Nicholas C. "Nick" Forstmann (1947–2000) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm.

Nick Forstmann graduated from Georgetown University in 1969, and began working at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company . In 1975, Nicholas Forstmann joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a company with which he would later develop a rivalry. He founded Forstmann Little with his older brother, Ted, and Brian Little, in 1978.

Forstmann served on the advisory boards of Georgetown University and Marymount College . He also served as the vice chairman of 1996 Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp's Empower America, a free market advocacy group.

He also played a leading role in Forstmann Little's bid to acquire RJR Nabisco. Forstmann was featured in the book about the bidding war, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and was portrayed in the subsequent film by actor Joseph Kell .

Forstmann was a leading contributor to the Republican Party, drawing ire from the rival Democratic Party.

He died in 2000 of small-cell lung cancer.