Nicolae (name)

Nicolae

Pronunciation	Romanian: [nikoˈla.e] /nɪkoʊleɪ/
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Aromanian, Romanian
Meaning	"Victory of the People"

Nicolae (or Niculae) is an Aromanian and Romanian masculine given name or surname, the equivalent of the English Nicholas. In Romanian, its feminine form is Nicoleta .

In politics

• Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia, Prince of Wallachia between 1352 and November 1364
• Nicolae Bălcescu, Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution
• Nicolae Ceaușescu, communist leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1965 until his execution in 1989
• Nicolae Cernăuțeanu, Bessarabian politician, member of Sfatul Țării
• Nicolae Ciucă, Romanian army general, currently Prime Minister of Romania
• Nicolae Kretzulescu, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
• Nicolae Cristea (communist)
• Nicolae Cristea (priest)
• Nicolae Enescu, Romanian politician
• Nicolae Golescu, Wallachian Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
• Nicolae Iorga, historian, university professor, literary critic, memorialist, playwright, poet, and Romanian politician
• Nicolae Osmochescu, Moldovan academic and politician
• Nicolae Păiș, Romanian navy officer, served as Minister of the Air Force and the Navy
• Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, Romanian diplomat, politician
• Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian army officer, served as Prime Minister
• Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu, Romanian politician, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Nicolae Samsonovici, Romanian army officer, served as Defense Minister
• Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and President of the League of Nations
• Nicolae Văcăroiu, Romanian politician, served as Prime Minister
• Nicolae Țâu, Moldovan politician who was Foreign Minister of Moldova between 1990 and 1993.

In science

• Nicolae Blatt, Romanian ophthalmologist, surgeon, and medical researcher
• Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia
• Nicolae Hortolomei, Romanian surgeon and academic
• Nicolae Leon, Romanian biologist
• Nicolae Paulescu, Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine and the discoverer of insulin
• Nicolae Popescu, Romanian mathematician
• Nicolae Teclu, Romanian chemist, inventor of the "Teclu burner"
• Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen, Romanian engineer and physicist, who did pioneering work in the field of telegraphy and telephony

In other fields

• Nicolae Alevra, Romanian general and politician
• Nicolae Butacu, Romanian swimmer
• Nicolae Cambrea, Romanian general
• Nicolae Carandino, Romanian author, pamphleteer, translator, and writer
• Nicolae Ciupercă, Romanian general
• Nicolae Costescu, Romanian general
• Nicolae Cotos, Romanian theologian
• Nicolae Dabija (general), Romanian general and politician
• Nicolae Dabija (soldier), Romanian officer and anticommunist resistance fighter
• Nicolae Dărăscu, Romanian painter
• Nicolae Densușianu, Romanian ethnologist
• Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian football (soccer) player
• Nicolae Drăganu, Romanian linguist
• Nicolae Filimon, Wallachian Romanian writer
• Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter
• Nicolae Guță, Romanian manele singers
• Nicolae Ianovici, Aromanian linguist
• Nicolae Ivan, Romanian freestyle swimmer
• Nicolae Kovács, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach
• Nicolae Labiș, Romanian poet
• Nicolae Malaxa, Romanian engineer and industrialist
• Nicolae Manolescu, Romanian literary critic
• Nicolae Mitea, Romanian football (soccer) forward
• Nicolae Petala, Romanian general
• Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist
• Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist
• Nicolae Simache, Romanian teacher
• Nicolae Tătăranu, Romanian general
• Nicolae Testemițanu, Moldovan physician and politician
• Nicolae Tonitza, Romanian painter
• Nicolae Velo, Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania
• Nicolae Vermont, Romanian painter

In fiction

• Nicolae Carpathia, fictional character in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Other uses

• Nicolae Dobrin Stadium
• Nicolae Romanescu Park
• Nicolae Bălcescu, Călărași, a commune in Călărași County, Romania

As a surname

• Petre Nicolae, Romanian actor

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Nicolae
• All pages with titles containing Nicolae
• Nicolae (disambiguation)
• Neculai (disambiguation)
• Nicholas (name)
• Nicușor
• Nicola (name)
• Nicolai (given name)
• Nicolaj
• Nicolao
• Nicolas (given name)
• Nicolau
• Nicolau (surname)
• Nicolay