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Nicolae Văcăroiu Nicolae Văcăroiu (born on December 5, 1943 in Cetatea Albă, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi in Ukraine) is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party, who served as Prime Minister between 1992 and 1996.
Nicolae Vogoride Prince (Knyaz or Bey) Nicolae Vogoride (-Romanian version; Bulgarian: Никола or Николай Богориди, Nikola or Nikolay Bogoridi; Greek: Νικόλαος Βογορίδης, Nikolaos Vogoridis; Turkish: Nikolaki Bey; 1820-April 23, 1863) was the Ottoman-nominated caimacam (governor) of Moldavia (1857-1858) following the Crimean War. He was the son of Stefan Bogoridi, an ethnic Bulgarian Ottoman high official who also served as Moldavia's caimacam in 1820-1821, and brother of Alexander Bogoridi.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 - 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number allegories and genre pieces.
Nicolai (crater) Nicholai is a lunar crater that is located in the southern hemisphere, in a region that is less disturbed by significant impacts than most of the highlands. The nearest craters of note are Spallanzani to the south, and the much larger Maurolycus and Barocius to the east.
Nicolai Dunger Nicolai Dunger is a singer and acoustic songwriter from Piteå in Sweden. He has released eleven EPs and albums, singing primarily in English, and collaborated notably with Will Oldham, the Esbjörn Svensson jazz trio and Ebbot Lundberg.
Nicolai Eigtved Nicolai Eigtved, also known as Niels Eigtved, (June 4 or June 22, 1701-June 7, 1754), Danish architect, introduced and was the leading proponent of the French rococo style in Danish architecture during the 1730s-1740s. He designed and built some of the most prominent buildings of his time, a number of which still stand to this day.
Nicolai Frahm Nicolai Frahm (born 17 January, 1975) is a renowned art dealer, advisor and contemporary art collector based in London. He is the son of Danish business entrepreneur Flemming Frahm who founded Skandinavisk Kaffekompani (the largest coffee company in Denmark until it merged with Kraft Foods in 1989).
Nicolai Ghiaurov Nicolai Ghiaurov () (September 13, 1929 – June 2 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.
Nicolai Reshetikhin Nicolai Jurieviç Reshetikhin (born October 10, 1958 in Leningrad, USSR) is a mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and quantum groups.
Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow (1796 in Nikitovka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine - 1863) was a Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants. The standard botanical author abbreviation Turcz.
Nicolas (musician) Nicolas, Rixon-Darwish August 28, 1983 in Chiswick, West London, is an English solo pop singer of part English and Lebanese descent. Although Nicolas debuted in 2003 with his debut single "connection", success didn't come until early 2004 with the release of his first album "Dreamtime" and his trilogy of singles, collectively entitled “Soliloquy”.
Nicolas Abraham Nicolas Abraham (1919-1975) was a Hungarian-born French psychoanalyst best known for his work with Maria Torok. The pair took a very indivduated approach to psychoanalytic theory, thinking that the use of preset notions (castration, desire for the mother, etc) may be too binding upon an individual's motives to clearly fit within the framework of their personal experiences.
Nicolas Armindo Nicolas Armindo is a race car driver born in Colmar, France on the 8th of March 1982. Starting his career in French Formula Campus in 2001, Armindo moved on to drive in French Formula Renault (2002-2003), Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup (2002-2003) and more recently German Porsche Carrera Cup (2004).
Nicolas Atwood Nicolas Atwood is an American animal rights activist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He maintains the Malaysia-registered Bite Back direct-action website, which is associated with the Animal Liberation Front.
Nicolas Aubry Nicolas Aubry was a French priest who accompanied Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts to Acadia in 1604. There were two other clergy on this expedition, a priest who was to minister to the parish of Port Royal and a Protestant minister.
Nicolas Auguste Tissot Nicolas Auguste Tissot was a 19th century French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map projections. He devised Tissot's Indicatrix, or the distortion circle, which when plotted on a map will appear as an ellipse whose elongation depends on the amount of distortion by the map at that point.
