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- Ashot Nadanian (born 1972)
- Gia Nadareishvili (1921–1991)
- Evgeniy Najer (born 1977)
- Vera Nebolsina (born 1989)
- Iivo Nei (born 1931)
- Vladimir Nenarokov (1880–1953)
- Ian Nepomniachtchi (born 1990)
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov (1912–1974)
- Yuri Nikolaevsky (1937–2004)
- Nikolay Novotelnov (1911–2006)
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