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 (ice hockey), 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 Mohl (born 1971), German writer *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 *Nils Vilnis (born 1983), Latvian photographer and entrepreneurFictional 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. {{given name, nocat Latvian masculine given names Scandinavian masculine given names Norwegian masculine given names Masculine given names Swedish masculine given names