Charles Edward Nicholson VD (1854 – 24 September 1931) was an Australian politician.
He was born in West Maitland to grazier William Nicholson and Mary Ann Ryan.
From 1882 he was crown lands agent at Coonabarabran; he resigned in 1888 to return to Maitland to farm.
He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1911 as the Liberal member for Maitland.
During World War I he served with the Hunter River Lancers and the Australian Light Horse as a major and then on Sea Transport staff from 1916 to 1917 as a lieutenant colonel.