Nicolaas
Nicolaas is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is the Dutch form of the name Nikolaus .
Well-known namesake
- Nicolaas Beets (1814–1903), Dutch theologian and writer
- Nicolaas Meyndertsz van Blesdijk (1520–1584), representative of the Reformation Anabaptist movement
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), American physicist
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician
- Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734–1793), Dutch botanist
- Nicolaas Claesen (* 1962), former Belgian national soccer player
- Nicolaas Cortlever (1915–1995), Dutch chess player
- Nicolaas Dedel (1597–1646), Dutch legal scholar
- Nicolaas Diederichs (1903–1978), South African politician
- Nicolaas I van Eyck (1617–1679), Flemish portrait and genre painter
- Nicolaas Cornelis de Fremery (1770–1844), Dutch physician, pharmacologist, zoologist and chemist
- Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch photographer
- Nicolaas Hoogvliet (1729–1777), Dutch Reformed theologian
- Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz (* 1924), Dutch theoretical physicist
- Nicolaas Christiaan Kist (1793-1859), Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian
- Nicolaas Kruik (1678–1754), Dutch hydraulic engineer, surveyor and cartographer
- Nicolaas Kuiper (1920–1994), Dutch mathematician
- Nicolaas Nelleman (1722–1805), Old Catholic Bishop of Deventer
- Nicolaas Frederik Neuwahl (* 1944), Dutch game designer
- Nicolaas van Nieuwland (1510–1580), Dutch Roman Catholic bishop
- Nicolaas Niehoff (~ 1525– ~ 1604), German-Dutch organ builder
- Nicolaas Paradijs (1740-1812), Dutch medic
- Nicolaas Pierson (1839–1909), Dutch merchant, banker and politician
- Nicolaas Pieneman (1809–1860), Dutch painter
- Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus (1880–1960), Dutch economic historian
- Nicolaas Prins (1858–1916), old Catholic bishop of Haarlem
- Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff (1826–1909), Dutch biologist
- Herman Nicolaas Ridderbos (1909-2007), Dutch Protestant Reformed theologian
- Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke (* 1944), Dutch historian of science
- Nicolaas Smallenburg (1761–1836), Dutch legal scholar
- Nicolaas Struyck (1686–1769), Dutch mathematician, astronomer and geographer
- Nicolaas van der Waay (1855–1936), Dutch watercolor painter
- Nicolaas Witsen (1641–1717), Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam