List of Famous people named Nikolai

Nikolai Matveyevich Kischner was a Russian chemist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow was a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera, and many species, of plants.

Mikalay Mikalayevich Branfilaw is a Belarusian football coach and former player.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Tchaikovsky was a Russian revolutionary.

Nikolai Philippe Fraiture is an American musician best known as the bassist of the American rock band The Strokes. Since co-founding the band in 1998, he has released six studio albums with them. Among other creative projects, Fraiture released a solo record under the name Nickel Eye in 2009 and has been the frontman of the band Summer Moon since 2016.

Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn was a Russian aristocrat and the last prime minister of Imperial Russia. He was in office from 29 December 1916 (O.S.) or 9 January 1917 (N.S.) until his government resigned after the outbreak of the February Revolution.

Nicolai Andreyevich Malko was a symphonic conductor.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the rationalist movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape. Ladovsky is known as the founder of modern Soviet and Russian schools of architectural training; his classes of 1920-1932 in VKhUTEMAS shaped the generation of Soviet architects active throughout the period of Stalinist architecture and subsequent decades.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Dahl, often called Nicolai Dahl was a Russian Empire physician. He is most notable for his treatment of the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who was suffering a creative block after the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony.