Nicholas
Nicholas is a surname and male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a form of the name Nikolaus and is common in English-speaking countries.
Name bearer
family name
- Adrian Nicholas (1962-2005), British skydiver
- Albert Nicholas (1900–1973), American jazz clarinetist
- Big Nick Nicholas (1922–1997), American jazz musician
- Charlie Nicholas (born 1961), Scottish football player
- Drew Nicholas (* 1981), American basketball player
- Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006), American dancer, singer, and actor
- Graydon Nicholas (born 1946), Canadian judge, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Harold Nicholas (1921–2000), American tap dancer
- Jemima Nicholas (1755–1832), English resistance fighter
- Jeremy Nicholas (born 1947), English actor, author and musician
- Joanne Nicholas (* 1977), British badminton player
- John Nicholas (1764–1819), American lawyer and politician
- John Nicholas (ice hockey player) (born 1936), Australian ice hockey player
- Melford Nicholas (* in the 20th century), politician from Antigua and Barbuda
- Nick St. Nicholas (* 1943), German musician
- Peter Nicholas (entrepreneur) (* 1941), American entrepreneur
- Peter Nicholas (soccer player) (born 1959), Welsh soccer player and coach
- Peter Nicholas (sailor) (born 1963), New Zealand sailor
- Robert C. Nicholas (1793–1857), American politician
- Roger Nicholas (* 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Thomas Ian Nicholas (* 1980), American film actor, film director, screenwriter and musician
- Tom Nicholas (* 1938), American jazz drummer and percussionist
- William H. Nicholas (1892–1984), American politician
- Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761-1820), American politician
- Wooden Joe Nicholas (1883–1957), American jazz musician
First name
- Nicholas A'Hern (* 1969), Australian walker
- Nicholas Alexander (* 1988), American ski jumper
- Nicholas Angelich (* 1970), American pianist
- Nicholas Angell (* 1979), American ice hockey player
- Nicholas Anziutti (* 1992), Italian grass skier
- Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English attorney, judge, and keeper of the Lord Seal of England
- Nicholas Ball († 1609), Irish politician, Mayor of Dublin
- Nicholas Banda (* 1950), Zambian politician
- Nicholas Barbon (1640–1698), English economist
- Nicholas Berg (1978-2004), American businessman, was beheaded in Iraq
- Nicholas Bett (1990-2018), Kenyan track and field athlete
- Nicholas Bodeux (* 1967), German actor
- Nicholas F. Brady (* 1930), American politician
- Nicholas William Brady (1791–1843), Irish politician
- Nicholas Brathwaite (1925–2016), Grenadian politician
- Nicholas Brendon (* 1971), American actor
- Nicholas Brimble (born 1944), British actor, see Nick Brimble
- Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934), English botanist and taxonomist
- Nicholas Bullen (* 1968), English musician and sound artist
- Nicholas Bussmann (* 1970), German pop musician and composer
- Nicholas Murray (* 1985), Jamaican reggae singer
- Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947), American philosopher and publicist
- Nicholas Chan (* 1986), Malaysian chess player
- Nicholas Kipkorir Chelimo (* 1983), Kenyan marathon runner
- Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk (* 1931), South Korean clergyman, Archbishop of Seoul
- Nicholas Chia (* 1938), Chinese clergyman, Archbishop of Singapore
- Nicholas Christofilos (1916–1972), Greek-American physicist
- Nicholas Civella (1912-1983), American mobster
- Nicholas Clay (1946-2000), English actor
- Nicholas Colasanto (1924–1985), American actor
- Nicholas J. Conard (* 1961), American prehistoric
- Nicholas Cooke (1717–1782), American politician
- Nicholas Cords (* 1974), American violist
- Nicholas Corea (1943–1999), American screenwriter, producer, director and writer
- Nicholas Courtney (1929–2011), British actor
- Nicholas Cugnot (1725–1804), French designer
- Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist, physician and astrologer
- Nicholas D'Agosto (* 1980), American actor
- Nicholas D'Antonio Salza (1916–2009), American clergyman, prelate of Inmaculada Concepción de la BVM en Olancho
- Nicholas Peter Dallis (1911–1991), American psychiatrist and comic book author
- Nicholas Davis Jr. (1825–1875), American politician
