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Nicholas Hamilton
Nicholas Hamilton (born 2000, Lismore, NSW) is an Australian actor and musician known as Henry Bowers in It and It: Chapter Two, Rellian in Captain Fantastic, and for the EP Pretty Young.
Nicholas Hammond
Nicholas Hammond (b. 1950, Washington, D.C.), American-Australian actor: Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (1977–79), later Sydney-based actor, screenwriter, and stage director.
Nicholas Hilliard
Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547–1619) was an English goldsmith-turned-painter and the leading portrait miniaturist of the Elizabethan court, whose portraits of Elizabeth I became her standard likeness.
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult (Nicholas Caradoc Hoult, born 1989) is an English actor known for About a Boy, Skins, the X-Men Beast, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Great, and Lex Luthor in Superman (2025).
Nicholas Hughes
Nicholas Farrar Hughes (1962–2009), British-American fisheries biologist and son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; UAF Ph.D. 1991; built drift-feeding and habitat-selection models for stream salmonids; died in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Nicholas Hutzler
Nicholas Hutzler, also known as Nick Hutzler, is an American atomic and molecular physicist at Caltech who uses laser-based precision measurements of cold molecules to search for new particles and forces.
Nicholas I
Nicholas I, pope from 858 to 867 and traditionally called "the Great," deposed two Frankish archbishops over King Lothair II's divorce and excommunicated Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
Nicholas I Mysticos
Nicholas I Mysticos (Νικόλαος Μυστικός), 852–925, was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, deposed for opposing Emperor Leo VI's fourth marriage and later regent for Constantine VII.
Nicholas I of Montenegro
Nicholas I (Nikola I Petrović Njegoš, 1841–1921), prince of Montenegro from 1860 and king from 1910; led independence at Berlin 1878, exiled 1916, deposed 1918, died in France.
Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I (Николай I Павлович), Emperor of Russia 1825–1855, third son of Paul I; crushed the Decembrist revolt, created the Third Section, proclaimed Official Nationality (Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality), and ended his reign with the Crimean War.
Nicholas II
Nicholas II, born Gérard in Burgundy, was pope from 1059 to 1061; his bull In Nomine Domini gave cardinals the leading role in papal elections.
Nicholas II Chrysovergis
Nicholas II Chrysovergis (Νικόλαος ὁ Χρυσοβέργης), also given as Chrysoberges, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 980 to 992 under Emperor Basil II, formerly Metropolitan of Adrianople.
Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II (Николай II Александрович, 1868–1918), last Emperor of Russia, reigned 1894–1917; granted the 1905 October Manifesto and Duma, took personal army command in 1915, abdicated at Pskov, and was executed with his family at Yekaterinburg in July 1918.
Nicholas III the Kyrdiniates
Nicholas III the Kyrdiniates, also called Nicholas III Grammatikos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1084 to 1111, known for his canonical Replies to Athonite monks.
Nicholas Irving
Nicholas Irving, nicknamed "The Reaper", is a former US Army Ranger sniper of the 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, known for a claimed 33 kills in 100 days in Afghanistan, the memoir The Reaper, and Fox's American Grit.
Nicholas IV
Nicholas IV, born Girolamo d'Ascoli, was the 191st pope, reigning from 1288 until his death in 1292 and the first Franciscan to hold the office.
Nicholas IV Mouzalon
Nicholas IV Mouzalon (Νικόλαος ὁ Μουζάλων) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1147 to 1151, an aged monk and former Archbishop of Cyprus chosen by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
Nicholas J Kassebaum
Nicholas J Kassebaum, also known as Nicholas Kassebaum, is an anesthesiologist at the University of Washington who studies the global burden of disease in mothers, newborns, and children.
Nicholas J Shackleton
Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (1937–2006) was a British paleoclimatologist at the University of Cambridge who established oxygen isotope stratigraphy as the master chronology of the ice ages.
Nicholas J. Cowan
Nicholas J. Cowan is a molecular biologist at New York University known for work on tubulin genes, β-tubulin isotypes, and the tubulin folding pathway, including identification of folding cofactor B.
Nicholas J. Dyson
Nicholas J. Dyson is a cancer biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the p107 protein and showing that E2F-1 acts as a tumor suppressor.
Nicholas J. Ganjei
Nicholas J. Ganjei, born Nicholas Jon Ganjei in 1979, is an American district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2026, appointed by President Trump after serving as U.S. attorney there.
Nicholas J. Garber
Nicholas J. Garber is a traffic engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored the textbook Traffic & Highway Engineering and held professorships at Virginia and Central Florida.
Nicholas J. Grant
Nicholas J. Grant (1915–2004) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor known for high-temperature alloys and rapid solidification processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Nicholas J. Leeper
Nicholas J. Leeper is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies atherosclerosis, known for discoveries in efferocytosis and CD47 biology.
Nicholas J. Shaheen
Nicholas J. Shaheen is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for research on Barrett's esophagus and reflux disease.
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas James Strausfeld is a neuroanatomist and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for work on arthropod brain anatomy and Cambrian fossil brains.
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot is a British molecular plant pathologist who studies how the rice blast fungus infects rice, and Executive Director of The Sainsbury Laboratory since 2018.
Nicholas J. Talley
Nicholas J. Talley is an Australian neurogastroenterologist, Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle, who helped develop the Rome Criteria and researched IBS and functional dyspepsia.
Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro (1938–2012) was an American chemist at Columbia University who laid the foundations of modern organic photochemistry, supramolecular photochemistry, and spin chemistry, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.