Nolte is a surname that may refer to: Bill Nolte (born 1953), U.S. singer and stage actor Carl Nolte (born ?), U.S. journalist Charles Nolte (1923–2010), U.S. actor and educator Claudia Nolte (born 1966), German politician Dorothy Nolte (1924–2005), U.S. writer and family counselor Edwin Nolte, (1885-1940) U.S. politician, Missouri senator Eric Nolte (born 1964), U.S. baseball pitcher Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875), German botanist Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German historian and philosopher Georg Nolte (born 1959), German jurist Harry Nolte (born 1961), German Olympic sprint canoer Jan Nolte (born 1988), German politician Jerry Nolte (born 1955), U.S. politician, educator, and commercial artist Jürgen Nolte (born 1959), German Olympic fencer Kay Nolte Smith (1932–1993), U.S. writer Nick Nolte (born 1941), U.S. actor Pierre Nolte, South African singer and songwriter known by the artistic name Valiant Swart Richard Nolte (1920–2007), U.S. diplomat and analyst Roeland J. M. Nolte (born 1944), Dutch chemist Vincent Otto Nolte, author of Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres, or Reminiscences of the Life of a Former Merchant (1854, translated from the German) Zelda Nolte (1929-2003), South African-British sculptor See also Nolte State Park, U.S. park in Cumberland, Washington state German-language surnames