Nicolai (surname)
# Nicolai (surname)

Nicolai is a Frisian (north part of Holland) surname, and may refer to:

## In music

* Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608), German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer
* Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (1810 – 1849) German composer, conductor, and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic
* Bruno Nicolai (1926–1991), Italian film music composer, orchestra director, and musical editor
* Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto; born 1965), German sound artist

## In literature

* Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733–1811), German writer and bookseller

## In other fields

* Anton Nicolai (died 1474), Polish Roman Catholic bishop
* Ernst Anton Nicolai (1722–1802), German physician and chemist
* Ernst August Nicolai (1800–1875), German physician and naturalist
* Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (1793–1846), German astronomer
* Hermann Nicolai (born 1952), German theoretical physicist
* Norica Nicolai (born 1958), Romanian lawyer and politician
* William S. Nicolai (born ?), U.S. inventor and entrepreneur
