List of Famous people named Nikolai

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lunin was an admiral in the Soviet Navy and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Nikolay Ivanovich Perovsky was an Active State Councillor, Governor of Taurida, Mayor of Feodosia, eldest son of Count Alexey Razumovsky, grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov, also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems; he was the recipient of the 1992 Dirac Prize.

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyy, Crimea.

Nikolai Karlovich von Meck was a Russian Empire engineer and entrepreneur involved in the development of the Russian Empire during the first part of the twentieth century. He was put on trial as part of the Shakhty Trial and executed in 1929.

Nikolai Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian painter and the brother of Anton Chekhov.

Nikolai Ramm Østgaard, sometimes referred to as N. R. Østgaard was a Norwegian military officer, aide-de-camp for Olav V of Norway, and sports official who is best known as Presidentof the International Ski Federation (FIS) from 1934 to 1951.

Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977.