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Nicomedes

Nicomedes may refer to:

  • Nicomedes (mathematician), ancient Greek mathematician who discovered the conchoid
  • Nicomedes, uncle of the 19th Agiad Spartan king Pleistoanax, commanded the Spartan army at the Battle of Tanagra
  • Saint Nicomedes, Martyr of unknown era, whose feast is observed 15 September

Four kings of Bithynia in Anatolia, 3rd–1st century BC:

  • Nicomedes I of Bithynia, ruled 278–255 BC
  • Nicomedes II of Bithynia, 149–127 BC
  • Nicomedes III of Bithynia, 127–94 BC
  • Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, 94–74 BC
Nicomedes (mathematician)

Nicomedes (; ; c. 280 – c. 210 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.