Nicolas Errèra (born 21 May 1967) is a French composer and musician working all over the world. Co-founder of innovatives electronics groups Grand Popo Football Club and Rouge Rouge, he also composes soundtracks for films and television.

Nicolas Errèra comes from a family of artists. An only child, his father is a playwright and his mother a set designer. He was born in Paris.

He majored in science to attain his baccalaureate and also studied philosophy. When he was a teenager he joined the group of the English theatre director Peter Brook, under whom he featured in 3 plays. Alongside his studies he took lessons in piano and composing at the École normale de musique de Paris, studying under Serge Petigirard (piano) and Max Deutsch (composing). Here he was awarded his first prize for composing. He also studied Harmony and Counterpoint with the composer Jeannine Richer.

In 1998 he set up the electro pop group Grand Popo Football Club and in 2002 he created the group Rouge Rouge. Both groups went on to be associated with the French touch

He has written music for more than 60 French and international films, including Au nom de ma fille, Sleepless Night[4] by Frédéric Jardin, The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Sticky Fingers by the Canadian filmmaker Ken Scott, The Lookout by the Italian director Michele Placido. Nocturna by Spain's Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia, and The Butterfly with Michel Serrault. In 2008 the success in China of the film The Butterfly (which was watched by more than 10 million people) led to a meeting with the Hong Kong director Benny Chan. This paved the way for him to work in Asian movies, as he composed the soundtracks for three of Chan's films – The White Storm, Shaolin and Connected. In 2015, he composed the music for Mountain Cry directed by Larry Yang (closing film at Busan International Film Festival). In 2018, he composed the music for the movie Hidden Man directed by Jiang Wen. Hidden Man has been chosen by China as its nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

In 2022 he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for "Drop the Rock", a song he cowrote with Craig Walker for the 2021 film Goodbye Happiness (Au revoir le bonheur).