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1,666 profilesNawal El Saadawi
27 October 1931 – 21 March 2021
Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian physician, psychiatrist and writer whose books addressed women's health, sexuality and...
Nâzım Hikmet
15 January 1902 – 3 June 1963
Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet, playwright and novelist who introduced free verse and colloquial speech into Turkish po...
Neeraj Chopra
24 December 1997 – present
Neeraj Chopra is an Indian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He won the world under-20 title in...
Neil Armstrong
5 August 1930 – 25 August 2012
American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, the first person to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 11.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
5 October 1958 – present
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author and science communicator. He has directed the Hayden Planetari...
Nelson Mandela
18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison, negotiated the end of apartheid, and became Sou...
Nezahualcoyotl
28 April 1402 – 4 June 1472
Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472) was the tlatoani (ruler) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico and a co-founde...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
13 June 1954 – present
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist who spent twenty-five years at the World Bank, rising to Managing D...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
5 January 1938 – 28 May 2025
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist, author of Weep Not, Child, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of...
Nguyễn Huệ
1753 – 16 September 1792
Nguyễn Huệ, who reigned as Emperor Quang Trung, was the most brilliant military leader of Vietnam's Tây Sơn rebellion an...
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527
Florentine diplomat, historian, and political philosopher whose treatise The Prince founded modern political theory.
Nichiren
16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282
Nichiren (1222-1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kamakura period who founded the school of Buddhism that bears...
Nicolas Hayek
19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010
Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010) was a Lebanese-born Swiss businessman who co-founded the Swatch Group and is credited with rev...
Nicolas Poussin
June 1594 – 19 November 1665
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was a French painter who spent most of his career in Rome and became the leading exponent of...
Nicolaus Copernicus
19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543
Polish astronomer and mathematician whose heliocentric model of the universe launched the Scientific Revolution.
Nicole Oresme
c. 1320 – 11 July 1382
Nicole Oresme (c. 1320-1382) was a French philosopher, mathematician, economist, and Bishop of Lisieux, one of the most...
Niels Bohr
7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962
Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, and later hel...
Niels Henrik Abel
5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic...
Nikita Khrushchev
15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971
Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 t...
Nikola Tesla
10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943
Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems underpins the modern electri...
Nikolaas Tinbergen
15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988
Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who helped found the discipline of ethology, the study of ani...
Nikolai Lobachevsky
1 December 1792 – 24 February 1856
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) was a Russian mathematician known as one of the founders of non-Euclidean geom...
Nina Simone
21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003
Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist whose music spanned jazz, blues, folk...
Nizam al-Mulk
c. 1018 – 14 October 1092
Nizam al-Mulk was a Persian scholar and statesman who served as vizier of the Seljuk Empire for nearly thirty years unde...
Nizami Ganjavi
c. 1141 – c. 1209
Nizami Ganjavi was a 12th-century Persian poet, considered the greatest master of the romantic epic in Persian literatur...
Nizar Qabbani
21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998
Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian poet and diplomat who wrote in a direct, colloquial Arabic idiom and published more than thir...
Nnamdi Azikiwe
16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996
Nnamdi Azikiwe was a Nigerian statesman and journalist who became the first president of Nigeria. Widely regarded as a f...
Norbert Wiener
26 November 1894 – 18 March 1964
Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher who founded the field of cybernetics, the study of control...
Norman Borlaug
25 March 1914 – 12 September 2009
Norman Borlaug was an American agronomist known as the father of the Green Revolution for developing high-yielding, dise...
Norodom Sihanouk
31 October 1922 – 15 October 2012
Norodom Sihanouk was a Cambodian head of state who held office under several titles between 1941 and 2004, including kin...
Novak Djokovic
22 May 1987 – present
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who has won a record number of men's singles Grand Slam titles an...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
26 January 1959 – present
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish film director, screenwriter and photographer whose slow-paced, landscape-driven films are...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani vocalist widely regarded as one of the greatest qawwali singers, a devotional Sufi...
Obafemi Awolowo
6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987
Obafemi Awolowo was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and writer. He founded the Action Group in 1951 and served as Premier...
Octavia E. Butler
22 June 1947 – 24 February 2006
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer whose novels combined speculative premises with themes of race,...
Octavio Paz
31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998
Octavio Paz was a Mexican poet, essayist and diplomat whose work ranged from lyric poetry to extended essays on Mexican...
Oda Nobunaga
23 June 1534 – 21 June 1582
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) was a Japanese daimyo and the first of the three great unifiers of Japan in the Sengoku period....
Ofra Haza
19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000
Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer and actress whose work combined Yemenite Jewish traditional song with Western pop. She r...
Ogata Kōrin
1658 – 2 June 1716
Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716) was a Japanese painter, lacquerer, and textile designer of the Edo period, regarded as one of th...
Ogyū Sorai
21 March 1666 – 28 February 1728
Ogyū Sorai was a Japanese Confucian scholar of the Edo period and the most influential thinker of Tokugawa Japan's Ancie...
Olaudah Equiano
c. 1745 – 31 March 1797
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist who, according to his memoir...
Oliver Cromwell
25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658
English soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars and ruled the Commonwealth of Engla...
Oliver Tambo
27 October 1917 – 24 April 1993
Oliver Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress. He led...
Olivier Messiaen
10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist. He served as organist of the Church of the Sainte-Tr...
Olof Palme
30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986
Olof Palme was a Swedish politician who led the Social Democratic Party from 1969 until 1986 and served two terms as Pri...
Olusegun Obasanjo
5 March 1937 – present
Olusegun Obasanjo is a Nigerian former army general and politician who led Nigeria twice, first as military head of stat...
Olympe de Gouges
7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) was a French playwright, pamphleteer, and political activist best known for her Declaration...
Omar Khayyam
18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian polymath from Nishapur renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and...