Nico (given name)
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Nico is the given name, and is also used as a shortened form of the name Nicholas
, particularly in Spanish and French, but also occasionally in English. It means Victorious People.
People who have this given name include:
In fiction:
Nico di Angelo, a son of Hades in the series by Rick Riordan
Nicholas
Nicholas or Nikolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος , a combination of the words for "victory" and "people" . The name can be understood to mean victory of the people or "power of the people"...
, particularly in Spanish and French, but also occasionally in English. It means Victorious People.
People who have this given name include:
- Nico AssumpçãoNico AssumpçãoNico Assumpção , was a Brazilian bass player.-Biography:...
(1954-), Brazilian bass player - Nico FreriksNico FreriksNico Petrus Johannes Freriks is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team. Freriks was named Best Setter at the 2004 Men's Volleyball Olympic...
(born 1981), Dutch volleyball player - Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987), Formula One driver for Williams
- Nico JalinkNico JalinkNicholaas Jalink is a former Dutch footballer.In a career spanning some eighteen years, he played 480 professional league games, scoring seventy goals. He spent almost a year in England with Port Vale, though the majority of his career was spent in his native Holland...
(born 1964), Dutch football player - Dr Nico KasandaDr Nico KasandaNicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay , popularly known as Dr. Nico was a guitarist, composer and one of the pioneers of soukous music. He was born in Mikalayi, Kasai province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
(1939-1985), guitarist and composer - Nico LandeweerdNico LandeweerdNicolaas Albertus Adrianus Landeweerd is a former water polo player from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics. At his debut, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he won the bronze medal with the Dutch team. In 1980 and 1984 Landeweerd finished in sixth position with the...
(born 1954), Dutch water polo player - Nico MotchebonNico MotchebonNico Motchebon is a Germany 800 m runner.His personal best of 1:43.91s was set on July 31, 1996 in the 800 m final at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he finished fifth. Motchebon won bronze medals at the 1993 and 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He also set a temporary...
(born 1969), German runner - Prince Nico MbargaPrince Nico MbargaPrince Nico Mbarga was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria...
(1950-1997), musician - Nico MirallegroNico MirallegroNico Cristian Mirallegro is a British actor who played the role of Barry "Newt" Newton in the British soap opera Hollyoaks between 22 October 2007 and 25 June 2010....
(born 1991), British actor - Nico MuhlyNico MuhlyNico Muhly is a contemporary classical music composer, who has worked and recorded with classical and pop/rock musicians. He currently lives in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan in New York City.-Early years:...
(born 1981), American contemporary classical composer - Nico RosbergNico RosbergNico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career...
(born 1985) , Formula One driver for Mercedes, and son of Keke RosbergKeke RosbergKeijo Erik Rosberg , nicknamed "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Rosberg grew up in Oulu and Iisalmi, Finland... - Nico VaesenNico VaesenNico-Jos Theodoor Vaesen is a Belgian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He retired from football shortly after joining Lierse, but returned to the game in 2008 with K.F.C...
(born 1969), Belgian football player - Nico VerhoevenNico VerhoevenNicolaas Cornelis Maria Verhoeven is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1985 to 1995. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he didn't finish the race...
(born 1961), Dutch cyclist
In fiction:
- Nico Bellic, the player character in Grand Theft Auto 4
- Nico Collard, a main character in the Broken Sword series
- Nico MinoruNico MinoruNico Minoru , is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Comics award-winning series, Runaways. Created in 2003 by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona, the character first debuted in Runaways vol. 1 #1 with most of the other main characters...
, a comic character who goes by the moniker "Sister Grimm" in Runaways - Nico Reilly, a lead character in the TV series Lipstick Jungle
- Nico Robin, a manga character from One Piece
- Nico Slater, a character in the TV series Ugly Betty
Nico di Angelo, a son of Hades in the series by Rick Riordan