Nicholas Thieberger is an Australian linguist working at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his research on Indigenous Australian languages, on the South Efate language of Vanuatu, and for his work in Language documentation. He established Wangka Maya the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in the late 1980s and ASEDA the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive in the early 1990s. He is the manager of the PARADISEC archive.