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Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017) was a Dutch-born American physicist at Harvard, known for the three-level solid state maser and nonlinear optics, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser spectroscopy.
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012) was a Dutch mathematician at Eindhoven known for de Bruijn sequences, the de Bruijn–Newman constant, de Bruijn indices, and the Automath proof-checking language.
Nicolaas Kuiper
Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper (1920–1994) was a Dutch mathematician at the University of Amsterdam and director of the IHÉS, known for Kuiper's theorem and the Nash–Kuiper theorem in differential topology.
Nicolae Bălcescu
Nicolae Bălcescu (1819–1852) was a Wallachian historian, writer, and politician, a leading figure of the 1848–1849 revolution in Wallachia; he died in exile at Palermo, Italy.
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), Romanian communist dictator ruling 1965–1989; national communism, personality cult, Securitate repression, 1980s austerity debt repayment, Decree 770 abortion ban; overthrown and executed with wife Elena on 25 December 1989.
Nicolae Filipescu
Nicolae Filipescu (1862–1916) was a Romanian conservative politician and newspaper owner who served as mayor of Bucharest and campaigned for Romania's entry into World War I.
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu (1838–1907) was a Romanian painter, trained in Paris and Barbizon, who introduced plein-air painting to Romania and became the country's national painter with almost 4,000 works.
Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, writer, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 1931 to 1932 and was assassinated by the Iron Guard in 1940.
Nicolae Juravschi
Nicolae Juravschi (Nikolay Zhuravsky), born 1964, is a Moldovan sprint canoeist who won double gold at Seoul 1988 for the USSR and silver at Atlanta 1996 for Moldova.
Nicolae Linca
Nicolae Linca (1929-2008), Romanian amateur boxer, welterweight gold at Melbourne 1956, beating Ireland's Fred Tiedt 3-2 on a controversial decision while fighting with a broken finger; Romania's only Olympic boxing champion.
Nicolae Martinescu
Nicolae Martinescu (1940–2013), Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic heavyweight (100 kg) gold at Munich 1972 and light-heavyweight bronze at Mexico 1968; 18-time Romanian champion, world silver medalist 1963 and 1971.
Nicolae Minovici
Nicolae Minovici (1868–1941) was a Romanian forensic physician who founded Bucharest's first ambulance service, studied hanging through experiments on himself, and left his villa to the city as a folk art museum.
Nicolae Paulescu
Nicolae Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist who showed in 1921 that a pancreatic extract, pancreine, lowers blood glucose in diabetic dogs, a forerunner of insulin.
Nicolae Steinhardt
Nicolae Steinhardt, born Nicu-Aurelian Steinhardt (1912–1989), was a Romanian essayist and literary critic who converted to Orthodoxy as a political prisoner and became a monk at Rohia Monastery.
Nicolae Titulescu
Nicolae Titulescu (1882–1941) was a Romanian diplomat who twice served as foreign minister and remains the only person elected president of the League of Nations Assembly two consecutive terms.
Nicolai Budkov Kjær
Nicolai Budkov Kjær, Norwegian tennis player born 2006 in Oslo; 2024 Wimbledon boys' singles champion, former world No. 1 junior, 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals semi-finalist, career-high ATP No. 118 (2026).
Nicolai Cramer
Nicolai Cramer is an organic chemist who leads the Laboratory of Asymmetric Catalysis and Synthesis at EPFL in Switzerland, where he has been a full professor since 2015.
Nicolai Lilin
Nicolai Lilin, pen name of Nicolaj Verjbitkii, born in Bender, Transnistria, is an Italian-naturalized Russian writer, author of Educazione siberiana (2009) and Free Fall, whose memoir claims he later admitted were embellished.
Nicolai Wammen
Nicolai Wammen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who serves as Minister for Justice, after serving as Minister for Finance and as Mayor of Aarhus from 2006 to 2011.
Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome
Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome (NCBRS, OMIM 601358), a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by de novo SMARCA2 variants, with sparse hair, microcephaly, coarse face, prominent finger joints, seizures, and intellectual disability; main differential diagnosis Coffin-Siris syndrome.
Nicolaism
Nicolaism, the teaching of the Nicolaitans (Νικολαῖται), is a group condemned in Revelation 2:6 and 2:15, accused of eating food sacrificed to idols and sexual immorality.
Nicolaos E. Madias
Nicolaos E. Madias (1944–2024) was a Greek-born American nephrologist at Tufts University whose widely used reviews and fluid-prescribing equation shaped treatment of sodium and acid-base disorders.
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro (Nicolás Almagro Sánchez), Spanish tennis player born 1985 in Murcia; career-high No. 9 (2011), 13 ATP singles titles all on clay, four Grand Slam quarterfinals, retired 2019.
Nicolas Alnoudji
Nicolas Alnoudji, Cameroonian midfielder (born 1979, Garoua), won gold in men's football at Sydney 2000, played all six matches, scored against Kuwait, later club career at Rizespor, Bastia, and Créteil.
Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka, born 1979 in Le Chesnay, French forward for 12 clubs including Arsenal, Real Madrid, Chelsea and PSG; 69 France caps, 14 goals, Euro 2000 and two Champions League titles, known for the 2010 World Cup boycott and quenelle ban.
Nicolás Barguil
Nicolás Barguil, born in 1984 in Montería, is a Colombian Conservative Party politician who has represented Córdoba in the Chamber of Representatives since 2022 and served as its Speaker since 2026.
Nicolas Batum
Nicolas Batum, born 1988 in Lisieux, France, is a retired French NBA forward; drafted 25th in 2008, he played 18 seasons (Portland, Charlotte, Clippers, 76ers) and won two Olympic silvers with France.
Nicolas Bay
Nicolas Bay, born in 1977, is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2014, serving as Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
Nicolas Berggruen
Nicolas Berggruen is an investor and philanthropist known as the "homeless billionaire" who built a fortune through leveraged buyouts of distressed companies and founded the Berggruen Institute in 2010.
Nicolas Berman
Nicolas Berman is a partner at Kaszek Ventures, a Latin American early-stage venture capital firm, joining in 2012 after thirteen years at MercadoLibre, most recently as Vice President of Marketing.