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Nick Bakay
Nick Bakay is an American actor, comedy writer, and producer, born in Buffalo, New York, known as the voice of Salem Saberhagen on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Norbert on The Angry Beavers; he wrote Paul Blart: Mall Cop and produced Mom, Bookie, and Leanne.
Nick Ball (boxer)
Nick Ball, "The Wrecking Ball", English featherweight boxer from Liverpool; WBA featherweight champion June 2024 to February 2026, winning against Raymond Ford and defending against Rios, Doheny, and Goodman before losing to Brandon Figueroa.
Nick Barker (biologist)
Nick Barker is a stem cell biologist at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, known for identifying Lgr5 as an adult stem cell marker.
Nick Barmby
Nick Barmby (Nicholas Jonathan Barmby, born 1974, Hull) is an English former footballer and manager; 23 England caps, played for Tottenham, Middlesbrough, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds, and Hull City, later Hull City manager.
Nick Barton
Nick Barton, born 1955 in London, is a British evolutionary geneticist, professor at IST Austria since 2008, known for work on hybrid zones, speciation, and multilocus selection models.
Nick Baumgartner
Nick Baumgartner (born 1981, Iron River, Michigan) is an American snowboard cross racer, five-time Olympian, and 2022 Beijing mixed team gold medalist with Lindsey Jacobellis, the oldest Olympic snowboarding medalist.
Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs, British bassist, Chapman Stick player and songwriter; founder of Kajagoogoo ("Too Shy", 1983 UK number one), later bassist for Steven Wilson and Steve Hackett, and leader of The Mute Gods.
Nick Begich III
Nick Begich III (born 1977, Anchorage) is Alaska's Republican at-large U.S. representative, elected in 2024 over Mary Peltola; grandson of Rep. Nick Begich, nephew of Sen. Mark Begich, businessman, seeking 2026 reelection.
Nick Begich Sr.
Nick Begich Sr. (Nicholas Joseph Begich, 1932-1972) was Alaska's Democratic at-large U.S. representative who worked on ANCSA, disappeared on a 1972 campaign flight with Hale Boggs, and was posthumously reelected.
Nick Beim
Nick Beim, or Nicholas F. Beim, is an American venture capitalist and a partner at Venrock since 2012, investing in AI, software, fintech, and defense, with early positions in Dataminr and JBoss.
Nick Berry
Nick Berry (born 1963, Woodford, Essex) is a retired English actor and singer, distinct from the Dorset GP and American entrepreneur of the same name; known for Simon Wicks in EastEnders (1985-1990), PC Nick Rowan in Heartbeat (1992-1998), and the 1986 UK number-one single Every Loser Wins.
Nick Black
Sir Nick Black is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for championing patient-reported outcome measures in the NHS.
Nick Blackwell
Nick "Bang Bang" Blackwell, British middleweight boxing champion from Trowbridge, lost his title to Chris Eubank Jr in March 2016, suffered a brain bleed and coma, retired, then was injured again sparring.
Nick Blood
Nick Blood (born 1982, London) is a British actor known as Lance Hunter in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with roles in Euphoria, Slow Horses, Andor, The Day of the Jackal, and stage leads in Backbeat and Sting.
Nick Bockwinkel
Nick Bockwinkel (1934-2015), American professional wrestler, four-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion (2,990 total days) and three-time AWA tag champion with Ray Stevens, managed by Bobby Heenan; later WCW Commissioner and 2007 WWE Hall of Famer.
Nick Bollettieri
Nick Bollettieri (Nicholas James Bollettieri) was an American tennis coach who founded the first boarding tennis academy in Bradenton, Florida, and developed ten world No. 1 players.
Nick Bosa
Nick Bosa, San Francisco 49ers defensive end (#97), Ohio State, second overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft; 2019 AP Defensive Rookie of the Year, 2022 AP Defensive Player of the Year with 18.5 sacks, $170 million 2023 extension.
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher, founding director of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute (2005–2024), author of Superintelligence (2014), and creator of the 2003 simulation argument and the concept of existential risk.
Nick Bougas
Nick Bougas (born 1955, Savannah, Georgia) is an American documentary director behind the Death Scenes trilogy and A. Wyatt Mann, the pseudonymous white-supremacist cartoonist identified by BuzzFeed News in 2015.
Nick Branca
Nick Branca is a quantitative finance executive who was Global Co-Head of Systematic Market Making at Credit Suisse and led its QT Fund from 2017 to 2020.
Nick Brimble
Nick Brimble (Nicholas Brimble, born 1944, Bristol) is an English actor known for Little John in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Monster in Frankenstein Unbound, Sir Ector in A Knight's Tale, and Jack Chapman in Grantchester.
Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield (born 1948, London) is an English documentary filmmaker known for self-reflexive, investigative films such as Kurt & Courtney, Biggie & Tupac, and Aileen Wuornos, appearing on camera in his own work.
Nick Buoniconti
Nick Buoniconti (1940–2019), Hall of Fame middle linebacker for the Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins, leader of the No-Name Defense on the 1972 perfect-season team; later co-founded The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and advocated CTE research.
Nick Calathes
Nick Calathes (Καλάθης), born 1989 in Casselberry, Florida, is a Greek-American point guard, EuroLeague all-time assists (1,684) and steals leader, 2018-19 single-season assists record holder (286), 2011 EuroLeague champion, ex-NBA Grizzlies player, now with PAOK through 2028.
Nick Candy
Nick Candy (Nicholas Candy, born 1973) is a British luxury property developer, co-founder of Candy & Candy and developer of One Hyde Park, and honorary treasurer and about-£1m donor of Reform UK since December 2024, formerly a Conservative donor; distinct from brother Christian Candy.
Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon, born 1980, San Diego) is an American comedian, host, actor, and rapper, creator of MTV's Wild 'N Out, former America's Got Talent host (2009-2017), and host of Fox's The Masked Singer since 2019.
Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway is the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925): a Yale-educated Minnesotan and WWI veteran in West Egg, Long Island, whose biased, much-debated account frames Jay Gatsby's story.
Nick Carter
Nick Carter (Nickolas Gene Carter, born 1980, Jamestown, NY) is the youngest member of the Backstreet Boys and a solo pop artist; albums Now or Never, All American, and Love Life Tragedy, Who I Am tour, Las Vegas Sphere residency.
Nick Carter (British Army officer)
General Sir Nick Carter (Nicholas Patrick Carter) is a retired British Army officer who led the Army 2020 restructuring, served as Chief of the General Staff 2014 to 2018, and was Chief of the Defence Staff from June 2018 to November 2021.
Nick Cassavetes
Nick Cassavetes (Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes) is an American director, screenwriter, and actor, son of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, known for directing The Notebook, Alpha Dog, John Q, and My Sister's Keeper.