Derek (name)

Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin; its meaning is power of the tribe ... possible origin Theodoric or ruler of the people.

Derek takes various forms in many languages: Darek, Darrick, Darriq, Dereck, Deric, Derick, Derik, Deriq, Derk, Derreck, Derrek, Derrick, Derrik, Derryck, Derryk, Deryck, Deryk, Deryke, Dirk, Dirke and Dyrk.

Related names are Derek Zipprich, Andrew Kopp, and Bennett Marano.

As a name, Derek may refer to:

Fictional characters

• Derek and Clive, controversial cult characters portrayed by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook
• Derek the dark green diesel, character from Thomas the Tank Engine
• Derek the Midget, character played by radio personality Shuli
• Derek the Sheep, eponymous character in comic strip in the Beano
• Derek Almond, character in the novel V for Vendetta
• Derek Wilton, character in TV soap Coronation Street
• Derek Zoolander, eponymous character in film Zoolander
• Derek Bliss, character in Vampires: Los Muertos
• Derek Blunt, anthropomorphic hawk in Darkwing Duck
• Derek Branning, character in EastEnders
• Derek Conway, character in British TV series The Bill
• Derek Flint eponymous character in Our Man Flint
• Derek Frye, character in ABC soap opera All My Children
• Derek Harkinson, character in BBC soap, East Enders
• Derek Klivian, pilot in the Rogue Squadron from star Wars
• Derek Morgan, senior special agent in Criminal Minds
• Derek O'Farrell character in British soap Brookside
• Derek Powers aka Blight, supervillain in the animated series Batman Beyond
• Derek Shepherd aka McDreamy, neurosurgeon in the American medical series Grey's Anatomy
• Derek Smalls character in spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap
• Derek Stevens character in Saturday Night Live musical sketches
• Derek Trotter, character in TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses
• Derek Venturi, character in Canadian TV show Life with Derek
• Derek Wheeler aka Wheels, character in the Degrassi series
• Derek, character in the cartoon, The Swan Princess

Creative arts

Painting, sculpture, fashion

• Derek Besant (b. 1950), Canadian artist
• Derek Boshier (b. 1937), British pop artist
• Derek Buckner, American realistic painter
• Derek Erdman (b. 1973), American artist
• Derek Fordjour, artist/painter and documentary producer
• Derek Frazier, artist/painter & sculptor
• Derek Hess, American poster and album-cover artist
• Derek Hill (1916-2000), English portrait and landscape painter
• Derek Kim (b. 1974), American cartoonist
• Derek Lam, American fashion designer
• Derek Riggs, British artist

Writing

• Derek Beaulieu (b. 1973), Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist
• Derek Benz, American author of children's fantasy
• Derek Colon (b.1980), American poet
• Derek Hansen (b.1944), New Zealand/Australia fiction writer, born in England
• Derek Jameson (b. 1929), British journalist
• Derek Mahon (b. 1941) Irish poet
• Derek Marlowe (1938-1996), English playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• Derek McCormack, Canadian fiction writer
• Derek Parker (b.1932), British writer and broadcaster
• Derek Raymond (1931-1994), English writer
• Derek Rawlins (b.1941), English playwright, writer and poet
• Derek Raymond aka Robert Cook (1931-1994), English noir writer
• Derek Robinson (b.1932), British military aviation novelist and pilot
• Derek Tangye (1912-1996, English author
• Derek Taylor (1932-1997), British journalist and press agent for The Beatles
• Derek Turner (b.1964), Irish journalist
• Derek Walcott (b.1930), West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist
• Derek Webster (b.1970), Canadian journalist and publisher
• Derek Wood, author of Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook

Entertainment

• Derek Brown (b. 1961), film production designer
• Derek Brown, software developer
• Derek Drymon (b. 1965), American writer and storyboard artist
• Derek Ford (1932-1995), English film director/writer
• Derek Harvie (b. 1971), Canadian entertainment writer and producer, living in the U.S.
• Derek Hill film production designer
• Derek Jarman (1942-1994), English film director, stage designer, artist and writer
• Derek Lamb (1936-2005), American animation film-maker and producer
• Derek Malcolm (b. 1932), British film critic
• Derek Meddings (1931-1995), British TV and cinema special effects expert
• Derek Rath, photographer and radio programmer
• Derek Sipple, American documentary film director
• Derek Smart, controversial designer of video games
• Derek Yee (b.1957), Hong Kong film director
• Sean Catherine Derek (b. 1953), American screenwriter

