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Nicholas van Hoogstraten

Nicholas van Hoogstraten, also known as Nicholas von Hessen, is a British property tycoon and investor, convicted of manslaughter in 2002 with the conviction quashed in 2003.

Sep 19, 2026

Nicholas W. Alexos

Nicholas W. Alexos is a private equity executive who co-founded Chicago's Madison Dearborn Partners and later served as CFO of Dentsply Sirona and Univar Solutions.

Nicholas W. Bellono

Nicholas W. Bellono is a molecular and cellular biologist and Professor at Harvard University, known for work on octopus chemotactile sensation and electroreception in sharks and skates.

Nicholas W. Morrell is a British physician-scientist in pulmonary vascular medicine and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Cambridge, known for defining how BMPR-II mutations cause pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Sep 20, 2026

Nicholas Wald

Sir Nicholas John Wald, born 1944, is a British physician and epidemiologist who pioneered antenatal screening, showed folic acid prevents neural tube defects, and co-invented the Polypill.

Nicholas Winton

Nicholas Winton (né Wertheimer, 1909–2015), British stockbroker and humanitarian, organized the Czech Kindertransport: eight trains from Prague to London, March–August 1939, rescuing about 669 mostly Jewish children; his role stayed unknown until 1988.

Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood is a British neurologist and human geneticist, Galton Professor of Genetics at University College London, known for identifying Parkinson's disease genes including PINK1 and LRRK2.

Nicholas Wu

Nicholas Wu, also known as Nicholas C. Wu, is an American immunologist and virologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who predicts antibody binding sites on influenza and SARS-CoV-2 from sequence.

Nicholas Yusupov

Nicholas Yusupov, or Prince Nicholas Felixovich Yusupov, was a Russian aristocrat and elder brother of Felix Yusupov, killed in 1908 in a pistol duel with Count Arvid von Manteuffel over an affair with his wife.

Nichole Galicia

Nichole Galicia is a Panamanian-born American actress and model, known for her role as Sheba in Django Unchained (2012) and her recent work as Rebecca in Mayor of Kingstown (2021–2025).

Nichole Sakura

Nichole Sakura (Nichole Sakura O'Connor, born 1989), formerly credited as Nichole Bloom, is an American actress known for Cheyenne on Superstore, Amanda on Shameless, Emily in Until Dawn, and voicing Suzume.

Nicholl Head

Nicholl Head (Punta Nicholl) is a headland on the north-west Antarctic Peninsula at 67°47'S, 67°06'W, listed in the US Gazetteer of Antarctica and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, with a September 1956 survey record.

Nicholle Tom

Nicholle Tom (Nicholle Marie Tom, born 1978) is an American actress known as Maggie Sheffield on The Nanny and Ryce Newton in Beethoven, and the first voice of Supergirl in the DC Animated Universe.

Nicholls State University

Nicholls State University is a public university in Thibodaux, Louisiana, serving about 6,000 students since 1948, with more than 60 degree programs and 15 Division I teams called the Colonels.

Nichols algebra

A Nichols algebra is a braided Hopf algebra generated by a braided vector space, introduced by Warren D. Nichols in 1978 as the braided analog of a symmetric algebra.

Nicholson (Martian crater)

Nicholson is a 102.5-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 0.20°N, 195.40°E, on the southern edge of Amazonis Planitia, known for a 3.5-km-high central mound with yardangs and a central peak.

Nicholson Cemetery

Nicholson Cemetery, also known as the Kashmir Gate Cemetery, is a Christian burial ground at Kashmere Gate in Delhi, founded after the 1857 uprising and named for Brigadier General John Nicholson.

Nicholson Regio

Nicholson Regio: large ancient dark-terrain region (regio) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, 3,900 km across, IAU-named 1979 for astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson; studied by Voyager and Galileo, a JUICE target.

Nichrome

Nichrome, often written NiCr, is a family of nickel-chromium resistance alloys, usually 80% nickel and 20% chromium, used in heating elements from toasters to industrial furnaces.

Nicht zu fassen

Nicht zu fassen, a 2009 Zoch Verlag children's hide-and-seek board game by Frédéric Moyersoen based on the Grimm tale of the wolf and seven little goats; plush wolf finger puppet, cardboard furniture, Kinderspiel des Jahres nominee, distinct from the 2019 Kosmos game of the same name.