Nathaniel
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Nathaniel is a male name and surname
. It comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל/Nethan'el meaning "God has given" (from the Hebrew words nathan "has given" + el "God"). Nathaniel is commonly shortened to Nate, Nat, Natte, Natan, or Nathan.
Surname
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. It comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל/Nethan'el meaning "God has given" (from the Hebrew words nathan "has given" + el "God"). Nathaniel is commonly shortened to Nate, Nat, Natte, Natan, or Nathan.
People with this given name
- Nathanael — In the Gospel of JohnGospel of JohnThe Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...
, normally understood as one of the Twelve Apostles; usually identified with Bartholomew of the other gospels - Nathaniel AyersNathaniel AyersNathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr. is an American musician. He is the subject of numerous newspaper columns, a book, and a 2009 film adaptation based on the columns. A foundation bearing his name was started in 2008 with an aim to support artistically gifted people with mental illness.-School and...
, American musician who is the subject of the 2009 film, The SoloistThe SoloistThe Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez... - Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist who instigated Bacon's RebellionBacon's RebellionBacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon.About a thousand Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans...
- Nathaniel Prentice BanksNathaniel Prentice BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was an American politician and soldier, served as the 24th Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War....
, American politician and American Civil War General - Nathanial BatesNathanial BatesNathanial "Nat" Bates is a former Democratic African American two-term mayor of Richmond, California from 1971 to 1972 and again from 1976–1977 and current city councilmember of Richmond, California. He was the second African-American mayor of Richmond after George B...
, African-American two-term mayor of Richmond, California - Nathaniel Beverley TuckerNathaniel Beverley TuckerNathaniel Beverley Tucker was an American author, judge, legal scholar, and political essayist.-Life and Politics:...
, American author and Virginia political activist - Nathaniel BowditchNathaniel BowditchNathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S...
, American mathematician, author of the American Practical Navigator, and father of modern maritime navigation - R. Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943), American composer and choir director
- Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (1969–2011), known as Nate DoggNate DoggNathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...
, American musician - Nathaniel FickNathaniel FickNathaniel C. "Nate" Fick is a veteran United States Marine Corps officer and CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank based in Washington, D.C. He came to public notice for his writing on military life and the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq...
, former US Marine captain - Nathanael GreeneNathanael GreeneNathanael Greene was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. Many places in the United...
, Major General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and a major player in the Battle of Guilford Court House - Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
, American novelist - Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848–1938), American naval architect
- Nathaniel JarvisNathaniel JarvisNathaniel Stephen Jarvis is a Welsh professional footballer who currently plays for Football League Championship side Cardiff City.-Early life:...
, Welsh footballer - Nathaniel MillerNathaniel MillerNathaniel Miller is a male water polo player from Canada. He won three bronze medals at the Pan American Games with the Canada men's national water polo team during his career....
, Canadian water polo player - Nathaniel SternNathaniel SternNathaniel Stern is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, net.art and printmaking...
, American artist - Nathaniel ParkerNathaniel ParkerNathaniel Parker is an English actor best known for playing Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley in the BBC crime drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.-Personal life:...
, English actor - Nathaniel PhilbrickNathaniel PhilbrickNathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2000 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is member of the Philbrick literary family.-Life:...
, American writer - Nathaniel RaymondNathaniel RaymondNathaniel Raymond is an American human rights investigator, specializing in the prevention and detection of torture. Raymond is best known for his leadership of the anti-torture campaign at Physicians for Human Rights, and his usage of satellite surveillance in the South Sudan as part of the...
, human rights investigator and anti-torture advocate - Nathanial Saltonstall (circa 1639–1707), American judge
- Nathaniel WallichNathaniel WallichNathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...
(1786–1854), surgeon and botanist - Nathaniel Weiss, American association football (soccer) player
- Nathanael WestNathanael WestNathanael West was a US author, screenwriter and satirist.- Early life :...
, American writer - Nathaniel MooreNathaniel MooreNathaniel "Nathan" Ford Moore was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.He was born in Illinois.In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the gold medal...
, American Musician, Philospher, One half of the blues duo Whiskey Sermon
Fictional characters
- Nathaniel, protagonist in the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
- Nathaniel in Enchanted (2007 film)
- Parson Nathaniel in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the WorldsJeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the WorldsJeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using narration and leitmotifs to carry the story via rhyming melodic lyrics that express...
- Nathaniel Fitzwilliam "Nate" ArchibaldNate Archibald (Gossip Girl)Nathaniel Fitzwilliam "Nate" Archibald is a character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Chace Crawford in the television series of the same name...
in the bestselling Gossip Girl book series - Nathaniel Ayers, the title character in the 2009 film The SoloistThe SoloistThe Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez...
- Nathaniel "Natty" BumppoNatty BumppoNathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales.- Fictional biography :...
, the main character in James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...
's novel The Last of The MohicansThe Last of the MohicansThe Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known... - Nathaniel "Nate" FisherNate FisherNathaniel Samuel "Nate" Fisher, Jr. is a fictional character on the HBO television series Six Feet Under, played by Peter Krause.-Prior to the Pilot:...
, Jr. and his father Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. in the television series Six Feet Under - Nathaniel Garro in Warhammer 40,000Warhammer 40,000Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science fantasy universe. Warhammer 40,000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics...
- Nathaniel "Nat" "Simey" "Benny" Goldberg in The Birthday Party
- Nathaniel Graison, wereleopard in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels by Laurell K. HamiltonLaurell K. HamiltonLaurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...
- Captain Nathaniel Hawk, protagonist in Pirates of the CaribbeanPirates of the Caribbean (video game)Pirates of the Caribbean is a 2003 computer game for Windows and Xbox, developed by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks. The Xbox version was the first U.S. console game developed in Russia...
video game - Nathaniel Hawkins in J.L. Langley's Sci-Regency book series
- Nate River in the Death NoteDeath Noteis a manga created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death, or a shinigami, named Ryuk...
manga series - Nathaniel Taggart in Ayn RandAyn RandAyn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
's Atlas ShruggedAtlas ShruggedAtlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing...
Animals with this name
- Nathaniel (horse)Nathaniel (horse)Nathaniel is a thoroughbred colt racehorse trained by John Gosden for Lady Rothschild. Sired by the extremely important Champion Sire Galileo, out of the mare Magnificent Style, , Nathaniel is a half-brother of Playful Act...
Winner of the prestigious King Edward VII StakesKing Edward VII StakesThe King Edward VII Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs , and it is scheduled to take place each year in June....
and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes