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N. P. van Wyk Louw

N. P. van Wyk Louw (1906–1970) was an Afrikaans poet, playwright, and critic, the leading figure of the Dertigers who renewed Afrikaans poetry in the 1930s.

N. Peter Armitage

N. Peter Armitage, also published as N. P. Armitage, is a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University known for terahertz spectroscopy of quantum materials.

N. Pichamurthy

N. Pichamurthy (ந. பிச்சமூர்த்தி, born Vengata Mahalingam, 1900–1976) was a Tamil writer and lawyer from Kumbakonam, pioneer of the free-verse Pudukavithai movement and early Manikodi contributor.

N. R. Narayana Murty

N. R. Narayana Murthy, full name Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded the IT company Infosys in 1981 and was its chief executive until 2002.

N. Ramchander Rao

N. Ramchander Rao, born 1959, is an Indian politician and senior advocate who became president of the BJP in Telangana in July 2025, after serving in the state Legislative Council.

N. Randy Smith

N. Randy Smith, born Norman Randy Smith in 1949, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

N. Ronald Morris

Nils Ronald Morris (1933–2025), published as N. Ronald Morris, was an American molecular geneticist at Rutgers who turned Aspergillus nidulans into a leading model for the genetics of mitosis.

N. S. Bendre

N. S. Bendre (Narayan Shridhar Bendre, 1910–1992) was an Indian painter who founded the Baroda Group and won the National Award for his cubist painting Thorn.

N. S. Krishnan (நாகர்கோவில் சுடலைமுத்து கிருஷ்ணன்)

Kalaivanar N. S. Krishnan (Nagercoil Sudalaimuthu Krishnan, NSK), Tamil film comedian, singer and writer, 1908–1957; star of Menaka, Nallathambi and Panam, wife T.A. Madhuram's screen partner, DMK supporter, Lakshmikanthan case convict later acquitted, Kalaivanar title holder.

N. S. Madhavan

N. S. Madhavan (എൻ എസ് മാധവൻ), born 1948, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature known for the novel Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal and the short story "Higuita".

N. S. Raghavan

Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan is an Indian business executive who co-founded Infosys in 1981 and served as managing director until 2000, before chairing the Murugappa Corporate Board.

N. Samsudheen

N. Samsudheen is an Indian Union Muslim League politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Kerala and has represented Mannarkkad in the assembly since 2011.

N. Sanjay Rebello

N. Sanjay Rebello is a physics education researcher and professor at Purdue University who received a PECASE award for studying students' mental models of everyday devices.

N. Scott Adzick

N. Scott Adzick is an American pediatric surgeon and fetal surgery pioneer who served 31 years as Surgeon-in-Chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and led the MOMS trial.

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday, born Navarre Scott Mammedaty, was a Kiowa American novelist and poet whose first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

N. Srinivasan

N. Srinivasan (Narayanaswami Srinivasan), Indian cement industrialist and cricket administrator; India Cements MD, BCCI president 2011, ICC chairman 2014, owner-figure of Chennai Super Kings, central to IPL 2013 betting and conflict-of-interest controversies.

N. T. Rama Rao (నందమూరి తారక రామారావు)

N. T. Rama Rao (నందమూరి తారక రామారావు), 1923–1996, Telugu film superstar famed for Krishna and Rama roles, founder of the Telugu Desam Party and three-term Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

N. T. Rama Rao filmography

N. T. Rama Rao filmography: Telugu cinema career of NTR (Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao), 1949 to 1993, spanning about 154 to 254 films including Mayabazar, Lava Kusa, and Daana Veera Soora Karna, distinct from his grandson Jr. NTR.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (Jr NTR, NTR Jr), born 1983, is a Telugu-cinema actor, grandson of N. T. Rama Rao; star of Student No. 1, Simhadri, RRR (fourth highest-grossing Indian film), Devara and War 2.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. filmography

The N. T. Rama Rao Jr. filmography covers the Telugu cinema films of the Indian actor known as Jr NTR, from child roles in the 1990s to 29 lead roles.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. filmography and awards

Filmography and awards of Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Jr., Telugu cinema actor born 1983: child debut Brahmashri Viswamitra, hits Simhadri and Yamadonga, global fame with RRR and Naatu Naatu, Nandi, Filmfare, SIIMA honors.

N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright (Nicholas Thomas Wright) is a retired Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar, Bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010 and author of over 80 books.

N. Uttam Kumar Reddy

N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, also known as Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as a Telangana minister for irrigation and food and civil supplies.

N. V. Ramana (నూతలపాటి వెంకట రమణ)

N. V. Ramana (నూతలపాటి వెంకట రమణ), Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, Indian jurist and 48th Chief Justice of India, sworn in 24 April 2021, retired 26 August 2022; formerly Supreme Court judge from 2014 and Delhi High Court Chief Justice.

N. Vaghul

Narayanan Vaghul (1936–2024) was an Indian banker who, as chairman of ICICI from 1985 and of ICICI Bank until 2009, built India's second-biggest bank and founded credit agency CRISIL.

N.A. Fleck

N.A. Fleck, also known as Norman A. Fleck, is a British mechanical engineer, Professor of Mechanics of Materials at Cambridge, known for strain gradient plasticity theory.

N.A. Mark Estes

N.A. Mark Estes, full name Mark Nathan Anthony Estes, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts for three decades.

N.B.Medical Inc.

N.B.Medical Inc. (N.B.Medical 株式会社) is a Tokyo-based medical-device startup founded in October 2021 by Kazuya Shobayashi, developing neurovascular stents for cerebral aneurysms and having raised ¥3.35 billion.

N.C.J. Strynadka

Natalie C. J. Strynadka is a Canadian structural biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia who determines the structures of bacterial proteins behind antibiotic resistance.

N.E. Miller

Norman E. Miller is a pathologist and metabolic disorders specialist at St Thomas' Hospital, London, whose 1975 Lancet paper proposed that low HDL is a coronary risk factor.