# Nathaniel

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

## People with the name Nathaniel
### 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 Prentice 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 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 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
* Nate Ruess (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
* Nathaniel Stern (born 1977), American artist
* Nathaniel Walter Swan (1834–1884), Irish-born Australian writer
* 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 Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
* 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