Novickis is a surname which is a rendering of the Slavic surname
Nowicki/
Novitsky/
Navitski. In Latvian and Lithuanian, which require the suffix "-s"/"-is"/"-as" for nouns of
masculine gender
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In Lithuanian it may be also rendered as Navickis and
Navickas.
Feminine forms:
*Novicka in Latvian
*Navickienė/Novickienė (married woman) Navickaitė/Novickaitė/Navickytė/Novickytė (unmarried woman) in Lithuanian
The surname may refer to:
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Alfons Novickis
Alfons Novickis (1906 - 3 November 1931 in Riga) was a Latvian footballer.
Biography
Novickis rose to fame as a great footballing talent aged just 15 when he worked as a paper-boy at a publishing company. His first senior football club was LN ...
(1906–1931), Latvian footballer
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Voldemaras Novickis (1956–2022), Soviet/Lithuanian handball player
See also
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{{Surname, Novickis
Lithuanian-language surnames
Latvian-language masculine surnames