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Nico Parker

Nico Parker (born 2004) is a British actress, daughter of Thandiwe Newton and Ol Parker, known for Dumbo (2019), Sarah in The Last of Us (2023), Sundance-winning Suncoast, and Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon (2025).

Nico Porteous

Nico Porteous, New Zealand freestyle skier born 2001 in Hamilton; Olympic halfpipe gold at Beijing 2022, bronze at PyeongChang 2018, 2021 world champion; left halfpipe competition in June 2025.

Nico Rienks

Nico Rienks (Nicolaas Hessel Rienks), Dutch rower born 1962 in Tiel; two-time Olympic champion (double sculls 1988 with Florijn, men's eight 1996), 1992 bronze, 1991 world champion, 2004 Thomas Keller Medal.

Nico Robin (ニコ・ロビン)

Nico Robin (ニコ・ロビン), the 'Demon Child', is the Straw Hat Pirates' archaeologist in One Piece. Hana Hana no Mi user, Ohara's sole survivor, bounty 930,000,000 berries, Rio Poneglyph seeker.

Nico Rode

Nico Rode (Nicolò Rode, 1912-1998), Italian Star-class sailor and Navy officer; crew to Agostino Straulino, winning Olympic gold Helsinki 1952, silver Melbourne 1956, three World and ten European titles.

Nico Rosberg

Nico Rosberg (Nico Erik Rosberg), Finnish-German F1 driver born 1985, 2016 World Champion with Mercedes, beating teammate Lewis Hamilton by five points, then retiring days later; son of 1982 champion Keke Rosberg.

Nico Sallach

Nico Sallach is a German singer, clean co-vocalist of Electric Callboy (joined 2020, replacing Sebastian Biesler) and former co-founder and lead singer of To the Rats and Wolves.

Nico Santos (actor)

Nico Santos (actor) (born 1979, Manila) is a Filipino-American actor and comedian, Mateo Liwanag on Superstore (2015-2021) and Oliver T'sien in Crazy Rich Asians (2018); also Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; distinct from the German singer of the same name.

Nico Sommerdijk

Nico Sommerdijk (Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk) is a Dutch chemist and professor of Bone Biochemistry at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for biomineralization research.

Nico Tjandra

Nico Tjandra is an American-based structural biophysicist who leads the Laboratory of Structural Biophysics at NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Nico Tortorella

Nico Tortorella (born 1988, Wilmette, Illinois) is an American actor, model, and author; played Josh on Younger (2015-2021), Trevor in Scream 4, Felix in The Walking Dead: World Beyond; nonbinary, they/them, married to Bethany Meyers.

Nico U.F. Dosenbach

Nico U.F. Dosenbach, known as Nico Dosenbach, is a German-born neurologist and systems neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine who pioneered precision functional mapping of individual human brains.

Nico Walker

Nico Walker (born 1985), American novelist from Cleveland; not Nick Walker or Nicole Walker. Former Army medic with 250+ Iraq missions who robbed 10 banks, wrote the NYT-bestselling PEN/Hemingway finalist novel Cherry in prison, adapted as a 2021 Russo brothers film.

Nico Williams

Nico Williams (Nicholas Williams Arthuer, born 2002, Pamplona) is a Spanish right-footed left winger for Athletic Club and Spain; Euro 2024 final scorer and Player of the Match, 2026 World Cup winner, renewed at Athletic until 2035 with a ~€90m clause.

NiCo2O4 spinel OER catalyst

NiCo2O4 spinel OER catalyst refers to nickel cobaltite, a nickel–cobalt spinel oxide used as a non-noble-metal electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction, the bottleneck step of water electrolysis.

Nicobar Faculae

Nicobar Faculae, a 575-km-wide bright facula on Titan near the equator at 2.00°N, 159°W in Shangri-la; IAU-named 2006 for the Indian archipelago; chain form suggests tectonic origin.

Nicobar Islands

The Nicobar Islands are the southern island group of India's Andaman and Nicobar Union Territory: 22 islands, 1,841 km², home to the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes, the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, and the contested Great Nicobar Project.

Nicobar pigeon

The Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) is a large, metallic-plumaged pigeon living on small islands from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to Palau, and the closest living relative of the extinct dodo.

Nicoboxil

Nicoboxil (2-butoxyethyl nicotinate, CAS 13912-80-6) is a nicotinic acid ester rubefacient combined with nonivamide in Finalgon topical analgesics for musculoskeletal and low back pain.

Nicodemo Scarfo

Nicodemo 'Little Nicky' Scarfo, boss of the Philadelphia–South Jersey La Cosa Nostra family 1981–1988, succeeded murdered boss Philip Testa, ruled through violence, was convicted of murder and racketeering, and died in prison in 2017.

Nicodemus

Nicodemus, also known as Saint Nicodemus, is a Pharisee and Sanhedrin member in the Gospel of John who visits Jesus at night and helps bury him.

Nicodemus (musician)

Nicodemus was the stage name of Jamaican dancehall deejay Cecil Wellington (1957–1996), who rose on Kingston sound systems and built his later career in New York.

Nicol David

Nicol David (Nicol Ann David), born 1983, Malaysian squash legend; world No. 1 for a record 108 consecutive months (2006-2015), eight-time World Open champion, retired 2019, now leads the Nicol David Organisation.

Nicol Williamson

Nicol Williamson (Thomas Nicol Williamson, 1938–2011), Scottish stage and film actor; breakthrough as Bill Maitland in Inadmissible Evidence (1964), landmark Roundhouse Hamlet (1969), and Merlin in Excalibur (1981).

Nicola Aceto

Nicola Aceto (born 1982) is an Italian cancer biologist and professor of molecular oncology at ETH Zurich, known for discovering metastatic circulating tumor cell clusters.

Nicola Adams

Nicola Adams (born 1982, Leeds) is a British retired boxer, first woman to win Olympic boxing gold (London 2012 flyweight) and to retain it (Rio 2016); later WBO flyweight champion, retired 2019.

Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti (b. 1987) is a Scottish violinist, 2004 BBC Young Musician winner, 2020 Grammy recipient, Decca artist, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival since 2022, and founder of the Benedetti Foundation.

Nicola Cabibbo

Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010) was an Italian theoretical physicist who introduced the Cabibbo angle in a 1963 paper that became a foundation of quark flavor mixing.

Nicola Correia-Damude

Nicola Correia-Damude (born 1981) is a Guyanese-Canadian actress from Toronto, known for Maryse Lightwood in Shadowhunters, Diane Evans in Burden of Truth, and Dr. Lucy Da Silva in Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.

Nicola Coughlan

Nicola Coughlan (born 1987, Oranmore, County Galway) is an Irish actress known as Clare Devlin in Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington, alias Lady Whistledown, in Netflix's Bridgerton; later work includes Big Mood, Barbie and The Magic Faraway Tree.