Nils

Nils is a Scandinavian given name, a chiefly Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Latvian variant of Niels, cognate to Nicholas.

People and animals with the given name

 * Nils Elias Anckers (1858-1921), Swedish naval officer
 * Nils Beckman (1902–1972), Swedish jurist and civil servant
 * Nils Bergström (born 1985), Swedish ice hockey player
 * Nils Björk (1898–1989), Swedish Army lieutenant general
 * Nils Dacke (died 1543), Swedish rebel
 * Nils-Joel Englund (1907–1995), Swedish cross-country skier
 * Nils Ericson (1802–1870), Swedish inventor and engineer
 * Nils Frahm (born 1982), German pianist and producer
 * Nils Frykdahl, American musician
 * Nils Grandelius, Swedish chess grandmaster
 * Nils Gründer (born 1997), German politician
 * Nils Hald (1897–1963), Norwegian actor
 * Nils Haßfurther (born 1999), German basketball player
 * Nils-Göran Holmqvist (born 1943), Swedish politician
 * Nils Kreicbergs (born 1996), Latvian handball player
 * Nils Liedholm (1922–2007), Swedish footballer and coach
 * Nils Lofgren (born 1951), American musician
 * Nils Lorens Sjöberg (1754-1822), Swedish officer and poet
 * Nils Mittmann (born 1979), German basketball player
 * Nils Muižnieks (born 1964), Latvian-American political scientist
 * Nils Ohlin (1895–1958), Swedish actor
 * Nils Olav, a penguin in Edinburgh Zoo who is the mascot of the Norwegian Royal Guard
 * Nils Personne (1918–2013), Swedish Air Force lieutenant general
 * Nils Petersen (born 1988), German footballer
 * Nils Sējējs (born 2001), Latvian ice hockey player
 * Nils-Erik Söderqvist (born 1948), Swedish politician
 * Nils Trygg (1914–1951), Swedish woodcarver
 * Nils Lahr (born 1973), American entrepreneur
 * Nils Ušakovs (born 1976), Latvian journalist and politician, Mayor of Riga

Fictional characters with the given name

 * Nils (Fire Emblem), the fictional bard in the Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken video game
 * Nils Holgersson, the main character of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, a novel by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf
 * Nils, a character in Double Fines video game Psychonauts
 * Nils Helstrom, a character in the 1933 film The Son of Kong
 * Nils Hellstrom, the central character of the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle
 * Nils Hellstrom, the central character of the 1973 book Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert, inspired by the 1971 film
 * Nils Krogstad, a central character of the 1879 play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
 * Nils Jesper, Joan Ferguson's henchman on Wentworth
 * NILS Statue, a structure in the Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion DLC made by Nintendo.