Performing arts

Acting, presenting

• Bo Derek (b. 1956), American actress
• Derek Acorah (b. 1950), British TV personality
• Derek Batey (b. 1928), British TV presenter
• Derek Benfield (b. 1926), British actor and playwright
• Derek Bogaerde aka Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999), British actor of Dutch/Scottish ancestry
• Derek Bond (1920-2006), Scottish actor
• Derek Brockway (b. 1967), Welsh weather forecaster and TV presenter
• Derek Cecil (b. 1973), American actor
• Derek Deadman, British actor
• Derek Dingle (1937-2004), English close-up magician who lived in New York
• Derek Edwards, Canadian stand-up comedian and actor
• Derek Fowlds (b. 1937), English actor
• Derek Francis (1923-1984), British comedy and character actor
• Derek Francis (1923-1984), British comedy and character actor
• Derek Griffiths (b. 1946), British actor
• Derek Guille, Australian radio presenter
• Derek Guyler (1924-1999), English actor
• Derek Hartley (b. 1969), American radio talk-show host
• Derek Jacobi (b.1938), English actor and director
• Derek Kelly (b. 1964), American actor and firefighter
• Derek Kim aka Johnny Kim (b. 1968), Korean actor in America
• Derek Kok Jing-Hung, Hong Kong actor
• Derek de Lint (b.1950), Dutch actor
• Derek Luke (b. 1974), American actor
• Derek Martin (b.1933), English actor
• Derek McGrath (b. 1951), Canadian actor
• Derek McCulloch (1897-1967), BBC radio presenter and producer
• Derek McGrath (b. 1951), Canadian actor
• Derek Mooney, Irish radio and TV personality and producer
• Derek Mount aka Chap Stique, guitarist with Christian rock band Family Force
• Derek Murphy, American drummer and session musician
• Derek Newark (1933-1998), English actor
• Derek Nimmo (1930-1999), English character actor
• Derek Prince (1915-2003), American Christian radio preacher
• Derek Rath American radio presenter (music), born in England
• Derek Richardson (b.1976), American actor
• Derek Royle (1929-1990), English actor
• Derek Prince (b.1960, American voice actor and radio host
• Derek Taylor, sportscaster anchor for the Fox Soccer Report
• Derek Thompson (b.1948), Northern Irish TV actor
• Derek Waring aka Derek Barton-Chapple (1927-2007), English actor
• John Derek (1926-1998), American actor

Music

• Derek aka Johnny Cymbals, musician
• Derek and the Dominos (active 1970-1971), blues-rock group
• Derek Almstead (born 1974), musician/engineer
• Derek Armstead aka Bloodshed (1975-1997), African American rapper
• Derek Audette (b.1971), Canadian musician, painter, film-maker and poet
• Derek Bailey (singer) (born 1980), American R&B singer
• Derek Bailey (1930-2005), jazz guitarist
• Derek Barbosa aka Chino XL (born 1971), American rapper
• Derek Bell (musician) (1935-2002), Irish harpist and composer
• Derek Bermel (b. 1967), American composer, clarinetist and conductor
• Derek Birkett, musician and co-founder of One Litttle Indian Records
• Derek Bloom, drummer member of From First to Last band
• Derek Boland aka Derek B and EZQ (b. 1965), British dj and rapper
• Derek Bourgeois(b. 1941), English composer
• Derek Dick aka Fish (b.1958), Scottish progressive rock singer/songwriter
• Derek Forbes, Scottish bassist
• Derek Fudesco, bassist and vocalist with indie rock band Pretty Girls Make Graves
• Derek Gledhill, American drummer member of alternative rock/post-grunge music group Smile Empty Soul
• Derek Grant (b. 1977), drummer for punk band Alkaline Trio
• Derek Safo aka Sway DaSafo (b. 1982), English hip hop rapper
• Derek Hammond-Stroud (b.1926), English opera singer
• Derek Leckenby (1943-1994), English musician and guitarist, member of herman's Hermits
• Derek Longmuir (b.1951), drummer with the Bay City Rollers
• Derek Lopez Argentine singer.
• Derek Murphy aka Sadat X and Derek X, American rapper
• Derek O'Brien (b. 1963), drummer and music producer
• Derek Oldham (1887-1968), English singer (tenor)
• Derek Paravicini (b.1979), English blind autistic savant and musical prodigy
• Derek Pascoe (b.1957), American vocalist
• Derek Pressnall, guitarist for the indie-pop group Tilly and the Wall
• Derek Lee Ragin (b. 1958), American singer
• Derek Rhodes born Winston Salem (b.1993), American singer/songwriter
• Derek Lee Rock aka Derek Lee Smith (b. 1984), drummer in Suburban Ledgends
• Derek Roddy, death metal drummer
• Derek Sherinian (b.1966), American keyboard musician, composer and producer
• Derek Shulman (b.1947), Scottish singer/instrumentalist and record executive
• Derek Sivers founder and president of an online CD store
• Derek St. Holmes, rock musician vocalist and guitarist
• Derek Thompson aka Hoodlum Priest, musician and record producer and engineer
• Derek Trucks (b. 1979), American blues-rock guitarist
• Derek Wadsworth (b.1939), British composer and arranger
• Derek Warfield (b.1943), Irish singer/songwriter and historian
• Derek Watkins (b.1945), British trumpeter and session musician
• Derek Webb (b.1974), American singer/songwriter
• Deryck Whibley (b.1980), Canadian singer/songwriter
• Derek Williams, English violinist
• Derek Youngsma American drummer member of metalcore band Bleeding Through