- Nicholas DiChario (* 1960), American writer, see Nick DiChario
- Nicholas Dunlop , Irish New Zealand political activist
- Nicholas Evans (* 1950), English journalist and writer
- Nicholas Evans (* 1956), Australian linguist and university professor
- Nicholas Fairall (* 1989), American ski jumper
- Nicholas Fish (1758–1833), American lawyer, officer, and politician
- Nicholas Gage (* 1939), Greek-American journalist and writer
- Nicholas Gargano (1934-2016), British boxer
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906–1994), Romanian economist
- Nicholas Georgiadis (1923–2001), Greek-British painter and costume and set designer
- Nicholas Goldschmidt (1908–2004), Czech-Canadian conductor, music teacher, singer and pianist
- Nicholas Gonzalez (born 1976), American actor
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (1953–2012), British historian
- Nicholas Green (* 1967), Australian rower
- Nicholas Grenon (1380–1456), Franco-Flemish composer, singer, cleric and music teacher
- Nicholas Grimshaw (* 1939), British architect
- Nicholas Han Jide , Chinese clergyman, Bishop of Pingliang
- Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736), English architect
- Nicholas Heath (1501–1578), English clergyman, Archbishop of York
- Nicholas Henderson (1919–2009), British diplomat and author
- Nicholas Herkimer (1728–1777), British militia general in the American War of Independence
- Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619), English painter and seal cutter
- Nicholas von Hoffman (1929–2018), American journalist and book author
- Nicholas Hooper (* 1952), British film composer
- Nicholas Hoult (born 1989), British actor
- Nicholas Humphrey (* 1943), British psychologist
- Nicholas Hytner (* 1956), English director
- Nicholas Johannsen (1844–1928), German-American businessman and author
- Nicholas Kaiser (* 1954), British astronomer
- Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986), Hungarian economist
- Nicholas Manza Kamakya (* 1985), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Nicholas Katz (* 1943), American mathematician
- Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), American politician
- Nicholas Kaufmann (1892–1970), German doctor and film director
- Nicholas Kemboi (athlete, 1983) (* 1983), Qatari long-distance runner of Kenyan origin
- Nicholas Kemmer (1911–1998), British physicist
- Nicholas Keough (* 1989), American cyclocross rider
- Nik Kershaw (* 1958 as Nicholas David Kershaw), British pop musician
- Nicholas Kidd (* 1981), Australian badminton player of English origin
- Nicholas Kipruto Koech (* 1982), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Nicholas D. Kristof (* 1959), American journalist, author and columnist
- Nicholas Krushenick (1929–1999), American painter and printmaker
- Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666), English composer, singer, lutenist and painter
- Nicholas Lash (1934-2020), English theologian
- Nicholas Lea (born 1962), Canadian actor
- Nicholas Lens (* 1957), Belgian author and composer
- Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), American writer
- Nicholas Liverpool (1934-2015), Dominican politician
- Nicholas Longworth (1869–1931), American politician (Republican Party)
- Nicholas of Lynne (around 1330 - after 1386), English Carmelite and astronomer
- Nicholas Maw (1935–2009), British composer
- Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999), American physicist and computer scientist
- Nicholas Meyer (* 1945), American writer, screenwriter and director
- Nicholas Theodore Miniati (1860–1909), British-Greek chess player
- Nicholas Morello (1890–1916), Italian-American mafioso
- Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (1923–2017), British peer, writer and politician
- Nicholas Mukomberanwa (1940–2002), Zimbabwean sculptor
- Nicholas Negroponte (* 1943), American computer scientist
- Nicholas Ofczarek (* 1971), Austrian actor
- Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh (* 1952), Nigerian theologian and primate of the Church of Nigeria
- Nicholas R. Oleson (1966–1997), American actor
- Nicholas Patrick (* 1964), American astronaut
- Nicholas Payton (* 1973), American jazz trumpeter
- Nicholas Penny (* 1949), English art historian
- Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers (* 1938), British lawyer and judge
