All articles starting with N

Nikolai Zabolotsky

Nikolai Zabolotsky, born Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky (1903–1958), was a Russian Soviet poet and translator, a founder of OBERIU known for the grotesque collection Stolbtsy and clear late lyrics.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (born 1970) is a Danish actor known as Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011–2019, two Emmy nominations), with a Danish breakthrough in Nightwatch (1994), US debut in Black Hawk Down, and lead role as William of Normandy in the BBC's King & Conqueror (2025).

Nikolaj Pesalov

Nikolaj Pesalov (Nikolay Slavev Peshalov, Николай Славев Пешалов), Bulgarian-born Croatian weightlifter born 1970; four Olympic medals 1992–2004, gold at Sydney 2000, Croatia's only weightlifting gold.

Nikolaos A. Peppas

Nikolaos A. Peppas is a Greek-American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for hydrogels, controlled drug delivery, and the Peppas equation.

Nikolaos Andriakopoulos

Nikolaos Andriakopoulos (Νικόλαος Ανδριακόπουλος), born 1878 in Patras, Greek gymnast; won 1896 Olympic rope climbing gold in 23.4 seconds on a 14-metre rope and team parallel bars silver with Panellinios.

Nikolaos Bonatsos

Nikolaos "Niko" Bonatsos is a Greek-born venture capitalist who spent 15 years as a Managing Director at General Catalyst, investing early in Discord and Mercor.

Nikolaos Plastiras

Nikolaos Plastiras (Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας) was a Greek army officer and politician, nicknamed the Black Rider, who led the 1922 revolution and served three times as Prime Minister of Greece.

Nikolaos Politis

Nikolaos Politis (Νικόλαος Πολίτης), 1872–1942, was a Greek jurist and diplomat who served repeatedly as foreign minister and represented Greece at the Paris Peace Conference.

Nikolaos Skoufas

Nikolaos Skoufas (Νικόλαος Σκουφάς, 1779–1818) was a Greek merchant from Arta who co-founded the Filiki Eteria, the secret society behind the Greek War of Independence.

Nikolaos V. Sahinidis (Νικόλαος Β. Σαχινίδης)

Nikolaos V. Sahinidis (Νικόλαος Β. Σαχινίδης) is a Greek-American chemical engineer and optimization scientist at Georgia Tech, known for the BARON global optimization solver and ALAMO.

Nikolaos Zorbas

Nikolaos Zorbas (Νικόλαος Ζορμπάς, 1844–1920) was a Greek army officer and artillery colonel who led the Military League in the Goudi coup of 1909, opening the way for Venizelos.

Nikolas Cruz

Nikolas Cruz, also Nikolas Jacob Cruz, is the American mass murderer who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, pleaded guilty in 2021, and received 34 consecutive life sentences in 2022.

Nikolaus A. Adams

Nikolaus A. Adams (born 1963) is a German mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist, professor and chair of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics at the Technical University of Munich since 2004.

Nikolaus Grigorieff

Nikolaus Grigorieff is a German-born biophysicist and HHMI investigator at UMass Chan Medical School who develops cryo-electron microscopy methods and open-source software, including cisTEM, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Nikolaus Krell

Nikolaus Krell, also spelled Crell or Crellius, was a Saxon jurist who served as chancellor to Elector Christian I of Saxony and was beheaded in Dresden in 1601.

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Nikolaus Pfanner

Nikolaus Pfanner, born 1956 in Simmerberg, Germany, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg known for working out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, honored with the 2004 Leibniz Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Nikolaus Rajewsky

Nikolaus Rajewsky is a systems biologist and Full Professor at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité in Berlin, known for the 2013 discovery of circular RNAs and the Open-ST method.

Nikolaus Schultz

Nikolaus Schultz is a computational oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-leads cBioPortal and OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base partially recognized by the US FDA.

Nikolaus von Amsdorf

Nikolaus von Amsdorf was a German Lutheran reformer and nobleman in Martin Luther's inner circle, consecrated in 1542 as the first evangelical bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz.

Nikolay Alyokhin

Nikolay Alyokhin (Николай Александрович Алёхин), 1954-2023, Belorussian sabre fencer for the Soviet Union; 1980 Moscow Olympic team gold, 1979 world champion, 1981 world silver; distinct from footballer Nikolay Alekhin and MMA fighter Nikolay Aleksakhin.

Nikolay Andrianov

Nikolay Andrianov (1952–2011) was a Soviet artistic gymnast who won 15 Olympic medals, seven gold, a men's record until Michael Phelps passed it at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Nikolay Anikin

Nikolay Petrovich Anikin (Николай Петрович Аникин), Soviet cross-country skier and coach, born 1932 in Ishim; 1956 Olympic relay gold, 1960 bronzes; later coached US skiers in Duluth, Minnesota.

Nikolay Avilov

Nikolay Avilov (Mykola Avilov, Микола Авілов), born 1948 in Odesa, is a Ukrainian former Soviet decathlete, 1972 Munich Olympic champion with a world record 8,454 points and 1976 bronze medalist.

Nikolay Balboshin

Nikolay Balboshin (Николай Фёдорович Балбошин, born 1949, Potsdam) is a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, 1976 Olympic heavyweight (≤100 kg) champion who pinned all five Montreal opponents, five-time world and six-time European champion, and 1976/1980 Soviet flagbearer.

Nikolay Bazhukov

Nikolay Bazhukov (Николай Серафимович Бажуков), Soviet cross-country skier born 1953 in Komi; two Olympic golds (15 km, Innsbruck 1976; 4x10 km relay, Lake Placid 1980) plus 1976 relay bronze.

Nikolay Belov (geochemist)

Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Николай Васильевич Белов; 1891–1982) was a Soviet crystallographer and geochemist who founded the Soviet school of structural crystallography and determined the structures of more than 500 compounds.

Nikolay Borshchevsky

Nikolay Borshchevsky (Николай Константинович Борщевский), born 1965 in Tomsk, Russian right winger; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team, joint top scorer with 7 goals, then Toronto Maple Leafs NHL forward (74-point rookie season) and later KHL coach.

Nikolay Buhalov

Nikolay Buhalov (Николай Петков Бухалов), born 1967, Bulgarian sprint canoeist; only Bulgarian with two golds at one Olympics (1992 Barcelona C1 500 m and 1000 m), 1988 bronze, four Games, five world titles, later Plovdiv deputy mayor and federation president.

Nikolay Burobin

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Burobin (Николай Александрович Буробин; born 25 May 1937) is a Russian former volleyball outside hitter who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964 with the Soviet Union, world titles in 1960 and 1962, the 1965 World Cup, and later coached in Somalia, Vietnam, and Syria.