businessman Nigel Oakes (born 1962), British businessman Nigel Olsson (born 1949), drummer for Elton John, solo recording artist Nigel Owens (born 1971), Welsh rugby referee Nigel Pivaro (born 1959), English actor, he played as Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street Nigel Planer (born 1953), English actor Nigel Plum, Australian rugby player Nigel Poor, American podcaster Nigel Reo-Coker (born 1984), English footballer Nigel Richards (born 1967), five times World Scrabble Champion Nigel Rodgers (born 1952), British author Nigel Roberts, British computer scientist Nigel Short (born 1965), English chess player Nigel Slater (born 1958), English food writer and broadcaster Nigel Smart (born 1969), Australian footballer Nigel Stock (actor) (1919–1986), English actor who played Dr Watson Nigel John Taylor (born 1960), bass player of Duran Duran Nigel Vardy, British mountaineer Nigel Warburton, British philosopher Nigel Watson (1947–2019), British blues-rock guitarist Nigel Williams-Goss (born 1994), American basketball player Nigel Winterburn (born 1963), English footballer Nigel Worthington (born 1961), Northern Irish footballer and manager Fictional characters Good Dog Nigel, the titular character in a poem from John Lennon's 1964 book In His Own Write. Nigel, a character in 1989 American independent coming of age comedy movie She's Out of Control Nigel Bathgate, a journalist, in the detective novel, A Man Lay Dead (1934) by Dame Ngaio Marsh Nigel Bottom, a poet and playwright in Something Rotten! Nigel Cronin, a character from 1991 black comedy movie Drop Dead Fred Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, main character of Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fortunes of Nigel Sir Nigel (Loring), a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle based on the life of Neil Loring Nigel Pargetter, a character on the BBC radio soap opera The Archers Nigel Baker, a character in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel Nigel Forrester, a character from Bratz Rock Angelz with whom Cloe falls in love "Making Plans for Nigel", 1979 New Wave hit for English group XTC Nigel Powers (played by actor Michael Caine) is a character who appears in the third Austin Powers movie, Austin Powers in Goldmember, as the father of Austin Powers and Dr. Evil Principal Nigel Brown, a character on The Amazing World of Gumball Nigel Molesworth, schoolboy in 1950s humour books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle Nigel Moon, one of the many brothers of the character Daphne Moon in the TV series Frasier Nigel, a brown pelican and character in the 2003 Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo Nigel,