Nijō Yoshimoto , son of regent Nijō Michihira, was a Japanese kugyō, waka poet, and renga master of the early Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392).

Nicholas David Kershaw is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

Nika Georgievna Turbina was a Russian poet. She became famous for her profound and emotional poems which she wrote at an early age.

Nikas Stepanovich Safronov is a Soviet and Russian artist. He has been given the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Nike Borzov is a Russian singer and musician.

Nikephoros Bryennios was a Byzantine general, statesman and historian. He was born at Orestias (Adrianople) in the theme of Macedonia.

Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March 815.

Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, of Constantinople, was the last of the Greek ecclesiastical historians.

Nikesh Shukla FRSL is a British author and screenwriter. His writing focuses on race, racism, identity, and immigration. He is the editor of the 2016 collection of essays The Good Immigrant, which features contributions from Riz Ahmed, Musa Okwonga, Bim Adewunmi, and Reni Eddo-Lodge, among others. With Chimène Suleyman, he co-edited the 2019 follow-up collection called The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect On America.

Niketas David Paphlagon, also known as Nicetas the Paphlagonian or Nicetas of Paphlagonia, was a prolific Byzantine Greek writer of the late 9th and early 10th century.