Top Celebrity Names Starting With Nelson

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   Nelson Piquet

   Age 59 Male
   

   Driver, Champion, Laborer

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   Nelson Piquet Souto Maior, known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987. He is one of eight drivers to win three or more world championships, the others being Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna (3 each), Alain Prost (4), Juan Manuel Fangio (5), and Michael Schumacher (7). In 1983, he became the only driver to win the F1 championship in a BMW engined car.… read more

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   Nelson Mandela

   Age 93 Male
   

   South African Politician and Anti-apartheid Fighter, President of South Africa

   
   

   Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison.… read more

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   Nelson Haedo Valdez

   Age 28 Male
   

   Footballer

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   Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez is a Paraguayan football striker who currently plays for Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan and the Paraguayan national team. Valdez started his career with Atlético Tembetary, progressing through their youth system to the first-team squad where he made his debut at the age of 16 in Paraguayan División Intermedia in 2000. He finished his career with the club having scored 11 goals in 22 league appearances.… read more

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   Nelson Rockefeller

   1908 - 1979 Male
   

   Vice President, Businessman, Philanthropist

   
   

   Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was an American businessman, philanthropist, public servant, and politician. He served as the 41st Vice President of the United States (1974–1977), serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York (1959–1973). He also served the Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions. A member of the Rockefeller family, he was also a noted art collector.… read more

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   Nelson Riddle

   1921 - 1985 Male
   

   Orchestrator, Composer, Bandleader

   
   

   Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s. It was his signature sound and iconic arrangements that defined a generation and his work for Capitol Records kept such vocalists as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith household names.… read more

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   Nelson Piquet, Jr.

   Age 26 Male
   

   Formula One Racer, Turner, Champion

   
   

   Nelson Ângelo Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, also known as Nelson Piquet Junior or Nelsinho Piquet, is a Brazilian stock car racing driver and former Formula 1 driver. He currently drives the No. 30 Qualcomm Chevrolet for Turner Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide Series. Piquet is the son of three-time Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet, one of Brazil's most successful F1 drivers.… read more

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   Nelson Algren

   1909 - 1981 Male
   

   Novelist, Short Story Writer

   
   

   Nelson Algren was an American writer.

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   Nelson Eddy

   1901 - 1967 Male
   

   Musical Film Star, Operatic Baritone

   
   

   Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald.… read more

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   Nelson Antonio Denis

   Age 57 Male
   

   Member of the New York State Assembly, 1997–2000

   
   

   Nelson Antonio Denis was a New York State Assembly representative for the 68th district from January 1, 1997 to January 1, 2001. He represented East Harlem, otherwise known as El Barrio and Spanish Harlem, within the Assembly.… read more

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    Nelson Villagra

    Age 74 Male
    

    Actor

    
    

    Nelson Villagra is a Chilean actor, author and director. He is considered to be the most masterful actors in Chilean cinema. He is widely known for his exceptional portrayal of the assassin in El Chacal de Nahueltoro by the director Miguel Littin. He has also collaborated with fellow Chilean director Raúl Ruiz in Tres Tristes Tigres (1968) and La Colonia Penal (1971). In 1973 he was exiled from Chile because of the military coup leading to the Pinochet dictatorship.… read more

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    Nelson G. Gross

    1932 - 1997 Male
    

    Politician, General, President

    
    

    Nelson Gerard Gross was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. His political career ended in 1974 when he was convicted on federal charges involving the 1969 campaign of Governor William T. Cahill.… read more

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    Nelson Bragg

    Age 50 Male
    

    Drummer, Percussionist, Vocalist

    
    
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    Nelson Jobim

    Age 66 Male
    

    Politician, Minister, Diplomat

    
    

    Nelson Azevedo Jobim is a Brazilian jurist and politician. He served as the Minister of Defense of Brazil from 2007-2011. He is a distant relative of musician Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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    Nelson Skalbania

    Age 74 Male
    

    Businessman

    
    

    Nelson M. Skalbania is a Canadian businessman from Vancouver, British Columbia best known for signing a 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky to the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association. In 1961, Nelson Skalbania graduated from University of British Columbia with a Bachelors in Applied Science, then received his P. Eng. in 1962.… read more

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    Nelson Dewey

    1813 - 1889 Male
    

    Lawyer, Politician, Land Speculator; First Governor of Wisconsin

    
    

    Nelson Dewey was a politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin; he was the first Governor of Wisconsin, serving from 1848 until 1852.

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    Nelson Cruikshank

    1902 - 1986 Male
    

    Expert, Minister, Militant

    
    

    Nelson Hale Cruikshank was known nationally in the United States as an expert on Social Security, Medicare and policy on aging. He was a Methodist minister, labor union activist and the first director of the Department of Social Security at the AFL-CIO before entering government service in his mid-60s.… read more

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    Nelson Story

    1838 - 1926 Male
    

    Rancher, Pioneer, Entrepreneur

    
    

    Nelson Story, Sr. was a pioneer Montana entrepreneur, cattle rancher, miner and vigilante, who was a notable resident of Bozeman, Montana. He was best-known for his 1866 cattle drive from Texas with approximately 1000 head of Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail—the first major cattle drive from Texas into Montana. His business ventures in Bozeman were so successful that he became the town's first millionaire.… read more