Dirk (name)
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Dirk is a Dutch and Low German short form of Dietrich. See Theodoric for the origin and history of the name.
Given name:
- Dirk I, Count of Holland
- Dirk II, Count of Holland
- Dirk III, Count of Holland
- Dirk IV, Count of Holland
- Dirk V, Count of Holland
- Dirk VI, Count of Holland
- Dirk VII, Count of Holland
- Dirk Bogarde, English stage and film star
- Dirk Benedict, American actor known from Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team
- Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player for NBA's Dallas Mavericks
- Dirk Johnson, American football player
- Dirk Kemp, South African footballer
- Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- Dirk Mudge, Namibian politician
- Dirk Willems an Anabaptist martyr and pacifist
Surname:
- Robert Dirk (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
Fictional characters:
- Dirk Gently, the main character in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
- Dirk (play), an adaptation for stage of the above book
- Dirk Pitt, the protagonist of Clive Cussler's novels
- Dirk McQuickly, the equivalent of Paul McCartney in The Beatles parody band The Rutles (played by Eric Idle)
- Dirk the Daring, the main character in the video game Dragon's Lair.
- Dirk Diggler is the main character in Boogie Nights played by Mark Wahlberg
- Dirk Dagger (also known as Dirk Spanner), the main character in the video game Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol for the N-Gage 2.0 service
- Dirk Strider, a character from the webcomic Homestuck