Artists, fine artists and authors

• Ivan Nikitich Nikitin
  Ivan Nikitich Nikitin
  Ivan Nikitich Nikitin was a Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings.-Biography:Ivan Nikitin was born in Moscow to a family of an Orthodox priest. He received his first artistic lessons from a Dutch artist Schwonbek at the engraving shop of the Kremlin Armoury. In 1711 the...
  
   (c. 1690–1742), Russian painter
• Ivan Savvich Nikitin
  Ivan Savvich Nikitin
  Ivan Savvich Nikitin Born in Voronezh into a merchant family, Nikitin was educated in a seminary until 1843. His father's violence and alcoholism brought the family to ruin and forced young Ivan to provide for the household by becoming an innkeeper...
  
   (1824–1861), Russian poet
• Sergey Nikitin (musician), contemporary Russian composer, singer and bard
• Tatyana Nikitina
  Tatyana Nikitina
  Tatyana Khashimovna Nikitina is a prominent Russian bard, physicist, and politician. She usually performs together with her husband, Sergey Nikitin....
  
  , contemporary Russian singer and composer (wife of musician Sergey Nikitin)
• Victor Ivanovich Nikitin
  Victor Ivanovich Nikitin
  Victor Ivanovich Nikitin,, was a Soviet tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble, born in Voronezh ca.1914 and died in Moscow ca.1988.Information from Leonid Kharitonov, soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble...
  
  , Soviet soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble
• Yuri Nikitin (author), contemporary Russian sci-fi writer

Athletes

• Larisa Nikitina, contemporary Russian heptathlete
• Vera Nikitina, contemporary Soviet hurdling athlete
• Yuri Nikitin (gymnast)
  Yuri Nikitin (gymnast)
  Yuri Nikitin is a Ukrainian gymnast and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-External links:...
  
  , Ukrainian trampolinist

Scientists, engineers and architects

• Boris Nikitin (1906–1952), Soviet radiochemist
• Taneli Nikitin, a Finnish physiotherapist
• Nikolai Nikitin
  Nikolai Nikitin
  Nikolay Nikitkin was a structural designer and construction engineer of the Soviet Union, best known for his monumental structures.-Biography:...
  
   (1907–1973), Soviet structural design and construction engineer
• Vasilii Vasilyevich Nikitin (1901–1955), Soviet aircraft engineer

Botanists

There are at least five botanists with this surname, shown here followed by their standard author abbreviation

Author citation (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...

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• S. A. Nikitin (fl.
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  Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
  
   1937)   S.A.Nikitin
• Sergei Nikolaevic Nikitin (1850–1909)   Nikitin
• Vasilii Vasilevich Nikitin (1906–1988)   V.V.Nikitin
• Vladimir Alekseevich Nikitin (1906–1974)   V.A.Nikitin
• Vladimir V. Nikitin (fl. 1996)   Vl.V.Nikitin

Others

• Afanasiy Nikitin (?–1472), a Russian explorer and merchant
• Alexander Nikitin
  Alexander Nikitin
  Aleksander Nikitin, a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist, started to co-operate with Norwegian environmental Bellona Foundation in 1994. He was arrested in February 1996 by Russian FSB and charged with treason through espionage for his...
  
  , contemporary Russian environment activist and a dissident Navy officer
• Anfal Nikitin (fl. 1360), Novgorod boyar and ushkuynik
• Viktor Nikitin (?–1934), Russian and Serbian pilot