List of Famous people with last name Nicolai

Walter Nicolai was the first senior IC (Intelligence) Officer in the Imperial German Army. He came to run the military secret service, Abteilung IIIb, and was an important pro-wa German leaders during the First World War. According to Höhne and Zolling, he helped to found the German Fatherland Party.

Aimar-Charles-Marie Nicolaï was a French magistrate in the Ancien Régime of France. He was the first president of the Chambre des Comptes, and the seventh member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1788.

Hermann Nicolai is a German theoretical physicist and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm.

Nélio José Nicolai was a Brazilian electrotechnician who is believed to have invented caller ID.

Bruno Nicolai was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.

Philipp Nicolai was a German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer. He is most widely recognized as a hymnodist.

Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments.