (君塚 信夫) is a Japanese chemist at Kyushu University known for photon upconversion based on triplet energy migration in molecular assemblies, including a 2026 solid-state material converting sunlight to ultraviolet light.

Nobuo Suga

Nobuo Suga, born 1933, is a Japanese-born neurophysiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering combination-sensitive neurons in the mustached bat's auditory cortex.

Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫)

Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫), born 1959 in Kochi, is the self-taught Japanese composer of Final Fantasy I-IX, creator of 'One-Winged Angel' and 'Eyes on Me', founder of The Black Mages, Smile Please, and Dog Ear Records, and record-holder of 535+ video game concert performances.

Nobuo Yoneda

Nobuo Yoneda (米田 信夫) was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist, professor at the University of Tokyo, whose Yoneda lemma is a central result of category theory.

Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介)

Nobusuke Kishi (岸 信介), 1896–1987, Japanese prime minister 1957–1960, wartime Manchukuo economic planner and Tojo cabinet minister, Class A suspect released untried, who revised the US-Japan Security Treaty amid the 1960 Anpo protests and resigned.

Nobutada Saji

Nobutada Saji (佐治信忠), born in 1945, is a Japanese executive who was Suntory's fourth president from 2001 to 2014 and led its $16 billion Beam acquisition.

Nobutaka Hirokawa

Nobutaka Hirokawa (廣川 信隆) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, known for identifying the kinesin superfamily of motor proteins that move cargo along microtubules.