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Nicolas Bobadilla

Nicolas Bobadilla (Nicolás Alfonso de Bobadilla) was a Spanish Jesuit, one of the first companions of Ignatius of Loyola and the last survivor of the Society's founders.

Nicolas Born, born Klaus Jürgen Born (1937 to 1979), was a German novelist, poet, and essayist, a leading figure of the Neue Subjektivität whose last novel, Die Fälschung, was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Nicolas Bourbaki

Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym of a semi-secret, self-renewing society of mathematicians, founded by young French mathematicians in 1935, whose monumental treatise Éléments de mathématique reshaped mathematics.

Nicolás Bravo

Nicolás Bravo Rueda (1786–1854), Mexican insurgent general and statesman from Chilpancingo; first vice president (1824–1829), three-time interim president, pardoned 300 prisoners in 1812, captured at Chapultepec 1847.

Nicolas Brunner

Nicolas Brunner is a Swiss theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Geneva, known for his research on Bell nonlocality and its extension to quantum networks.

Oct 21, 2026

Nicolas Burdisso

Nicolás Andrés Burdisso, Argentine central defender born 1981 in Altos de Chipión; Boca Juniors, Inter Milan, Roma, Genoa, Torino; 49 Argentina caps, Olympic gold 2004; later sporting director at Fiorentina and AC Monza.

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage (born 1964, Nicolas Kim Coppola) is an American actor, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, Oscar winner for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), known for expressionist acting, a meme era, and a 2020s indie comeback.

Nicolas Cage filmography

Nicolas Cage filmography: the screen credits of actor Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Coppola), from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) through Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas (Oscar 1996), Adaptation, and Longlegs, totaling over 100 films.

Nicolas Cantu

Nicolas Cantu (born 2003), also known online as junky janker or TheCAN2Network, is an American actor and voice actor: third voice of Gumball Watterson (2017-2019), Leonardo in TMNT: Mutant Mayhem and Tales of the TMNT, and Elton in The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

Nicolas Cassar

Nicolas Cassar is an American-based ocean biogeochemist at Duke University, the Lee Hill Snowdon Professor, known for marine nitrogen fixation research and winner of the 2015 PECASE award.

Nicolas Chevrier

Nicolas Chevrier is a French-trained immunologist and systems biologist, Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, known for organism-level studies of vaccination and sepsis.

Nicolas Coeffeteau

Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574–1623) was a French Dominican theologian, preacher, and controversialist who wrote against the Reformed churches in French, and whose prose made him a founder of classical French prose style.

Nicolas Dalby

Nicolas Dalby, "Danish Dynamite" or "Lokomotivo" (born 1984), Danish welterweight MMA fighter and two-time Cage Warriors champion; UFC veteran since 2015 who was released in 2016, rebuilt his career, and returned in 2019.

Nicolas Danchin

Nicolas Danchin (born 1953) is a French cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris, known for leading the French FAST-MI infarction registries.

Nicolas Dauphas

Nicolas Dauphas is an isotope geochemist and cosmochemist who holds the Chair of Cosmochemistry at the University of Hong Kong and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Nicolas de Clémanges

Nicolas de Clémanges, also Nicolas de Clamanges or Clemangis, was a French humanist and theologian who served as rector of the University of Paris and secretary to Pope Benedict XIII.

Nicolas de Largillière

Nicolas de Largillière, also written Largillierre, was a French portrait painter, 1656 to 1746, who painted the French nobility across the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV.

Sep 24, 2026

Nicolás de Ovando

Nicolás de Ovando (c. 1451 to 1511) was a Spanish knight of the Order of Alcántara who governed the Indies from 1502 to 1509, introducing the encomienda system.

Nicolás de Piérola

Nicolás de Piérola, known as "El Califa," was a Peruvian politician who served twice as president of Peru, from 1879 to 1881 and again from 1895 to 1899.

Nicolas de Staël

Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955) was a Russian-born French painter of the post-war School of Paris, celebrated for thick impasto and a blend of abstraction and figuration.

Nicolas Debock

Nicolas Debock is a venture capital investor and Partner at Eurazeo, where he backs early-stage SaaS, marketplaces, and fintech companies, with investments including Ledger, Lydia, Aircall, and GitGuardian.

Sep 27, 2026

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (born 1961) is a French politician who founded and leads Debout la France, was deputy for Essonne from 1997 to 2024, and is a 2027 presidential candidate.

Oct 21, 2026

Nicolas Elgas

Nicolas Elgas (born 2004) is a Luxembourgish ice hockey forward who won gold in mixed-NOC boys' 3-on-3 ice hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics with Team Green, and later played for Luxembourg at IIHF U18 and U20 world championships.

Nicolas Fatio de Duillier

Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, also known as Nicolas Fatio, was a Swiss mathematician and natural philosopher, a friend of Isaac Newton who proposed a corpuscular theory of gravity in 1690.

Nicolas Flamel

Nicolas Flamel (c.1330–1418), also Nicolaus Flamellus, was a real Parisian scrivener, manuscript seller and real-estate investor, not an alchemist; the philosopher's stone legend and Book of Abraham attributions arose posthumously in late 15th-century and 1612 texts.

Nicolás G. Bazán

Nicolás G. Bazán is an Argentine neurochemist, founding director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans since 1988, known for discovering docosanoids, including neuroprotectin D1.

Nicolás Gaitán

Nicolás Gaitán (Osvaldo Nicolás Fabián Gaitán, born 1988), Argentine left-footed midfielder; starred for Boca Juniors and Benfica, played for Atlético Madrid, 19 Argentina caps, returned from retirement in 2026 with Aldosivi.

Nicolas Gautherot

Nicolas Gautherot (1753–1803) was a French composer and amateur chemist whose 1801 observation of secondary currents gave rechargeable batteries their name, and who first observed electrophoresis.

Oct 21, 2026

Nicolas Gestin

Nicolas Gestin, French canoe slalom C1 paddler born 2000 in Tréméven, Finistère; Paris 2024 Olympic champion on debut, 2025 world champion at Penrith and 2025 World Cup overall winner.