Nicholas Kallikles (Greek: Νικόλαος Καλλικλῆς, romanized: Nikólaos Kalliklēs) was a prominent Greek physician and a leading court poet active in the Byzantine court in Constantinople during the reigns of Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143).
What information we have comes from a short mention in the Alexiad of Anna Komnene, his correspondence with Theophylact of Ohrid and his own poems.
[2] From his correspondence with Theophylact, Kallikles appears as a very learned and cultivated man, and was in possession of a fine library.
He also dedicated poems to individual artifacts such as icons, and a number of reliquary inscriptions are attributed to him.
His latest known composition is an epitaph for John II, which was composed before the emperor's actual death, probably circa 1142.