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Nick Park

Nick Park (born 1958, Preston) is a British stop-motion animator, creator of Wallace and Gromit, and four-time Academy Award winner at Aardman Animations, known for Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, Chicken Run, and Vengeance Most Fowl.

Nick Parziale

Nick Parziale, or Nicholaus Parziale, is an American experimental fluid dynamicist and professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, known for krypton tagging velocimetry in supersonic and hypersonic flows.

Nick Patrick (referee)

Nick Patrick, ring name of Joseph Nicholas Patrick Hamilton Jr. (born 1959), retired American pro wrestling referee, son of Jody Hamilton; WCW 1988-2001, WWE 2001-2008, nWo's heel referee.

Nick Patterson (mathematician)

Nick Patterson is a British mathematician and former GCHQ cryptographer who built market models at Renaissance Technologies before becoming a computational biologist at the Broad Institute.

Nick Petrino

Nick Petrino, son of coach Bobby Petrino, is an American college football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Coastal Carolina, hired December 2025 after six seasons coordinating Missouri State's offense and coaching Heisman winner Lamar Jackson at Louisville.

Nick Pickard

Nick Pickard (born 1975) is an English actor, Tony Hutchinson in Channel 4's Hollyoaks since the first episode in October 1995, its longest-serving cast member, 2017 British Soap Award Outstanding Achievement winner, and former child star of Mio in the Land of Faraway.

Nick Pidgeon

Nick Pidgeon is a British environmental psychologist and Professor at Cardiff University, known for research on risk perception, climate and energy policy engagement, and an MBE in 2014.

Nick Pisciottano

Nick Pisciottano is an American Democratic politician, a member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 45th district since December 2024 after serving in the state House.

Nick Pope (footballer)

Nick Pope (born 1992, Soham) is an English goalkeeper, ex-Burnley and Newcastle United, 10 England caps, PFA Team of the Year 2019/20, Carabao Cup winner 2025.

Nick Powell

Nick Powell (Nicholas Edward Powell, born 1994) is an English attacking midfielder at Bradford City, formerly of Crewe Alexandra, Manchester United, Wigan, Stoke, and Stockport; 83 goals in 354 league appearances.

Nick Price

Nick Price (born 1957, Durban) is a Zimbabwean golfer, World No. 1 in 1994, winner of 18 PGA Tour titles and three majors (1992 and 1994 PGA, 1994 Open), World Golf Hall of Fame 2003, later a course designer and Presidents Cup captain.

Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes, born Nicholas James Bates in 1962, is an English keyboardist and songwriter, a founding member of the new wave band Duran Duran, formed in Birmingham in 1978.

Nick Riewoldt

Nick Riewoldt (born 1982), 'Saint Nick', St Kilda AFL key forward 2001-17, No.1 pick in 2000 draft; 336 games, 718 goals, six best and fairests, record 220 games as captain, most marks in VFL/AFL history, Hall of Fame 2025.

Nick Robinson (American actor)

Nick Robinson (born 1995, Seattle) is an American actor known for Love, Simon, Jurassic World, The Kings of Summer, A Teacher, and Maid; distinct from the BBC journalist of the same name.

Nick Robinson (journalist)

Nick Robinson (Anthony "Nick" Robinson, born 1963) is a British broadcast journalist, BBC political editor 2005–2015, Today presenter since November 2015, and host of the Political Thinking podcast.

Nick Rose

Nick Rose (Nicholas Henry Rose, born 1951) is an English long-distance runner from Bristol: 1980 and 1984 Olympian, 1982 Commonwealth 5000m silver medallist, 1980 World Cross bronze medallist, and British indoor 5000m record holder 1982-2011.

Nick Saban

Nick Saban (born 1951), American college football coach; won a record seven national championships at LSU (2003) and Alabama (2009-2020), retired January 2024 with a 297-71-1 record, now an ESPN analyst.

Nick Sagar

Nick Sagar (Nicholas Dewan Sagar, born 1988) is a British actor of Jamaican-Guyanese descent known for Detective Alonzo Loya in Queen of the South, Victor Aldertree in Shadowhunters, and Kevin Richards in Netflix's The Princess Switch trilogy.

Nick Santucci

Nick Santucci is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 64th district, in Trumbull County, and House Majority Whip.

Nick Schrock

Nick Schrock is an American software engineer, co-creator of GraphQL at Facebook, and founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, whose open-source Python data orchestration platform Dagster raised $49M.

Nick Schroer

Nick Schroer is an American politician and attorney serving as a Republican Missouri senator from the 2nd district, elected in 2022 after six years in the Missouri House.

Nick Schultz (California politician)

Nick Schultz is an American Democratic politician who represents California's 44th Assembly district, first elected in 2024 after serving on the Burbank City Council and as Mayor of Burbank.

Nick Scoville

Nick Scoville, also known as Nicholas Z. Scoville, is a Caltech astronomer known for pioneering millimeter-wave CO observations of star-forming gas and founding the COSMOS survey.

Nick Searcy

Nick Searcy (born 1959, Cullowhee, North Carolina) is an American character actor, director, and producer, best known as Chief Deputy Art Mullen on FX's Justified and for roles in The Fugitive, Cast Away, The Shape of Water, and Reagan; he also directed Gosnell and wrote Justify This.

Nick Shakoour

Nick Shakoour is an American actor and voice actor known for playing Zebedee in The Chosen. He also voices characters in Care Bears: Unlock the Magic.

Nick Shirley

Nick Shirley is a young conservative American YouTuber and self-described independent journalist, known for his viral December 2025 video alleging Minnesota day care fraud, amplified by JD Vance, which triggered a federal funding freeze but was not confirmed by local verification.

Nick Simmons

Nick Simmons (Nicholas Adam Tweed Simmons, born 1989), son of KISS's Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed, starred on A&E's Gene Simmons Family Jewels, wrote the pulled comic Incarnate, and now records as Stanley Simmons.

Nick Sirianni

Nick Sirianni is an American football coach, head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles since January 2021, previously coordinator with the Colts. Record 59-26 (.694), Super Bowl LIX champion, LVII runner-up, amid 2026 "Evict Nick" fan criticism.

Nick Skelton

Nick Skelton (born 1957) is a British show jumper, nicknamed Skelly, who competed at seven Olympic Games, won team gold at London 2012 and individual gold at Rio 2016 aged 58 on Big Star, and holds Britain's 7 ft 7 in high jump record.

Nick Smith (Illinois politician)

Nick Smith (Nicholas K. Smith) is an American Democratic politician who represented Illinois's 34th district in the Illinois House of Representatives, finishing his final legislative session in 2026 with a focus on affordability for Illinois families.