List of Famous people named Nat
Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway. He was the first African-American man to host an American television series. He was the father of singer-songwriter Natalie Cole (1950–2015).
Nat Wolff
Nathaniel Marvin Wolff is an American actor and singer. He gained recognition for composing the music for The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009), a Nickelodeon television series he starred in with his younger brother Alex that was created by their actress mother Polly Draper. Wolff's jazz pianist father Michael Wolff co-produced the series' soundtrack albums, The Naked Brothers Band (2007) and I Don't Want to Go to School (2008), both of which ranked the 23rd spot on the Top 200 Billboard Charts.
Nat Fyfe
Nathan Fyfe is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He received a nomination for the 2010 AFL Rising Star award in round 9 of the 2010 season. Fyfe is a dual Brownlow Medallist, dual Leigh Matthews Trophy recipient, three-time All-Australian and three-time Doig Medallist. He has served as Fremantle captain since the 2017 season.
Nat Faxon
Nathaniel Faxon is an American actor, voice actor, director, comedian, and screenwriter. A frequent presence on comedic films and TV series, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011) and starred in the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate (2012–2013), the FX comedy series Married (2014–2015) and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series Disenchantment (2018). He also co-wrote and co-directed The Way, Way Back (2013) and Downhill (2020) with writing partner Jim Rash.
Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman is an American technology executive. Since October 2018 he is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GitHub.
Nat Sanders
Nathaniel "Nat" Sanders is an American film editor. He is best known for his collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton and Barry Jenkins. He won Independent Spirit Awards for both Short Term 12 (2013) and Moonlight (2016), as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for the latter.
Nat Simons
Nathaniel Simons is an American hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He founded Meritage Group, an investment management firm, co-founded Prelude Ventures, a clean tech investment fund, and is co-chairman of Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Simons is the son of Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons. Simons is also the co-founder and a director of the Sea Change Foundation, which focuses on climate change and clean energy policy.