General Oliver Nicolls (c.1740 – 1829) was a British Army officer.

Nicolls was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in November 1756.

[1] He became Quartermaster-General in the West Indies in 1794, in which capacity he subdued a rebellion in Grenada.

[1] He became Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army on 22 January 1801 retiring from that post in 1808[2] to become a member of the Board of Inquiry into the Convention of Sintra under which the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict.

[3] He went on to serve as Governor of the Island of Anholt in 1813.