Nat (name)

Not to be confused with Gnat.

Nat or NAT may refer to:

• Nat., an abbreviation for Natural

Entertainment

• Nat (Wild Cards), a slang term from the novels referring to normal humans uninfected by the Wild Card virus
• Nat Smurfling, a minor character in The Smurfs comics and animated series

Society and culture

• Nat caste a nomadic Hindu caste found in North India
• Nat (Muslim) a Muslim community found in North India
• Nat (spirit), a Burmese spirit worshipped in Myanmar (Burma) in conjunction with Buddhism
• National Actors Theatre, a company founded in 1991 by the late actor Tony Randall
• North Atlantic Tracks, trans-Atlantic routes that stretch from the northeast of North America to the west of Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean

Commerce

• Nat Sherman, a brand of natural "luxury cigarettes"

Sports

• Nat-trick (natural hat trick), when a player scores three goals consecutively in a single hockey game
• National League of Major League Baseball, or a member team or player

Organizations

• National AIDS trust, a charity based in the United Kingdom
• National Assessment & Testing, a high school mathematics competition
• Augusto Severo International Airport, IATA code NAT, near Natal, Brazil

Science

• Normal accident Theory
• Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc., a Vancouver-based triple-bottom-line company
• Network address translation, in computer networking, a system for reusing IP addresses
• Nat (information), a logarithmic unit of information or entropy
• Natural antisense transcript, an RNA transcript complementary to other RNA transcript in a cell
• N-acetyltransferase, an enzyme
• Nucleic acid test, for genetic material
• Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, a disease
• Nottingham Asphalt Tester

People

• Nat (rapper), born Sheldon Martinez Davis, also known as Natalac or The Original Step Daddy
• Nat Friedman, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell
• Nat Goldhaber, Internet entrepreneur and longtime associate the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Nat Holman, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
• Nat King Cole, popular American singer and musician during the 1950s
• Nat Lewin, American lawyer
• Nat Militzok, American basketball player
• Nat Rothschild (disambiguation)
• Nat Sakdatorn, Thai singer-songwriter
• Nat Turner, early Black American revolutionary
• Nat Wolff, lead singer for the TV series The Naked Brothers Band

"Nat" may be a diminutive for:

• Natalie (given name) or Natasha or Natalee or Nathalie
• Nathan (given name)
• Nathaniel or Nathanael