Sports

Athletics

• Derek Clayton (b. 1942), British/Australian long-distance runner
• Derek Ibbotson (b. 1932), English track athlete
• Derek Johnson (1933-2004), British track athlete
• Derek Miles (b. 1972), American field athlete (pole vault)
• Derek Mills (b. 1972), American track athlete
• Derek Redmond (b.1965), English track athlete

Baseball

• Derek Bell (b. 1968), former Major League Baseball player
• Derek Jeter (b. 1974), American baseball player (shortstop)
• Derek Lowe (b. 1973), American baseball player
• Derek Tatsuno (born about 1959), American college baseball player

Basketball

• Derek Anderson (b. 1974), professional basketball player
• Derek Fisher (b. 1974), American basketball player
• Derek Grimm (b. 1974), American basketball player
• Derek Harper (b. 1961), American basketball player and TV sports anchor
• Derek Hood (b. 1976), American basketball player
• Derek Smith, (1961-1996), American basketball player
• Derek Washington, American basketball player
• Derek Strong (b.1968), American basketball player and racing driver

Boxing and wrestling

• Derek Bryant (b. 1971), American heavyweight boxer
• Derek Couch aka Robbie McAllister Scottish member of Canadian tag wrestling team The Highlanders

Cricket

• Derek de Boorder (b.1985), New Zealand cricketer
• Derek Crookes (b. 1969), South African cricketer
• Derek Hall (1932-1983), English cricketer
• Derek Heasley (b. 1972), Irish cricketer
• Derek Kenway (b. 1978), English cricketer
• Derek Morgan (b. 1929), English cricketer
• Derek Pringle (b.1958), English cricketer and cricket journalist
• Derek Randall (b.1951), English cricketer
• Derek Sealy (b.1912), West Indian cricketer
• Derek Shackleton (b.1924), English cricketer
• Derek Stirling (b.1961), New Zealand cricketer
• Derek Underwood (b.1945), English cricketer
• Derek Varnals (b.1935), South African cricketer

Football (American and Canadian)

• Derek Abney (b. 1980), American football wide receiver
• Derek Anderson (b. 1983), NFL quarterback
• Derek Darnell Brown (b. 1971), American football player (RB)
• Derek Vernon Brown, American football player (tight end)
• Derek Curry, American footballer
• Derek Dooley (born about 1968), American football player and coach
• Derek Combs (b. 1979), American football player
• Derek Hagan (b.1984), American football player (wide receiver)
• Derek Potteiger (b.1980), American footballer
• Derek Rackley (b.1977), American football player (tight end)
• Derek Smith (b.1980), American football player (tight end)
• Derek Smith, (b.1975), American football player (linebacker)

Football (soccer)

