Nicolae Carandino (19 July 1905 – 16 February 1996) was a Romanian journalist, pamphleteer, translator, dramatist, and politician. He was born in Brăila into a family of intellectuals, the son of a Romanian mother and Greek father. After completing high school in Brăila in 1923, he went to study at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1926. He then pursued his graduate studies in Paris for three years, during which time he married Lilly Carandino. Upon his return to Romania, he was editor in chief of (a left-wing publication run by N. D. Cocea), and a collaborator or editor at various other publications, including Credința, Reporter, Azi, and Floarea de Foc. Between 1938 and 1944, he served as Vice-President of the Journalists' Union.