Nicolas Bentley Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (June 14, 1907–August 14, 1978) was a British author and illustrator famous for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the son of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (the inventor of the clerihew verse form); he was born with the name Nicholas but opted to change the spelling.
Nicolas Bergier Nicolas Bergier, Avocat au Siège Présidial de Rheims, lived in 17th-century Rheims and became interested in Roman roads there. Mentioning by chance his interest in the funding of Roman roads to Conde du Lis, advisor to Louis XIII, he found himself suddenly commanded by the king to undertake a study of all Roman roads.
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié Nicolas Bernard Lépicié was a French painter (16 June 1705 - 15 September 1784), the son of two reputed engravers at the time, Francois-Bernard and Renee-Elisabeth, was introduced to the artistic and cultural environment by his parents.
Nicolas Bourbaki Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective allonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for utmost rigour and generality, creating some new terminology and concepts along the way.
Nicolas Bourriaud Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator and art critic who coined the term Relational Aesthetics, which he outlined in a text for the catalogue of the exhibition "Traffic" that was shown at CAPC contemporary museumin Bordeaux] in [[1995.
Nicolas Bouvier Nicolas Bouvier (March 6, 1929 - February 17 1998) was a 20th-century Swiss traveller and writer as well as an iconograph and photographer. His travels all over the world incited him to recount his experiences and adventures, the most famous works being L'Usage du monde and Le Poisson-scorpion.
Nicolas Caeyers Nicolas Caeyers (born 1992) is a Belgian stage- and television actor. In 2003, he was one of the six boys to portray the title character in "De Kleine Prins", the Belgian stage play based on the famous book The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Nicolas Coster Nicolas Coster (born December 3, 1934 in London, United Kingdom) is a British-born American actor, most known for his work in daytime drama and as a character actor on nighttime television series. Coster was born to an American mother and a father from New Zealand.
Nicolas Courtois Nicolas Courtois is a cryptographer, notable for creating (along with Josef Pieprzyk) the XSL attack. He works on cryptosystems and cryptographic attacks based on multivariate polynomial equations over finite fields.
Nicolas d'Assas Nicolas d'Assas (1733-1760) was a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance. Having entered a wood to reconnoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm; "Ho, Auvergne!
Nicolas de Figueroa De Figueroa, Nicolas (c1654 – 1672). In 1668, as cited earlier, four intrepid Kapampangans joined Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-72) and Blessed Pedro Calungsod (c1654-72) to start a mission to the Marianas, formerly called the Ladrones Islands.
Nicolas de Grigny Nicolas de Grigny (baptized September 8, 1672 – November 30, 1703) was a French organist and one of the leading French organ composers of his time. Contrapuntally more complex than most (if not all) music of the era,
Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy (1546-1629), French soldier and diplomatist, belonged to the Protestant branch of the family of Harlay but adopted the Catholic religion in 1572 during the massacres of the Huguenots.
Nicolas de la Salle Nicolas de la Salle (died December 31, 1710) was the first commissary appointed by the French king in the colony of Louisiana. He was the adversary of Bienville and eventually responsible for his removal from the office of governor.
Nicolas de Staël Nicolas de Staël (January 5, 1914, Saint Petersburg - March 16, 1955, Antibes) (French nationality, of Russian origin) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (born Nicolas Dupont, March 7, 1961 in Paris) is a French eurosceptic politician. He belonged to the right-wing UMP party until January 2007, and heads his own movement, Debout la RĂ©publique ("let the Republic stand up").
Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (Villegaignon, Seine et Marne, France, 1510 – Beauvais, January 9, 1571) was a French naval officer (vice-admiral of Brittany) who attempted to help the Huguenots in France escape persecution.
Nicolas Economou Nicolas Economou (August 111953 - December 291993) was a Cypriot composer born in Nicosia, Cyprus and was the first child of his family. His parents, who love classical music, decided to expose him to music as a creative outlet rather than a career.
Nicolas Escudé Nicolas Jean-Christophe Escudé (born April 3, 1976 in Chartres) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional in 1995. He won four singles titles, two of them in Rotterdam in (2001 and 2002), and two doubles titles during his career.
Nicolas Falco Detective Nicolas 'Nick' Falco is a fictional character on the NBC crime drama Law & Order, portrayed by Michael Imperioli. He first appeared as Joe Fontana's partner in the last four episodes of the show's 15th season while Jesse L.
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (* 26 February 1664 in Basel, † 12 May 1753 in Worcester) was an important mathematician in the late 17th century and is known by his work on the zodiacal light and his role in the Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy.
Nicolas François, Count Mollien Nicolas François, Count Mollien (28 February 1758-1850), French financier, was born at Paris. The son of a merchant, he early showed ability, and entered the ministry of finance, where he rose rapidly; in 1784, at the time of the renewal of the arrangements with the farmers-general of the taxes, he was practically chief in that department and made terms advantageous to the national exchequer.
Nicolas Frantz Nicolas Frantz (November 4, 1899 - November 8, 1985), born in Mamer, Luxembourg, was a bicycle racer with 60 professional racing victories over his twelve-year career (1923 to 1934). He rode for the Thomann team in 1923 and then for the Alcyon-Dunlap team from 1924 to 1931.
Nicolas Freeling Nicolas Freeling born Nicolas Davidson, (March 3, 1927 - July 20, 2003) was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels, which became a popular British early 1970s TV series.
Nicolas Ghesquière Nicolas Ghesquière (Born 1972, in Comines, France, raised in Loudun, Poitou-Charentes, France) is a globally recognized fashion designer and is currently creative director for the house of Balenciaga owned by the Gucci Group (Pinault-Printemps-Redoute).
Nicolas Gill Nicolas Gill (born April 24, 1972 in Montréal, Quebec) is a former judoka from Canada, who twice won an Olympic medal in his career. He first did so at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he won the bronze medal in the middleweight (90kg) division.
Nicolas Hayek Nicolas George Hayek (born February 19, 1928 in Beirut, Lebanon) is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swatch Group, with principal Headquarters in Biel/Bienne. Hayek was born to a Lebanese mother and American father, and his family moved to Switzerland when Nicolas was seven.
Nicolas HĂĽlkenberg Nicolas HĂĽlkenberg (born August 19, 1987 in Emmerich, Germany) is a professional racecar driver. HĂĽlkenberg made his karting debut in 1997, at the age of 10, and competed in various events globally until his 2005 formula debut in German Formula BMW Germany.
Nicolas Ivanoff Nicolas Ivanoff (born July 4, 1967 in Ajaccio, Corsica) is a French pilot and flying instructor, who currently races in the Red Bull Air Race World Series under the number 7. Ivanoff is nicknamed the "The Quick Corsican".
Nicolas Jacobsen Nicolas Jacobsen is a hacker who during much of 2004 had illegal access to the backbone of the T-Mobile USA network. Besides stealing classified US Secret Service documents and selling them on IRC, he amused himself and friends by finding out celebrity phone numbers (including that of Paris Hilton, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher) and intercepting recently made photos from their handsets of which he circulated some.
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie (March 29, 1769 – November 26, 1851) was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of France in 1804. He was one of only six officers in French history to be promoted to the rank of Marshal General of France and he also served as Prime Minister of France from 1832 to 1834.
Nicolas Lancret Nicolas Lancret (January 22, 1690 - September 14, 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
Nicolas LĂ©onard Sadi Carnot Nicolas LĂ©onard Sadi Carnot (June 1 1796 - August 24 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.
Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721-1789), French architect and theoretician, was horn at Paris on the 26th of March 1721, and died at the same city on the 27th of July 1789. He published several works on architectural and related subjects, including Architecture of Expression, and The Theatre of Desire at the End of the Ancien Régime; Or, The Analogy of Fiction with Architectural Innovation.
Nicolas Lebègue Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (1631 – July 6, 1702) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Although he was an innovative composer and quite famous during his lifetime, Lebègue's music is rarely performed or recorded today.
Nicolas Luckner Nikolaus, Count Luckner (* January 12, 1722 - January 4 1794 in Paris) was a German in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France. He was the great grandfather of Count Felix von Luckner of World War I fame.
Nicolas Macrozonaris Nicolas Macrozonaris (born August 22, 1980) is a Canadian 100 m sprinter. Born in Laval, Quebec, of Greek descenthe began sprinting after being inspired by Donovan Bailey]'s Gold medal in the 100 m sprint in [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 in Atlanta.
Nicolas Michel Nicolas Michel (born 7 November 1949) is Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel at the United Nations.Biographical Note, United Nations Information Service, retrieved 4 July 2006
Nicolas Minassian Nicolas Minassian (born February 28, 1973 in Marseille) is a race driver. After finishing second in the 2000 Formula 3000 season, he drove in 2001 for Target Chip Ganassi Racing in CART and the Indianapolis 500 before being released by the team and returning to endurance racing including the 24 Hours of Le Mans for such teams are Creation Autosportif and Pescarolo Sport.
Nicolas Notovitch Nicolas Notovitch (1858-?) was a Russian aristocrat and journalist known for his contention that during the years of Jesus Christ's life missing from the Bible, he followed travelling merchants abroad into India and the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, Nepal, where he studied Buddhism.
Nicolas Pereira Nicolas Pereira (born September 29, 1970 in Salto, Uruguay) is a former tennis player from Venezuela, who became International Tennis Federation Junior World Champion in 1988 after winning the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. He turned professional the following year and represented Venezuela at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round by India's Leander Paes.
Nicolas Perrot Nicholas Perrot (1644 - 1717), explorer, diplomat, and fur trader, was one of the first white men in the upper Mississippi Valley. Born in France, he came to New France around 1660 with Jesuits and had the opportunity to visit Indian tribes and learn their languages.
Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594–November 19, 1665) was a French painter, the founder and greatest practitioner of 17th century French classical painting. His work embodies the virtues of clarity, logic, and order.
Nicolas Rapin Nicolas Rapin (1535, Fontenay-le-Comte - 16 February, 1608, Poitiers) was a magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist of the French Renaissance, known for being one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée (1593/4) and an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Holy League during the Wars of Religion.
Nicolas Roeg Nicolas Jack Roeg, born on August 15, 1928 in London, England is an internationally-known cinematographer and film director. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance, he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Don't Look Now, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth, which starred David Bowie.
Nicolas Rossolimo Nicolas Rossolimo (February 28, 1910, Kiev - July 24, 1975, New York) was an American-French-Greek-Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. He was awarded the International Master title in 1950 and the International Grandmaster title in 1953.
Nicolas Rostoucher Nicolas Rostoucher (born February 15, 1981 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin) is a freestyle and medley swimmer from France, who is on the French National Swimming Team since 2000. He has competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.
Nicolas Sanson Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) was a French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography. He was born of an old Picardy family of Scottish descent, at Abbeville, on the 20th (or 31st) of December 1600, and was educated by the Jesuits at Amiens.
Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955 in Paris, 17th arrondissement), simply known as Nicolas Sarkozy ( — ), is a French politician, the second son of a Hungarian father, Paul Sárközy de Nagy-Bocsa, and French mother, Andrée Mallah. He is often nicknamed Sarko.
Nicolas Siret Nicolas Siret (1663 – 1754) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born and died in Troyes, France, where he worked as organist in the Church of Saint Jean and the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Nicolas Winding Refn Nicolas Winding Refn (born September 29, 1970) is a Danish filmmaker who is currently residing in Copenhagen, Denmark. He came to the United States in 1981] and was educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1993.
