Nicolae Tico (born June 4, 1953) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s.
He won two bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (K-2 10000 m: 1977, K-4 10000 m: 1978), and finished fourth in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.