• Derek Asamoah (b. 1981), Ghanaian footballer playing in England
• Derek Bell (footballer) (b. 1956), English football player
• Derek Bellotti (b. 1946), English football player
• Derek Boateng (b. 1983), Ghanaian footballer
• Derek Carcary (b. 1986), Scottish footballer
• Derek Collins (b. 1969), Scottish footballer and football coach
• Derek Dawkins (b. 1959), English professional footballer
• Derek Dooley (b. 1929), English footballer, manager and club chairman
• Derek Dougan (b. 1938), Northern Irish footballer and club chairman
• Derek Fazackerley (born about 1952), English football player and coach
• Derek Ferguson (b. 1967), Scottish footballer and club manager
• Derek Geary (b. 1980), Irish footballer who played in England
• Derek Hales (b. 1951), English footballer
• Derek Hawksworth (b. 1927), English footballer
• Derek Holmes (b. 1978), Scottish footballer
• Derek Johnstone (b. 1953), Scottish footballer
• Derek Kevan (b. 1935), English footballer
• Derek Lilley (b. 1974), Scottish footballer
• Derek Lyle (b. 1981), Scottish footballer
• Derek McInnes (b. 1971), Scottish footballer
• Derek Mountfield (b. 1962), English footballer
• Derek Niven (b. 1983), Scottish footballer
• Derek Pace (1932-1989), English footballer
• Derek Parker (b. 1926), English footballer
• Derek Parkin (b.1948), English footballer
• Derek Parlane (b.1953), Scottish footballer
• Derek Popovich (b.1981), American footballer (soccer)
• Derek McElligott (b. 1982), American footballer (soccer)
• Derek Phillips (b.1975), Trinidad and Tobago footballer
• Derek Reeves, English footballer
• Derek Riordan aka Rearend (b.1983), Scottish footballer (striker)
• Derek Saunders (b.1928), English footballer
• Derek Rae, Scottish soccer commentator
• Derek Shaw, English football club chairman
• Derek Smethurst (b.1948), South African footballer, author and sports consultant
• Derek Soutar (b.1981), Scottish footballer (goalkeeper)
• Derek Stillie (b.1973), Scottish footbally (goalkeeper)
• Derek Tapscott (b.1932), Welsh footballer
• Derek Temple (b1938), English footballer
• Derek Tracey (b.1971), Irish footballer
• Derek Whyte (b.1968), Scottish footballer

Football (other rules)

• Derek Murray Irish Gaelic footballer
• Derek Quinnell (b.1949), Welsh rugby player
• Derek Woodcock, Australian Rules football field umpire

Sports on ice

• Derek Armstrong (b. 1973), Canadian Professional Hockey Centerman
• Derek Boogaard (b. 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Joslin (b. 1987), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek King (b. 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek MacKenzie (b. 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Meech (b. 1984), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Morris (b. 1978), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Parra (b. 1970), Mexican-American speed skater (ice)
• Derek Plante (b.1971), American ice hockey player
• Derek Roy (b.1983), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Sanderson (b.1946), Canadian ice hockey player and business executive
• Derek Smith, (b.1954), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Trent, American ice skater (pairs)

Car racing

• Derek Bell (b. 1941), F1 racing car driver
• Derek Daly (b. 1953), Irish F1 racing car driver
• Derek Higgins (b. 1966), Irish Indy Lights racing car driver
• Derek Ringer (b.1956), Scottish rally driver
• Derek Warwick (b.1954), English F1 racing car driver

Other sports

• Derek Hardiman (b.1981), Irish hurling player
• Derek Keenan, American lacrosse player
• Derek Lyng (b. 1978), Irish hurling player
• Derek Malawsky (b. 1973), Canadian lacrosse player
• Derek McBain (1969-2006), Australian sheepshearer
• Derek Oldbury aka DEO (1924-1994), British draughts champion and writer on the game
• Derek Piggott (born around 1924) British glider pilot
• Derek Porter Canadian rower born in England

