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 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 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), former Speaker of the House of Representatives
 * Nathaniel Miller (born 1979), Canadian water polo player
 * Nathaniel Moore (1884–1910), American Olympic golfer
 * 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 (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