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Nicholas Cartwright

Nicholas Cartwright (born 1988) is an Australian actor, not the UK company director or other namesakes, who plays Senior Constable Cash Newman on Home and Away from 2021, after six years as an Australian Army rifleman in East Timor and Afghanistan and NIDA graduation in 2019.

Nicholas Chavez

Nicholas Alexander Chavez (born 1999, Houston) is an American actor who played Spencer Cassadine on General Hospital (2021-2024), won a 2022 Daytime Emmy, and broke out as Lyle Menendez in Netflix's Monsters and in FX's Grotesquerie.

Nicholas Chiorazzi

Nicholas Chiorazzi is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for chronic lymphocytic leukemia research; he heads the Karches Center for CLL Research at the Feinstein Institutes, Northwell Health.

Nicholas Christofilos

Nicholas Christofilos (Νικόλαος Χριστοφίλου), 1916 to 1972, was a Greek-American elevator engineer who independently invented strong focusing for particle accelerators, then led Project Argus and the Astron fusion program at Livermore.

Nicholas Christopher (actor)

Nicholas Christopher (born 1990, Bermuda) is an American Broadway actor and singer known for Hamilton (George Washington, Aaron Burr), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli, first Black Sweeney on Broadway), the 2025 Chess revival (Anatoly Sergievsky, 2026 Tony nomination), and Just In Time as Bobby Darin.

Nicholas Cirillo

Nicholas Vincent Cirillo (born 1997, Wilkesboro, North Carolina) is an American actor known as Barry in Outer Banks, Cousin Ched in She-Hulk, Gavin in Poker Face, and Shane in Black Mirror season 7; he co-founded Enzo Entertainment.

Nicholas Clay

Nicholas Clay (1946–2000) was an English actor, Lancelot in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981), also in Lady Chatterley's Lover and Evil Under the Sun, and a principal player in Laurence Olivier's 1970s Old Vic company.

Nicholas Colasanto

Nicholas Colasanto (1924–1985), American actor and TV director; played Coach Ernie Pantusso on Cheers (68 episodes, three Emmy nominations); directed 100+ episodes; film roles in Fat City and Raging Bull.

Nicholas Cox

Nicholas J. Cox is a statistician and geographer, Assistant Professor at Durham University, known as a Stata software author, Executive Editor of the Stata Journal, and prolific Statalist contributor.

Nicholas D. Hastie

Nicholas D. Hastie is a British molecular geneticist who directed the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and is known for work on WT1, PAX6, and telomeres.

Nicholas D. Schiff

Nicholas D. Schiff, also published as Nicholas Schiff, is a neurologist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College known for research on disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury.

Nicholas D'Agosto

Nicholas D'Agosto, American actor born 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska; known for Heroes (West Rosen), Masters of Sex (Dr. Ethan Haas), Gotham (Harvey Dent), Trial & Error (Josh Segal), and Final Destination 5.

Nicholas Day (physician)

Nicholas P. J. Day is a British clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford and director of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok.

Nicholas Dockery

Nicholas Dockery (born 1981, Indianapolis) is a retired U.S. Army major and Medal of Honor recipient honored in 2026 for his 2012 Kapisa Province, Afghanistan ambush actions; a two-time Silver Star Special Forces officer and West Point 2011 graduate.

Nicholas Donin

Nicholas Donin was a Jewish convert to Christianity whose 35 charges against the Talmud led to its trial at Paris in 1240 and burning in 1242.

Nicholas E. Baker

Nicholas E. Baker, also published as Nicholas Baker, is a developmental geneticist who studies cell competition and cell fate in fruit flies, moving to UC Irvine in 2024.

Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon

Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (1930–1985), Viscount Eden, British Army officer and Conservative minister under Margaret Thatcher; son of Prime Minister Anthony Eden; died unmarried, so the earldom became extinct.

Nicholas F. LaRusso

Nicholas F. LaRusso is an American gastroenterologist and hepatologist who spent his career at Mayo Clinic, named the bile duct cells called cholangiocytes, and won the 2014 Friedenwald Medal.

Nicholas Fairbairn

Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, 1933-1995), Scottish QC and Conservative MP for Kinross and West Perthshire then Perth and Kinross 1974-1995, Solicitor-General for Scotland 1979-1982, flamboyant eccentric, son of psychoanalyst W.R.D. Fairbairn.

Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell (Nicholas Charles Frost, born 1955, Brentwood, Essex) is an English stage, film, and television actor known for Aubrey Montague in Chariots of Fire, Horatio in Branagh's Hamlet, Airey Neave in The Iron Lady, and TV roles in The Crown and White House Farm.

Nicholas Francis (Danish businessman)

Nicholas Francis is a Danish programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004, serving as Chief Creative Officer until leaving in 2013 to develop his own games.

Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine

Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609–1670), a cardinal and bishop of Toul, briefly ruled Lorraine in 1634 before renouncing his titles to keep the duchy from France.

Nicholas Galitzine

Nicholas Galitzine (born 1994) is an English actor known for Purple Hearts, Red, White & Royal Blue, and The Idea of You, and as He-Man in Masters of the Universe (2026).

Nicholas Garaufis

Nicholas Garaufis, born 1948, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 2000.

Nicholas Gilpin

Nicholas W. Gilpin is an American neuroscientist at LSU Health New Orleans who studies how traumatic stress and neuroinflammation alter brain circuits driving alcohol use and pain, and received the PECASE award in 2017.

Nicholas Glavin

Nicholas Glavin is a materials scientist and Senior Materials Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, known for 2D materials research and the 2025 PECASE award.

Nicholas Gleaves

Nicholas Gleaves (born 1969, Bolton) is an English actor and writer. Known for Playing the Field, Scott & Bailey, The Crown, Bodyguard, After the Flood (Sergeant Phil Mackie), Macbeth at the Royal Exchange, and marriage to Lesley Sharp.

Nicholas Gonzalez

Nicholas Edward Gonzalez (born 1976, San Antonio) is an American actor known for Alex Santiago in Resurrection Blvd., Dr. Neil Melendez in The Good Doctor, and Levi Delgado in La Brea.

Nicholas Guest

Nicholas Guest (Nicholas Haden-Guest, born 1951, New York City) is an English-American actor, primarily a voice actor in Frozen, Tangled, Big Hero 6, and Rio, brother of Christopher Guest, and Todd Chester in Christmas Vacation.

Nicholas Guimarães

Nicholas Guimarães (Nicholas Rodriguez Guimarães), born 2006 in Narashino, Chiba, is a Filipino goalkeeper for Machida Zelvia in Japan's J1 League and the Philippines U23 team, twin brother of Gabriel Guimarães, formerly of Ichifuna HS, Juntendo University, and Ichikawa SC.