Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings (1816–1897) was a United States Congressional Delegate from the Nebraska Territory.
In addition to his political career, Giddings was a captain in the U.S.
Army, a political appointee in the Republic of Texas, an editor of a small town newspaper in Missouri, a 49er in the California Gold Rush and a lawyer in Nebraska.
After his political career he served as a colonel in the Union Army during the United States Civil War.