Nicolai (surname)

In music:

• Bruno Nicolai, Italian film music composer, orchestra director, and musical editor
• Carl Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor
• Carsten Nicolai, German artist who is very active as a musician in the field of glitch music
• Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608), German author of cantatas, chorales and hymns

In literature:

• Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller
• John George Nicolai, biographer of Abraham Lincoln
• Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai, a poet of the Enlightenment and the President of Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Other:

• William S. Nicolai, American inventor and entrepreneur

See also

• Nicolay
• Nikolai
• Nikolay