# Nicolae (name)

Nicolae (or Niculae) is an Aromanian and Romanian masculine given name or surname, the equivalent of the English Nicholas. In Romanian, its feminine form is Nicoleta.

## In politics

* Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia, Prince of Wallachia between 1352 and November 1364
* Nicolae Bălcescu, Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution
* Nicolae Ceaușescu, communist leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1965 until his execution in 1989
* Nicolae Cernăuțeanu, Bessarabian politician, member of Sfatul Țării
* Nicolae Ciucă, Romanian army general, currently Prime Minister of Romania
* Nicolae Crețulescu, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
* Nicolae Cristea (communist)
* Nicolae Cristea (priest)
* Nicolae Enescu, Romanian politician
* Nicolae Golescu, Wallachian Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
* Nicolae Iorga, historian, university professor, literary critic, memorialist, playwright, poet, and Romanian politician
* Nicolae Osmochescu, Moldovan academic and politician
* Nicolae Păiș, Romanian navy officer, served as Minister of the Air Force and the Navy
* Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Romanian diplomat, politician
* Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian army officer, served as Prime Minister
* Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu, Romanian politician, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Nicolae Samsonovici, Romanian army officer, served as Defense Minister
* Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and President of the League of Nations
* Nicolae Văcăroiu, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
* Nicolae Țâu, Moldovan politician who was Foreign Minister of Moldova between 1990 and 1993.

## In science

* Nicolae Blatt, Romanian ophthalmologist, surgeon, and medical researcher
* Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia
* Nicolae Hortolomei, Romanian surgeon and academic
* Nicolae Leon, Romanian biologist
* Nicolae Paulescu, Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine and the discoverer of insulin
* Nicolae Popescu, Romanian mathematician
* Nicolae Teclu, Romanian chemist, inventor of the "Teclu burner"
* Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen, 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, Romanian swimmer
* Nicolae Cambrea, Romanian general
* Nicolae Carandino, Romanian author, pamphleteer, translator, and writer
* Nicolae Ciupercă, Romanian general
* Nicolae Costescu, Romanian general
* Nicolae Cotos, Romanian theologian
* Nicolae Dabija (general), Romanian general and politician
* Nicolae Dabija (soldier), Romanian officer and anticommunist resistance fighter
* Nicolae Dărăscu, Romanian painter
* Nicolae Densușianu, Romanian ethnologist
* Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian football (soccer) player
* Nicolae Drăganu, Romanian linguist
* Nicolae Filimon, Wallachian Romanian writer
* Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter
* Nicolae Guță, Romanian manele singers
* Nicolae Ianovici, Aromanian linguist
* Nicolae Ivan, Romanian freestyle swimmer
* Nicolae Kovács, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach
* Nicolae Labiș, Romanian poet
* Nicolae Malaxa, Romanian engineer and industrialist
* Nicolae Manolescu, Romanian literary critic
* Nicolae Mitea, Romanian football (soccer) forward
* Nicolae Petala, Romanian general
* Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist
* Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist
* Nicolae Tătăranu, Romanian general
* Nicolae Testemițanu, Moldovan physician and politician
* Nicolae Tonitza, Romanian painter
* Nicolae Velo, Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania
* Nicolae Vermont, Romanian painter

## In fiction

* Nicolae Carpathia, 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

* Petre Nicolae, Romanian actor