Nathan (given name)
Nathan is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Hebrew verb meaning gave.
In the Bible
- Nathan (prophet), a prophet who lived in the time of Kings David and Solomon
- Nathan (son of David), son of David and his wife Bathsheba
Notable people with this name
- Rabbi Nathan (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan of Gaza, 17th-century prophet
- Nathan the Babylonian, 2nd-century Judean rabbi
A
- Nathan Adams, English footballer
- Nathan Adrian, American swimmer
- Nathan Aké, Dutch footballer
- Nathan Allen, American physician
- Nathan Alterman, Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
- Nathan Amos, South African born-Israeli rugby player
- Nathan Anderson, American Hindenburg Research founder
- Nathan Aspinall, English professional darts player
- Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
- Nathan Azarcon, Filipino bass player and nationalist
B
- Nathan L. Bachman, American judge and politician
- Nathan Bailey, British lexicographer and philologist
- Nathan Bailey, British trampoline gymnast
- Nathan Baker, English footballer
- Nathan Ballard, American political strategist and attorney
- Nathan Barksdale, American drug dealer
- Nathan Barnatt, American actor and comedian
- Nathan Barr, American film and television composer and musician
- Nathan Bartholomay, American pair skater
- Nathan Baskind, Jewish-American World War II soldier
- Nathan Baxter, English footballer
- Nathan Beaulieu, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Beauregard, American musician
- Nathan Berg, Canadian opera singer
- Nathan Biah, American politician
- Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian journalist and Jewish philosopher
- Nathan Bishop, English footballer
- Nathan Bishop, American educator and philanthropist
- Nathan Bittle, American basketball player
- Nathan Bitumazala, French footballer
- Nathan Bock, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Bom, Bawm politician and militant leader
- Nathan Boone, American soldier and son of Daniel Boone
- Nathan Boothe, American professional basketball player
- Nathan Bor, American boxer
- Nathan Bostock, British banker
- Nathan Bourdeau, American soccer player
- Nathan Bowden, Australian rower
- Nathan Boya, American who went over Niagara Falls
- Nathan Boyle, Northern Irish footballer
- Nathan Boyles, American politician
- Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
- Nathan Braniff, Northern Irish actor
- Nathan Broad, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Broadhead, Welsh footballer
- Nathan Broome, English footballer
- Nathan Brown (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Bruckenthal, United States Coast Guardsman
- Nathan Bryon, British actor and author
- Nathan Buckley, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Buddle, English footballer
- Nathan Burgers, Australian professional field hockey goalkeeper
- Nathan Burke, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Burns, Australian soccer player
- Nathan Burrage, Australian writer
- Nathan Burton, American football player and coach
- Nathan Butler-Oyedeji, English footballer
- Nathan Buttke, American racing driver
- Nathan Buzza, Australian businessman
- Nathan Byanyima, Ugandan politician
- Nathan Byrd, American racing driver
- Nathan Byrne, English footballer
- Nathan Byukusenge, Rwandan cyclist
C
- Nathan Camargo, Brazilian footballer
- Nathan Carter, Irish country singer
- Nathan Carter (American football), American football player
- Nathan Keonaona Chai, American novelist
- Nathan Chen, American figure skater
- Nathan Clark, American politician
- Nathan Clarke, English footballer
- Nathan Clarke, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Clarke, British actor and voice actor
- Nathan Cleary, Australian rugby league player
- Nathan Cleverly, Welsh boxer
- Nathan Coe, Australian soccer player
- Nathan Cohen, Canadian theatre critic and broadcaster
- Nathan Cohen, New Zealand rower
- Nathan Collins, Irish footballer
- Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly, American historian, professor, and podcaster
- Nathan Connolly, Northern Irish guitarist
- Nathan Cooper (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Coulter-Nile, Australian cricketer
- Nathan Cottrell, American football player
D
- Nathan Daboll, American mathematician
- Nathan Daboll, American politician
- Nathan Dahm, American politician
- Nathan Dane, American politician
- Nathan Darrow, American actor
- Nathan Daschle, American political strategist
- Nathan Davis (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Dawe, English DJ and record producer
- Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
- Nathan Deal, American politician
- Nathan Dean, American politician
- Nathan December, American musician
- Nathan Decron, French rugby union player
- Nathan Dekoke, French footballer
- Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
- Nathan Dempsey, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician, professor, chess master, writer and politician
- Nathan Dixon (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Dlamini, English footballer
- Nathan Doak, Irish rugby union player
- Nathan Dossantos, Canadian soccer player
- Nathan Dougherty, American athlete, coach, and educator
- Nathan Douglas, English triple jumper
- Nathan Downer, Canadian television journalist
- Nathan Doyle, English association football player
- Nathan Drake, English essayist and writer on Shakespeare
- Nathan Drake, English artist
- Nathan Drummond, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Dudley, American colonel