- Nicholas Pileggi (* 1933), American journalist and writer
- Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821), British painter
- Nicholas Ray (1911–1979), American film director
- Nicholas Reade (born 1946), British clergyman, Bishop of Blackburn
- Nicholas Reeves (* 1956), English Egyptologist
- Nicholas Rescher (* 1928), American philosopher
- Nicholas Ridley (Bishop) (around 1500–1555), English clergyman, Bishop of Rochester
- Nicholas Ridley (politician) (1929–1993), British politician
- Nicholas-Louis Robert (1761–1828), French inventor
- Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), Russian painter and writer
- Nicholas Rogers (actor) (born 1969), Australian actor and model
- Nicholas Rowe (poet) (1673–1718), English civil servant, poet and playwright
- Nicholas Rowe (actor) (born 1966), British actor
- Nicholas Sagan (* 1970), American screenwriter and author, see Nick Sagan
- Nicholas Sanders (1530–1581), English theologian and polemicist
- Nicholas Sanderson (* 1984), Australian cyclist
- Nicholas Saunderson (1682–1739), English mathematician
- Nicholas Schenck (1881–1969), American filmmaker
- Nicholas Schmassmann (* 1960), Swiss motorcycle racer, see Niggi Schmassmann
- Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006), British geologist
- Nicholas Shakespeare (* 1957), British journalist and author
- Nicholas Shaxton (1485–1556), English theologian and Bishop of Salisbury
- Nicholas Shepherd-Barron (* 1981), British mathematician
- Nicholas Shi Jin Xian (1921–2009), Chinese religious, Bishop of Shangqiu
- Nicholas Sims-Williams , British Iranist, orientalist and university professor
- Nicholas J. Sinnott (1870–1929), American politician
- Nicholas Skeres (1563 - after 1601), English spy
- Nicholas Sparks (* 1965), American writer
- Nicholas Sprenger (* 1985), Australian swimmer
- Nicholas Stern (* 1946), British economist
- Nicholas Stone (1583–1647), English sculptor and architect
- Nicholas Strange (* 1947), British economist and author
- Nicholas Throckmorton (1516–1571), English agent, diplomat and politician
- Nicholas Tongue (* 1973), New Zealand swimmer
- Nicholas Trist (1800–1874), American diplomat
- Nicholas Tse (* 1980), Chinese-Canadian actor and singer
- Nicholas Udall (1505–1556), English educator and playwright
- Nicholas Van Dyke junior (1770–1826), American lawyer and politician
- Nicholas Van Dyke Sr. (1738–1789), American lawyer and politician
- Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766–1851), British politician and statesman
- Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), Irish zoologist, ornithologist and politician
- Nicholas Walker (* 1988), Australian cyclist
- Nicholas Ware (1769–1824), American politician
- Nicholas White (* 1974), South African racing cyclist
- Nicholas Wilkinson (* 1988), Norwegian-British politician
- Nicholas Winton (1909–2015), British citizen, child rescuer from the Holocaust
- Nicholas Wiseman (1802–1865), English theologian and clergyman, Archbishop of Westminster
- Nicholas Worth (1937–2007), American actor
- Nicholas Thomas Wright (born 1948), British theologian and clergyman, Bishop of Durham
- Nicholas Wyman (born 1950), American musical performer and actor
Intermediate name
- Henry Nicholas Bolander (1831–1897), German-American botanist
- Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914), American ichthyologist
- Henry Nicholas Gunther (1895–1918), American soldier
- Paul Nicholas Lekuraa (* 1972), Kenyan marathon runner
- Martin Nicholas Lohmuller (1919–2017), American theologian, auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia
- Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956), English botanist
- Ogden Nicholas Rood (1831–1902), American physicist
- François Nicholas Riss (1804–1886), Russian painter of French descent
- William Nicholas Selig (1864–1948), American film producer
- Arthur Nicholas Tafoya (1933–2018), American clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Pueblo
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (* 1960), American philosopher
stage name
- Pax Nicholas (* 1954), Ghanaian singer and percussionist
See also
- Nicholas Range , mountain range in Enderbyland, Antarctica
- Nicholas reaction , chemical reaction for the conversion of stabilized propargylic cations with nucleophiles
- Mount Nicholas , mountain on Alexander I Island, Antarctica