Nick Carter Nick Carter can refer to more than one person or character: Nick Carter, a member of the popular music boy band The Backstreet Boys. MURS is the stage name of the rapper, Nick Carter. Nick Carter, one of the most popular characters in detective fiction, later revived for a long-running series of secret agent novels. Most of these books credit "Nick Carter" as author. Nicky Carter, an artist usually abbreviated to Nick (as part of the artist duo Rob and Nick Carter) Nick Carter is also a fictional detective in a series of humouristic comic strip by the Italian cartoonists Franco Bonvicini and Guido De Maria. Nick Carter, a cyclist from New Zealand, who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Nick Carter, a tennis player from United States. Nick Carter, an Australian rules football player.