- Nathan Dumelow, English cricketer
- Nathan Dunfield, American mathematician
- Nathan Dunn, American businessman, philanthropist and sinologist
- Nathan Dyer, English footballer
E
- Nathan Earle, English professional rugby union footballer
- Nathan Earle, Australian cyclist
- Nathan East, American bass player and vocalist
- Nate Ebner, American football player and rugby Olympian
- Nathan Eccleston, English footballer
- Nathan Eckstein, American businessman
- Nathan Eddy, American documentary filmmaker, journalist and cultural heritage activist
- Nathan Edmondson, American writer
- Nathan Edward, West Indian cricketer
- Nathan Efron, Australian optometrist
- Nathan Eglington, Australian field hockey player
- Nathan Elasi, Australian footballer
- Nathan Elbaz, Israel Defense Force soldier
- Nathan Elder, English footballer
- Nathan Ellington, English footballer
- Nathan Ellis, Australian cricketer
- Nathan Enderle, American gridiron football player
- Nathan Englander, American short story writer and novelist
- Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player
- Nathan Ephraums, Australian field hockey player
- Nathan Erasmus, South African judge
- Nathan Evans, American politician
- Nathan Evans, Scottish songwriter
- Nathan Evans, Welsh rugby union player
- Nathan George Evans, American Confederate Army general
- Nathan Eyres-Brown, Australian rugby union footballer
F
- Nathan Fagan-Gayle, British musician known as Nathan
- Nathan Fernandes, Brazilian footballer
- Nathan Feuerstein, American rapper, known by his stage name NF
- Nathan Fielder, Canadian comedian and host
- Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
- Nathan Fong, Canadian chef
- Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War general
- Nathan Fraser, Irish footballer
- Nathan Frazer, British professional wrestler
- Nate Freiman, American baseball player
G
- Nathan Gamble, American actor
- Nathan Michael Gelber, Austrian-Israeli historian
- Nathan Gerry, American football player
- Nathan Glantz, American jazz bandleader
- Nathan Goff, Jr., American politician
- Nathan Gorman, British boxer
- Nathan Green (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Greene, American lawyer
- Nathan S. Greene, American businessman and politician
- Nathan Gunn, American opera singer
H
- Nathan Haines, New Zealand-born producer, vocalist, and saxophonist
- Nathan Hale, American patriot serving as a spy during the American Revolution
- Nathan K. Hall, American judge
- Nathan Handwerker, Polish-American businessman
- Nathan Hartono, Singaporean-Indonesian singer-songwriter
- Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer
- Nathan Heaney, English boxer
- Nathan Henry, British reality television personality
- Nathan Hill, American fiction writer
- Nathan W. Hill, American linguist and Tibetologist
J
- Nathan Jackson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nate James (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Jason, Australian para-athlete
- Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
- Nathan Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Leigh Jones, Australian musician and speaker
- Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison, American drummer for the band Slipknot
- Nathan Jones (disambiguation), multiple people
- *Nathan Jones, Australian professional wrestler, actor, and powerlifter
- Nathan Jung, American actor and stuntman
K
- Nathan Kabasele, Belgian footballer
- Nathan Kahan, Belgian middle-distance runner
- Nathan Kahane, American film producer
- Nathan Kaplan, American mobster
- Nathan J. Kaplan, American lawyer, politician, and jurist
- Nathan O. Kaplan, American biochemist
- Nathan Katz (poet), Jewish Alsatian poet
- Nathan Katz (judoka), Australian Olympic judoka
- Nathan Katz (professor), American academic
- Nathan Kelley, American architect
- Nathan Kemp, New Zealand professional rugby union player
- Nathan E. Kendall, American politician
- Nathan Kenny, New Zealand evolutionary‐genomics researcher
- Nathan Kerr, Northern Irish footballer
- Nathan Ketilsson, Icelandic physician
- Nathan Keyes, American actor
- Nathan Keyfitz, Canadian demographer
- Nathan Kiley, English stage actor
- Nathan Kimball, American politician
- Nathan Kimsey, English professional golfer
- Nathan King (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Kirby, American baseball player
- Nathan Kirsh, Swazi and South African billionaire businessman and philanthropist
- Nathan Knight, American basketball player
- Nathan Knorr, American Christian minister and president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
- Nathan Knox, New Zealand footballer
- Nathan Kogan, American psychologist
- Nathan Konstandopoulos, Australian footballer
- Nathan Koo-Boothe, English-Jamaican footballer
- Nathan Koranteng, English footballer
- Nathan Korn, American architect and builder
- Nathan Kornblum, American chemist
- Nathan Krakouer, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Kress, American actor
- Nathan Kreuger, Australian rules football player
- Nathan Kupperman, American pediatrician
- Nathan Kuta, Belgian-Dutch basketball player
L
- Nathan Lane, American actor
- Nathan Larson, American film music composer, musician, and author
- Nathan Larson, American white supremacist and convicted felon
- Nathan Law, Hong Kong politician
- Nathan Lawrence, American actor
- Nathan Lawson, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Longpre, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Nathan Lopez, Filipino actor
- Nathan Lowe, English footballer
- Nathan Lukes, American baseball player
- Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer
- Nathan Lyons, American photographer, curator and educator
M
- Nate Mack, Polish-born American banker; co-founder of the Bank of Las Vegas
- Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Ross Margold, Romanian-American lawyer
- Nathan Martorella, American baseball player
- Nathan Mavila, English footballer
- Nathan McCall, American author
- Nate McLouth, American baseball player
- Nathan Mensah, Ghanaian basketball player
- Nathan Merritt, Australian rugby player
- Nathan Méténier, French climate activist
- Nathan Mileikowsky, Russian Zionist political activist
- Nathan Militzok, American basketball player
- Nathan Miller (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan L. Miller, American politician
- Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist
- Nathan Mitchell, Canadian actor
- Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
P
- Nathan Page, Australian actor
- Nathan Parker, American football player
- Nathan Parker, English screenwriter
- Nathan Parsons, American actor
- Nathan Peats, Australian rugby player
- Nathan Perkovich, American professional ice hockey player
- Nathan Peterman, American football player
- Nathan Phillips (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Pickering, American football player
- Nathan Post, 7th and 10th Governor of American Samoa
R
- Nathan Roberts, Australian volleyball player
- Nathan Robertson, English badminton player
- Nathan Robinson (disambiguation), several people
- Nathan Rosen, American-Israeli theoretical physicist; originator of the concept of Einstein-Rosen Bridges, also known as wormholes
- Nathan Ross, American film and television producer
- Nathan Ross, Australian rugby league player
- Nathan Ross, Australian rugby union player
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German Jewish banker
- Nathan Rourke, Canadian gridiron football player
S
- Nate Saint, American missionary pilot
- Nathan Santos, Brazilian footballer
- Nathan Seiberg, Israeli theoretical physicist
- Nathan Shepherd, Canadian-American football player
- Nate Silver, American statistician and writer
- Nathan Sivin, American sinologist and historian of Chinese science
- Nathan Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Soltz, American politician
- Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, British actor
- Nathan Sykes, English rugby player
- Nathan James Sykes, English singer, songwriter and record producer
T
- Nathan Eldon Tanner, Canadian politician and Mormon religious leader
- Nathan Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nate Teut, American baseball player
- Nathan Thomas (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Indonesian footballer
- Nathan Trent, Austrian singer
- Nathan Trupp, American serial killer
W
- Nathan Wadsworth, American politician
- Nathan Walker, Welsh-born Australian ice hockey player
- Nathan Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- Nathan Ward, American physician and missionary
- Nathan Witt, American lawyer
- Nathan Wood (disambiguation)
- Nathan Wright, English judge
- Nathan Wright, Australian rules footballer
- Nathan Wright, British actor
Y
- Nathan Yau, American statistician and data visualization expert
- Nathan Yellin-Mor, Israeli politician
- Nathan Young, Canadian curler
- Nathan Young-Coombes, English footballer
- Nathan Youngblood, Native American potter
Z
- Nathan Zach, Israeli poet
- Nathan Zézé, French footballer
- Nathan Zohoré, French footballer
- Nathan Zsombor-Murray, Canadian diver
- Nathan Zuntz, German physiologist
- Nathan Zuzga, American soccer player
Fictional characters
- Nathan the Wise, eponymous protagonist in the 1779 play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Big Nate, eponymous comic strip character
- Nate the Great, eponymous protagonist of the book series by Marjorie W. Sharmat
- Nathan, a customer played by Andrew Black in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Nathan, a character in Me before you
- Nathan Bailey, a character in the British soap opera, Doctors
- Nathan Bendall, main antagonist of the children's novel Hammy House by Kaye Umansky
- Nathan Bitner, a character in the Masters of the Universe franchise
- Nathan Cuddington, a character in the British Soap opera, Brookside
- Nathan Daldry, a character in the 2012 young adult novel Every Day
- Nathan Detroit, from the stage musical Guys and Dolls, played by Frank Sinatra in the film adaptation
- Nathan Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted video games
- Nathan Explosion, a character in the cartoon series Metalocalypse
- Nathan "Nate" Ford, the main character and "mastermind" in the action crime drama caper TV series Leverage
- Nathan Never, eponymous protagonist of the Italian science fiction comic book
- Nathan Petrelli, a character in the NBC science fiction series Heroes
- Nathan Prescott, antagonist of the Life Is Strange video games
- Nathan Roberts, a character in the Australian soap opera, Home and Away
- Nathan Sallery, a character in the British soap opera Doctors
- Nathan Scott, a character in the television series One Tree Hill
- Nathan Sears, a character in the Final Destination 5
- Nathan Stark, a character in the television series Eureka
- Nathan Summers, a Marvel Comic Book character who is a mutant and Super-Hero from the X-Men and X-Force
- Nathan Williams, a character in the British Soap opera EastEnders
- Nathan Young character from the British Channel 4 science fiction comedy-drama Misfits
- Nathan Zuckerman, narrator or protagonist in many of Philip Roth's works of fiction