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Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin; its meaning is power of the tribe ... possible origin Theodoric [1] 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.[2]

Related names are Dedrick, Derry, Jerrick, Darroch and Dietrich.

As a name, Derek may refer to:

Contents 1 Fictional characters 2 Creative arts 2.1 Painting, sculpture, fashion 2.2 Writing 2.3 Entertainment 3 Performing arts 3.1 Acting, presenting 3.2 Music 4 Sports 4.1 Athletics 4.2 Baseball 4.3 Basketball 4.4 Boxing and wrestling 4.5 Cricket 4.6 Football (American and Canadian) 4.7 Football (soccer) 4.8 Football (other rules) 4.9 Sports on ice 4.10 Car racing 4.11 Other sports 5 Politics 6 Science, education and academic 7 Business 8 Miscellaneous 9 See also

• 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 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 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

• Derek Beaulieu (b. 1973), Canadian poet, publisher and anthologist
• Derek Benz, American author of children's fantasy
• 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

• 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 Smart, controversial designer of video games
• Derek Yee (b.1957), Hong Kong film director
• Sean Catherine Derek (b. 1953), American screenwriter

• 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

• 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 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), Candian singer/songwriter
• Derek Williams, English violinist
• Derek Youngsma American drummer member of metalcore band Bleeding Through

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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#Derek_Insley_.28Windsor_West.29|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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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