Edward Nichols, or similar names, may refer to:
Edward Nicholls (captain) (fl. 1617), English sea captain Edward Nicolls (1779–1865), Irish general of the British Royal Marines Edward Hugh Dyneley Nicolls, British engineer Edward T. Nichols (1823–1886), U.S. Navy rear admiral Edward Leamington Nichols (1854–1937), physicist Edward Nicholl (1862–1939), British navy officer and MP Edward Hall Nichols (1864–1922), American surgeon Ed Nichols (1923–2020), New Zealand alpine skier Edward Hewitt Nichols (1923–2016), British colonial agriculture and aquaculture official Eddie Nicholls (born 1947), cricket umpire