Politics

• Derek Barber aka Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (born 1918), British civil servant, agricultural expert and politician
• Derek Beackon, English lorry driver and politician
• Derek Bedson (1920-1989), Canadian civil servant
• Derek Blackburn (b. 1934), Canadian politician
• Derek Brownlee (b. about 1975), Scottish politician
• Derek Bryan (1910-2003), British diplomat
• Derek Burney (b. 1939), Canadian businessman, diplomat and political strategist
• Derek Clark (b. 1933), British politician and science teacher
• Derek Conway (b. 1953), British politician
• Derek Coombs (b. 1931), British politician and corporate executive
• Derek Corrigan (b. about 1955), Canadian politician
• Derek Croxton American history researcher and writer
• Derek Denton (b. 1924), Australian scientist
• Derek Draper, UK political lobbyist involved in Cash for Access scandal in 1999, subsequently a psychotherapist
• Derek Edwards, psychologist and academic working in England
• Derek Enright (1935-1995), British politician
• Derek Ezra aka Baron Ezra (b. 1919) British politician and corporate executive
• Derek Fatchett (1945-1999), British politician
• Derek Fletcher (b. 1951), Canadian politician born in England
• Derek Foster (b. 1937), British politician
• Derek Freeman (1916-2001), New Zealand anthropologist
• Derek Gregory (b. 1951), British geographer
• Derek Hatton (b. 1948), English politician, businessman and after-dinner speaker
• Derek Holland, British politician and writer who uses several pen-names: Harry Worthington, Rory O'Connor, D. Liam O'Huallachain, Derek O'Huallachain, and Deric O'Huallachain
• Derek Humphry (b. 1930), writer of the suicide handbook Final Exit and president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization
• Derek Hussey (b. 1948), Northern Irish politician
• Derek Insley, Canadian politician
• Derek Jelliffe (d.1992), expert in tropical paediatrics and infant nutrition
• Derek Keppel (1863-1944), British nobleman, soldier and member of the royal household
• Derek Laud (b. 1964), English political lobbyist
• Derek Lee (b. 1948), Canadian lawyer and politician
• Derek Lodge (1929-1996), English civil servant and statistician
• Derek McDowell (b. 1958), Irish politician
• Derek Moore-Brabazon (1910-1974), a UK baron - 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
• Derek Morris, British academic formerly chairperson of the Competition Commission
• Derek Nally (b. 1936), policeman, campaigner and politician
• Derek Oulton (b. 1927), lawyer and civil servant
• Derek Page (1927-2005) aka Baron Whaddon, British politician
• Derek Prag, British politician
• Derek Quigley (b.1932), New Zealand politician
• Derek Spencer (b. 1936), British politician
• Derek Robinson aka Red Tobbo, British motor industry shop steward
• Derek Schofield, Chief Justice of Gibraltar
• Derek Simpson (b.1944), British trade unionist
• Derek Spencer (b.1936), British politician
• Derek Taylor (b. 1951), Caribbean politician
• Derek Twigg (b.1959) English politician
• Derek Vestey (1914-2005), British nobleman (baronet)
• Derek Walker-Smith aka Baron Broxbourne (1910-1992), British politician
• Derek Wall, British politician
• Derek James Walding (b.1937), Canadian politician, born in England
• Derek Wall, British politician
• Derek Watkins British docker shop steward member of the Pentonville Five
• Derek Watson (retired 2002), British churchman
• Derek Wells (b.1946), Canadian politician and lawyer
• Derek Wee name used in a controversial blog by Wee Siew Kim (b.1960), Hong Kong politician
• Derek Worlock (1920-1996), British Roman Catholic bishop
• Derek Wyatt (b. 1949), British politician
• Derek Zeisman Canadian politician

Science, education and academic

• Derek Abbott (b. 1960), physicist and electronic engineer
• Derek Barton (1918-1998), British physical chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
• Derek Bickerton (b. 1926), linguist and academic
• Derek Birley (1926-2002), academic and educator
• Derek Blake, academic and research scientist
• Derek Bok (b. 1930), American lawyer and educator
• Derek Briggs (b. about 1945), Irish paleontologist
• Derek Hirst (b. 1948), English historian of early-modern Britain
• Derek Hockridge, British translator, lecturer and expert in French society and culture
• Derek Hopwood, British academic and author
• Derek McCormack, New Zealand biochemist and academic
• Derek Molloy, Irish academician
• Derek Morley (1920-1969) independent science consultant and journalist noted for study of ants
• Derek Parfit (b.1942), British philosopher and academic
• Derek Price (1922-1983), information scientist and science historian
• Derek Ratcliffe (1929-2005), British nature conservationist
• Derek Roe, British paleolithic archeologist and academic
• Derek Summerfield controversial psychiatrist and writer
• Derek Taunt (1917-2004), British mathemetician and codebreaker
• Derek van der Kooy (born about 1955), scientist and academic working in stem cell research

Business

• Derek Burney Jr. (b. 1962), Canadian corporate senior executive
• Derek Lambie (b. 1975), Scottish newspaper editor
• Derek Meier, founder of Solid pr and American public relations firm
• Derek Smith American business executive

Miscellaneous

• Derek Bentley (1933-1953), Englishman hanged for murder and subsequently pardoned
• Derek Seagrim (1903-1943), English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Derek Wood, one of two British Army corporals shot and killed in Northern Ireland in 1988

See Also

• Derech Eretz, Jewish philosophy
• Derekegyház, village in Hungary
• Derekh Eretz, minor tractates in the Talmud
• Derekh Hamelekh, Israeli song
• Derekh Hashem, classical Jewish text
• Derrek Konrad (b. 1943), Canadian politician
• Derrick Z. Jackson, American journalist (opinion columnist)
• Derrick Neikirk (b.1974), American professional wrestler
• Derrick Robins aka D.H.Robins (1914-2004), British sports promoter and cricketer
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