Nicolai Andreas Grevstad (June 2, 1851 – February 20, 1940) was an American diplomat, politician and newspaper editor.

[1] Nicolai Andreas Grevstad was born in Sunnmøre, the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal.

[2] Grevstad subsequently emigrated to the United States and soon became editor of Nordvesten, a Norwegian language newspaper published in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[3] In 1886, he returned to Norway at the request of the Liberal Party leader Johan Sverdrup, who served as prime minister after the introduction of the parliamentary system the prior year.

Grevstad subsequently returned to the Minnesota and became an editorial writer for a number of English language newspapers in Minneapolis.