Nicholas Brown may refer to:
- Nicholas Brown I (1729–1791), American signer of the 1764 charter of what became Brown University
- Nicholas Brown II (1769–1841), Brown University was renamed for him in 1804
- Nicholas Brown III (1792–1859), American Consul to Italy
- Nicholas Brown (pirate) (died 1726)
- Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934), Kew Gardens plant taxonomist
- Nicholas John Brown (1838–1903), Australian politician
- Nick Brown (born 1950), British Labour Party politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne, former government minister
- Nick Brown (tennis) (born 1961), British tennis player and coach
Famous quotes containing the words nicholas and/or brown:
“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”
—Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)
“Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)