# Nikolai

Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to:

## People
### Royalty

* Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
* Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Nikolay II, last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917
* Prince Nikolai of Denmark (born 1999)

### Other people
#### Nikolai

* Nikolai Aleksandrovich (disambiguation) or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people
* Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger
* Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher
* Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
* Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
* Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence
* Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), Russian astronomer
* Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician
* Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (born 1952), Soviet serial killer
* Nikolai Goc (born 1986), German ice hockey player
* Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Russian dramatist and novelist
* Nikolai Fraiture (born 1978) American bassist for The Strokes
* Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), Russian former ice hockey goaltender
* Nikolai Kinski (born 1976), film actor
* Nikolai Kotlyar (1935–2003), Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician
* Nikolai Kulemin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey winger
* Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician and geometer
* Nikolai Lukashenko (born 2004), third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus
* Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), Russian composer and pianist
* Nikolai Melnikov (born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
* Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), Russian composer
* Nikolai Novosjolov (born 1980), Estonian fencer
* Nikolai Onoprienko (1911–1979), Soviet Red Army colonel
* Nikolai Pegov (1905–1991), Soviet official and diplomat
* Nikolai Pozdneev (1930–1978), Russian painter
* Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Russian composer
* Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), Russian painter, conductor and composer
* Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024), Russian politician
* Nikolai Shchelokov (1910–1984), Soviet statesman and army general
* Nikolai Slichenko (1934–2021), Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and theatre director
* Nikolai Tanayev (1945–2020), Kyrgyz politician
* Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
* Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (1896–1979), Soviet writer
* Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), Russian politician
* Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993), Russian painter
* Nikolai Topor-Stanley (born 1985), Australian footballer
* Nikolai Tirkkonen (1875-1926), Finnish merchant
* Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), Russian boxer and world heavyweight champion
* Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian botanist and geneticist
* Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler
* Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
* Nikolai Zherdev (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player

#### Nikolay

* Nikolay Baskov (born 1976), Russian singer
* Nikolay Davydenko (born 1981), professional tennis player
* Nikolay Dollezhal (1899–2000), Soviet nuclear reactor designer, head of NIKIET from 1952–1986
* Nikolay Epshtein (1919–2005), Soviet ice hockey coach
* Nikolay Pechalov (born 1970), Olympic and World champion in weightlifting
* Nikolay Peskov (born 1990), Russian army veteran
* Nikolay Rastorguev (born 1957), lead singer of the Russian group Lyube
* Nikolay Shubin (born 1956), Georgian-born Russian serial killer

## Other uses

* Nikolai, Alaska, a city in the United States
** Nikolai Airport, an airport serving Nikolai, Alaska
* Nikolai (vodka), a brand of vodka