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