All articles starting with N

Nard (نرد) (game)

Nard (نرد), from Middle Persian nardšir, is the historic Persian tables game played on the backgammon board; ancestor of backgammon, no doubling cube, attributed to Ardashir I or Bozorgmehr, attested in the Babylonian Talmud.

Nardole

Nardole, played by Matt Lucas, is a Doctor Who character; River Song's servant from The Husbands of River Song (2015) who became the Twelfth Doctor's companion in Series 10 (2017), guarding Missy's Vault, the revival's first alien official companion.

Nardoo

Nardoo (ngardu) is a starchy flour Aboriginal Australians ground from the hard sporocarps of the aquatic fern Marsilea drummondii; unprocessed, its thiaminase killed the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861.

Nardus stricta

Nardus stricta (mat grass, moor matgrass) is a tufted perennial grass of acidic, nutrient-poor European mountain grasslands, first published in 1753. Its bristle-like, silica-rich leaves are avoided by sheep, and its species-rich swards form EU priority habitat 6230.

Nardwuar

Nardwuar the Human Serviette (John Ruskin) is a Vancouver music interviewer and CiTR radio host since 1987, known for week-long research, prop gifts, and the "doot doola doot doo" sign-off; appointed to the Order of Canada in 2025.

Sep 24, 2026

Nare Maghann Konate

Nare Maghann Konate (Naré Maghann Konaté) was a Mandinka king in present-day Mali who died in 1218 and was the father of Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire.

Nareau (crater on Rhea)

Nareau is a 73.60-km-diameter impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, centered at 24.9°S, 241.9°W; IAU-approved in 2010 and named for the Micronesian creator deity.

Narela

Narela (नरेला) is a residential and commercial neighborhood and planned sub-city in the North Delhi district of Delhi, India, and Delhi's third DDA-planned mega sub-city.

Naren Gupta

Naren Gupta, also known as Narendra Gupta, was an Indian-American venture capitalist who co-founded Nexus Venture Partners, a US-India venture firm, after leading embedded-software company Integrated Systems Inc.

Sep 21, 2026

Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja is a computer vision researcher and Professor Emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for face detection and 3D vision.

Narendra Dabholkar

Narendra Dabholkar (1945-2013), Indian medical doctor, rationalist, and founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS/ANiS), who drafted the Maharashtra anti-superstition bill and was shot dead in Pune on 20 August 2013, days before the ordinance passed.

Oct 22, 2026

Narendra Dai

Narendra Dai (नरेन्द्र दाइ, "Brother Narendra") is a Nepali psychological novella by B.P. Koirala, published in 1970, centered on a triangular relationship between a man, his wife, and his lover.

Narendra Jha (नरेन्द्र झा)

Narendra Jha (नरेन्द्र झा), 1962–2018, Indian Hindi film and TV character actor born in Madhubani, Bihar; known for Dr. Hilal Meer in Haider, Musa Bhai in Raees, Inspector Chaubey in Kaabil; died of cardiac arrest in Nashik on 14 March 2018.

Oct 10, 2026

Narendra Karmarkar

Narendra Karmarkar is an Indian mathematician who proposed the 1984 interior-point algorithm for linear programming at AT&T Bell Laboratories, reported as far faster than the simplex method.

Oct 22, 2026

Narendra Kohli

Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली, 1940–2021) was a Hindi novelist and playwright credited with pioneering the epic-scale novel, retelling the Ramayana and Mahabharata in a rational idiom; he received the Padma Shri and Vyas Samman.

Narendra Modi (नरेन्द्र दामोदरदास मोदी)

Narendra Modi (नरेन्द्र दामोदरदास मोदी), born 1950, is India's Prime Minister since 2014 and a third-term BJP leader, formerly Gujarat's longest-serving Chief Minister; known for demonetization, GST, welfare schemes, and contested democratic record.

Narendra Modi Stadium (નરેન્દ્ર મોદી)

Narendra Modi Stadium (નરેન્દ્ર મોદી), formerly Motera Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and the world's largest cricket stadium at 132,000 seats; rebuilt 2015–2020, renamed 2021, host of the 2023 ODI and 2026 T20 World Cup finals.

Narendra Murkumbi

Narendra Murkumbi is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Shree Renuka Sugars, one of India's largest sugar and ethanol producers, with his mother Vidya Murkumbi in 1998.

Sep 27, 2026

Narendra Narayan Yadav

Narendra Narayan Yadav is an Indian politician from Bihar, a Janata Dal (United) leader and Deputy Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly who has represented Alamnagar since 1995.

Narendra Nath

Narendra Nath (Narendranath Malhotra), Hindi film actor (1935-1998, Jabalpur), brother of Prem Nath and Rajendra Nath; debut Amrapali 1966, last film Khofnaak Mahal 1998; distinct from the Telugu director of Miss India 2020.

Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey

Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey, NND Dubey, retired BSF Deputy Inspector General from Gorakhpur who led the 2003 operation killing Ghazi Baba, mastermind of the 2001 Parliament attack, won the Kirti Chakra, served nine years in the NIA, and is portrayed by Emraan Hashmi in Ground Zero (2025).

Narendra Patni

Narendra Patni was an Indian-born technology entrepreneur who founded Patni Computer Systems, an IT services firm, and ran one of the earliest offshore business models in 1972.

Narendra Singh Tomar

Narendra Singh Tomar (नरेंद्र सिंह तोमर), BJP leader born 1957 in Gwalior; three-term Lok Sabha MP, Union agriculture minister 2019–2023, now Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Dimani since December 2023.

Sep 23, 2026

Narendradeva

Narendradeva (नरेन्द्रदेव) was a Licchavi king of Nepal who reigned from about 643 to 679 CE, restored with Tibetan help and opening trade and diplomacy with Tang China.

Oct 22, 2026

Narendranath Mitra

Narendranath Mitra (নরেন্দ্রনাথ মিত্র; 1916–1975) was an Indian Bengali writer whose stories depicted Bengal's middle class through the 1943 famine and Partition; his story Abataranika became Satyajit Ray's film Mahanagar.

Nares Land

Nares Land is an uninhabited 1,466 km² island in Nordgrønland, northern Greenland, at about 82°25′N 45°W, named for explorer George Nares; Franklinian basin Lower Palaeozoic carbonates with Zn-Pb showings at Kap Wohlgemuth.

Nares Strait

Nares Strait, between Ellesmere Island, Canada, and Greenland, is the northernmost outflow gateway of the Arctic Ocean, linking the Lincoln Sea to Baffin Bay with about 0.8 Sv southward flow, winter ice arches, and the North Water polynya.

Naresh (city)

Naresh (Hebrew נֶרֶשׁ) was a town of ancient Babylonia on the Euphrates, south of Babylon and Sura, best known as the seat of Rav Papa's academy in the mid-fourth century CE.