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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 ...

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Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic Church, Catholic cano ...

, Polish astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric theory of the solar system *

Nicolaus Otto Nicolaus August Otto (10 June 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau – 26 January 1891, Cologne) was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the mod ...

(1832 – 1891), German engineer In mathematics: *

Nicolaus I Bernoulli Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 21 October 1687, Basel – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. Biography He was the son of Nicolaus Bern ...

, Swiss mathematician *

Nicolaus II Bernoulli Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a.k.a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli (6 February 1695, Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy, Switzerland – 31 July 1726, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, Russia) was a Switzerland, Swiss mathematician as ...

, Swiss mathematician *

Nicolaus Rohlfs Nicolaus Rohlfs was an 18th-century German mathematics teacher (''arithmeticus'') in Buxtehude and Hamburg who wrote astronomical Astronomy () is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics ...

, 18th-century German mathematics teacher who wrote astronomical calendars In literature: * Nicolaus Becker, German lawyer and writer, the author of the ''

Rheinlied Nikolaus Becker (8 October 1809, Bonn, Rhin-et-Moselle – 28 August 1845 in the Hünshoven district of Geilenkirchen) was a German lawyer and writer. His one poem of note was the 1840 "Rheinlied" (Rhine song) which was set to music over 70 time ...

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Nicolaus of Damascus Nicolaus of Damascus (Greek language, Greek: , ''Nikolāos Damaskēnos''; Latin: ''Nicolaus Damascenus'') was a Greek historian and philosopher who lived during the Augustus, Augustan age of the Roman Empire. His name is derived from that of his b ...

, Greek historical and philosophical writer who lived in the Augustan age In music: *

Nicolaus Bruhns Nicolaus Bruhns (also ''Nikolaus'', ''Nicholas''; late 1665 – in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation. Biography Bruhns was born in Schwabst ...

, German composer *

Nicolaus Zacharie Nicolaus Zacharie (c.1400 or before – 1466) was an Italian composer of the early Renaissance. Until recently he had been confused with the earlier composer Zacara da Teramo, but recent research has established his identity; he was one of a few ...

, Italian composer of the early Renaissance In Christianity: *

Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (26 May 1700 – 9 May 1760) was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christian mission pioneer and a major figu ...

, German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church *

Nicolaus Taurellus Nicolaus Taurellus (Latin, from german: Nikolaus Öchslinin 19th century translated to French as ''Nicolas Tourot''. No Google Books hit befor1859/ref>) (November 26, 1547September 28, 1606) was a German philosopher and medical academic. Life He w ...

, German philosopher and theologian * Nicolaus of Antioch, one of the seven deacons listed in

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, chapter 6, verse 5 In other fields: *

Nicolaus Delius Nicolaus Delius (19 September 1813 – 18 November 1888) was a German philologist. Delius was born at Bremen; he was distinguished especially as a student of Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English ...

, German philologist

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* Nicolaus, California, a small town in the United States * ''

Nicolaus (leafhopper) Nicolaus is a masculine given name. It is a Latin, Greek and German form of Nicholas. Nicolaus may refer to: In science: * Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric theory of the solar syste ...

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