Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

Russian explorer and scientist (1846–1888)

Nicholas or Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Миклу́хо-Макла́й, romanized: Nikolay Nikolayevich Mikhlukho-Maklay; 17 July [O.S. 5 July] 1846 – 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1888) was a Russian explorer and scientist. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. He became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European".

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