Nikolay Petrovich Dubinin was a Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.

Nikolay Prokofyevich Fedorenko was a Russian economist and chemist. He was the head of the Central Economic Mathematical Institute (CEMI) in Moscow from 1963 to 1985.

Nikolay Ivanovich Glazkov was a Soviet and Russian poet who coined the term samizdat.

Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich was a Ukrainian-born Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807–29) is still the standard one.

Nikolay Lvovich Gondatti was a Russian statesman, a researcher of Northern and Northeastern Siberia. Stallmeister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Active State Councillor. A member of many Russian scientific societies.

Nikolay Andreyevich Gredeskul was a Russian liberal politician.

Nikolay Ivanovich Gretsch was a grammarian of the 19th century. Although he was primarily interested in philology, it is as a journalist that he is primarily remembered. He was from the Russian Empire.

Nikolay Guryanov was a Russian Orthodox Christian and reputed myrrh-bearing starets and priest. Numerous miracles and healings are ascribed to him.

Nikolai Ilyich Storozhenko was a Russian literary historian and a leading Shakespearean scholar of his time.

Nikolai Ivanovich Il'minskii was a Russian professor of Turkish languages at Kazan University and known as "Enlightener of Natives".