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Nicholas A. Peppas
Nicholas A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the Peppas equation for non-Fickian drug release and hydrogel drug carriers.
Nicholas A. Soter
Nicholas A. Soter (1939–2025) was an American dermatologist and tenured professor at New York University, known for research connecting mast-cell biology to urticaria, angioedema, and cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis.
Nicholas A. Wright
Sir Nicholas A. Wright, born 1943, is a British histopathologist at Queen Mary University of London known for work on gastrointestinal stem cells and clonal evolution in tumors.
Nicholas Adontz
Nicholas Adontz (Նիկողայոս Ադոնց), born Nikoghayos Ter-Avetikian, was an Armenian historian and Byzantinist best known for his landmark study Armenia in the Period of Justinian.
Nicholas Alahverdian
Nicholas Alahverdian, also known as Nicholas Rossi and Arthur Knight (1987-2026), was an American sex offender and former Rhode Island child-welfare advocate who faked his death in 2020, was arrested in Scotland in 2021, extradited to Utah, convicted of two 2008 rapes in 2025, and died in prison in 2026.
Nicholas Alkemade
Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (1922–1987), RAF rear gunner of 115 Squadron, survived an 18,000 ft free fall without a parachute from his burning Lancaster Werewolf over Germany on 24/25 March 1944, landing in pine trees and snow with only a sprained knee, then endured three postwar chemical-plant accidents.
Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) is a Sam Spiegel-produced, Franklin J. Schaffner-directed biographical epic from Robert K. Massie's book, starring Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, and Tom Baker as Rasputin; it won two Oscars and was nominated for Best Picture.
Nicholas Arpaia
Nicholas Arpaia is an American immunologist and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, known for engineered probiotic bacteria that deliver tumor neoantigens as cancer vaccines.
Nicholas Ayache
Nicholas Ayache, born 1958 in Paris, is a French computer scientist and Research Director at Inria Sophia Antipolis, known for medical image analysis and co-founding the MICCAI conference.
Nicholas B. La Thangue
Nicholas B. La Thangue (born 1957) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Oxford, known for work on E2F and pRb.
Nicholas B. Suntzeff
Nicholas B. Suntzeff is an astronomer and cosmologist who co-founded the Calán/Tololo Supernova Survey and the High-Z Supernova Team, which discovered the universe's accelerating expansion in 1998.
Nicholas Ball (actor)
Nicholas Ball (John Nicholas Ball, 1946–2024) was an English actor, star of ITV's Hazell as private eye Jim Hazell, later Terry Bates in EastEnders and Garry Ryan in Footballers' Wives; distinct from American actor Nicholas Ballas.
Nicholas Barasch
Nicholas Barasch, American stage actor and singer; Broadway debut at age ten in the 2009 West Side Story revival; known for Arpad in She Loves Me, Orpheus on the Hadestown tour, and Frederic in Pirates! The Penzance Musical (2025).
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom is a British-American economist and Stanford professor known for work on uncertainty shocks, the Economic Policy Uncertainty index, and a landmark hybrid remote-work trial.
Nicholas Boggs
Nicholas Boggs, American writer and independent scholar, author of the New York Times bestselling James Baldwin biography Baldwin: A Love Story (FSG, 2025) and co-editor of Little Man, Little Man (2018); Yale BA, Columbia PhD.
Nicholas Boulton (actor)
Nicholas Boulton (born 1968, Gibraltar), also credited as Nick Boulton, is a British actor trained at Guildhall; RSC stage veteran, Hawke in Dragon Age II, Reyes Vidal in Mass Effect, and a prolific audiobook narrator.
Nicholas Braun
Nicholas Braun (born 1988, Long Island, New York) is an American actor and musician, three-time Emmy-nominated as Cousin Greg on HBO's Succession; films include Zola, Cat Person, and Saturday Night.
Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon (Nicholas Brendon Schultz), American actor (1971–2026), Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997–2003, also Kevin Lynch on Criminal Minds, died of cardiovascular disease at 54.
Nicholas Britell
Nicholas Britell is an American composer, pianist, and producer behind Moonlight, Succession, and Andor; three-time Oscar nominee, Emmy-winning for the Succession theme, former Bear Stearns trader.
Nicholas Brody
Nicholas Brody is the fictional Marine sergeant in Showtime's Homeland, played by Damian Lewis, a POW turned by Abu Nazir, later congressman and double agent, executed in Tehran in season 3.
Nicholas Brothers
The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold (1921–2000) Nicholas, were an American acrobatic tap dance duo famed for the Cotton Club, Stormy Weather's "Jumpin' Jive," and honors including Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
Nicholas Butch
Nicholas P. Butch is an American condensed matter physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, a PECASE recipient known for work on unconventional superconductivity in uranium ditelluride.
Nicholas C. Grassly
Nicholas C. Grassly is a professor of vaccine epidemiology at Imperial College London whose polio vaccine research shaped the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; he advised the UK government on COVID-19 testing.
Nicholas C. Handy
Nicholas C. Handy (1941–2012) was a British theoretical chemist who spent his career at Cambridge and is known for the HCTH and CAM-B3LYP functionals and full configuration interaction.
Nicholas C. Jones
Nicholas C. Jones (Nicholas Clwyd Jones) is a British cancer biologist known for adenovirus E1A research and for directing the Paterson Institute and Manchester Cancer Research Centre.
Nicholas C. Spitzer
Nicholas C. Spitzer is an American developmental neurobiologist at UC San Diego, known for showing that a neuron's neurotransmitter identity can be changed by its own electrical activity.
Nicholas C. Turner
Nicholas C. Turner is a British medical oncologist and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for the SERENA-6 and INAVO120 breast cancer trials.
Nicholas C.P. Cross
Nicholas C.P. Cross is a British professor of human genetics at the University of Southampton and director of the Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, known for CML molecular monitoring and the 2009 JAK2 risk-factor discovery.
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell names several people, chiefly a Canadian actor born 1952, star of Da Vinci's Inquest and three-time Gemini winner; also a South African casting director, a Toronto rockabilly musician, and a New York painter born 1995.
Nicholas Carlini
Nicholas Carlini is an American computer security researcher at Anthropic, known for adversarial attacks on machine learning models and extracting training data from large language models.