Niels Rasch Egede (1710 – 31 August 1782) was a Danish-Norwegian merchant and Lutheran missionary in Greenland.
[1] He was born at Vågan in the Lofoten archipelago to Lutheran missionary Hans Egede (1686–1758) and his wife Gertrud Rask (1673–1735).
He was a brother of theologian and missionary Paul Egede (1708–1789).
[2] From 1731 Egede was running trade business activities in Greenland, first in Godthåb (now Nuuk) and Christianshåb (now Qasigiannguit).
He founded the colony of Egedesminde (now Aasiaat) in 1759, and Holsteinborg (now Sisimiut) in 1764.