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Natakamani

Natakamani, also known as Aqrakamani, was a king of Kush who co-ruled the Meroitic kingdom with Queen Amanitore from about AD 1 to 25, building temples from Amara to Naqa.

Natal Code of Native Law

The Natal Code of Native Law was a codification of Zulu customary law for Africans in the British colony of Natal, first drafted in 1878.

Natal Drakensberg Park

Natal Drakensberg Park, also called uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, is a 242,813 ha Ramsar wetland site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, designated 21 January 1996 and part of the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site.

Natal Indian Congress

The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) was a political organization founded by Mohandas Gandhi in 1894 to fight discrimination against Indians in Natal, South Africa, and later resisted apartheid.

Natal kick

A natal kick is the velocity a neutron star or black hole receives at birth, most often in a core-collapse supernova, sometimes exceeding 1000 km per second.

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; founded 25 December 1599 near Fortaleza dos Reis Magos. 751,300 residents (2022 census), density 4,488.03/km², area 167.401 km², IDHM 0.763.

Natalee Linez

Natalee Linez (born 2000) is an American actress from Orange County, California, known for Nicole Martinez in Siren, Jessica Figueroa in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Lydia Montgomery in Tell Me Lies, and CIA analyst Gina Gosian on CBS's CIA; she also hosts the podcast Ground Up with Natalee and founded The Lead Actor course.

Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina (Наталья Александровна Пушкина)

Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina (Наталья Александровна Пушкина), 1836–1913, Pushkin's youngest daughter; married Dubelt, then Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau as Countess von Merenberg; published Pushkin's letters.

Natalia Cordova-Buckley

Natalia Cordova-Buckley, also credited as Natalia Cordova, is a Mexican actress born in 1982 in Mexico City, known for Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., voicing Frida Kahlo in Coco, and roles in The Mosquito Coast and The Portrait.

Natalia del Riego

Natalia del Riego (Amber Álvares) is an American actress of Indigenous Salvadoran and Mexican descent, known for Promised Land, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hail Mary, and as Lilla Belle in Netflix's The Abandons (2025).

Natalia Dorado

Natalia Dorado (Natalia Dorado Gómez), Spanish field hockey player born 1967 in Madrid, Club de Campo; won gold with Spain at Barcelona 1992, captained the team at Atlanta 1996, and holds a Guinness record for the fastest goal in women's field hockey, 16 seconds.

Natalia Dudareva

Natalia Dudareva is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Purdue University, an international authority on plant secondary metabolism, especially the biosynthesis of floral scent compounds.

Natalia Dyer

Natalia Dyer (born 1995, Nashville) is an American actress known as Nancy Wheeler in Netflix's Stranger Things and as Alice in Yes, God, Yes, with indie film credits including I Believe in Unicorns.

Natalia Germani

Natália Germáni (born Natália Germániová, 1993, Nitra) is a Slovak actress and model, VŠMÚ Bratislava graduate, known for Amnesty, Nightsiren (Locarno Golden Leopard), Her Body, and JOJ series such as Panelák and Hranica.

Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg, born Natalia Levi (1916–1991), was an Italian novelist and essayist who won the Strega Prize for Lessico famigliare in 1963 and sat in Parliament from 1983.

Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Goncharova (Наталья Гончарова, 1881–1962) was a Russian painter and stage designer who led the Moscow avant-garde and became a principal designer for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Natalia Grace

Natalia Grace is a Ukrainian-born American woman with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, whose adoption and dispute over her legal age sparked criminal neglect charges and media attention.

Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster

Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Dowager Duchess of Westminster (née Phillips, born 1959), widow of the 6th Duke of Westminster; descendant of Pushkin, godmother of Prince William, mother of the 7th Duke.

Natalia Lafourcade

Natalia Lafourcade (María Natalia Lafourcade Silva, b. 1984, Mexico City) is a Mexican singer-songwriter, ex-pop-rock artist turned Latin American folk revivalist, holding 20 Latin Grammys and 5 Grammys, known for Hasta la raíz, Musas, Coco's 'Remember Me,' and De Todas las Flores.

Natalia Madaj

Natalia Madaj (Madaj-Smolińska), Polish rower born 1988 in Piła; Olympic gold in women's double sculls with Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska at Rio 2016, eighth in the quadruple sculls at London 2012.

Natalia Marasescu

Natalia Marasescu (Mărășescu, née Andrei), Romanian runner born 1952; world mile record holder (4:22.1, 1979), two-time European indoor 1500 m champion, 1979 doping suspension and 1980 reinstatement.

Natalia Molchanova

Natalia Molchanova (Наталья Молчанова, 1962–2015), Russian freediver called the queen of freediving; 41 AIDA world records, 23 world titles, first woman to 100 m CWT and 9:02 static apnea; vanished off Formentera in 2015.

Natalia Naryshkina

Natalia Naryshkina (Наталья Кирилловна Нарышкина), who married Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich in 1671, was the mother of Peter the Great and effectively headed the Russian government from 1689 until her death in 1694.

Natalia Oreiro

Natalia Oreiro (Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias), Uruguayan actress and singer based in Argentina, star of Muñeca Brava, Gilda, and Santa Evita, with a large Russian fan base and albums Natalia Oreiro and Tu Veneno.

Natalia Petkevitch

Natalia Petkevitch is a Belarusian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, responsible for social issues and appointed chair of the 2025 university admissions commission.

Natalia Poklonskaya (Наталья Поклонская)

Natalia Poklonskaya (Наталья Поклонская), born 1980, is a Russian politician and former Prosecutor General of Crimea appointed in March 2014, famous for the 2014 "Nyash Myash" anime meme, later a State Duma deputy, and sanctioned by the US, EU, UK, and others.

Natalia Republic

Natalia Republic (Republiek van Natalia), a short-lived Boer republic founded by Voortrekkers in Natal after the 1838 Battle of Blood River, capital Pietermaritzburg, led by Andries Pretorius, annexed by Britain in 1843 as the Colony of Natal.

Natalia Shustova

Natalia B. Shustova is a chemist who holds the Fred M. Weissman Palmetto Professor chair at the University of South Carolina, known for pioneering the photophysics of metal–organic frameworks.

Natalia Téllez

Natalia Téllez (Natalia Téllez Martínez, b. 1985, Mexico City) is a Mexican actress and TV host, not the magistrate Natalia Téllez Torres Orozco. From Rebelde and Telehit to ¿Quién es la máscara?, Las Azules, and Telemundo's Operación Triunfo USA (2026).

Natalia Tena

Natalia Tena (Natalia Gastiain Tena, born 1984, London) is an English actress and musician: Nymphadora Tonks in Harry Potter, Osha in Game of Thrones, Molotov Jukebox lead singer, SXSW-awarded for 10.000 Km.