Nathaniel

Nathaniel is an English variant of the biblical Hebrew name Nathanael. It can be a given or surname.

Given name

• Nathaniel Archibald (1952–2018), American basketball player
• Nate Archibald (born 1948), American basketball player
• Nathaniel Ayers (born 1951), American musician who is the subject of the 2009 film The Soloist
• Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), Virginia colonist who instigated Bacon's Rebellion
• Nathaniel P. Banks (1816–1894), American politician and American Civil War General
• Nat Bates (born 1931), two-term mayor of Richmond, California
• Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician, father of modern maritime navigation
• Nathaniel Buzolic (born 1983), Australian actor
• Nathaniel Chalobah (born 1994), English footballer
• Nathaniel Clayton (1833–1895), British politician
• Nat King Cole (1919–1965), American singer and musician
• Nathaniel Clyne (born 1991), English footballer
• Nathaniel Dass, English actor and musician
• Nathaniel W. Depee (1812–1868), American abolitionist
• Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943), American composer and choir director
• Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (born 1984), Canadian politician
• Nathaniel Fick (born 1977), former US Marine captain
• Nathaniel Greene Foster (1809–1869), American politician and military officer
• Nathaniel M. Gorton (born 1938), American federal judge
• Nathaniel Everett Green (1823–1899), English painter
• Nathaniel Greene (journalist) (1797–1877), American journalist
• Nathaniel Hackett (born 1979), American football coach
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American novelist
• Nathaniel J. Jacobson (1916–1996), American artist
• Nathaniel Jarvis (born 1991), Welsh footballer
• Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (1957–2008), convicted kidnapper, suspected serial killer and cannibal
• Nathaniel Lammons (born 1993), American tennis player
• Nathaniel Ledbetter (born c. 1961), American politician
• Nathaniel Lee, (c. 1653–1692), English dramatist
• Nathaniel Lees, New Zealand actor
• Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921), English judge
• Nat Lofthouse (1925–2011), English footballer
• Nathaniel Lubell (1916–2006), American Olympic fencer
• Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), U.S. Army general
• Nathaniel Macon (1757–1837), speaker of the House of Representatives
• Nathaniel Miller (born 1979), Canadian water polo player
• Nathaniel Moore (disambiguation), various people
• Nathaniel Morris, American political candidate
• Nathaniel Neale (born 1988), New Zealand Rugby League player
• Nathaniel Parker (born 1962), English actor
• Nathaniel Pearce (1779–1820), English explorer in Ethiopia
• Nathaniel Pearlman (born 1965), American entrepreneur
• Nathaniel Peat, British Jamaican social entrepreneur
• Nathaniel Peteru (born 1992), New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Nathaniel Philbrick (born 1956), American writer
• Nathaniel Phillips (born 1997), English footballer
• Nathaniel Rateliff (born 1978), American musician
• Nathaniel "Nate" Rathbun (born 1992), American house musician known as Audien
• Nathaniel Raymond (born 1977), human rights investigator and anti-torture advocate
• Nathaniel Ropes (c. 1726–1774), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Nate Ruess (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
• Nate Silver (born 1978), an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player
• Nathaniel Stern (born 1977), American artist
• Nathaniel Walter Swan (1834–1884), Irish-born Australian writer
• Nathaniel B. Terpeny (1809–1884), American politician from New York
• Nate Thurmond (1941–2016), an American basketball player
• Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784–1851), American author and Virginia political activist
• Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), surgeon and botanist
• Nathaniel Watson (born 2000), American football player
• Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (1891–1943), American politician
• Nathaniel White (born 1960), American serial killer
• Nathaniel Willemse (born 1985), Australian singer-songwriter
• Nat Wolff (born 1994), American actor, musician and singer-songwriter

Surname

• A. S. Nathaniel (????–2013), Pakistani nurse
• Afia Nathaniel (born 1974), Pakistani filmmaker
• Ashley Nathaniel-George (born 1995), English footballer
• Daniel Nathaniel (born 1992), Nigerian Men volleyball player
• Ezekiel Nathaniel (born 2003), Nigerian track and field athlete
• Gagarin Nathaniel (born 1995), Indonesian competitive swimmer
• Glory Onome Nathaniel (born 1996), Nigerian athlete
• Inez Nathaniel-Walker (1911–1990), African-American prison folk artist
• Jonadob Nathaniel, Indian biblical scholar
• Joseph Nathaniel (born 1993), Nigerian football player
• Leslie Nathaniel (born 1954), Anglican priest
• Nat Clifton (born Clifton Nathaniel; 1922–1990), American professional basketball and baseball player
• Samson Oghenewegba Nathaniel (born 1997), Nigerian athlete

Fictional characters

• Nathaniel Fitzwilliam "Nate" Archibald in the Gossip Girl series
• Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo, the main character in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of The Mohicans
• Nathaniel Dusk, comic book character, private investigator
• Nathaniel Essex, alter ego of Mister Sinister, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Nathaniel "Nate" Fisher, Jr. and his father Nathaniel Fisher Sr. in the television series Six Feet Under
• Captain Nathaniel Flint from Disney's Treasure Planet
• Nathaniel M. Laxamana, the protagonist of the Filipino TV series Nathaniel
• Nathaniel Macauley, in Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying
• Nathaniel (surname unknown, also known as John Mandrake), one of the three main protagonists in the Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
• Captain Nathaniel Renko, main character in the 2010 video game Singularity
• Nathaniel Kurtzberg, a character in the animated series
• Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw, main character in the 1997 video game Claw

Animals with this name

• Nathaniel (horse), winner of the King Edward VII Stakes and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

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