Nicholas Franklin Roberts (October 13, 1849 – June 25, 1934) was a leading Baptist minister and educator in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Nicholas Franklin Roberts was born in Seaboard, Northhampton County, North Carolina on October 13, 1849.

[3] Along with Shaw University president, Henry Martin Tupper, and fellow student, Edward Hart Lipscombe, Roberts was an editor of the quarterly journal, African Expositor, founded in 1878[4] and was later the business manager of the Baptist Sentinel.

On July 2, 1882, he was made pastor of Blount Street Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[2] He was made general missionary among the poor in North Carolina by the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1881.