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- N-I (rocket)The N-I or N-1 was a derivative of the American Thor-Delta rocket, produced under license
- N. Chandrababu Naidu13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1950)
- N. G. RangaIndian freedom fighter and parliamentarian (1900–1995)
- N. Madhava RaoDiwan of Mysore (1887–1972)
- N. R. PogsonEnglish astronomer (1829–1891)
- N1 (rocket)Soviet super heavy-lift launch vehicle (1965–1972)
- NainsukhIndian painter (c.1710–1778)
- Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair (Varma)Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a
- Najib ad-DawlahAfghan Rohilla Chief and Mughal serviceman (1707/1708–1770)
- NamdevHindu Bhakti Saint (1270–1350)
- Namık KemalTurkish writer and activist (1840–1888)
- Nana Saheb Peshwa IIPeshwa pretender (1824–1859)
- Nanaki Kaur AtariwalaNanaki Kaur Atariwala (1823-1856) was the queen consort of Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh, the t
- Nandalal BoseIndian artist and a pioneer of modern Indian art (1882-1966)
- Nanhai, FoshanNanhai District (simplified Chinese: 南海区; traditional Chinese: 南海區), is a district of Fosh
- Nanyue HuisiChinese Buddhist monk, (515-577)
- NanzhaoKingdom in southern China (738–902)
- Naomi KleinCanadian author and activist (born 1970)
- Napoleon IISon of Napoleon I (1811–1832)
- Napoleonic weaponry and warfareWeaponry of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)
- Narasimha SaraswatiHindu theologian (1378–1459)
- Narayan Malhar JoshiIndian trade unionist (1879–1955)
- Narendra DevaIndian socialist (1889–1956)
- Narendra Mohan SenNarendra Mohan Sen (1887–1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary involved wi
- Nariman MehtaNariman Bomanshaw Mehta (April 20, 1920 – August 22, 2014) was an Indian-born American org
- NarmadIndian Gujarati-language poet and scholar (1833–1886)
- Narsinh MehtaIndian poet and saint (1414–1488)
- NAS Award for Scientific ReviewingThe NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Nashville, MissouriNashville is a small unincorporated community in southwestern Barton County one mile north
- Nasrid dynasty (Sistan)Iranian Sunni dynasty (1029–1225)
- Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt)Natalia Alexeievna, Tsarevna of Russia (25 June 1755 – 15 April 1776) was the first wife o
- Natalia SedovaRussian revolutionary (1882–1962)
- Natalie BookchinNatalie Bookchin is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is well known for her work
- Natarajan ChandrasekaranIndian business executive (born 1963)
- National Action Plan (Pakistan)The National Action Plan is an action plan that was established by the Government of Pakis
- National Alliance for ReconstructionThe National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) was the governing party in Trinidad and Tob
- National Minority MovementThe National Minority Movement was a British organisation, established in 1924 by the Comm
- National Movement for the Liberation of AzawadMilitant group in Northern Mali (2011–2024)
- National Order of Merit (Malta)The National Order of Merit is a state order of the Republic of Malta. The order is divide
- National Protection WarAnti-monarchist civil war in China (1915–16)
- National ReformerThe National Reformer was a secularist weekly publication in 19th-century Britain (1860–18
- National Revolutionary ArmyMilitary of the Kuomintang (1924–1947)
- National Route 7 (Argentina)National Route 7 (full name in Spanish: Ruta Nacional 7 Carretera Libertador General San M
- National Socialist German Doctors' LeagueDivision of the Nazi Party (1929–1945)
- National Union (Portugal)Former ruling party of Portugal (1932–1974)
- Natya ShastraSanskrit text on the performing arts (200 BCE to 200 AD)
- Nawabs of BhopalIndian Muslim rulers (1707–1949)
- Nawaz SharifPrime Minister of Pakistan (1990–1993; 1997–1999; 2013–2017)
- Nayab Singh Saini11th Chief Minister of Haryana since 2024 (born 1970)
- Nayakas of KeladiRuling dynasty in Karnataka, India (1499–1763)
- Nayaks of GingeeDynasty of Gingee, India (1509–1649)
- Nazir Ahmad DehlviIndian Urdu writer (1833–1912)
- NEAR ShoemakerAmerican space probe to asteroid (1996–2001)
- Necrobia ruficollisNecrobia ruficollis, the ham beetle, red-shouldered ham beetle, or red-necked bacon beetle
- Nedunjeliyan IIEarly Pandya King (c. 210 CE)
- Neeraj ChopraIndian javelin thrower (born 1997)
- Neil O'ConnorNeil O'Connor (March 23, 1917 – October 1, 1997) was an experimental psychologist, born in
- Neil PostmanAmerican media theorist and cultural critic (1931–2003)
- Neo-prohibitionismNeo-prohibitionism (also spelled neoprohibitionism and neo-Prohibitionism) is a current mo
- Nepal Samyabadi Party (Marksbadi–Leninbadi–Maobadi)Nepal Samyabadi Party (Marksbadi–Leninbadi–Maobadi) (Nepali for 'Communist Party of Nepal
- Nestor MakhnoUkrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
- Neues VolkNazi racial policy publication (1933–1945)
- Neville MaxwellEnglish-born Australian journalist and scholar
- New Afrikan Black Panther PartyThe New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP) is a Black Power Marxist–Leninist–Maoist organ
- New England ColoniesEnglish and British American colonies (1620-1776)
- New Enlightenment (China)Chinese social and cultural movement (1978–1989)
- New Fourth ArmyChinese Communist Party unit (1937–1947)
- New Montefiore CemeteryNew Montefiore Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in West Babylon, New York.
