Nickel (surname)

Nickel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

• Arno Nickel (born 1952), German correspondence chess Grandmaster
• Barbara Nickel (born 1966), Canadian poet
• Bernd Nickel (1949–2021), German former footballer
• Eckhart Nickel (born 1966), German author and journalist
• Elbie Nickel (1922–2007), American National Football League tight end
• Ernest Henry Nickel (1925-2009), Australian-Canadian mineralogist
• Gil Nickel (1939-2003), American vintner
• Goschwin Nickel (1582–1644), Jesuit priest and the 10th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus
• Grace Nickel (born 1956), Canadian artist
• Günther Nickel (born 1946), Olympic athlete
• Hans Nickel (1907), German rower
• Harald Nickel (1953–2019), German former footballer
• Heinrich Nickel (1894-1979), German general
• Herman W. Nickel (born 1928), United States Ambassador to South Africa during the Reagan administration
• Horst Nickel (1934–2023), German biathlete
• James Nickel (1930–1990), Canadian canoeist
• Jens Nickel (born 1965), German ten-pin bowler
• Jochen Nickel (born 1959), German actor
• Johann Heinrich Nickel (1829–1908), German politician
• Larry Nickel (born 1952), Canadian composer
• Mike Nickel (born 1965), Canadian politician
• Rafael Nickel (born 1958), Olympic athlete
• Richard Nickel (1928–1972), American photographer and historian
• Tyler Nickel (born 2003), American basketball player
• Uta Nickel (born 1941), German politician
• Walter R. Nickel (1907–1989), American dermatologist
• Wiley Nickel (born 1975), American attorney and politician

Fictional characters

• Nomi Nickel, from Miriam Toews's novel A Complicated Kindness

See also

• All pages with titles containing Nickel