Nikolai

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Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to:

• Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
• Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Nikolay II, last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917
• Prince Nikolai of Denmark (born 1999)

• Nikolai Aleksandrovich (disambiguation) or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people
• Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger
• Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher
• Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
• Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence
• Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), Russian astronomer
• Nikolai Dmitriev (1829–1823), Russian composer
• Nikolai Dmitriev (1898–1954), Soviet linguist
• Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician
• Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (born 1952), Soviet serial killer
• Nikolai Goc (born 1986), German ice hockey player
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Russian dramatist and novelist
• Nikolai Fraiture (born 1978) American bassist for The Strokes
• Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), Russian former ice hockey goaltender
• Nikolai Kinski (born 1976), film actor
• Nikolai Kotlyar (1935–2003), Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician
• Nikolai Kulemin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey winger
• Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician and geometer
• Nikolai Lukashenko (born 2004), third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus
• Nikolai Maspanov (born 1945), Estonian politician
• Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), Russian composer and pianist
• Nikolai Melnikov (born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
• Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), Russian composer
• Nikolai Novosjolov (born 1980), Estonian fencer
• Nikolai Onoprienko (1911–1979), Soviet Red Army colonel
• Nikolai Pegov (1905–1991), Soviet official and diplomat
• Nikolai Pozdneev (1930–1978), Russian painter
• Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Russian composer
• Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), Russian painter, conductor and composer
• Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024), Russian politician
• Nikolai Shchelokov (1910–1984), Soviet statesman and army general
• Nikolai Sinebrychoff (1789-1848), Russian businessman
• Nikolai Slichenko (1934–2021), Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and theatre director
• Nikolai Tanayev (1945–2020), Kyrgyz politician
• Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
• Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (1896–1979), Soviet writer
• Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), Russian politician
• Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993), Russian painter
• Nikolai Topor-Stanley (born 1985), Australian footballer
• Nikolai Tirkkonen (1875-1926), Finnish merchant
• Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), Russian boxer and world heavyweight champion
• Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian botanist and geneticist
• Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler
• Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
• Nikolai Zherdev (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player

• Nikolay Baskov (born 1976), Russian singer
• Nikolay Bobrikov (1839-1904), Russian Governor-General of Finland
• Nikolay Davydenko (born 1981), professional tennis player
• Nikolay Dollezhal (1899–2000), Soviet nuclear reactor designer, head of NIKIET from 1952–1986
• Nikolay Epshtein (1919–2005), Soviet ice hockey coach
• Nikolay Pechalov (born 1970), Olympic and World champion in weightlifting
• Nikolay Peskov (born 1990), Russian army veteran
• Nikolay Rastorguev (born 1957), lead singer of the Russian group Lyube
• Nikolay Shubin (born 1956), Georgian-born Russian serial killer

• Nikolai, Alaska, a city in the United States
  • Nikolai Airport, an airport serving Nikolai, Alaska
• Nikolai (vodka), a brand of vodka

• All pages with titles beginning with Nikolai , includes many people with first given name Nikolai
• All pages with titles beginning with Nikolay, includes many people with first given name Nikolay
• Kolja (disambiguation)
• Kolya (disambiguation)
• Nikola (disambiguation)
• Nicola (disambiguation)
• Nicolai (disambiguation)
• Nikolayev (surname)