Nikolaos (,

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which means "Victor of People", a compound of νίκη '' nikē'' 'victory' and λαός
laos
' 'people'. The connotation is "people's champion" or "conqueror of people". The English form is

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 the bible, this is the name of a proselyte of Antioch and one of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem.

People with first name Nikolaos

In sports: * Nikolaos Andreadakis, Greek athlete * Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Greek gymnast * Nikolaos Balanos, Greek architect * Nikolaos Dorakis, Greek shooter * Nikolaos Georgantas (1880-1958), Greek athlete * Nikolaos Georgeas, former Greek football player who last played for AEK Athens FC * Nikolaos Giantsopoulos (born 1994), Canadian soccer player * Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics * Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter * Nikolaos Lyberopoulos (b. 1975), Greek football player * Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek professional football player * Nikolaos Efthimiou (1990-1993), Greek football athlete for AEK then the Dallas Sidekicks for 1993-1999 *

Nikolaos Morakis Nikolaos "Nikos" Morakis (), sometimes seen as Dorakis (), was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Gre ...

, Greek shooter *

Nikolaos Siranidis Nikolaos "Nikos" Siranidis (; born 26 February 1976) is a Greece, Greek diving (sport), diver who competed in the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics, synchronised 3 metre springboard competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. After a bizarre event ...

, Greek diver who competed in the synchronised 3-metre springboard competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics * Nikolaos Stamatonikolos, Greek Long jumper * Nicolaos Trikupis, Greek Shooter, Politician, and Army General * Nikolaos Tsiantakis (b. 1963), retired Greek football midfielder In other fields: *

Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara (Lycia), Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya ...

, known to the Greeks as Saint Nikolaos * Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (b. 1969) * Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros (1795-1872), Greek composer * Nikolaos Damaskenos, Syrian historian and philosopher in the Augustan age of the Roman Empire * Nikolaos Douvas, (b. 1947), former Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Army * Nikolaos Kavadias (1910–1975), Greek poet and writer * Nikolaos Makarezos (1919-2009), Greek army general * Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795-1872), Greek composer * Nikolaos Mavrogenis (d. 1790), Phanariote Prince of Wallachia * Nikolaos Oikonomides (1934-2000), notable Greek

Byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination ...

* Nikolaos Plastiras (1883-1953), General of the Greek army * Nikolaos Sifounakis, (b. 1949), Greek politician * Nikolaos Skoufas (1779-1818), member of ''Filiki Eteria'' * Nikolaos Trikoupis, Major General with the Greek Army during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 * Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos (1826-1909), Greek painter * Nikolaos Zachariadis (1903-1973), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece In fiction: * Nikolaos is the Master Vampire of the City of St. Louis in Laurell K. Hamilton's novel ''Guilty Pleasures''.

People with first name Nikolaos

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