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Naravas
Naravas was a high-ranking Numidian who deserted the rebel mercenaries and joined Hamilcar Barca with 2,000 horsemen in 240 BC, helping save his army in the Mercenary War.
Narayan Das Ahirwar
Narayan Das Ahirwar is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician and Member of the Lok Sabha from Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, since 2024, after decades in the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Narayan Gangopadhyay
Narayan Gangopadhyay (নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়; born Taraknath Gangopadhyay, 1918–1970) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, critic, and professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta, best known as the creator of the comic adolescent character Tenida.
Narayan Pradhan
Narayan Pradhan (born 1972) is an Indian nanomaterials scientist, School Chair and Senior Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, working on semiconductor nanocrystals and halide perovskites.
Narayan Rane (नारायण तातू राणे)
Narayan Tatu Rane (born 1952) is a Maharashtra politician and BJP MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg; former Shiv Sena leader, Maharashtra chief minister in 1999, Congress minister, Rajya Sabha member from 2018, and Union minister from 2021.
Narayan Shyam
Narayan Shyam (نارائڻ شيام), born Narayan Gokuldas Nagwani (1922–1989), was a Sindhi-language poet who settled in Delhi after Partition and helped found modern Sindhi poetry, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970.
Narayan Singh Kushwah
Narayan Singh Kushwah is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who represents Gwalior South in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly and serves as a state cabinet minister.
Narayana
Narayana, also known as Lord Narayana (Sanskrit Nārāyaṇa), is a Hindu divine name that became a form of Vishnu and is read by Sri Vaishnavas as the supreme reality.
Narayana Curna
Narayana Cirna (Nārāyaṇa cūrṇa, नारायण चूर्ण) is a classical Ayurvedic polyherbal powder from the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya and Caraka Saṃhitā, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India 7:19, dose 1–3 g, used as a purgative with condition-specific anupāna.
Narayana Guru (നാരായണ ഗുരു)
Narayana Guru (നാരായണ ഗുരു), also known as Sree Narayana Guru, was a Kerala social reformer and Hindu sage who fought the caste system from 1888.
Narayana Health
Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited), Indian hospital chain founded 2001 by Devi Prasad Shetty in Bengaluru; low-cost high-volume cardiac care, Cayman Islands and UK hospitals, and its own insurance subsidiary.
Narayana Johnson
Narayana Johnson, aka River Boy, Australian composer and half of Willow Beats; scored Cult of the Lamb, won the first WSA Game Music Award (2023), died in 2025 during the Woolhaven expansion.
Narayana Kocherlakota
Narayana Kocherlakota is an American economist, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2009 to 2015, known for the "Money is Memory" theorem.
Narayana number
The Narayana numbers, named for the Canadian mathematician T. V. Narayana, form a symmetric triangular array counting Dyck paths with k peaks; row sums give the Catalan numbers.
Narayana Pandita
Narayana Pandita (नारायण पण्डित) was a Sanskrit poet and court poet of Dhavalachandra, a feudatory king of Bengal, known as the author of the Hitopadesha, a collection of fables on statecraft.
Narayana Taila
Narayana Taila (Nārāyaṇa taila) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame oil with 33 herbal ingredients from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in India's Ayurvedic Formulary for Vata disorders, arthritis, and neuromuscular conditions, used internally and in massage, Nasya, and basti.
Narayana Tirtha
Narayana Tirtha (नारायण तीर्थ) was a Telugu Sanskrit composer of Carnatic music, born in 1675 in Andhra Pradesh, best known for the dance-drama Sri Krishna Leela Tarangini.
Narayana Tirtha (Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath)
Narayana Tirtha was the 41st Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, the northern seat of the Advaita tradition at Badari, holding the office for 42 years from 1724 to 1766.
Narayanasa K. Bhandage
Narayanasa K. Bhandage is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been a Member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2024, after serving in the Karnataka Legislative Council.
Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal (നാരായണീയെന്റെ മൂന്നാന്മക്കൾ)
Narayaneente Moonnaanmakkal (നാരായണീന്റെ മൂന്നാണ്മക്കൾ, Three Sons of Narayani) is a 2025 Malayalam family drama directed by Sharan Venugopal, starring Joju George, Suraj Venjaramoodu, and Alencier Ley Lopez as estranged brothers reuniting at their dying mother's Koyilandi home; released 7 February 2025, later on Amazon Prime Video.
Narayanganj
Narayanganj (নারায়ণগঞ্জ) is a river port and industrial city on the Shitalakshya River, 17 km southeast of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Known as the "Dundee of the East" for jute, it became a district in 1984 and a city corporation in 2011.
Narayanganj District
Narayanganj District (নারায়ণগঞ্জ জেলা), Dhaka Division, Bangladesh; a district since 15 February 1984 with 3,909,138 people (2022), 5 upazilas, and a knitwear and river-port industrial economy near Dhaka.
Narayani coinage
Narayani coinage (নৰায়ণী মুদ্ৰা) is the silver and gold coinage of the Koch kingdom of Cooch Behar, first issued by Raja Naranarayan in 1555 and legal tender until 1866.
Narayanrao
Narayanrao (नारायणराव पेशवे) was Peshwa of the Maratha state from 1772 until 1773, when he was murdered by Gardi guards in a plot traced to his uncle Raghunathrao.
Narbonne
Narbonne (Narbo Martius), Aude, Occitanie: Rome's first colony in Gaul (118 BC) and once a major port, now a growing commune of about 57,600 known for wine, the Canal de la Robine and Roman and Gothic heritage.
Narbuta Biy
Narbuta Biy (Нарбута-бий, 1749–1798) was the fifth ruler of the Khanate of Kokand from the Uzbek Ming dynasty, remembered for a long, peaceful reign of economic and cultural growth.
Narc (film)
Narc is a 2002 American crime drama written and directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Jason Patric as a suspended narcotics officer and Ray Liotta as the murdered cop's volatile partner.
Narciso Campero
Narciso Campero Leyes was a Bolivian general and politician, president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884, who led the country in the final years of the War of the Pacific against Chile.
Narciso Durán
Narciso Durán (1776–1846) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and musician who trained Native choirs at Mission San José and led the California missions as Father President.
Narciss
Narciss is the alias of Nicolas Schmidt (born 1995), a German techno and trance DJ and producer based in Berlin known for a groove-driven Eurodance techno sound.