Nicola

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Nicola or Nicoleta may refer to:

In music:

• Best of Nicola, 2003 album by Romanian singer Nicoleta Alexandru
• Nicola Piovani, classical musician
• Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• Nicola Conte, Italian DJ and producer

In television:

• Nicola Blackstock, fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
• Nicola Pagett, English actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s television drama series Upstairs, Downstairs

In geography:

• Nicola River
• School District 58 Nicola-Similkameen
• Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia

In sports:

• Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
• Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie, artistic gymnast
• Nicoleta Grasu, Romanian discus thrower

In other fields:

• Chief Nicola, important First Nations political figure in the fur trade era of the British Columbia Interior
  • Nicola (people), usually used for the extinct Athapaskan people of the Nicola Valley (see Nicola Athapaskans) but also in common use for the alliance of Spaxomin and Scw'exmx founded by Chief Nicola, usually called "the Nicolas", who reside in the Nicola Valley
  • Nicola Tribal Association, the formal government of the aforementioned Nicola peoples
  • Nicola River, the river which flows through the territory of Chief Nicola and his successors, and which was named after him. The area of the river's basin is also usually called the Nicola Country (historical: Nicola's Country).
• Nicola (magazine), Japanese magazine
• Nicola (name), aristocratic Italian male form of Nicholas
• Nicola Calipari, Italian military intelligence officer with the rank of Major General