List of Famous people named Nikolai

Nikolay Vladimirovich Kulemin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kulemin previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders, the former of which drafted him in the second round, 44th overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.

Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev was a Russian count, the son of Petr Borisovich Sheremetev, notable grandee of the epoch of empresses Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth Petrovna, and Catherine II. He was also the grandson of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev.

Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

Nikolay Nikolaevich Trofimov was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).

Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko was a Russian Empire and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor, Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941). He was a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, Winter War and the German-Soviet War.

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Gulayev was the fourth highest scoring Soviet flying ace from World War II, with over 50 individual aerial victories. He went on to become a Colonel-General of Aviation in the Soviet Air Forces.

Nikolai Archilovich Zabolotny is a Russian football goalkeeper. He plays for PFC Sochi.

Nikolai Leonidovich Tsulygin born May 29, 1975) is a retired Russian professional ice hockey player. Tsulygin was drafted 30th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, the Ducks' second ever draft pick behind Paul Kariya and played twenty-two games for Anaheim, scoring one assist and collecting eight penalty minutes during the 1996–97 NHL season. Tsulygin returned to Russia in 1999 and remained there until his retirement in 2008.

Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson was a Baltic German philologist who specialized in comparative linguistics of Finno-Ugric languages.

Nikolai Sergeyevich Leonov is a Russian politician and was a senior KGB officer and Latin America expert in the USSR.