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Nicolas Pépé
Nicolas Pépé (born 1995, Mantes-la-Jolie) is an Ivorian right winger for Villarreal and Ivory Coast; Lille star, Arsenal's £72m record signing, 2023 AFCON winner, 2026 World Cup player.
Nicolas Plachta
Nicolas Plachta is a developmental biologist who studies how cells in the early mammalian embryo choose their fate, using live imaging of living mouse and human embryos.
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), French classical painter active in Rome from 1624; First Painter to Louis XIII in 1640–42; painter of the Seven Sacraments and The Four Seasons; founder of the academic history-painting tradition.
Nicolas Renier
Nicolas Renier (born 1983) is a French neuroscientist who leads a laboratory at the Institut du Cerveau in Paris and developed the iDISCO whole-brain tissue-clearing method.
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg (1928–2018), English director and cinematographer of Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now, and The Man Who Fell to Earth, known for fractured, elliptical editing and polar image contrasts.
Nicolás Romero
Nicolás Romero is a municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico, with seat Ciudad Nicolás Romero; 430,601 inhabitants in 2020, textile industry since the mid-19th century, renamed Villa Nicolás Romero in 1898.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa), French president 2007-2012, UMP leader, former mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine; later convicted in the Bismuth, 2012 campaign financing, and Libyan funding cases.
Nicolas Szekasy
Nicolás Szekasy is an Argentine venture capitalist, cofounder and Managing Partner of Kaszek, known for backing Nubank and previously leading MercadoLibre's 2007 Nasdaq IPO as CFO.
Nicolás Szekasy
Nicolás Szekasy is an Argentine venture capitalist who co-founded Kaszek, one of Latin America's largest venture firms, after ten years as MercadoLibre's CFO, where he led its 2007 Nasdaq IPO.
Nicolás Tagliafico
Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born 1992) is an Argentine left-back for Olympique Lyonnais and Argentina; Independiente, Ajax, 2022 World Cup winner, 2026 runner-up.
Nicolas Tapon
Nicolas Tapon is a French developmental biologist who leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how the Hippo signaling pathway controls organ size.
Nicolas Thomä
Nicolas Thomä is a German structural biologist, professor of cancer research at EPFL since 2023, known for structural work on thalidomide and molecular glue degraders.
Nicolas Torre
Nicolas Torre III is a retired Filipino police general, chief of the Philippine National Police in 2025, known for arresting Rodrigo Duterte and Apollo Quiboloy.
Nicolas Tournat
Nicolas Tournat, born 1994 in Niort, French handball pivot (2.00 m, 116 kg) for HBC Nantes and KS Kielce; Olympic champion 2020, European champion 2024, world silver 2023, France captain 2025.
Nicolas Touzaint
Nicolas Touzaint, born 1980 in Angers, French eventing rider; Olympic team gold Athens 2004, bronze Tokyo 2020, silver Paris 2024; two European individual titles (2003, 2007); first French Badminton winner (2008).
Nicolas Vansteenberghe
Nicolas "Nic" Vansteenberghe (born 2001), Jacksonville, Florida nurse and model, was a Day 1 Islander and runner-up with Olandria Carthen on Love Island USA Season 7; they split in July 2026.
Nicolas Voelcker
Nicolas H. Voelcker is a bionanotechnologist who works on porous silicon nanostructures for biosensors and drug delivery, and is Scientific Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication.
Nicolas Vogel
Nicolas Vogel is a materials chemist who leads the Self-assembled Materials Group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he has been a full professor since 2023; his research covers colloidal lithography, emulsion droplet assembly, and plasmonic nanostructures.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn (born 1970) is a Danish director of the Pusher trilogy, Bronson, Drive (Cannes 2011 Best Director), Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon, and Her Private Hell (2026).
Nicolas Winssinger
Nicolas Winssinger (born 1970, Belgium) is an organic chemist and professor at the University of Geneva since 2012, known for nucleic acid-templated synthesis, PNA arrays, and DNA-encoded libraries.
Nicolas Wittenborn
Nicolas Wittenborn is a German-born venture capitalist who founded Adjacent, a seed-stage consumer firm in the United States and Europe, and appeared on the Forbes Midas Seed List in 2024.
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (1718–1790) was a French Catholic theologian and apologist, canon of Notre-Dame de Paris, who refuted Rousseau, Voltaire, and d'Holbach and wrote the Dictionnaire de théologie.
Nicolau syndrome
Nicolau syndrome, or embolia cutis medicamentosa, is a rare iatrogenic injection-site reaction causing severe pain, livedoid skin lesions, and ischemic necrosis, first described in the 1920s with bismuth injections for syphilis and now most often linked to diclofenac.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus, known in Polish as Mikołaj Kopernik, was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model, with the Earth orbiting the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Warsaw
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument (Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika) is a bronze statue of the astronomer by Bertel Thorvaldsen on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, unveiled in 1830.
Nicolaus Hausmann
Nicolaus Hausmann (c. 1479–1538) was a German Lutheran reformer, pastor of Zwickau from 1521, who confronted the Zwickau Prophets and was a close friend of Martin Luther.
Nicolaus von Below
Nicolaus von Below (Georg Ludwig Heinrich Nicolaus von Below, 1907–1983), Freiherr and Luftwaffe colonel, was Hitler's personal Luftwaffe adjutant from 16 June 1937 to April 1945, witnessed Hitler's testament, and wrote the memoir At Hitler's Side.
Nicolaus von Wirén
Nicolaus von Wirén is a German-Swedish agricultural biologist who studies nutrient uptake in crops, and has been Managing Director of the IPK plant genetics institute in Gatersleben since 2023.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, known as Count Zinzendorf (1700–1760), was a Saxon count and Lutheran bishop who founded the Renewed Moravian Church and Herrnhut in 1722.
Nicolay G. Basov
Nicolay G. Basov, born Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, was a Soviet physicist and director of the Lebedev Institute who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for the maser-laser principle.