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Nils Christoffer Dunér
Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839–1914) was a Swedish astronomer who introduced astrophysics to Sweden and, as Uppsala's professor of astronomy, spectroscopically measured the Sun's differential rotation to near its poles.
Nils Claus Ihlen
Nils Claus Ihlen (1855–1925) was a Norwegian engineer and Liberal politician who led Strømmens Værksted and served as Norway's Minister of Labour 1908–1910 and Foreign Minister 1913–1920.
Nils Collett Vogt
Nils Collett Vogt (1864–1937) was a Norwegian writer remembered first and foremost as a lyric poet, though he also wrote novels, plays, and memoirs; his breakthrough was Fra Vaar til Høst (1894).
Nils Ferlin
Nils Ferlin (1898–1961) was a Swedish poet whose melancholy yet humorous verse about loneliness and poor, unlucky people made him one of Sweden's most beloved poets.
Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm (born 1982, Hamburg) is a Berlin-based German pianist, composer and producer blending piano with electronics on Erased Tapes, known for Felt (2011), Spaces, All Melody, Piano Day and his Funkhaus studio, distinct from similarly named musicians.
Nils Granfelt
Nils Daniel Granfelt (1887–1959), Swedish gymnast and army officer, won gold in the Swedish system team event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; brother of Olympic champions Erik and Hans Granfelt.
Nils Hellsten
Nils Hellsten names two Swedish Olympic athletes from Stockholm: fencer Nils Erik Hellsten (1886-1962), bronze in individual epee at Paris 1924, Sweden's first fencing medal, and gymnast Nils Robert Hellsten (1885-1963), 1908 team gold.
Nils Hoffmann
Nils Hoffmann is a German DJ and producer from Berlin who makes melodic and progressive house, known for the 2019 single "Breathing" with Ben Böhmer.
Nils Karlsson
Nils "Mora-Nisse" Karlsson (1917–2012), Swedish cross-country skier; 50 km gold at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, record nine Vasaloppet wins, 17 individual Swedish titles. Not the TV personality or musician of the same name.
Nils Kristen Sandtrøen
Nils Kristen Sandtrøen is a Norwegian Labour Party politician from Tynset, serving as Minister of Agriculture and Food and as a member of the Storting.
Nils Liedholm
Nils Erik Liedholm, "Il Barone", Swedish footballer and coach (1922–2007): 1948 Olympic gold, Gre-No-Li trio at AC Milan with four Scudetti, 1958 World Cup silver as captain, later Serie A-winning manager of Milan and AS Roma.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren (born 1951) is an American rock guitarist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984 and Neil Young's Crazy Horse, formerly leader of the band Grin and a solo artist with songs like Keith Don't Go.
Nils Lonberg
Nils Lonberg is an American immunologist and antibody-discovery scientist whose transgenic-mouse platforms produced fully human antibodies, including ipilimumab (Yervoy), the first checkpoint blockade cancer therapy, FDA-approved in 2011.
Nils Olav
Nils Olav (Sir Nils Olav III) is a king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo serving as mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard; adopted 1972, knighted 2008, Major General since 2023, Guinness record holder, third penguin to hold the name.
Nils Opdahl
Nils Opdahl (1882-1951), Norwegian artistic gymnast from Bergen, Bergens TF club; won 1912 Stockholm Olympics gold in the men's team all-around, free system event; brother and teammate of Olympic gymnast Jacob Opdahl.
Nils Ostensson
Nils Östensson (Nils Holger Östensson), Swedish cross-country skier, 1918-1949; 1948 Olympic relay gold and 18 km silver at St. Moritz, 1949 Holmenkollen double winner; distinct from other Swedish athletes named Nils.
Nils Rudolph
Nils Rudolph (born 1965, Rostock) is a German sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer, 1991 European 50 m freestyle champion, short course world record holder in 50 m free (21.76) and 50 m fly (24.05), 1992 Olympian, once suspended by GDR officials for West contacts.
Nils Schmid
Nils Schmid, born 1973 in Trier, is a German SPD politician serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence since 2025, after leading Baden-Württemberg's finance ministry.
Nils Schumann
Nils Schumann (born 1978, Bad Frankenhausen) is a German 800 m runner, surprise 2000 Sydney Olympic champion in 1:45.08, 1998 European and World Cup champion, personal best 1:44.16.
Nils Stein
Nils Stein is a German plant geneticist who heads the Federal ex situ Genebank of Germany at IPK Gatersleben and has chaired the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium since 2008.
Nils Svensson
Nils Svensson, who competed as Nils van der Poel, is a Swedish former speed skater who won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Nils Ušakovs
Nils Ušakovs is a Latvian politician of the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" (Saskaņa), a Member of the European Parliament since 2024 and previously Mayor of Riga.
Nils Walter
Nils G. Walter is a biophysical chemist at the University of Michigan, where he has been the Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor since 2017, studying single-molecule RNA and DNA nanotechnology.
Nils Widforss
Nils Johan Widforss (1880-1960), Swedish gymnast with Stockholms GF, won team gold in the Swedish-system gymnastics event at the 1908 London Olympics (Sweden 438 points); later an army captain and director of his father's hunting-goods firm.
Nils Wiedemann
Nils Wiedemann is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg who has discovered and characterized many of the proteins that carry enzymes into mitochondria.
Nils Zätterström
Nils Zätterström (born 2005), Swedish centre-back. Malmö FF academy product, five-year contract 2024, Sweden senior debut November 2024; sold to Sheffield United August 2025 for over 30 million SEK, loaned to Genoa, returned June 2026.
Nils-Åke Hillarp
Nils-Åke Hillarp (1916–1965) was a Swedish histologist, professor at the Karolinska Institute, who showed that amines are stored in cell granules with ATP and co-developed the Falck–Hillarp fluorescence method for visualizing neurotransmitters in nerve cells.
Nils-Göran Larsson
Nils-Göran Larsson is a Swedish physician-scientist in mitochondrial genetics, Professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2016 and a former founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.
Nils, Baron von Kantzow
Nils Gustav, Baron von Kantzow (1885–1967), Swedish army captain and artistic gymnast with Stockholms GF; won team gold under the Swedish system at London 1908; first husband of Carin Fock, who remarried Hermann Göring.
Nilsa Cruz-Perez
Nilsa Cruz-Perez is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 5th Senate district since 2014, after serving in the General Assembly from 1995 to 2010.