Nickel (surname)

Nickel is a surname.

Notable surnames

 * Arno Nickel (born 1952), German correspondence chess Grandmaster
 * Barbara Nickel (born 1966), Canadian poet
 * Bernd Nickel (1949–2021), German former footballer
 * Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), German author and journalist
 * Elbie Nickel (1922–2007), American National Football League tight end
 * Ernest Henry Nickel (1925-2009), Australian-Canadian mineralogist
 * Gil Nickel (1939-2003), American vintner
 * Goschwin Nickel (1582–1644), Jesuit priest and the 10th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus
 * Grace Nickel (born 1956), Canadian artist
 * Greg Nickels (born 1955), two-time mayor of Seattle
 * Günther Nickel (born 1946), Olympic athlete
 * Hans Nickel (1907), German rower
 * Harald Nickel (1953–2019), German former footballer
 * Heinrich Nickel (1894-1979), German general
 * Herman W. Nickel (born 1928), United States Ambassador to South Africa during the Reagan administration
 * Horst Nickel (1934–2023), German biathlete
 * James Nickel (1930–1990), Canadian canoeist
 * Jens Nickel (born 1965), German ten-pin bowler
 * Jochen Nickel (born 1959), German actor
 * Johann Heinrich Nickel (1829–1908), German politician
 * Larry Nickel (born 1952), Canadian composer
 * Mike Nickel (born 1965), Canadian politician
 * Rafael Nickel (born 1958), Olympic athlete
 * Richard Nickel (1928–1972), American photographer and historian
 * Uta Nickel (born 1941), German politician
 * Walter R. Nickel (1907–1989), American dermatologist
 * Wiley Nickel (born 1975), attorney

Fictional characters

 * Nomi Nickel, fictional Mennonite teenager from Miriam Toews's novel A Complicated Kindness