People
- Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or I, the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
- Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Nikolay II, the last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917
- Prince Nikolai of Denmark (born 1999)
- Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), a Kazhakstani ice hockey player for the Atlanta Thrashers
- Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), a Russian religious and political philosopher
- Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
- Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975), a Soviet politician and minister of defence
- Nikolai Chernykh (1931-2004), a Russian astronomer
- Nikolay Davydenko (born 1981), a professional tennis player
- Nikolay Epshtein (born 1918), a Soviet ice hockey coach
- Nikolai Goc (born 1986), a German ice hockey player
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), a Russian dramatist and novelist
- Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), a NHL ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers
- Nikolai Kinski (born 1976), a film actor
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856), a Russian mathematician and geometer
- Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), a Russian composer and pianist
- Nikolai Melnikov (born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
- Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), a Russian composer
- Nikolai Novosjolov (born 1980), an Estonian fencer
- Nikolay Pechalov (born 1970), an Olympic and World champion in weightlifting
- Nikolai Pozdneev (1930-1978), a Russian painter
- Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888), a Russian geographer and explorer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), a Russian composer
- Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), a Russian painter, conductor and composer
- Nikolai Ryzhkov (born 1929), a Russian politician
- Nikolai Slichenko (born 1934), a leader of the Moscow "Romen" Music and Drama Gypsy Theater
- Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945), a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
- Nikolai Tikhonov (1905-1997), a Russian politician
- Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (1896-1979), a Soviet writer
- Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993), a Russian painter
- Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), a professional boxer and former heavyweight champion
- Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943), a Russian botanist and geneticist
- Nikolai Volkoff (born 1947), a professional WWF wrestler
- Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), a head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
- Nikolai Zherdev (born 1984), a Russian ice hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers
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