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Contents 1 Given name 1.1 In the Hebrew Bible 1.2 In later times 1.3 See also 2 Surname 3 Places 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Given name

Nathan Given name
Gender	Male
Meaning	Gift from God
Origin	Hebrew
Related names	Nathanael, Jonathan
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Nathan

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Nathan is a male given name, from Hebrew נתן meaning Given (standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen or Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān). Familiar forms of Nathan used in English include Nat, Nath (pronounced nay-th) and Nate.

It may refer to:

[edit] In the Hebrew Bible

• Nathan (Prophet), who lived in the time of Kings David and Solomon
• Nathan, son of David and his wife Bathsheba (1 Chr 3:5; Luke 3:31)
• In 1 Kings 4:5 Nathan is the name of the father of Azariah and of the father of Zabad, two of Solomon's chief administrators. It is not clear whether both men had the same father
• In 2 Samuel 23:36 Nathan from Zobah is listed as the father of Igal
• In 1 Chronicles 2:36 another Nathan is listed as a descendant of Jerahmeel, of the tribe of Judah
• In 1 Chronicles 11:38 yet another Nathan is the brother of Joel, one of David's elite warriors
• In Ezra 8:15-16 Nathan is the name of one of Ezra's companions who are sent to Iddo to ask for temple workers to replace the missing Levites
• In Ezra 10:38-44 Nathan son of Binnui is listed as one who divorced a foreign wife and sent her and her children away

[edit] In later times

• Rabbi Nathan, 2nd century tanna
• Nathan of Gaza, a 17th century "prophet"
• Nathan Beauregard (1890s-1970), American musician
• Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), Austrian journalist and Jewish philosopher
• Nathan Coe, Australian soccer player
• Nathan Einhorn, American journalist
• Nathan Fagan-Gayle (born 1986), British musician known simply as Nathan
• Nathan Hale (1755-1776), an American patriot serving as a spy during the American Revolution
• Nathan Handwerker (1891-1974), Polish-American entrepreneur
• Nathan Hauritz (born 1981), Australian cricketer
• Nathan Lane, American Actor
• Nathan McCall (born 1955), American author
• Nathan Milstein (1903-1992), Ukrainian-American violinist
• Nathan Robertson (born 1977), English badminton player
• Nate Saint (1923–1956), American missionary pilot

[edit] See also

• Jonathan (name)
• Nathanael
• All pages beginning with Nathan

This page or section lists people with the given name Nathan. If an internal link for a specific person referred you to this page, you may wish to add the surname to that link.

[edit] Surname

Nathan is a surname, and may refer to:

• Baron Nathan, a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1940
  • Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1889–1963)
  • Roger Carol Michael Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan (born 1922)
• DeDee Nathan (born 1968), American heptathlete
• Ernesto Nathan (1848–1921), English-Italian politician and mayor of Rome (1907–1913)
• George Nathan (1895-1937), British volunteer and battalion commander in the International Brigades
• Henry Nathan, Jr. (1842–1914), Canadian politician
• Isaac Nathan (c. 1792–1864), English-Australian musician
• Joe Nathan (born 1974), American baseball player
• John Nathan (born 1940) American professor of Japanese
• Matthew Nathan, former governor of Hong Kong
• Maud Nathan (1862–1946), American social worker, labor activist and suffragist
• Micah Nathan (born 1973), American author
• Prince Nathan, fictional character in the comic strip Prince Valiant
• Sara Nathan (broadcaster) (born 1956), English broadcaster
• Sara Nathan (journalist) (born 1974), English journalist
• Robert Gruntal Nathan (1894–1985), American novelist and poet
• Theodora Nathan (born 1923), American politician
• Tony Nathan (born 1956), American football coach
• Sellapan Ramanathan (born 1924), President of Singapore, often known as S. R. Nathan
• Gloria Nathan, a Latin-American doctor on the HBO drama Oz

This page or section lists people with the surname Nathan. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to their surname.

[edit] Places

• Nathan, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia
• Nathan Road, a famous shopping street in Hong Kong

[edit] Other uses

• A variant name of the deity Vethan (Brahma) in Ayyavazhi theology
• Nathan (band), an alt-country band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Nathan's Famous, a fast-food business
• Lion Nathan, an Australasian alcoholic beverages company
• Nathan the Wise, a 1779 Enlightenment play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with Nathan

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