Nicolas Gandiongco Escario (December 2, 1898 – November 1, 1958) was a Filipino Visayan physician, educator, and legislator from Cebu, Philippines.

[1][2] From 1924 until 1928, he started his career practicing medicine at the Southern Islands Hospital as senior resident physician.

[1] Later, he was appointed physician of the Central Azucarera del Danao in Toboso, Negros Occidental.

In 1946, together with United States-trained engineers Fidel C. Dagani, Amancio A. Alcordo, and Jose A. Cavan,[1] he founded the Cebu Institute of Technology[3] and became its first ever president.

[5] The biggest challenge of his term was to restore the city and the local government with diminished public funds.