Nicolae (or Niculae) is an Aromanian and Romanian masculine

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, the equivalent of the English

Nicholas Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek , . It originally derived from a combination of two Ancient Greek, Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In ...

. 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,

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leader of the

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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 Nicolae Rădescu (; 30 March 1874 – 16 May 1953) was a Romanian army officer and political figure. He was the last pre- communist rule Prime Minister of Romania, serving from 7 December 1944 to 1 March 1945. Biography Early life and education ...

, 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) Nicolae Dabija (15 August 1837, Huși. Vaslui County, Moldavia – 1 December 1884, Paris) was a Romanian general and politician. Born in Huși, in 1837, he attended the Academia Mihăileană in Iași. In 1858 he was sent to France to attend ...

, 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 Simache Nicolae Simache (November 5, 1905 – January 6, 1972) was a Romanian teacher, historian, and writer. Born in Cosminele, Prahova County, he studied at the Ion Luca Caragiale National College (Ploiești), Saints Peter and Paul High School in ...

, Romanian teacher * Nicolae Tătăranu, Romanian general * Nicolae Testemițanu, Moldovan physician and politician *

Nicolae Tonitza Nicolae Tonitza (; April 13, 1886 – February 27, 1940) was a Romanian painter, Engraving, engraver, Lithography, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in ...

, 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