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Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne
Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne is a British-born immunologist who showed how T-cell receptor binding strength shapes selection in the thymus and codiscovered the protein Themis.
Nicholas R. Thomson
Nicholas R. Thomson is a microbiologist and bioinformatician who heads the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is known for genomic studies of cholera.
Nicholas Ralph
Nicholas Ralph (born 1990) is a Scottish actor from Nairn, Highlands, and a Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate. He made his screen debut as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, and has appeared in Prey for the Devil, The Most Reluctant Convert, Outlander, and Grantchester.
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (Raymond Nicholas Kienzle, 1911-1979), American film director of They Live by Night, Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, and Bigger Than Life; championed by Cahiers du Cinema and Godard, later a SUNY teacher.
Nicholas Read
Nicholas Read, born 1958, is a British-born American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Henry Ford II Professor at Yale, known for the fractional quantum Hall effect and non-Abelian quasiparticles.
Nicholas Reece
Nicholas (Nick) Reece, 105th Lord Mayor of Melbourne, independent councillor who took office after Sally Capp's June 2024 exit and won the November 2024 election with deputy Roshena Campbell, holding the council's Infrastructure portfolio.
Nicholas Riccardi
Nicholas Riccardi (Niccolò Riccardi, 1585–1639) was an Italian Dominican theologian who, as Master of the Sacred Palace, licensed and then withdrew Galileo's Dialogue in 1632.
Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Ridley was an English Reformer, Bishop of Rochester and then London, who was burned at Oxford in 1555 as one of the three Oxford Martyrs.
Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, 1874–1947), Russian painter, stage designer, and archaeologist known for Himalayan tempera landscapes, Diaghilev's Rite of Spring designs, Central Asian expeditions, and the 1935 Roerich Pact protecting cultural monuments.
Nicholas Rott
Nicholas Rott, born Miklós Rott in Budapest in 1917, was a Hungarian-born aerodynamicist who developed thermoacoustics, taught at ETH Zurich, Cornell, and UCLA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Nicholas S. Fisher
Nicholas S. Fisher is an American marine biogeochemist and Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University known for research on how metals and radionuclides accumulate in marine organisms.
Nicholas S. Foulkes
Nicholas S. Foulkes is a chronobiologist who studies circadian clocks in fish, leading the Circadian Clock Biology group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a companion group in Heidelberg.
Nicholas Santos
Nicholas Santos (full name Nicholas Araújo Dias dos Santos) is a Brazilian butterfly and freestyle sprint swimmer, born in 1980, who won six short-course world titles.
Nicholas Scratch
Nicholas Scratch is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and supervillain from New Salem, Colorado. He first appeared in Fantastic Four #185 in 1977, created by Len Wein and George Perez.
Nicholas Scutari
Nicholas P. Scutari is an American Democratic politician serving as President of the New Jersey State Senate since 2022, representing the state's 22nd District since 2004.
Nicholas Smith (actor)
Nicholas Smith (1934–2015), English character actor, played Mr Cuthbert Rumbold in all 69 episodes of BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? (1972–1985); also Doctor Who, Z Cars, Wallace & Gromit voice work.
Nicholas Soames
Nicholas Soames (Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, born 1948), Lord Soames of Fletching, British Conservative politician, grandson of Winston Churchill; MP for Crawley and Mid Sussex 1983–2019, Armed Forces minister 1994–97, lost whip over Brexit 2019, life peer 2022.
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks (Nicholas Charles Sparks, born 1965) is an American novelist, author of The Notebook and roughly two dozen New York Times bestselling love stories, over 100 million copies sold, eleven film adaptations, and a Broadway musical.
Nicholas Stoller
Nicholas (Nick) Stoller, English-American screenwriter and director born 1976 in London, directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, the Neighbors films, and Bros, and co-wrote The Muppets with Jason Segel.
Nicholas T. Ingolia
Nicholas T. Ingolia is a molecular biologist and professor at UC Berkeley known for developing ribosome profiling, a deep-sequencing technique measuring protein synthesis across the genome.
Nicholas T. Winograd
Nicholas T. Winograd, also known as Nicholas Winograd, is an American chemist who spent most of his career at Penn State, becoming Evan Pugh Professor in 1985 and retiring in 2020.
Nicholas T. Zervas
Nicholas T. Zervas was an American neurosurgeon who led the Neurosurgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1977 to 2000, known for long-term studies of transsphenoidal pituitary surgery.
Nicholas Tartaglione
Nicholas Tartaglione, former Briarcliff Manor, New York police officer, convicted in 2023 of the 2016 quadruple murder of Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna, and Hector Gutierrez; four consecutive life terms; briefly Jeffrey Epstein's MCC cellmate in 2019.
Nicholas Theophilou
Nicholas Theophilou, also spelled Nicolas Theophilou, is a scientist who co-developed with Herbert Naarmann a 1987 BASF method for highly conductive polyacetylene films, cited in the 2000 Nobel Prize background.
Nicholas Tse (谢霆锋)
Nicholas Tse, also known as Nicholas Tse Ting-fung (谢霆锋), is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer, born in 1980, son of actors Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee.
Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy
Nicholas Tuite MacCarthy, known in France as l'Abbé MacCarthy or l'Abbé de Lévignac, was an Irish-born Catholic priest and Jesuit, born in Dublin in 1769, ranked among France's ablest preachers.
Nicholas Turk-Browne
Nicholas B. Turk-Browne is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute, known for statistical learning research and fMRI imaging of awake infants.
Nicholas Turner (chemist)
Nicholas J. Turner (born 1960) is a British chemist at the University of Manchester known for engineering enzymes, above all imine reductases, as biocatalysts for making chiral amines.
Nicholas Turturro
Nicholas Turturro (born 1962, Queens) is an Italian-American actor, brother of John Turturro, known as Detective James Martinez on NYPD Blue (1993-2000) with two Emmy nominations.
Nicholas V. Hud
Nicholas V. Hud is a biophysicist and origins-of-life chemist at Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1999 and directed the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution.