Nicolae (or Niculae) is a

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masculine

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, the equivalent of the

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Nicholas Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...

. Its feminine form is Nicoleta.

In politics

Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia Nicholas Alexander ( ro, Nicolae Alexandru), (died November 1364) was a Voivode of Wallachia (c. 1352 – November 1364), after having been co-ruler to his father Basarab I. Reign In the year 1359, he founded the Eastern Orthodox Metropoli ...

, Prince of Wallachia between 1352 and November 1364 *

Nicolae Bălcescu Nicolae Bălcescu () (29 June 181929 November 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. Early life Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother' ...

, Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution *

Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was ...

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

leader of the

Socialist Republic of Romania The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People ...

from 1965 until his execution in 1989 * Nicolae Cernăuțeanu, Bessarabian politician, member of

Sfatul Țării ''Sfatul Țării'' ("Council of the Country"; ) was a council that united political, public, cultural, and professional organizations in the greater part of the territory of the Governorate of Bessarabia in the disintegrating Russian Empire, w ...

Nicolae Ciucă Nicolae Ionel Ciucă (; born 7 February 1967) is a Romanian politician and retired General officer, general of the Romanian Land Forces. Ideologically a Conservatism, conservative, he has been serving as Prime Minister of Romania since 25 Novemb ...

, Romanian army general, currently

Prime Minister of Romania The prime minister of Romania ( ro, Prim-ministrul României), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania ( ro, Prim-ministrul Guvernului României, link=no), is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was s ...

Nicolae Crețulescu Nicolae Crețulescu (, surname also spelled Kretzulescu; 1 March 1812 – 26 June 1900) was a Wallachian, later Romanian politician and physician. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Romania: from 1862 to 1863, and from 1865 to 1866. He was ...

, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister *

Nicolae Cristea (communist) Nicolas or Nicolae Cristea (also known under the ''nom de guerre'' Joseph Copla;Lucien Steinberg, Jean Marie Fitère. ''Les Allemands en France: 1940–1944''. A. Michel, 1980. p.129 26 November 1906 – March 1943) was a Romanian communist, ...

Nicolae Cristea (priest) Nicolae Cristea ( – February 7, 1902) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian Orthodox priest, professor, journalist and political activist. A protégé of Andrei Șaguna, he studied in Germany before returning to edit the church's newspaper ...

Nicolae Enescu Nicolae Enescu (26 November 1911 – 1993) was a Romanian politician who stemmed from the National Liberal Party (PNL) and was one of its re-founding members in early 1990, in the wake of the 1989 Romanian Revolution. He was subsequently elected d ...

, Romanian politician *

Nicolae Golescu Nicolae Golescu (1810–1877) was a Wallachian Romanian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania in 1860 and May–November 1868.James Chastain (2004). ''Golescu Brothers''. Ohio University https://www.ohio.edu/chastain/dh/golesb.ht ...

, Wallachian Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister *

Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

, historian, university professor, literary critic, memorialist, playwright, poet, and Romanian politician *

Nicolae Osmochescu Nicolae Osmochescu (born 12 November 1944) is a professor of international law at Moldova State University. Biography Nicolae Osmochescu was born on November 12, 1944. He was educated at the Moldova State University in the Department of Interna ...

, Moldovan academic and politician *

Nicolae Păiș Nicolae T. Păiș (July 11, 1887–September 16, 1952) was a Romanian career naval officer. Born in Bucharest, he attended the Military Academy of Modena between 1905 and 1907, and the École militaire in Paris. After graduating, he entered the ...

, Romanian navy officer, served as Minister of the Air Force and the Navy *

Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen (; Gallicized as Petresco-Comnène, Petrescu-Comnène or N. P. Comnène, born Nicolae Petrescu; August 24, 1881 – December 8, 1958) was a Romanian diplomat, politician and social scientist, who served as Minister of Forei ...

, Romanian diplomat, politician *

Nicolae Rădescu Nicolae Rădescu (; 30 March 1874 – 16 May 1953) was a Romanian army officer and political figure. He was the last pre-Communist Romania, communist rule List of Prime Ministers of Romania, Prime Minister of Romania, serving from 7 December 1944 ...

, Romanian army officer, served as Prime Minister *

Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu (6 December 1827 – 11 May 1884) was a lawyer and Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Principality of Romania from 29 August 1863 until 29 October 1865. Rosetti-Bălănescu was bo ...

, Romanian politician, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs *

Nicolae Samsonovici Nicolae Samsonovici (August 7, 1877–September 16, 1950) was a Romanian general. In the 1930s, he served as Chief of the General Staff and as Defense Minister. Origins through World War I Born in Dorohoi to Costache and Agripina Samsonovici, ...

, Romanian army officer, served as Defense Minister *

Nicolae Titulescu Nicolae Titulescu (; 4 March 1882 – 17 March 1941) was a Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930–32). Early ye ...

, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and

President of the League of Nations The leaders of the League of Nations The League of Nations (french: link=no, Société des Nations ) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 19 ...

Nicolae Văcăroiu Nicolae Văcăroiu (; born on 5 December 1943 in Cetatea Albă, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine) is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), who served as Prime Minister between 1992 and 1996. Before the 198 ...

, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister *

Nicolae Țâu Nicolae Țîu (, born 25 March 1948) is a Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, e ...

, Moldovan politician who was

Foreign Minister of Moldova The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration () is one of the fourteen ministries of the Government of Moldova. Pre-history The ministry was established on 1 February 1944, as the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Mo ...

between 1990 and 1993.

In science

* Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia *

Nicolae Hortolomei Nicolae Hortolomei (November 27, 1885 – January 3, 1961) was a Romanian surgeon, director of the Surgery and Urology Clinic at Colțea Hospital in Bucharest, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, titular member of the Romanian Academy, and Minis ...

, Romanian surgeon and academic * Nicolae Leon, Romanian biologist *

Nicolae Paulescu Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (; 30 October 1869 (O.S.) – 17 July 1931) was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, and politician, most famous for his work on diabetes, including patenting ''pancreine'' (a pancreatic extract containing ...

, Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine and the discoverer of insulin *

Nicolae Popescu Nicolae Popescu (; 22 September 1937 – 29 July 2010) was a Romanian mathematician and professor at the University of Bucharest. He also held a research position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and was elected corresp ...

, Romanian mathematician * Nicolae Teclu, Romanian chemist, inventor of the "Teclu burner" *

Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen (December 10 (O.S.)/December 22 (N.S.), 1870, Craiova – March 2, 1964, Bucharest) was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who worked in telegraphy and telephony and had achievements in mechanical engineering, elastici ...

, Romanian engineer and physicist, who did pioneering work in the field of telegraphy and telephony

In other fields

* Nicolae Alevra, Romanian general and politician *

Nicolae Butacu Nicolae Butacu (born 15 July 1974) is a retired freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for winning two silver medals at the 1996 Europea ...

, Romanian swimmer * Nicolae Cambrea, Romanian general *

Nicolae Carandino Nicolae Carandino (19 July 1905 – 16 February 1996) was a Romanian journalist, pamphleteer, translator, dramatist, and politician. He was born in Brăila into a family of intellectuals, the son of a Romanian mother and Greek father. After co ...

, Romanian author, pamphleteer, translator, and writer *

Nicolae Ciupercă Nicolae Ciupercă (20 April 1882 – 25 May 1950) was a Romanian general, born in Râmnicu Sărat. He served during World War I and World War II under the command of Alexandru Averescu and then Ion Antonescu, but would retire from a military lif ...

, Romanian general *

Nicolae Costescu Nicolae Costescu (5 February 1888 – 10 December 1963) was a Romanian brigadier general during World War II. After Romania entered World War I in 1916, he fought in the Romanian Campaign. After the war, Costescu advanced in rank to lieutenant co ...

, Romanian general * Nicolae Cotos, Romanian theologian *

Nicolae Dabija (general) Nicolae Dabija (15 August 1837, Huși. Vaslui County, Moldavia – 1 December 1884, Paris) was a Romanian general and politician. Born in Huși, in 1837, he attended the Academia Mihăileană in Iași. In 1858 he was sent to France to attend ...

