Nicola Kim Fairbrother MBE (born 14 May 1970) is a retired judoka from the United Kingdom, who competed at two Olympic Games.

[1] Fairbrother's first significant success was becoming champion of Great Britain, winning the lightweight division at the British Judo Championships in 1989.

[2] The following year she gained her first senior international success when she won a bronze medal at the 1990 European Judo Championships in Frankfurt.

She won the silver medal in the women's lightweight division (– 56 kg).

In the women's 56 kg she was unlucky in that she drew the eventual gold medallist Driulis González in the quarter-finals.