Nicolas-André Monsiau Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754- 31 May 1837) was a French history painter and refined draughtsman,Even after his reception at the Académie, he continued to show finished drawings on historical subjects. Monsiau's pencil portrait drawings are less well-known: a portrait of the sculptor Houdon is at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (December 1, 1580 – June 24, 1637) was a French astronomer and savant who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry, whose own researches were not confined to the matter of determining the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa. He was born at Belgentier, Var, France and grew up in the wealthy noble family of a higher magistrate in Provence.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February, 1725 – 2 October, 1804) was a French inventor who is claimed by the French government to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile. This claim is disputed by various sources which suggest that Ferdinand Verbiest, as a member of a Jesuit mission in China, may have built the first steam powered car around 1672.
Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles (October 13 1695 – August 16, 1761) originally resided in Rochefort, France but came to New France in 1710 to begin his military career as an ensign in the regular colonial troops. He married in 1718 and, because of a strong family friendship with Governor Charles de Beauharnois, he received favorable postings and promotions.
Nicolau Coelho Nicolau Coelho (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500, being one of the captains of the fleet. Was one of the companions of Vasco da Gama in the discovery of the sea route to India in 1498.
Nicolaus Bruhns Nicolaus Bruhns (Nikolaus, Nicholas) (1665 - March 19, 1697) was one of the greatest organists and composers of his time. He studied with Dieterich Buxtehude, who regarded him as among the very best of his students.
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (UMK) w Toruniu) is one of the most respected universities in Poland. It was named after Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous astronomer who was born in Toruń (Thorn) in 1473.
Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station The Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station (Stacja Polarna Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika na Spitsbergenie) in north-western Spitzbergen, in the northern part of the Kaffiyora close to the Aavatsmarka glacier, has operated since 1975. It was opened by the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Nicolaus Cracoviensis Nicolaus Cracoviensis - or Mikołaj z Krakowa - is 16th Century Polish composer. Biggest part of his compositions is contained in two great Polish organ tablatures: by Jan z Lublina (1537-48) and the Cracow Tablature (ca.
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf Nikolai Ludwig von Zinzendorf und von Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf, (May 26, 1700 – May 9, 1760), German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden.
Nicolaus Mameranus Nicolaus Mameranus (6 December 1500 – 1567) was a Luxembourgian soldier and historian under Charles V, for whom he travelled widely, recording faithfully the composition of foreign courts and the customs of foreign countries. All his writings are in Latin.
Nicolaus Michael Oppel Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782–February 16, 1820) was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptile.
Nicolaus of Aetolia Nicolaus (in Greek Nικoλαoς) was an Aetolian, and a general of Ptolemy IV Philopator (221–204 BC), king of Egypt. In 219 BC we find him besieging Ptolemais, which was held by the traitor Theodotus, who had revolted from Ptolemy to Antiochus III the Great (223–187 BC).
Nicolaus Olahus Nicolaus Olahus (Latin for Nicholas, the Vlach; Hungarian: Miklós Oláh; Romanian: Nicolae Olahus; January 10 1493, Sibiu-January 15 1568, Trnava/Nagyszombat) was the Archbishop of Gran (Esztergom), Primate of Hungary, and a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate.
Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis (dead May 18, 1600) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden 1599-1600. He was appointed in place of Abraham Angermannus who had been put in prison, but before getting inducted he died of a sickness, about 50 years old.
Nicolaus Ragvaldi Nicolaus Ragvaldi (latinized form of Swedish Nils Ragvaldsson) (born in the early 1380s and died on February 17, 1448) was Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1438-1448. He is known as an early representative of the Gothicist tradition.
Nicolaus Ragvaldi (monk) Nicolaus Ragvaldi (a latinized form of the Swedish Nils Ragvaldsson) (died 1514) was a monk in the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena, and served twice as its confessor general. He is known for a few translations and other writings known among the preserved parts of the library of the Abbey.
