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Norman N. Li
Norman N. Li (黎念之) is a Chinese-American chemical engineer who invented liquid membrane technology at Exxon, held about 44 US patents, and received the Perkin Medal in 2000.
Norman Naimark
Norman M. Naimark is an American historian of modern Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union at Stanford University, best known for classifying Stalin's 1930s mass killings, including the Ukrainian famine, as genocide.
Norman Osborn
Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (1964). An Oscorp industrialist, the Goblin Formula gave him powers and madness; he killed Gwen Stacy, led the Dark Avengers, and was played by Willem Dafoe.
Norman P. Salzman
Norman P. Salzman was an American biochemist and molecular virologist who led the Laboratory of Biology of Viruses at NIH and was a founding editor of the Journal of Virology.
Norman Parkinson
Norman Parkinson (born Ronald William Parkinson Smith, 1913–1990) was a British fashion and portrait photographer for Vogue, remembered for lively, humorous images shot outdoors on location.
Norman Pirie
Norman Wingate Pirie (1907–1997) was a British biochemist who, with Frederick Bawden, showed that tobacco mosaic virus contains RNA, and later promoted leaf protein as food.
Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz was an American writer who edited Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995, moving from the literary left to become a leading architect of neoconservatism; he died in 2025.
Norman Powell
Norman Powell (Norm, Stormin Norman), born 1993, is an American NBA shooting guard from UCLA, drafted 46th in 2015; 2019 champion with Toronto, first-time All-Star with Miami in 2026, now with the Chicago Bulls.
Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine is an American aerospace executive who led Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin and chaired major U.S. space program reviews in 1990 and 2009.
Norman R. Klinman
Norman R. Klinman (1937–2010) was an American immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for the splenic focus assay and studies of B cell tolerance.
Norman R. Morrow
Norman R. Morrow is a petroleum engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for research on wettability and oil recovery.
Norman R. Pace
Norman R. Pace is an American molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing RNA acts as a catalyst and for sequencing-based surveys of microbial diversity.
Norman R. Scott
Norman R. Scott, or Norman Roy Scott, is an American agricultural and biological engineer, a Cornell professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustine (born 1935) is an American aerospace engineer and executive who led Martin Marietta and then Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor.
Norman Read
Norman Read (Norman Richard Read, 1931-1994), English-born New Zealand race walker; won 1956 Melbourne Olympic 50km walk gold in 4:30:42.8, 1960 Rome Olympian, 1966 Commonwealth bronze medallist, later an international walking judge.
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus (born 1969) is an American actor known as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead and its spin-off Daryl Dixon, also the lead of Death Stranding, star of Ride with Norman Reedus, and Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints.
Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), American painter and illustrator of everyday American life. Saturday Evening Post covers 1916–1963, over 300 covers; Four Freedoms series 1943; later civil-rights work for Look, including The Problem We All Live With.
Norman Ross
Norman DeMille Ross (1896-1953), American swimmer nicknamed The Big Moose; won 3 golds at 1920 Antwerp Olympics (400m, 1,500m, 4x200m relay), 5 titles at 1919 Inter-Allied Games, later first US classical disc jockey.
Norman Routledge
Norman Arthur Routledge (1928–2013) was an English mathematician and schoolteacher who taught at Eton College, was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and preserved Alan Turing's letters.
Norman S. Talner
Norman S. Talner (1925–2017) was an American pediatric cardiologist who built the pediatric cardiology program at Yale and later taught at Duke, helping develop fetal echocardiography.
Norman Sanderson
Norman Sanderson is an American Republican politician who has represented North Carolina's 2nd Senate district since 2012, after serving in the State House from 2010.
Norman Schofield
Norman Schofield (1944–2019) was a British-born political economist who held the Taussig chair at Washington University in St. Louis and proved the McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorems on majority-rule voting instability.
Norman Schwartz
Norman Schwartz is an American business executive who has led Bio-Rad Laboratories as President and CEO since 2003 and as Chairman of the Board since 2012.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (H. Norman Schwarzkopf) was a United States Army four-star general who led the coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.
Norman Sharpe
Norman Sharpe is a New Zealand cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland whose 1980s trials showed ACE inhibitors prevent ventricular enlargement after heart attack.
Norman Sharpless
Norman E. Sharpless is an American oncologist and aging researcher who directed the National Cancer Institute from 2017 to 2022 and was acting FDA commissioner in 2019.
Norman Sleep
Norman Sleep, born 1945, is an American geophysicist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, known for mantle convection and planetary thermal evolution.
Norman St John-Stevas
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley (1929-2012), British Conservative politician, MP for Chelmsford 1964-87, arts minister, Leader of the House of Commons 1979-81 who created the departmental select committee system, later a life peer and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Norman Stansfield
Norman Stansfield, also called Stansfield, is the corrupt DEA agent villain of Luc Besson's 1994 film Léon: The Professional, played by Gary Oldman; he murders Mathilda's family, loves Beethoven and pills, and shouts "Bring me everyone."
Norman Steenrod
Norman Steenrod (1910–1971) was an American algebraic topologist and Princeton professor who founded homological algebra and gave his name to the Steenrod squares, the Steenrod algebra, and the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms.