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Nando Parrado
Nando Parrado (Fernando Parrado, b. 1949, Montevideo), Uruguayan businessman and author, survived the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Andes crash and walked 10 days with Roberto Canessa to rescue 14 survivors; wrote Miracle in the Andes.
Nando's
Nando's, a South African casual-dining chain founded in 1987 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg by Fernando Duarte and Robbie Brozin, serves flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken; privately held (Enthoven family), over 20 countries, distinct from Portuguese or British chains.
Nándor Hidegkuti
Nándor Hidegkuti (Hidegkuti Nándor, 1922-2002), Hungarian footballer and coach, deep-lying centre-forward of the Golden Team; hat trick in the 6-3 win over England at Wembley 1953, Olympic gold 1952, later coached Fiorentina and Al-Ahly.
Nandrolone
Nandrolone (19-nortestosterone, Deca-Durabolin), an anabolic steroid synthesized in 1950, used as decanoate injections for anemia and osteoporosis, with an 11:1 anabolic-androgenic ratio, WADA prohibition, and 2 ng/ml 19-norandrosterone threshold.
Nandrolone decanoate
Nandrolone decanoate, best known as Deca-Durabolin, is a long-acting intramuscular ester of the anabolic steroid nandrolone, approved to treat the anemia of renal insufficiency and, in some countries, osteoporosis.
Nandrolone phenylpropionate
Nandrolone phenylpropionate, also called nandrolone phenpropionate or Durabolin, is a short-acting injectable ester of the anabolic steroid nandrolone, once marketed by Organon and now discontinued.
Nandun Gucheng
南顿故城 (Nandun Gucheng), the "Ghost-Built City", is a Xia-Shang-to-Han archaeological site group in Nandun Town, Xiangcheng, Henan: former capital of the Dun state, Han Nandun County seat, with surviving north wall, Guangwu Temple, tombs, and 2013 national heritage listing.
Nandy (singer)
The Afrikan Princess is the signature branding of Nandy, born Faustina Charles Mfinanga, a Tanzanian bongo flava singer who named her 2018 album and her 2023 female-only record label after it.
Nandyāl
Nandyal (నంద్యాల) is a city and district headquarters in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, formed as a district on 4 April 2022; known for nine Nandi temples, the Navanandi pilgrimage, Kundu river, and Srisailam hydropower.
Nane
Nane (ʻōlelo nane) is the Hawaiian word for a riddle, puzzle, or parable, and an indirect speech carried by metaphor, pun, and allusion that flourished in the courts of Kauai chiefs.
Nanedi Valles
Nanedi Valles (Sesotho for 'planet') is a roughly 500-800 km long, steep-sided river valley system in Xanthe Terra, Mars, with an inner channel and meanders indicating sustained or episodic water flow in the Late Noachian to early Hesperian.
Naneghat inscription
The Naneghat inscription (नाणाघाट लेख) is a large Prakrit-language record in Brahmi script at a cave near Junnar, Maharashtra, attributed to Queen Naganika and dated to the 1st century BCE.
Nanette Barragán
Nanette Diaz Barragán, Democratic U.S. representative for California's 44th district since 2017, first Latina to hold the seat, former Hermosa Beach councilmember, Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair 2023–2024, Energy and Commerce member.
Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray (Ruby Bernadette Nanette Fabares), American actress, singer, dancer (1920–2018). Tony winner for Love Life, three Emmys on Caesar's Hour, The Band Wagon, deaf-accessibility advocate.
Nanette Frances Santoro
Nanette Frances Santoro is an American reproductive endocrinologist and E. Stewart Taylor Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Nanette K. Laughrey
Nanette K. Laughrey is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2011.
Nanette K. Wenger
Nanette Kass Wenger, born 1930, is an American cardiologist at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta who established coronary heart disease in women as a distinct field of research and care.
Nanette Newman
Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934, Northampton) is an English actress and author, wife of director Bryan Forbes, star of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Wrong Box, The Stepford Wives and International Velvet, and the face of Fairy Liquid adverts.
Nanfang Hospital
Nanfang Hospital (南方医科大学南方医院) is a Grade 3A teaching hospital in Guangzhou, First Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University; founded 1941 as a New Fourth Army military hospital, 3,601 beds, Fudan A++++ tier.
Nanfang'ao Bridge (南方澳大桥)
Nanfangao Bridge was a 140 m single arch bridge crossing the Nanfangao fishing harbor channel in Yilan County, Taiwan; it collapsed in 2019, killing six.
Nanfengmian
Nanfengmian (南风面) is a 2,120.4-meter mountain in Suichuan County, Jiangxi, China, and the highest peak of the Luoxiao Mountains, protected as a national nature reserve on a major bird migration flyway.
Nang Nak (นางนาก)
Nang Nak (นางนาก), also Nang-Nak, is Nonzee Nimibutr's 1999 Thai horror-romance film adapting the Mae Nak Phra Khanong ghost legend; it earned 150 million baht, the first Thai film past 100 million, and became national film heritage in 2014.
Nang Pao Corona
Nang Pao Corona is a 160-km-wide Type 2 corona on Venus at 47°S, 204.5°E, IAU-named in 2000 for a Laotian mythical rain-bringing ruler, classified among Venus's partial-annulus coronae.
Nang-byon Chasma
Nang-byon Chasma (Nang byon Chasma) is a 450-km-wide chasma, or rift trough, on Venus at 4°N 316.5°E, named for a Vietnamese moon goddess, extending north from the volcano Var Mons as a highly deformed fracture zone.
Nanga
Nanga (南画, "Southern painting"), often used synonymously with bunjinga, is a Japanese school of painting inspired by Chinese literati painting that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries, led by Ike Taiga and Yosa Buson.
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat (Diamer/Deo Mir), the 8,126 m ninth-highest peak and western anchor of the Himalayas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; the 'Killer Mountain' with the world's highest face (Rupal), first climbed solo by Hermann Buhl in 1953 and in winter in 2016.
Nangarhar
Nangarhar (ننګرهار), eastern Afghan province on the Pakistan border, capital Jalalabad; major irrigated farming region and trade corridor, hit by the 31 August 2025 magnitude 6.0 earthquake.
Nangeli (നാങ്ങേലി)
Nangeli (നാങ്ങേലി), also called the mulakkaram or breast tax legend, is a Kerala oral tradition about an Ezhava woman of Cherthala who cut off her breasts protesting a Travancore poll tax; she appears in no written record.
Nangishlishma
Nangishlishma (Nanĝišlišma) is a legendary early king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, third ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish after the flood.
Nāngloi Jāt
Nangloi Jat (नांगलौई जाट), also Nangloi, is a census town and Delhi Assembly constituency 11 in West Delhi; 2011 population 205,596, Green Line metro, SDM sub-division, BJP MLA since 2025.