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Nour Mhanna
Nour Mhanna, also written Nour Mahanna (نور مهنا), is a Syrian tarab vocalist from Aleppo, born in 1966, best known for reviving Souad Mohammed's "Wahashitni" in the early 1990s.
Noura (singer)
Noura (نورة), stage name of Fatima Zohra Badji, Algerian singer (1942 Cherchell – 1 June 2014 Paris) of 500+ songs in Arabic, Kabyle, and French; 1971 Pathé Marconi gold disc; wife of composer Kamel Hamadi. Distinct from Nouara the Kabyle singer and Noura Mint Seymali.
Noureddine Morceli
Noureddine Morceli (نور الدين مرسلي), Algerian middle-distance runner born 1970, Olympic 1500m champion 1996, three-time world champion, and 1990s world record holder at 1500m (3:27.37), mile, 2000m and 3000m.
Noureddine Tayebi
Noureddine Tayebi, born in Algiers in 1977, is an Algerian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the super app Yassir in 2017, Algeria's most funded startup.
Noureen DeWulf
Noureen DeWulf (born 1984, New York City) is an American actress of Indian descent, also credited as Noureen Ahmed, known for Lacey in Anger Management and for starring in the Oscar-winning short West Bank Story (2005).
Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri al-Maliki (نوري المالكي) is an Iraqi politician who was prime minister from 2006 to 2014, resigning after Iraq lost a third of its territory to ISIS.
Nouria Hernandez
Nouria Hernandez is a Swiss molecular biologist known for establishing how vertebrate snRNA genes are transcribed by two RNA polymerases and co-discovering SNAPc; she was rector of the University of Lausanne.
Nouria Merah Benida
Nouria Merah Benida (نورية مراح بنيدة), born 1970 in Algiers, is an Algerian middle-distance runner, 1500 m specialist, and 2000 Sydney Olympic champion; also African 1500 m champion 2000 and 2006 and 1997 Mediterranean Games gold medalist.
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini (Dr Doom) is an Iranian-born American economist, NYU Stern professor emeritus known for warning of the 2007-09 global financial crisis in a September 2006 IMF talk, ex-White House CEA and Treasury staffer, and founder of RGE Monitor.
Nourished by Time
Nourished by Time is the musical project of Baltimore-born Marcus Brown, blending R&B, post-punk, and new wave into post-R&B. Debut Erotic Probiotic 2 (2023); second album The Passionate Ones (2025) on XL Recordings.
Nourishing-virtue salaries (yanglian yin)
Nourishing-virtue salaries (养廉银, yanglian yin) were supplementary stipends paid to Qing dynasty officials above their nominal salaries, funded by the meltage surcharge and introduced under the Yongzheng Emperor.
Nourlangie Rock
Nourlangie Rock (Burrungkuy) is a large sandstone outlier in Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, known for Aboriginal rock art galleries including depictions of Namarrkon, the Lightning Man, and early European sailing ships.
Nouryon
Nouryon is a privately held global specialty chemicals company headquartered in the Netherlands, formed in October 2018 when The Carlyle Group and GIC acquired AkzoNobel's specialty chemicals business for €10.1 billion.
Nous
Nous (νοῦς) is the Greek term for mind or intellect, central to Anaxagoras's cosmic ordering principle, Plato's divine intellect, Aristotle's potential and active intellect, and Plotinus's second hypostasis.
Nous Hermes
Nous Hermes is a family of open-weight instruction-tuned and reasoning large language models from Nous Research, first released in 2023 and known for strict adherence to user-supplied system prompts.
Nouscom
Nouscom is a Basel, Switzerland-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing engineered viral-vectored cancer vaccines, both off-the-shelf and personalized; its lead candidate NOUS-209 received FDA Fast Track Designation in 2026.
Noussair Mazraoui
Noussair Mazraoui (نصير مزراوي), born 1997 in Leiderdorp, is a Moroccan defender at Manchester United, formerly of Ajax and Bayern Munich; versatile full-back, 2022 World Cup semi-finalist with Morocco.
Nouveau (software)
Nouveau, French for "new", is a free and open-source driver project for NVIDIA GPUs, composed of a Linux kernel driver and Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.
Nouveau réalisme
Nouveau réalisme (French for "New Realism") was a European art movement founded in Paris in 1960 by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein, using real urban objects.
Nouveau riche
Nouveau riche (nouveaux riches), French for 'new rich', denotes people who recently acquired wealth; used pejoratively versus old money, it inspired Veblen's 1899 concept of conspicuous consumption.
Nouveau roman
The nouveau roman, or new novel, is experimental French fiction that emerged in the 1950s, rejecting traditional plot, character psychology, and realism; writers include Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, and Claude Simon.
Nouvelle
A nouvelle is a short work of French prose fiction, briefer than a novel and built around a single adventure or character, exemplified by Mérimée and Maupassant.
Nouvelle cuisine
Nouvelle cuisine, the French culinary movement of the late 1960s and 1970s named by Henri Gault and theorized with Christian Millau in 1973, rejected Escoffier-era heavy sauces and long cooking for fresh produce, light sauces, and chef-authored plates, led by Bocuse, Guérard, and the Troisgros brothers.
Nouvelle Vague (1990 film)
Nouvelle Vague (1990), Jean-Luc Godard's French-Swiss drama starring Alain Delon and Domiziana Giordano, competed at Cannes 1990; a countess saves a drowning man, lets him drown, then meets his double. Not the 2025 Linklater film.
Nouvelle Vague (2025 film)
Nouvelle Vague (2025) is Richard Linklater's black-and-white French-language comedy-drama about Jean-Luc Godard making Breathless in 1959, starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, and Aubry Dullin; a Cannes 2025 competitor and four-time 2026 César winner streaming on Netflix.
Nouvelle Vague (band)
Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux that covers punk, post-punk, and new wave songs in bossa nova arrangements.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a French administrative region created 4 January 2016 from Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes, with chef-lieu Bordeaux. France's largest region by area (about 84,000 km²), 12 departments, 6,150,451 inhabitants in 2023, third most populous.
Nova
A nova, or stellar nova, is a thermonuclear eruption on a white dwarf star that brightens up to hundreds of thousands of times the Sun's luminosity.
Nova (laser)
Nova was a ten-beam laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used for inertial confinement fusion and weapons physics, the world's highest-energy laser from 1984 until 1999.
Nova (NASA rocket)
Nova was a family of NASA super-heavy-lift rocket designs studied from 1959 to 1962 for direct flights to the Moon; no vehicle was ever built.