List of Famous people named Nikolai

Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.

Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov was a Russian philologist and historian of Russian literature.

Nikolai or Nicolaus Ivanovich von Zaremba was a Russian musical theorist, teacher and composer. His most famous student was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who became his pupil in 1861. Others included Dostojevsky's nephews, the children of his brother Mikhail and Vasily Safonov. Until 2010 almost nobody knew what he had composed.

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism. Fyodorov advocated radical life extension, physical immortality and even resurrection of the dead, using scientific methods.

Nikolai Porfirievich Shestakov, known as The Luberetsky Maniac, was a Soviet serial killer and rapist, who worked as a truck driver.