Nathaniel Bacon may refer to:
- Sir Nathaniel Bacon (died 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon
- Nathaniel Bacon (painter) (1585–1627), landowner and painter, nephew of Francis Bacon
- Nathaniel Bacon (painter, fl. 1640)
- Nathaniel Bacon (politician) (1593–1660), Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich
- Nathaniel Bacon (colonist) (c. 1640s–1676), member of the Virginia Colony, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
- Nathaniel Bacon (Jesuit) (1598–1676), Secretary of the Society of Jesus, 1674–1676
- Nathaniel Bacon (Michigan jurist) (1802–1869), member of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1855–1857
Famous quotes containing the words nathaniel and/or bacon:
“The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”
—Francis Bacon (15601626)