Nicolai is a Frisian (north part of Holland) surname , and may refer to:

In music

Philipp Nicolai Philipp Nicolai (10 August 1556 – 26 October 1608) was a German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer. He is most widely recognized as a hymnodist. Biography Philipp Nicolai was born at Mengeringhausen in Waldeck, Hesse, Germany where his fat ...

(1556–1608), German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer * Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (1810 – 1849) German composer, conductor, and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic *

Bruno Nicolai Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s. While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, ...

(1926–1991), Italian film music composer, orchestra director, and musical editor * Carsten Nicolai (aka

Alva Noto Carsten Nicolai (18 September 1965), also known as Alva Noto, is a German musician and visual artist. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryo ...

; born 1965), German sound artist

In literature

Christoph Friedrich Nicolai Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller. Life Nicolai was born in Berlin, where his father, Christoph Gottlieb Nicolai (d. 1752), was the founder of the bookseller ''Nicolaisch ...

(1733–1811), German writer and bookseller

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Anton Nicolai Anton Nicolai (died 1474) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of ''Athyra'' (1469–1474) and Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (1469–1474).Ernst Anton Nicolai Ernst Anton Nicolai (7 September 1722 – 28 August 1802) was a German physician and chemist. In 1745, Nicolai earned his medical doctorate from the University of Halle, where he was a disciple of Johann Heinrich Schulze and Friedrich Hoffmann. ...

(1722–1802), German physician and chemist * Ernst August Nicolai (1800–1875), German physician and naturalist *

Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (25 October 1793 – 4 June 1846) was a German astronomer. Born in Braunschweig, Nicolai was educated at Göttingen. In 1812, he calculated the Euler–Mascheroni constant to 40 decimal places. In 1816, he joi ...

(1793–1846), German astronomer *

Hermann Nicolai Hermann Nicolai (born 11 July 1952 in Friedberg) is a German theoretical physicist and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm. Education and career At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann Nic ...

(born 1952), German theoretical physicist *

Norica Nicolai Norica Nicolai (born January 27, 1958) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent who previously belonged to the National Liberal Party (PNL) and before that the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD), she was a member ...

(born 1958), Romanian lawyer and politician * William S. Nicolai (born ?), U.S. inventor and entrepreneur

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