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Nuno Gomes
Nuno Gomes, the Portuguese former footballer Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro, is the nation's fifth-highest international goalscorer, known for his time at Benfica and starring in Euro 2000.
Nuno Loureiro
Nuno Loureiro was a Portuguese plasma physicist known for work on magnetic reconnection, who led MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center until his killing in December 2025.
Nuno Maulide
Nuno Maulide, born 1979 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese organic chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna since 2013.
Nuno Melo (Portuguese politician)
Nuno Melo is a Portuguese politician of the CDS – People's Party, serving as its leader and as Minister of National Defence in Luís Montenegro's Democratic Alliance government.
Nuno Mendes (footballer, born 2002)
Nuno Mendes (Nuno Alexandre Tavares Mendes, born 2002, Sintra) is a Portuguese left-back for Paris Saint-Germain and Portugal; Sporting CP academy product, 2025 Nations League winner, widely ranked the world's best left-back.
Nuno Santos (Portuguese astrophysicist)
Nuno Santos is a Portuguese astrophysicist and full professor at the University of Porto who studies exoplanets, co-leads the ESPRESSO spectrograph, and won the 2010 Ambartsumian prize.
Nuno Tavares
Nuno Tavares (Nuno Albertino Varela Tavares), Portuguese left-back born 2000 in Lisbon; Benfica academy, Arsenal 2021, loans at Marseille and Forest, Lazio since 2025; Portugal international known for pace and attacking output.
Nuno Tristão
Nuno Tristão, also written Nuno Tristam, was a Portuguese sea captain serving Prince Henry the Navigator who made four voyages down the west African coast between 1441 and 1446.
Nuno Valente
Nuno Valente (Nuno Jorge Pereira da Silva Valente, born 1974, Lisbon), Portuguese left back; won UEFA Cup 2003 and Champions League 2004 with Porto under Mourinho, then Everton 2005-2009; 33 Portugal caps, 2006 World Cup semi-finalist; not the younger Trofense midfielder of the same name.
Nuno Vasconcelos
Nuno Vasconcelos is a Portuguese computer vision researcher, professor at UC San Diego since 2003, and head of the Statistical Visual Computing Laboratory, known for Cascade R-CNN.
Nunzio J. Palladino
Nunzio Joe Palladino was an American nuclear engineer who led the Nautilus and Shippingport reactor core designs and chaired the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1981 to 1986.
Nuon (DVD technology)
Nuon was a multimedia processor platform developed by VM Labs of Mountain View, California, built into DVD players from 2000 to add games and interactive features, but it failed commercially.
Nuon Chea (នួន ជា)
Nuon Chea (នួន ជា; 1926-2019), born Lao Kim Lorn, was the Khmer Rouge's "Brother Number Two": CPK Deputy Secretary, acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, and ECCC convict for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Nuonuo
Nuonuo (诺诺网), formally Zhejiang Nuonuo Network Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese electronic invoicing and fiscal-tax SaaS company founded in Hangzhou in 2017 by Aerospace Information.
Nuorilang
Nuorilang (诺日朗) is a 1983 long poem by Chinese Misty poet Yang Lian, first published in Shanghai Literature and named for a Tibetan male god at Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan.
Nuoro
Nuoro (Nugoro), Sardinian city of about 33,000 at 550 m in the Barbagia, provincial capital since 1927, home of Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, the ethnographic museum ISRE, and the Festa del Redentore.
Nuosu language
Nuosu, also known as Northern Yi or Sichuan Yi, is a Loloish language spoken by about 2 million people in southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan, China.
Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare
Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare is a Neapolitan folk ensemble reviving the musical tradition of Campania, founded in the late 1960s with Roberto De Simone.
Nuovo Casino
Nuovo Casino, Chișinău casino at Strada Mitropolit Varlaam 77 inside the Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel, Moldova; opened 2016, 13 table games, 24/7, junket tours from $2,000 deposits.
Nuoyin Intelligent (诺因智能)
Nuoyin Intelligent (诺因智能), also marketed as Knowin, is a Chinese startup founded in 2025 in Shenzhen by former Huawei researcher Li Yinchuan to develop home embodied AI robots.
Nuozhadu hydroelectric plant
The Nuozhadu hydroelectric plant (糯扎渡水电站) is a 5,850 MW hydropower station on the upper Mekong in Yunnan, China, whose dam is the largest of its kind in Asia.
NUP214
NUP214 (nucleoporin 214, formerly CAN), human gene at 9q34.13 encoding an FG-repeat nuclear pore protein on the pore's cytoplasmic face; rearranged in leukemia (DEK-NUP214, SET-NUP214, NUP214-ABL1) and mutated in acute febrile encephalopathy.
NUP98
NUP98, formally the NUP98 and NUP96 precursor gene, is a human gene on chromosome 11p15 encoding nuclear pore proteins Nup98 and Nup96, and a frequent leukemia fusion gene.
Nupe jihad
The Nupe jihad was the 19th-century extension of the Sokoto jihad into Nupe lands, toppling the Tsoede dynasty and making Nupe an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Nupe Kingdom
The Nupe Kingdom was a precolonial state of the Nupe people along the middle Niger in central Nigeria, traditionally founded by Tsoede in the 15th century.
Nuphar
Nuphar (spatterdock, yellow pond-lily) is a genus of about 15 aquatic species in the water-lily family Nymphaeaceae, native to temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere fresh waters, basal in its family with Barclaya as closest relative.
nuPlan
nuPlan is a large-scale dataset and closed-loop benchmark for motion planning in autonomous driving, released by Motional in 2021 from 1,300 hours of human driving in Las Vegas, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Singapore.
Nuptadi Planitia
Nuptadi Planitia is a 1,200 km diameter low plain (planitia) on Venus at 73°S, 250°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Mandan folk heroine with a magic shell robe.
Nuptial flight
Nuptial flight: the synchronized mating flight of social bees, ants and termites, also called Flying ant day for ants. Winged sexuals emerge on warm, humid days; ant queens shed wings and found colonies, males die soon after.
Nuptial gift
Nuptial gift: material a donor (usually male) gives a mate during courtship or copulation to improve donor fitness; includes prey wrapped in silk, spermatophores, and deceptive worthless gifts in spiders.