Diderik
Diederik or Diderik is a male given name, the Dutch / Low Franconian and Low German form of Theodoric (Dietrich in High german). In North Germanic languages, the native form would be Tjodrik, but Diderik and Didrik has been loaned from Low German and is now a common name in Norway.
Common short forms of the name are Dirk, Dirck, Dik, Derek and Derick.
People with the name include:
- Diederik
- Diederik Aerts (born 1953), Belgian theoretical physicist
- Diederik Bangma (born 1990), Dutch football goalkeeper
- Diederik Boer (born 1980), Dutch footballer
- Diederik van Dijk (born 1971), Dutch politician
- Diederik van Domburg (1685–1736), Dutch governor of Ceylon
- Diederik Durven (1676–1740), Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
- Diederik Foubert (born 1961), Belgian cyclist
- Diederik Jansz. Graeff (1532–1589), Dutch merchant, ship-owner and politician
- Diederik Grit (1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar
- Diederik Hol (born 1972), Dutch design engineer
- Diederik Korteweg (1848–1941), Dutch mathematician
- Diederik Johannes Opperman (1914–1985), Afrikaans poet
- Diederik Samsom (born 1971), Dutch politician
- Diederik van Silfhout (born 1988), Dutch Olympic dressage rider
- Diederik Simon (born 1970), Dutch rower
- Diederik Sonoy (1529–1597), Dutch rebel leader during the Eighty Years' War
- Diederik Stapel (born 1966), Dutch social psuchologist
- Diederik Tulp (1624–1682), Dutch merchant
- Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1772–1826), Dutch nobleman, later Russian major general and ambassador
- Diederik van Weel (born 1973), Dutch field hockey player
- Diederik Wissels (born 1960), Dutch jazz pianist
- Diderik
- Diderik Batens (born 1944), Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent
- Diderik Bøgvad (1792–1857), Norwegian politician
- Diderik von Cappelen (1761–1828), Norwegian merchant and politician
- Diderik Hegermann Rye (1832–1914), Norwegian civil servant
- Diderik Hegermann (1763–1835), Norwegian councillor of state and Minister of the Army
- Diderik Schnitler (born 1946), Norwegian businessperson
- Diderik Iversen Tønseth (1818–1893), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
- Diderik Wagenaar (born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist
- Didrik
- Didrik Pining (c. 1430 – 1491), German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland
See also
- Diederik cuckoo, in which Diederik is an onomatopoeic rendition of the bird's call
- Diederik Duck, Dutch name of a Disney cartoon character known in English as Fethry Duck
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