Famous People with Name Nicholas

Nicholas Krushenick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nicholas Krushenick: was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28. By 1962, his work was shown at upscale galleries and, by the year 2000, was part of major permanent collections throughout New York and the United StatesIn 1969, Krushenick gave up his soft brush abstract expressionist technique for bolder colours and lines similar to illustration, yet maintaining use of abstract figurative forms. This style marked him as one of the original practitioners of pop art.

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay: was an American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry as he referred to it, or lyrical poetry as it is more widely known. His numerous correspondences with the poet Yeats detail his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry

Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas: is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers originally started with a solo singing career for Nick, but when his brothers Kevin and Joe s

Nicholas Thorburn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nicholas Thorburn: a Canadian musician who has fronted The Unicorns, Th' Corn Gangg, Islands, Reefer, and Human Highway. He has gone by the stage name "Nick Diamonds."[1][2]He grew up on Vancouver Island, which he says has influenced his songwriting.[1] Nature, in particula

Nicholas ("Nic") Youngblud            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nicholas ("Nic") Youngblud: is a male water polo player from Canada. He was a member of the Canada men's national water polo team, that claimed the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cynthia Maria Nicholas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cynthia Maria Nicholas: is a former athlete and former politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990.At age 16 she attained provincial fame by swimming across Lake Ontario in 15 hours and 10 minutes. She would later swim across the English Channel on 19 occasions, including the first two way crossing by a woman. She went on to complete a record 5 two way crossings (see below for list of successful two way channel swims) including 2 in one year, earning her the soubriquet Queen of the Channel. (The title now belongs to Alison Streeter who has completed 43 crossings). For her efforts, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1979. In 1993, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2005.

Mary Sandra Lovelace Nicholas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Sandra Lovelace Nicholas: is a Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Canadian senator representing New Brunswick. Sitting as a Liberal, she is the first Aboriginal woman appointed to the Senate. As an activist on behalf of First Nations women and children, she received international recognition in 1979 for bringing her case to the United Nations. In 1985 she succeeded in having Parliament revoke a discriminatory section of the Indian Act, which had caused women marrying non-Aboriginals to lose status and also deprived their children of status but did not treat men the same who married non-Aboriginal women.