Nicodemus (given name)

Nicodemus is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning “victory of the people.” Nicodemus is a Biblical figure. , a Croatian and Polish version of the name, was among the most popular names for newborn boys in Poland in 2022.

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People

Saints

• Nicodemus, Jewish pharisee and secret disciple of Christ
• Nicodemus of Mammola (900–990), Italian hermit
• Nicodemus of Palermo (died 1083), Eastern Orthodox bishop in Sicily
• Nicodemus I of Peć (died 1325), Serbian Archbishop and monk-scribe
• Nicodemus of Tismana (–1406), Eastern Orthodox monastic founder, translator and monk-scribe in the Balkans
• Nicodemus the Hagiorite (1749–1809), Greek Orthodox philosopher, hagiographer, and monk
• Nicodemus of Dalmatia (1845–1915), Serbian Orthodox bishop and hieroconfessor

Others

• Nicodemus ben Gurion, a wealthy Jewish man who lived in Jerusalem in the 1st century AD.
• Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590), German scholar
• Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728), Swedish architect and city planner
• Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615–1681), Swedish architect
• Nicodème Audet (1822–1905), Canadian merchant and politician
• Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Russian historian
• Nicodemus D. Wernette (1885–1956), American judge
• Nicodemo Scarfo (1929–2017), Italian-American mafioso
• Nicodemus (musician) (1957–1996), Jamaican dancehall deejay
• Nikodimos Papavasiliou (born 1970), Cypriot manager and former footballer
• Fred Nicodemus, a physicist, author of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function

Apocryphal gospel

• Gospel of Nicodemus, a fourth-century apocryphal gospel, claimed to be derived from a work by Nicodemus from the Gospel of John

Fictional characters

• Nicodemus, a wise rat who helps the title character in the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and in the 1982 animated film adaptation The Secret of NIMH
• Nicodemus, Robin Williams' character's dog in the License to Wed
• Nicodemus, a villain in Batman
• Nicodemus Archleone, a villain in The Dresden Files
• Nicodemus Boffin, nouveau riche character in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend
• Nicodemus Dumps, misanthropic character in Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz tale the Bloomsbury Christening
• Nicodemus Legend, the protagonist in the television series Legend
• Nicodemus, the deputy of the sheriff (Gospel Bill) in the Christian children's show The Gospel Bill Show

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