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Nikolaos (Greek: Νικόλαος) is a common Greek first name 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.

People with first name Nikolaos

In sports:

  • Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Greek gymnast
  • Nikolaos Balanos, Greek architect
  • Nikolaos Dorakis, Greek shooter
  • Nikolaos Georgantas (1880-1958), Greek athlete
  • Nikolaos Georgeas, Greek football player currently playing for AEK Athens FC
  • 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 Morakis, Greek shooter
  • Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver who competed in the synchronised 3 metre springboard competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  • Nikolaos Tsiantakis (b. 1963), retired Greek football midfielder
  • Nicolaos Trikupis, Greek shooter

    • In other fields:

  • 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 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
  • Nikolaos Oikonomides (1934-2000), notable Greek Byzantinist

    • In fiction:

  • Nikolaos is the Master Vampire of the City of St. Louis in Laurell K. Hamilton's novel Guilty Pleasures.

    • References

    Nikolaos Wikipedia
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