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Nasu No Megumi Mekke
Nasu no Megumi Mekke! (那須の恵みMekke!) is a food complex at Rindo Lake Family Farm, Nasu, Tochigi, opened 2016 as a buffet and marche, now a Jersey-dairy marche with cafe.
Nasu Senbonmatsu Farm
Nasu Senbonmatsu Farm (千本松牧場), a Horai Co. dairy and tourist farm in Nasushiobara, Tochigi, founded 1893 by Matsukata Masayoshi; 834 ha, free entry, jingisukan, onsen, 2025 renewal.
Nasu-Hakola disease
Nasu-Hakola disease (PLOSL), a rare autosomal recessive leukodystrophy from TYROBP or TREM2 mutations, causing bone cysts, fractures, and presenile dementia, mostly in Japanese and Finnish populations.
Nasubi
Nasubi (なすび), stage name of Tomoaki Hamatsu (浜津智明), is a Japanese comedian who in 1998 spent 15 months naked in an apartment surviving on sweepstakes prizes on Denpa Shōnen, broadcast to 15 million viewers without consent; later an actor and Everest climber.
Nasudake
Nasudake (那須岳), also called Chausudake, is a 1,915 m active stratovolcano group at the north end of Japan's Kanto Plain, about 160 km north of Tokyo; last erupted phreatically in 1963, with six magmatic eruptions since 16,000 years ago, the latest in 1408-1410 CE.
Nasuh Akar
Nasuh Akar (1925–1984), Turkish freestyle wrestler, won bantamweight (≤57 kg) gold at the 1948 London Olympics, the first Olympic freestyle gold for Turkey, plus 1949 European and 1951 world titles.
Nasum
Nasum was a Swedish grindcore band formed in Örebro in 1992, credited with reviving international interest in grindcore until singer Mieszko Talarczyk died in the 2004 tsunami.
Naswar (نسوار)
Naswar (نسوار), also niswar or nass, is a moist smokeless tobacco of powdered Nicotiana rustica, slaked lime and ash used under the tongue or in the cheek in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia; an estimated 18 million Pakistanis use it, with high oral cancer risk.
Nat (unit)
The nat, also called the natural unit of information, is the information unit computed with the natural logarithm; one nat equals about 1.44 bits, and IEC 80000-13 standardizes it.
Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley (Nathaniel Adderley) was an American jazz cornetist and composer, known for his work with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. His composition "Work Song" is a jazz standard.
Nat Faxon
Nat Faxon (Nathaniel Wales Faxon, born 1975) is an American actor, comedian, and Oscar-winning screenwriter who co-wrote The Descendants and co-directed The Way, Way Back and Downhill with Jim Rash.
Nat Fyfe
Nat Fyfe (Nathan Fyfe), Fremantle AFL midfielder-forward, dual Brownlow Medallist 2015 and 2019, captain 2017–2022, three-time All-Australian; retired 2025 on 248 games, 178 goals, 190 Brownlow votes.
Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles, 1919-1965) was an American jazz pianist and singer whose drummerless King Cole Trio and hits like "Unforgettable" made him a top vocalist; first African American host of a national TV variety show (NBC, 1956).
Nat Love
Nat Love (1854–1921), also called Deadwood Dick, was an African American cowboy, former slave, and Pullman porter whose 1907 autobiography, partly self-mythologizing, records his cattle-range career.
Nat Moore
Nat Moore (Nathaniel Ford Moore, III, 1884-1910), American golfer; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic team golf gold with the Western Golf Association; individual =9; distinct from later athletes named Moore.
Nat Myria
Nat Myria (นัท มีเรีย), full name Nat Myria Alexandra Benedetti, is a Thai singer and actress of Thai-Swiss-Italian descent, born in 1975, best known as a leading GMM Grammy pop star of the 1990s.
Nat Nakasa
Nat Nakasa, born Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa, was a South African journalist and short-story writer who worked for Drum magazine, became the Rand Daily Mail's first black columnist, and founded The Classic.
Nat Pendleton
Nat Pendleton, born Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, was an American Olympic wrestler who won freestyle heavyweight silver at the 1920 Antwerp Games and later appeared in more than 100 Hollywood films as cops, strongmen, and good-natured dimwits.
Nat Phillips
Nat Phillips (Nathaniel Harry Phillips, born 1997, Bolton) is an English centre-back at West Bromwich Albion. A former Liverpool academy player, he starred in Liverpool's injury-hit 2020-21 Champions League qualification campaign before loans to Stuttgart, Bournemouth, Celtic, Cardiff, and Derby.
Nat Simons
Nat Simons, or Nathaniel Henry Simons, is an American investment manager and climate philanthropist who chairs Meritage Group, an investment firm spun out of Renaissance Technologies.
Nat Sternberg
Nat Sternberg was a molecular biologist who discovered the Cre–lox recombination system of bacteriophage P1, now a widely used tool for genetic engineering in mice and plants.
Nat Turner
Nat Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved preacher and self-styled prophet in Southampton County, Virginia, who led the deadliest slave revolt in US history in 1831.
Nat Wolff
Nat Wolff (Nathaniel Marvin Wolff), born 1994 in Los Angeles, is an American actor and singer-songwriter, star of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009), The Fault in Our Stars, and Paper Towns, and half of the duo Nat & Alex Wolff.
NAT1
NAT1 (N-acetyltransferase 1, AAC1/MNAT) is one of two human arylamine N-acetyltransferase genes at 8p22, EC 2.3.1.5. Unlike NAT2, it acetylates p-aminosalicylate and the folate catabolite p-abaglu, is ubiquitously expressed, and has its own polymorphism (NAT1*10, 14, 15).
NAT10
NAT10 (N-acetyltransferase 10, also hALP/Kre33) is the only known eukaryotic RNA ac4C acetyltransferase, also a protein acetyltransferase; upregulated in cancers, a therapeutic target, with disputed mRNA ac4C detection.
NAT2
NAT2 (N-acetyltransferase 2), Gene ID 10, encodes a liver phase II acetyltransferase whose polymorphic star alleles define rapid, intermediate, and slow acetylator phenotypes affecting isoniazid, hydralazine, and sulfonamide metabolism and toxicity.
Natacha Atlas (نتاشا أطلس)
Natacha Atlas (نتاشا أطلس), born 1964 in Brussels, is a Belgian singer of Egyptian-British parentage, former Transglobal Underground vocalist, and solo artist fusing Arabic music with electronica, pop, and jazz.
Natacha Rambova
Natacha Rambova, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, was an American ballet dancer, Hollywood art director and costume designer for Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino, later a fashion designer and Egyptologist with the Bollingen Foundation.
Natachai Boonprasert (ณัฎฐ์ฐชัย บุญประเสริฐ)
Natachai Boonprasert (ณัฎฐ์ฐชัย บุญประเสริฐ), nicknamed Dunk, born 2000, is a Thai actor and singer under GMMTV, known for Star in My Mind, Hidden Agenda, and The Heart Killers, and for the JoongDunk pairing.
Nataka
Nataka (नाटक) is the principal genre of classical Sanskrit drama, taking its plot from well-known stories of celebrated kings or divine heroes such as Rama.