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Nicholas Jones

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7025673
Source-derived summary

Nicholas Jones may refer to:

Entertainment

Nic Jones (born 1947), British folk singer and guitarist

Nicholas Jones (actor) (born 1946), British actor

Nicky Jones (born 1996), American musician and former child actor

Nick Jones (writer) (born 1978), American playwright, screenwriter, and performer

Nicky Wire (Nicholas Allen Jones, born 1969), Welsh musician, member of the Manic Street Preachers

Nick Thornton Jones, of Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, a London-based photographic and filmmaking duo

Sports

Nic Jones (American football) (born 2001), American football player

Nick Jones (offensive lineman, born 1985), American football player

Nick Jones (offensive lineman, born 2000), American football player

Nick Jones (basketball) (born 1945), NBA and ABA player

Nick Jones (ice hockey) (born 1990), American ice hockey defenceman

Other

Nicholas Jones (artist) (fl.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nicholas Jones” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nicholas, Jones and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1946, 1996, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nicholas, Jones and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7025673. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1946, 1996 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from Nicholas Jones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.