Nicolò Carandini Count Nicolò Carandini (december 6, 1899 - March 18, 1972) was the first Italian ambassador to Britain after World War II. During the war he was a member of the underground Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (the political organization of the Italian Resistance).
Nicolás Antonio Nicolás Antonio (31 July 1617 - April 13 1684) was a Spanish bibliographer born in Seville. After taking his degree in Salamanca (1636-1639), he returned to his native city, wrote his treatise De Exilio (which was not printed till 1659), and began his monumental register of Spanish writers.
Nicolás Avellaneda Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva (1837-1885) was an Argentine politician and journalist, and president of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. Avellaneda's main projects while in office were banking and education reform, leading to Argentina's economic growth.
Nicolás Blanco Nicolás Blanco (also known as Nico, or Nicolito) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 14 1981. He is thought to be one of the most gifted, talented contemporary musicians to emerge from outside the english-speaking world.
Nicolás Cabrera Nicolás Cabrera (1913 – 1989), was Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth (specifically the Burton-Cabrera-Frank theory) and the oxidisation of metals. He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera and the father of American Physicist Blas Cabrera.
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (born October 31, 1936 in Barranca, Dominican Republic) is the current archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
Nicolás de Piérola Nicolás Fernández de Piérola Villena (known as "El Califa" ("The Caliph"); January 5 1839 – June 23 1913) was a prominent Peruvian politician, the Finance Minister and twice President of the Republic of Peru (from 1879 to 1881 and 1895 to 1899).
Nicolás Facundo Quiroga Nicolás Facundo Quiroga is an Argentine football player, currently playing for Argentinos Juniors in the Argentine Primera Division. He was born May 16, 1985 in Garin in Escobar Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Nicolás Fernández Miranda Nicolás Fernández Miranda (born November 25, 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a rugby player who has so far won 38 caps with 6 as captain playing at scrum half for the Argentina rugby union side (los Pumas). He made his international test debut at the age of 21 on 28 May, 1994 against the United States.
Nicolás Lúcar Nicolás Lúcar de la Portilla has been a Peruvian journalist since the 1980s. In 1991 he started his first investigative news program in America Televisión called "La revista dominical" roughly translated in English as "The Sunday report", it featured almost the same format as used in the long time running CBS News Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes.
Nicolás Léoz Nicolás Léoz Almirón (born September 10, 1928 in Pirizal, Chaco Paraguayo, Paraguay) is the current President of CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, South American Football Confederation). Léoz assumed the presidency in 1986 (succeeding Teófilo Salinas Fuller) and in February of 2006 he was reelected as President for the sixth time.
Nicolás Millán Nicolás Millán (born 17 November 1991) is a Chilean footballer, known for being the youngest player to represent a Chilean team in professional football. His substitute appearance for his club, Colo Colo, against Santiago Wanderers at the age of fourteen years and nine months and three days smashing the previous record of Frank Lobos considerably..
Nicolás Núñez Rojas Nicolás Núñez Rojas nickname Nico (born 12 September 1984 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean football (soccer) midfielder. Currently plays for Corporación Deportiva Everton de Viña del Mar in Chile on loan from Albacete Balompié since 2006.
Nicole Alexander Nicole Deannae "Nikki" Alexander is popularly known as Hoopz, due to her love of basketball as a fan and a player. She is an American model and actress, most notable for as the winning contestant in the first season of the VH1 reality show, Flavor of Love, after a 10 episodes nationally televised competition.
Nicole Bass Nicole Bass (born October 26, 1964) is a bodybuilder and a professional wrestling valet. Bass first came to mainstream public attention in 1994 when she participated as a contestant in radio "shock jock" Howard Stern's New Year Rotten Eve Beauty Pageant.
Nicole Bilderback Nicole Bilderback (born June 10, 1975 in Korea; raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas) is an American actress, best known for her recurring guest roles on the television programs Dark Angel and Dawson's Creek, and the films Bring It On and A Fate Totally Worse Than Death. She also was one of the Cordettes, Cordelia Chase's friends, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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