Nickel (surname)
# Nickel (surname)

Nickel is a surname.

## Notable surnames

* Arno Nickel (born 1952), German correspondence chess Grandmaster
* Barbara Nickel (born 1966), Canadian poet
* Bernd Nickel (1949–2021), German former footballer
* Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), German author and journalist
* Elbie Nickel (1922–2007), American National Football League tight end
* Ernest Henry Nickel (1925-2009), Australian-Canadian mineralogist
* Gil Nickel (1939-2003), American vintner
* Goschwin Nickel (1582–1644), Jesuit priest and the 10th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus
* Grace Nickel (born 1956), Canadian artist
* Greg Nickels (born 1955), two-time mayor of Seattle
* Günther Nickel (born 1946), Olympic athlete
* Hans Nickel (1907), German rower
* Harald Nickel (1953–2019), German former footballer
* Heinrich Nickel (1894-1979), German general
* Herman W. Nickel (born 1928), United States Ambassador to South Africa during the Reagan administration
* Horst Nickel (1934–2023), German biathlete
* James Nickel (1930–1990), Canadian canoeist
* Jens Nickel (born 1965), German ten-pin bowler
* Jochen Nickel (born 1959), German actor
* Larry Nickel (born 1952), Canadian composer
* Mike Nickel (born 1965), Canadian politician
* Rafael Nickel (born 1958), Olympic athlete
* Richard Nickel (1928–1972), American photographer and historian
* Uta Nickel (born 1941), German politician
* Walter R. Nickel (1907–1989), American dermatologist
* Wiley Nickel (born 1975), attorney

## Fictional characters

* Nomi Nickel, fictional Mennonite teenager from Miriam Toews's novel A Complicated Kindness
