List of Famous people named Nikolai

Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krasovsky was a prominent Russian mathematician who worked in the mathematical theory of control, the theory of dynamical systems, and the theory of differential games. He was the author of Krasovskii-LaSalle principle and the chief of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games.

Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Borisevich was a Soviet and Belarusian physicist and public figure. Borisevich is best known for his 1955 discovery of the stabilization and labilization phenomenon of electronically-excited polyatomic molecules, but also developed the first optical filters to demonstrate infrared radiation.

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the twenty-five years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.

Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Efimov was a Soviet mathematician. He is most famous for his work on generalized Hilbert's problem on surfaces of negative curvature.