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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson; also J.D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty, Jill March), American romance and suspense novelist with 250+ books, 500 million copies in print, and the In Death series.

Nora Sarvetnick

Nora Sarvetnick is an American immunologist who showed that pancreatic inflammatory signals trigger autoimmune diabetes, and is a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Sep 19, 2026

Nora Stone

The Nora Stone, also called the Nora inscription or Nora stele, is a sandstone stele bearing a Phoenician inscription found at Pula near ancient Nora, Sardinia, in 1773.

Nora Zehetner (Nora Angela Zehetner) is an American actress born 1981 in El Paso, Texas. Known for Brick (2005), Creative Control, and recurring roles in Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Maron, and The Right Stuff.

Nora-Jane Noone

Nora-Jane Noone (born 1984, Galway) is an Irish actress; screen debut as Bernadette in The Magdalene Sisters (2002, Venice Golden Lion), also The Descent, Brooklyn, Wildfire, Hidden Assets, Bring Them Down, andIFTA-nominated performances.

NORAD

NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is the 1958 binational U.S.-Canada command providing aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning for North America from Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.

NORAD Tracks Santa

NORAD Tracks Santa is the North American Aerospace Defense Command's annual Christmas Eve program reporting Santa Claus's location, begun in 1955 after a child misdialed a misprinted Sears ad number and reached CONAD's Colorado Springs operations center.

Oct 20, 2026

Noradrenergic neuron

A noradrenergic neuron is a neuron that synthesizes and releases norepinephrine (noradrenaline), a neurotransmitter governing arousal, attention, and stress; the largest cluster sits in the brainstem's locus coeruleus.

Noragami (ノラガミ)

Noragami (ノラガミ, "Stray God"), also known as Noragami: Stray God, is a supernatural shonen manga by Adachitoka serialized in Monthly Shonen Magazine 2011-2024, 27 volumes, 8 million copies, adapted by BONES into two anime seasons (2014, 2015).

Norah A. Terrault

Norah A. Terrault is a transplant hepatologist and 2023 AASLD President who leads the Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Norah Jones

Norah Jones, born 1979 in Brooklyn, is an American singer-songwriter and pianist; her 2002 Blue Note debut Come Away with Me won five Grammys and sold over 20 million copies. She has since released nine solo albums and won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Visions (2024).

Norah O'Donnell

Norah O'Donnell, American broadcast journalist; CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor 2019–2025, now CBS News senior correspondent, CBS Mornings co-host with Gayle King, and 60 Minutes correspondent.

Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent (1968-2022), American journalist, wrote Self-Made Man (2006) on 18 months living as a man named Ned and Voluntary Madness (2009) on psychiatric wards; died in Switzerland at 53.

Norayr Nurikyan

Norayr Nurikyan (Норайр Нурикян), Bulgarian weightlifter of Armenian descent, 1948–2025; two Olympic golds, Munich 1972 (60 kg, 402.5 kg) and Montreal 1976 (56 kg, 262.5 kg world record), first Bulgarian Olympic weightlifting champion.

Norb Schemansky

Norb Schemansky (Norbert Schemansky, "Ski"), American weightlifter (1924–2016), first lifter to win four Olympic medals (gold 1952, silver 1948, bronzes 1960, 1964), 24 world records.

Norbert Casteret

Norbert Casteret (1897–1987), French speleologist and prehistorian of the Pyrenees; crossed the Montespan siphons in 1922, traced the Garonne's source with fluorescein, and wrote Ten Years Under the Earth.

Norbert F. Scherer

Norbert F. Scherer is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who joined in 1997 and works on ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy, nanoplasmonics, and optical matter.

Norbert F. Voelkel

Norbert F. Voelkel is a German-trained physician-scientist in pulmonary vascular medicine, trained at Hamburg and Denver, known for work on pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, and the right ventricle.

Sep 20, 2026

Norbert Freinkel

Norbert Freinkel (1926–1989) was an American endocrinologist and Northwestern University professor whose research on diabetes in pregnancy helped reduce infant mortality in diabetic women's babies.

Norbert Gleicher

Norbert Gleicher is a reproductive medicine specialist who has led the Center for Human Reproduction in New York since 1999 and published over 500 papers.

Norbert Hahn

Norbert Hahn (born 1954, Elbingerode) is a German luger who won Olympic doubles gold with Hans Rinn at Innsbruck 1976 and Lake Placid 1980, plus world and European titles, then coached German luge nationally.

Oct 10, 2026

Norbert Hilschmann

Norbert Hilschmann (1931–2012) was a German biochemist and immunologist who, with Lyman Craig, produced the first complete amino acid sequences of antibody light chains in 1965.

Norbert Hirschhorn

Norbert Hirschhorn, born 1938, is an American physician-scientist who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera, an innovation estimated to have saved more than 50 million lives.

Norbert Hosnyanszky

Norbert Hosnyánszky (Hosi), Hungarian water polo player born 1984 in Budapest. Olympic gold 2008 and bronze 2020, world champion 2013, European champion 2020, five Hungarian titles; retired 2024.

Norbert Joseph Pelc

Norbert Joseph Pelc is an American medical imaging physicist and emeritus Stanford professor known for MRI, CT, and digital radiography methods, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Norbert Klaar

Norbert Klaar (born 1954) is a German sports shooter who won gold in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol at the 1976 Montreal Olympics for East Germany.

Norbert Lameire

Norbert Lameire (born 1940) is a Belgian nephrologist, emeritus professor at Ghent University Hospital, known for Lancet seminars and KDIGO guidelines on acute kidney injury.

Norbert Leo Butz

Norbert Leo Butz (born 1967, St. Louis) is an American stage and screen actor, two-time Tony winner for Best Actor in a Musical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), original Fiyero in Wicked, and current Hermes in Hadestown on Broadway.

Sep 27, 2026

Norbert Lins

Norbert Lins is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served in the European Parliament since 2014, chairing the Agriculture Committee from 2019 to 2024.