Nikola

Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола) is a male given name, derived from Greek Nikolaos (Νικόλαος), common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Czechia and Slovenia. Besides the name "Nikola", in Macedonia there is a name "Nikolče" (Николче), which is a diminutive of the name "Nikola".

People

• Nikola Mirosavljević (13th century), Serbian nobility
• Nikola Altomanović (fl. 1371-1373, Serbian nobility
• Nikola Skobaljić (fl. 1454), Serbian voivode
• Nicholas I of Montenegro, King of Montenegro
• Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (1928–1954), Serbian prince
• Nikola, Crown Prince of Montenegro (born 1944), Montenegrin prince
• Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter
• Nikola Brejchová, Czech athlete
• Nikola Frankopan, Croatian ban
• Nikola Grbić, Serbian volleyball player
• Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian Prime minister
• Nikola Jerkan, Croatian footballer
• Nikola Jorgic, Bosnian Serb soldier
• Nikola Jovanović, Montenegrin footballer
• Nikola Jurčević, Croatian footballer
• Nikola Karabatić, French team handball player
• Nikola Karev, Macedonian revolutionary
• Nikola Kavaja, Serbian anti-communists
• Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian politician
• Nikola Kochovski, Macedonian footballer
• Nikola Kojo, Serbian actor
• Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer
• Nikola Kovachev, Bulgarian footballer
• Nikola Kuljača, Serbian waterpolo goalkeeper
• Nikola Langer, manager of Czech singer Aneta Langerová
• Nikola Lashley, British journalist
• Nikola Lazetić, Serbian footballer
• Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian politician
• Nikola Bizumić, Serbian barber who invented the manual hair clipper
• Nikola Mandić, Croatian politician
• Nikola Martinovski, Macedonian painter
• Nikola Mijailović, Serbian opera singer
• Nikola Mijailović (footballer), Serbian footballer
• Nikola Milojević, Serbian football goalkeeper
• Nikola Milošević, Serbian intellectual
• Nikola Modruški, Croatian catholic priest
• Nikola Moravčević, Serbian academic
• Nikola Moushmov, Bulgarian historian
• Nikola Mushanov, Bulgarian politician
• Nikola Navrátil, Czech actor
• Nikola Nešković, Serbian painter
• Nikola Nikezić, Montenegrin footballer
• Nikola Nikić, Bosnian Serb footballer
• Nikola Nimac, Croatian racer
• Nikola Obreshkov, Bulgarian mathematician
• Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician and diplomat
• Nikola Petroff, Bulgarian wrestler
• Nikola Pilić, Yugoslav Croat professional tennis player
• Nikola Rakočevič, Serbian actor
• Nikola Resanovic, Serbian-American composer
• Nikola Ristanovski, Macedonian actor
• Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish rock musician
• Nikola Šećeroski, Serbian politician
• Nikola Stojić, Serbian rower
• Nikola Špirić, Bosnian Serb politician
• Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian-Hungarian ban
• Nikola Sudová, Czech freestyle skier
• Nikola Tesla, Serbian inventor, physicist, and mechanical engineer
• Nikola Uzunović, Serbian politician
• Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet
• Nikola Vignjević, Serbian footballer
• Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusian statesman
• Nikola Velevski, Macedonian bassist in the band Unending Fury
• Nikola Vujčić, Croatian basketball player
• Nikola Zhekov, Bulgarian military
• Nikola Žigić, Serbian footballer
• Nicholas Nikola Ribic, Serbian-Canadian convicted for hostage-taking

Fictional characters

• Doctor Nikola, a fictional supervillain in works of Guy Boothby