Nicholas Merry is a British businessman who active in the United States who ran a now defunct Florida-based dental biotechnology company called MicroDenteX as well as investing in gemstones in Guinea. Until 2 October 2008, Merry was chairman of Oxford United Football Club, the club he has supported all his life. He played youth football for the club in the 1970s before a knee injury ended his career prematurely. He also played football for England at schoolboy level. Merry was part of Woodstock Partners Limited (or WPL), a consortium headed up by Ian Lenagan that bought the club for £1 from former chairman Firoz Kassam.