Dirks (surname)

Dirks is a patronymic surname ("son of Dirk"). Some variant forms are Derks, Dircks, Dirkse, Dirksen, Dirksz and Dirkx. People with this name include:

• Andy Dirks (born 1986), American Major League Baseball player
• Gordon Dirks (born 1947), Canadian educator and former politician
• Howard Dirks (born 1938), Canadian politician
• Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds (1912–2003), American ecologist, biologist and author
• John Dirks (cartoonist) (1917–2010), American cartoonist and sculptor
• John Dirks (born 1933), Canadian physician
• Nicholas Dirks (born 1950), American historian and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American chemist
• Rudolph Dirks (1877–1968), German-American comic strip artist, known for The Katzenjammer Kids
• Samantha Dirks (born 1992), Belizean sprinter
• Tonnie Dirks (born 1961), Dutch long distance runner
• Walter Dirks (1901–1991), German political commentator, theologian and journalist

Dircks

• Henry Dircks (1806–1873), English engineer

Dirksz

• Germain Dirksz (born 1976), Aruban footballer
• Lucien Dirksz (born 1968), Aruban racing cyclist

See also

• Dirks (disambiguation)
• Dierckx or Dierkx, surname
• DIRKS, an Australian government methodology for record keeping