, Romanian general and politician *

Nicolae Dabija (soldier) Major Nicolae Dabija (born April 13 or 18, 1907; died October 28, 1949), knight of Order of Michael the Brave, was an officer of the Romanian Royal Army and a member of the anticommunist armed resistance in Romania. He was the leader of the "Na ...

, Romanian officer and anticommunist resistance fighter * Nicolae Dărăscu, Romanian painter *

Nicolae Densușianu Nicolae Densușianu (; 18 April 1846 – 24 March 1911) was a Transylvanian, later Romanian ethnologist and collector of Romanian folklore. He was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, with a specialty in history. His main work, for ...

, Romanian ethnologist *

Nicolae Dobrin Nicolae Dobrin (; 26 August 1947 – 26 October 2007) was a Romanian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a manager. Nicknamed ''Gâscanul'' ("The Gander") or ''Prințul din Trivale'' ("The Prince of Trivale"), he is considered o ...

, Romanian football (soccer) player * Nicolae Drăganu, Romanian linguist *

Nicolae Filimon Nicolae Filimon (; 6 September 1819 – 19 March 1865) was a Wallachian Romanian novelist and short-story writer, remembered as the author of the first Realist novel in Romanian literature, ''Ciocoii vechi şi noi'' ("The Old and the New Parvenu ...

, Wallachian Romanian writer *

Nicolae Grigorescu Nicolae Grigorescu (; 15 May 1838 – 21 July 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. There is a metro station named after Grigorescu in Bucharest. It was given his name in 1990, before which it was named after Communist army ...

, Romanian painter *

Nicolae Guță Nicolae Linguraru is a Romani manele singer. Musical career Guță started as a singer and accordionist in the late 1980s, playing lăutărească music. He released his debut album in 1992. Two years later, he released his first mainstream hit ...

, Romanian manele singers *

Nicolae Ivan Nicolae Ivan may refer to: * Nicolae Ivan (bishop) Nicolae Ivan (; May 17, 1855–February 3, 1936) was a Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, a ...

, Romanian freestyle swimmer *

Nicolae Kovács Nicolae Kovács ( hu, Kovács Miklós, sometimes rendered as ''Nicolae Covaci'', 29 December 1911 – 7 July 1977) was a Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach. He was a dual international football player and played both for Romania and H ...

, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach *

Nicolae Labiș Nicolae Labiș () (December 2, 1935 in Poiana Mărului, Suceava County, Romania – December 22, 1956 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet. Early life His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; ...

, Romanian poet *

Nicolae Malaxa Nicolae Malaxa ( – 1965) was a Romanian engineer and industrialist. Biography Born in a family of Greek origin in Huşi, Malaxa studied engineering in Iaşi (at the University of Iaşi) and Karlsruhe (at the Polytechnic University). Lat ...

, Romanian engineer and industrialist *

Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu (; b. 27 November 1939, Râmnicu Vâlcea) is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of '' România Literară'' literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years. Elected a corresponding member ...

, Romanian literary critic *

Nicolae Mitea Nicolae Mitea (born 24 March 1985) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a winger. Between 2003 and 2005, he made eight appearances for the Romania national team scoring two goals. Club career In 1998, Mitea and Roberto ...

, Romanian football (soccer) forward * Nicolae Petala, Romanian general * Nicolae Tătăranu, Romanian general * Nicolae Testemițanu, Moldovan physician and politician *

Nicolae Tonitza Nicolae Tonitza (; April 13, 1886 – February 27, 1940) was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in introducing modernist g ...

, Romanian painter *

Nicolae Vermont Nicolae Vermont (October 10, 1866 – June 14, 1932) was a Romanian Realism (arts), realist painter, graphic artist and muralist. He was noted for his wide range of subjects and his interest in social issues, and was an associate of the Post-Impres ...

, Romanian painter

In fiction

Nicolae Carpathia This a list of characters in the ''Left Behind'' novel series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Suhail Akbar Suhail Akbar is a supporting antagonist in the ''Left Behind'' series. A native of Pakistan, he was a prominent member of the Glob ...

, fictional character in the ''Left Behind'' series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Other uses

* Nicolae Dobrin Stadium * Nicolae Romanescu Park * Nicolae Bălcescu, Călărași, a commune in Călărași County, Romania

As a surname