Nicholas Wells Reynolds (July 27, 1933 – October 1, 2008) was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, whose folk and folk-style material captured international attention during the late Fifties and early Sixties.

Born in San Diego and growing up in Coronado, California, his passions as a boy growing up were tennis, skin-diving and singing with his family. His father, a Navy captain, was an avid guitar player who brought back songs from his travels around the world. He taught Nick the guitar and ukulele, and the family spent many nights singing and harmonizing for pure enjoyment. Nick enrolled in Menlo College in 1954 as a business major and met Bob Shane in an accounting class. They soon started socializing together, and this in turn led to playing music, initially as a way of being popular at parties — Shane’s guitar and Reynolds’ bongosbecame a fixture at local fraternity gatherings. After a few weeks of this, Shane introduced Reynolds to Dave Guard