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Nicholas Metropolis
Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999) was an American physicist at Los Alamos who helped develop the Monte Carlo method, built the MANIAC computer, and lent his name to the Metropolis algorithm.
Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer (born 1945) is an American screenwriter, director, and novelist known for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV and VI, and directing The Day After, the highest-rated television movie in broadcast history.
Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (1923–2017), English novelist and biographer, eldest son of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; author of Accident, Impossible Object (first Booker shortlist), Hopeful Monsters (Whitbread 1990), and his father's two-volume biography.
Nicholas Mukomberanwa
Nicholas Mukomberanwa (1940–2002) was a Zimbabwean sculptor and art teacher, a leading first-generation figure of the Shona stone sculpture movement whose work is held in major collections.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler was an American educator and political figure who served as president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945 and shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams.
Nicholas Navin
Nicholas Navin (Nicholas E. Navin) is a cancer genomicist who invented the first method for sequencing a single mammalian cell's genome and chairs Systems Biology at MD Anderson.
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is an American computer scientist who founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, co-founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985, and wrote the 1995 bestseller Being Digital.
Nicholas Nelson
Nicholas Nelson is an American pediatric researcher who published from Harvard Medical School and Boston hospitals between 1962 and 1971 on newborn lung function and fetal blood oxygen affinity.
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens's third novel (serialized 1838–1839, twenty monthly parts, Chapman and Hall), attacks the brutal Yorkshire boarding schools through Dotheboys Hall, Wackford Squeers, Smike, and the villainous uncle Ralph Nickleby.
Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film)
Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel, starring Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, and Jim Broadbent.
Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon (born 1947, Detroit) is an American photographer known for black-and-white large-format portraiture, above all The Brown Sisters, annual portraits of his wife and her three sisters from 1975 to 2022.
Nicholas O. Davidson
Nicholas O. Davidson is a physician-scientist in molecular biology and gastroenterology known for cloning Apobec-1, the enzyme that edits apolipoprotein B mRNA, at Washington University in St. Louis.
Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa, also known as Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German cardinal and church lawyer, 1401 to 1464, known for learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites.
Nicholas of Verdun
Nicholas of Verdun was a goldsmith and enamel painter from Verdun in Lorraine, active 1181 to 1205, best known for the Verdun Altar at Klosterneuburg Abbey and the Shrine of the Virgin in Tournai Cathedral.
Nicholas Olahus
Nicholas Olahus, also known as Oláh Miklós or Nicolae Olahus, was a Hungarian prelate and humanist historian who became Archbishop of Esztergom and royal governor of Hungary.
Nicholas Oyekunle
Nicholas Oyekunle (Adetokunbo Adewale Ayomide Oyekunle), English striker born 2007; Southampton academy product, U18 Premier League all-time top scorer, contracted to Southampton until 2028, on loan at Leyton Orient.
Nicholas P. Harberd
Nicholas P. Harberd, born 1956, is a plant scientist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford who showed how gibberellin regulates plant growth through DELLA proteins, explaining green revolution wheat dwarfing.
Nicholas P. Restifo
Nicholas P. Restifo is an American physician and immunologist known for developing cancer immunotherapies, leading anti-tumor T cell research at the National Cancer Institute for nearly three decades.
Nicholas P. Samios
Nicholas P. Samios is an American experimental particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the 1964 discovery of the omega-minus baryon and for directing the laboratory from 1982 to 1997.
Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons (Christopher Nicholas Parsons, 1923-2020), English actor and broadcaster; chaired BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute for nearly 52 years from 1967 and hosted ITV's Sale of the Century; OBE, CBE 2014.
Nicholas Patrick Jewell
Nicholas Patrick Jewell is a statistician and biostatistician, a longtime UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and known for work on infectious-disease trials.
Nicholas Peter Franks
Nicholas Peter Franks, known as Nick Franks, is a British molecular biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics at Imperial College London who showed that general anaesthetics act by binding specific proteins.
Nicholas Pileggi
Nicholas Pileggi (born 1933), American journalist and screenwriter, author of Wiseguy (1985) and Casino (1995); co-wrote Goodfellas and Casino with Martin Scorsese, earning an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Nicholas Pinnock
Nicholas Pinnock (Nicholas Andre Pinnock, born 1973, London) is a British actor and producer known for Aaron Wallace in ABC's For Life, John Ellis in Django, and roles in Top Boy, Marcella, Fortitude, and Counterpart, plus Silver Milk Productions.
Nicholas Podany
Nicholas Podany (born 1996, Los Angeles) is an American actor, songwriter, and composer, a Juilliard graduate known as Albus Potter on Broadway, Billy Crystal in Saturday Night (2024), and Ray Symanski in Peacock's Ponies.
Nicholas Pooran
Nicholas Pooran, born 1995 in Couva, Trinidad, is a West Indian left-handed wicketkeeper-batter; West Indies' most capped T20I player (106 matches, 2,275 runs) who retired internationally in June 2025 and plays franchise T20 for Lucknow Super Giants and MI franchises.
Nicholas Porter Earp
Nicholas Porter Earp (1813-1907), father of Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp; Mexican War sergeant, Union Army recruiter, wagon-master, and lawman (constable, justice of the peace, city recorder) who led his family from Iowa to San Bernardino in 1864.
Nicholas Proudfoot
Nicholas Proudfoot, often cited as N.J. Proudfoot, is a British molecular biologist at the University of Oxford who discovered the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal and defined mammalian transcription termination.
Nicholas Pryor
Nicholas Pryor (Nicholas David Probst, 1935–2024), American character actor of soap operas and film, known for The Nurses, Port Charles, Beverly Hills 90210, and Risky Business.
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938–2006) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley and a leading authority on DNA topology who served as editor-in-chief of PNAS from 1995 until his death.