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Nadar (caste)
Nadars, formerly called Shanar or Channar, are a Tamil-speaking caste of southern Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala, traditionally toddy tappers, now a prominent OBC business community with the Nadar Mahajana Sangam (1910) as its apex association.
Nadia Milleron
Nadia Donya Milleron, niece of Ralph Nader, is an independent attorney, farmer, and congressional candidate in Massachusetts's 1st District who became an aviation safety advocate after her daughter Samya Stumo died in the 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash.
Nadine Macaluso
Nadine Macaluso (Nadine Caridi), American LMFT and somatic psychologist, Manhattan Beach, CA; ex-wife of Jordan Belfort, portrayed by Margot Robbie; PhD Pacifica 2015; author of Run Like Hell (2024) on trauma bonds.
Naga people
Naga peoples: Tibeto-Burman ethnic communities of the Chindwin–Brahmaputra highlands across Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Myanmar's Sagaing Region; predominantly Christian, clan-based, with Nagamese as lingua franca.
Nagarathar (நகரத்தார்)
Nagarathar (Nattukottai Chettiar, Nakarattar), Tamil merchant-banking caste of Chettinad, Tamil Nadu; ran a hundi-based banking system across Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya, 1870–1930, with clan temples and Chettinad mansions on the UNESCO tentative list.
Nahuas
Nahuas: the peoples of Mexico speaking Nahuatl, the Mexican language; 1,651,958 speakers in the 2020 census, distributed across ten-plus states, heirs of Central Mexican pre-Hispanic cultures, with 30 recognized language variants and medium-risk vitality.
Nair
Nair (Nayar), a large matrilineal caste cluster of Kerala, historically martial landholders (jenmis) below the Namboodiri Brahmins, known for marumakkathayam taravads, sambandham unions, and the 1925 Travancore Nair Regulation ending taravad partition rules.
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്)
Najeeb Muhammad (നജീബ് മുഹമ്മദ്), Kerala labourer from Arattupuzha, real-life subject of Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) and the 2024 film; kidnapped in Saudi Arabia 1992, held as an unpaid goatherd, escaped 1995 and deported.
Najwa Ghanem
Najwa Ghanem (نجوى غانم), Syrian first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, married 1974, mother of 11, left him before 9/11, co-authored the 2009 memoir Growing Up bin Laden.
Names of the Romani people
Names of the Romani people: endonyms Rom, Roma, Romani ("man" in Romani) versus exonyms Gypsy (from Egyptian), Zigeuner/tsigane (from Greek Athinganos), plus group names Sinti, Kale, Dom, Lom and institutional usage.
Naming test
A naming test is a neuropsychological assessment in which a person names pictured objects to measure word retrieval and detect aphasia and dementia, most often with the Boston Naming Test.
Nancy Dell'Olio
Nancy Dell'Olio (Annunziata Dell'Olio), Italian-American lawyer and TV personality, born in New York, raised in Bisceglie; partner of England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson from 2000, later Strictly Come Dancing contestant.
Nancy Heche
Nancy Heche (Nancy Abigail Baker Heche, born March 10, 1937) is an American Christian author and speaker on same-sex attraction, mother of Anne Heche; author of The Truth Comes Out (2006) and a 2009 guide with Joe Dallas.
Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784-1818), mother of President Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky pioneer wife of Thomas Lincoln, died of milk sickness in Spencer County, Indiana, and is buried at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.
Nancy Pearlman
Nancy Pearlman is an American environmental broadcaster and educator, host of Environmental Directions radio since 1977 and ECONEWS television since 1984, who also served sixteen years as an elected Los Angeles Community College District trustee.
Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen (1958-1978), Philadelphia-born punk scene figure and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was stabbed to death in room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel on 12 October 1978; Vicious was charged but the case remains unsolved.
Nanjing Sister Hong incident
Nanjing Sister Hong incident: July 2025 Chinese scandal in which a 38-year-old Nanjing man surnamed Jiao, posing online as 'Sister Hong' (红姐), allegedly secretly filmed sex with up to 1,691 men and sold the videos, distinct from unrelated Hong Kong cases.
Nanny
Nanny: a childcare worker employed by a family to care for children in the child's own home, live-in or live-out. Also nursery nurse; distinct from au pair (cultural exchange, 45-hour cap) and daycare. History from wet nursing; Ofsted registration in England; US weekly cost $694 (2021).
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born 1970, Montreal) is a Canadian author and UBC Professor of Climate Justice known for No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelganger, and the Leap Manifesto.
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, American feminist author, wrote The Beauty Myth (1991), a bestseller central to third-wave feminism; later books include The End of America and Outrages, which was recalled over factual errors.
Napoleon complex
Napoleon complex, or short man syndrome: the belief that short men compensate for height with domineering aggression. Named for Napoleon Bonaparte, who was of average height; evidence from psychology is mixed and partly contradicted.
Narcissism
Narcissism: personality construct marked by entitlement, grandiosity, and vulnerability, spanning ordinary self-enhancement to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Grandiose and vulnerable dimensions; NPI and PNI measures; NPD entered DSM-III in 1980.
Narcissistic Personality Inventory
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is a self-report questionnaire measuring grandiose narcissism in nonclinical populations, introduced by Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall in 1979 and best known in a 40-item forced-choice form.
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.
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.
Natálie Puškinová
Natálie Puškinová (born 2004) is a Czech model who won Miss Earth 2025 in Manila, the second Czech titleholder after Tereza Fajksová (2012), studying at Charles University and advocating food waste reduction.
Nathan Phelps
Nathan Phelps, known as Nate Phelps, is a Canadian-based American writer, LGBTQ and atheist activist, and an estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
Nation
A nation is a community whose members view each other as sharing a culture, history, and institutions, and sometimes language, ethnicity, or religion; it is distinct from the state and the nation-state.
National Adult Reading Test
The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is a neuropsychological test that estimates premorbid intelligence from reading 50 irregularly spelled English words aloud, and is widely used in dementia research.
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), founded in New York in November 1911 under Josephine Dodge, was the national American anti-suffrage organization, publisher of Woman's Protest, with branches in 25 states by 1916, opposing the Nineteenth Amendment until 1920.