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Nana Triban
Nana Triban is a figure of the Sundiata epic, sister of Sundiata Keita, whose espionage at Soumaoro's court enabled his defeat at Kirina around 1235.
Naná Vasconcelos
Naná Vasconcelos, born Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, was a Brazilian percussionist from Recife who specialized in the berimbau and won eight Grammy Awards before his death in 2016.
Nana Visitor
Nana Visitor (Nana Tucker, born 1957, New York) is the American actress who played Major Kira Nerys on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-99); Broadway roots, later roles in Dark Angel, Wildfire, Torchwood, and author of Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek (2024).
Nana-Buluku Coronae
Nana-Buluku Coronae: twin corona feature on Venus, 230 km across at 39.4N 14E, IAU-named 2003 for the Dahomean creator deity; member of the Bereghinya arachnoid cluster with Cavell and Xquiq coronae.
Nanabhai Bhatt
Nanabhai Bhatt (नानाभाई भट्ट), born Yeshwant Bhatt (1915–1999), was an Indian Hindi and Gujarati film director and producer of fantasy and mythological B-movies, father of Mahesh Bhatt, and director of Muqabala (1942), the first Indian double-role film.
Ñāṇābhivaṃsa
Ñāṇābhivaṃsa Dhammasenāpati (1753–1833) was a Burmese Theravāda scholar-monk who served as saṃgharāja under King Bodawphaya, wrote the Sāsanālaṅkāra, and ordained the Sinhalese monks who founded the Amarapura nikāya.
Nanabozho
Nanabozho, also spelled Nanabush or Manabozho, is the trickster and culture hero of the Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes, known for the earth-diver story that formed Turtle Island.
Nanadesi
Nanadesi (நானாதேசி, "those of various countries") was a South Indian merchant guild, active from the 9th century, that traded over land and sea across the Indian Ocean.
Nanahoshi Orchestra
Nanahoshi Orchestra (ナナホシ管弦楽団), the solo project of Iwami Takashi, is a Japanese Vocaloid producer. Originating in Shiga Prefecture, his 'nerd rock' combines guitar rock with anime catchiness.
Nanaimo
Nanaimo (Snuneymuxw territory) is a city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, incorporated 1874, founded on HBC coal mining in 1852 as Colvilletown; population 99,863, Harbour City, Nanaimo bar, fifth-largest BC urban centre.
Nanaimo bar
Nanaimo bar: Canadian no-bake three-layer dessert bar (crumb base, custard buttercream, chocolate top) named after Nanaimo, BC; first printed 1952 as "chocolate square", official recipe by Joyce Hardcastle since 1986.
Nanaimoteuthis
Nanaimoteuthis (N. jeletzkyi, N. haggarti) is an extinct Late Cretaceous coleoid genus from Vancouver Island and Hokkaido, known only from chitinous jaws; reclassified in 2026 from vampire squid relative to giant finned octopus (Cirrata), with size estimates up to 19 m.
Nanaji Deshmukh
Nanaji Deshmukh (Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, 1916–2010), Indian social reformer, Jana Sangh leader, Emergency underground organizer, and founder of Deendayal Research Institute; led the Chitrakoot Self-Reliance Campaign and received the posthumous 2019 Bharat Ratna.
Nanak Nam Jahaz Hai
Nanak Nam Jahaz Hai (ਨਾਨਕ ਨਾਮ ਜਹਾਜ਼ ਹੈ), 1969 Punjabi devotional drama directed by Ram Maheshwari, starring Prithviraj Kapoor; first major post-independence Punjabi hit, three National Awards, restored 2015, remade 2024.
Nanak Singh
Nanak Singh (1897–1971), born Hans Raj, was a Punjabi novelist and poet called the father of the Punjabi novel who wrote Khooni Vaisakhi after surviving the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Nanakshahi calendar
The Nanakshahi calendar (ਨਾਨਕਸ਼ਾਹੀ ਕੈਲੰਡਰ) is a tropical solar calendar used by many Sikhs to fix gurpurab dates, counting years from Guru Nanak's birth in 1469.
Nanakshahi coinage
Nanakshahi coinage (ਨਾਨਕਸ਼ਾਹੀ ਸਿੱਕਾ) is Sikh currency struck in the names of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh, first issued by Banda Singh Bahadur in 1710.
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi (ન્હાનાલાલ દલપતરામ કવિ; 1877–1946) was a Gujarati poet, playwright, and critic, son of the poet Dalpatram, who created the non-metrical dolanshaili style and wrote the epic Kurukshetra.
Nanalan'
Nanalan' is a Canadian preschool puppet series by The Grogs' Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley about Mona, Nana, and dog Russell, first airing 1998–1999 on YTV, later CBC and PBS, and revived virally on TikTok in 2023–2024.
Nanao Akari
Nanawo Akari (ナナヲアカリ) is a Japanese singer who started on Nico Nico Douga in 2016 and made her major debut on Sony Music in 2018, known for anime theme songs.
Nanao-Ota Shinko power station
The Nanao-Ota Shinko power station (七尾大田火力発電所) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by Hokuriku Electric Power Company since 1995.
Nanashi Mumei
Nanashi Mumei (七詩ムメイ) is an English-language VTuber with hololive English, an owl character representing civilization who debuted with holoCouncil on August 23, 2021 and graduated on April 28, 2025.
Nanaue
Nanaue is the shark-man of Hawaiian legend, son of the shark god Kamohoaliʻi and the mortal Kalei, born with a shark's mouth on his back. Best known from Waipiʻo Valley tales and a Mākua Cave, Oʻahu tradition.
Nanavati-Mehta Commission
Nanavati-Mehta Commission, also called Nanavati-Shah Commission, Gujarat government inquiry (2002-2014) into the Godhra Sabarmati Express train burning and 2002 riots; final report cleared Modi and called the fire a conspiracy.
Nanbaka
Nanbaka (ナンバカ, The Numbers) is a full-color Japanese web manga by Shou Futamata, serialized on comico 2013–2022 in 423 chapters, about escape artists in Nanba Prison, adapted into a 2016–2017 Satelight anime.
Nanban (நண்பன்) (2012 film)
Nanban (நண்பன்) is a 2012 Tamil coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by S. Shankar, a remake of 3 Idiots adapted from Five Point Someone, starring Vijay, Jiiva, Srikanth, and Ileana D'Cruz, released 12 January 2012.
Nanban byōbu
Nanban byōbu (南蛮屏風) are Japanese folding screens, usually six-panel pairs, showing Portuguese traders, their ships, missionaries, and trade goods, popular from the late 16th century with more than 90 surviving.
Nanban trade (南蛮貿易)
The Nanban trade (南蛮貿易), or Nanban Trade Period, was commerce between Japan and Portuguese traders from 1543 to the 1630s, exchanging Chinese raw silk for Japanese silver.
Nanbaxian Gas Field
Nanbaxian Gas Field is a gas field in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, operated by PetroChina and producing about 530 million cubic meters of gas a year.
Nanboku-chō period
The Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代) was the era of civil war in Japan between the Southern Court at Yoshino and the Northern Court in Kyoto, from 1336 to 1392.