Nikolaos
Nikolaos is a common Greek given name which means "Victor of People", a compound of νίκη nikē 'victory' and λαός 'people'. The connotation is "people's champion" or "conqueror of people". The English form is Nicholas. 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, Greek athlete
- Nikolaos Georgeas, former Greek football player who last played for AEK Athens FC
- Nikolaos Giantsopoulos, 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, Greek football player
- Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek professional football player
- Nikolaos Efthimiou, Greek football athlete for AEK then the Dallas Sidekicks for 1993-1999
- Nikolaos Morakis, Greek shooter
- Nikolaos Siranidis, 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, retired Greek football midfielder
- Saint Nicholas, known to the Greeks as Saint Nikolaos
- Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark
- Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros, Greek composer
- Nikolaos Damaskenos, Syrian historian and philosopher in the Augustan age of the Roman Empire
- Nikolaos Douvas,, former Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Army
- Nikolaos Kavadias, Greek poet and writer
- Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army general
- Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer
- Nikolaos Mavrogenis, Phanariote Prince of Wallachia
- Nikolaos Oikonomides, notable Greek Byzantinist
- Nikolaos Plastiras, General of the Greek army
- Nikolaos Sifounakis,, Greek politician
- Nikolaos Skoufas, member of Filiki Eteria
- Nikolaos Trikoupis, Major General with the Greek Army during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922
- Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos, Greek painter
- Nikolaos Zachariadis, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece
- Nikolaos is the Master Vampire of the City of St. Louis in Laurell K. Hamilton's novel Guilty Pleasures.