- New People's Army rebellionInsurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)
- New Students for a Democratic SocietyAmerican progressive student organization (2006–)
- New World ROMNew World ROM computers are Macintosh models that do not use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM on th
- Newington Green Unitarian ChurchNewington Green Unitarian Church is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches, located on
- NGC 2997NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the fain
- NGC 7380NGC 7380 is a young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cep
- Ngô dynastyFirst Vietnamese dynasty after the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam (939–965)
- Ngô Xương NgậpNgô Xương Ngập (chữ Hán: 吳昌岌, died 954), formally King of Thiên Sách (天策王), was a co-ruler
- NgoenyangKingdom of Northern Thai people (638–1292)
- Nichifor CrainicRomanian writer, philosopher, poet and theologian (1889 - 1972)
- Nicholas KemmerNicholas Kemmer FRS FRSE (7 December 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian-born nuclear ph
- Nicholas of AutrecourtFrench philosopher (c. 1299–1369)
- Nicholas of CusaGerman cardinal and philosopher (1401–1464)
- Nicholas RescherAmerican philosopher (1928–2024)
- Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of BrentfordBritish economist and academic (born 1946)
- Nicholas WolterstorffAmerican philosopher (born 1932)
- Nicolás Gómez DávilaColombian philosopher and aphorist (1913–1994)
- Nicolas RégnierNicolas Régnier (1591–1667), known in Italy as Niccolò Renieri, was a painter, art dealer
- Nicos PoulantzasGreek-French Marxist sociologist (1936–1979)
- Nielsen–Ninomiya theoremIn lattice field theory, the Nielsen–Ninomiya theorem is a no-go theorem about placing chi
- Nigel WarburtonBritish philosopher (born 1962)
- Nikolai ChernykhNikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (Russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х, IPA: ; 6 October 1931
- Nikolai DanielsonRussian economist and sociologist (1844–1918)
- Nikolai SevertsovRussian explorer and naturalist (1827–1885)
- Nikolay ChernyshevskyRussian writer and philosopher (1828–1889)
- Nilakantha SomayajiIndian mathematician and astronomer (1444–1544)
- Nils HolmgrenNils Frithiof Holmgren (1877–1954) was a Swedish zoologist and comparative anatomist. He w
- Nina AndreyevaSoviet and Russian chemist (1938–2020)
- Nisargadatta MaharajIndian guru (1897–1981)
- Nisshō InoueJapanese Buddhist preacher and nationalist (1887–1967)
- Nitobe InazōJapanese writer and diplomat (1862–1933)
- Nizamuddin AuliyaIndian Sufi saint (1237–1325)
- NjuupThe Njuup tradition is a Serer style of music rooted in the Ndut initiation rite, which is
- Nobuhiro KiyotakiNobuhiro Kiyotaki FBA (清滝 信宏, Kiyotaki Nobuhiro) (born June 24, 1955) is a Japanese econom
- Nobukatsu FujiokaJapanese academic (born 1943)
- Noel SharkeyNoel Sharkey (born 14 December 1948) is a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ire
- Nolini Kanta GuptaNolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scho
- Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922)Indian freedom movement (1921-22)
- Non-cooperation movement (1971)East Pakistani political campaign (1971)
- Nonoy MarceloFilipino cartoonist, animator and filmmaker (born 1939)
- NordkalottrutaNordkalottruta or Arctic Trail (also: Kalottireitti (Finnish); Nordkalottleden (Swedish))
- Norman GeschwindAmerican behavioral neurologist (1926–1984)
- Norman H. NieNorman H. Nie was an American social scientist, university professor, inventor, and pionee
- Norman LockyerEnglish scientist and astronomer (1836–1920)
- Norman Myles KrollNorman Myles Kroll (6 April 1922, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 8 August 2004, La Jolla, California) w
- North-East Frontier AgencyFormer political division of India (1914–1972)
- North-Western ProvincesAdministrative region of British India (1836–1902)
- Northwest Indian WarPart of the American Indian Wars (1786–1795)
- Northwest TerritoryUnited States territory (1787–1803)
- Norton ZinderNorton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012) was an American biologist famous
- Norwegian CrusadeCrusade from Norway to the Holy Land via Iberia (1107–1111)
- Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic ExpeditionThe Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (also known as NBSX or NBSAE) (1949–195
- NovalisGerman aristocrat and polymath (1772–1801)
- Novikov ringIn mathematics, given an additive subgroup , the Novikov ring of is the subring of consist
- Novikov–Veselov equationIn mathematics, the Novikov–Veselov equation (or Veselov–Novikov equation) is a natural (2
- Novosvobodnaya cultureNovosvobodnaya culture (Russian: Новосвободненская культура Novosvobodnenskaya kultura, al
- Numa Denis Fustel de CoulangesFrench historian and religious scholar (1830–1889)