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  • Nadezhda Krupskaya 26 Feb 1869 – 27 Feb 1939Bolshevik organiser and Soviet education official; Vladimir Lenin's wife from 1898 until his death in 1924.
  • Nadia MilleronMother of Samya Stumo, who died on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302; she and her husband sent Congress a statement in May 2019 and have since taken part in the court case.
  • Nancy PelosiDemocratic U.S. Representative from California who has served as Speaker of the House.
  • Naomi OreskesHarvard historian of science; co-author of the 2017 study of ExxonMobil’s climate communications.
  • Nausicaa HabimanaNiece of Landoald Ndasingwa; sheltered at the Don Bosco school in Kigali in April 1994 and described it to Frontline.
  • Nawaf al-HazmiOne of the 19 hijackers; checked in for American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Nedeljko Čabrinović 1895–1916Young man who threw a bomb at the Archduke’s car in Sarajevo.
  • Neil Armstrong 1930–2012American astronaut, commander of Apollo 11 and the first person to walk on the Moon.
  • Neil GorsuchJustice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Nelson AldrichU.S. senator who chaired the Senate Finance Committee and the National Monetary Commission.
  • Neta C. CrawfordPolitical scientist at Boston University and co-director of the Costs of War Project.
  • Nicholas II 18 May 1868 – 17 Jul 1918Last emperor of Russia (1894–1917).
  • Nicolas WerthFrench historian of the Soviet Union at the Institut d'histoire du temps présent.
  • Nicole SeligmanAmerican lawyer, former general counsel of Sony; elected to OpenAI's board in March 2024.
  • Nikita Khrushchev 15 Apr 1894 – 11 Sep 1971Soviet leader; Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1958–1964).
  • Nikola Pašić 1845–1926Prime Minister of Serbia in 1914.
  • Noam ChomskyCo-author, with Edward Herman, of Manufacturing Consent (1988).
  • Nur MasalhaHistorian of Palestine and of 'transfer' in Zionist thinking.
  • Nurali Aliyev 1985 –Businessman and banker; deputy mayor of Astana from 2014 to 2016.
  • Nursultan Nazarbayev 6 Jul 1940 –President of Kazakhstan until March 2019, when he stepped down in an address to the nation.