Derek

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Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin, derived from the same root as the Old German Theodoric,^[1] meaning power of the tribe or ruler of the people. Variants recently revived are Deryk, Deric, Derak and the Dutch form Dirk. In recent years it has been used occasionally as a family name, for example Bo Derek.

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 a comic strip in the Beano
• Derek Almond, character in the graphic novel V for Vendetta
• Derek Bliss, character in Vampires: Los Muertos
• Derek Blunt, anthropomorphic hawk in Darkwing Duck
• Derek Branning, character in the BBC soapEastEnders
• Derek Conway, character in British TV series The Bill
• Derek the Dalmatian (also known as Evil Derek the Dark Dalmatian), from the 1970s BBC children's television series Olimar The Wondercat
• Derek Flint, eponymous character in Our Man Flint
• Derek Frye, character in the ABC soap opera All My Children
• Derek Harkinson, character in the BBC soap EastEnders
• Derek Klivian, pilot in the Rogue Squadron from Star Wars
• Derek Morgan, senior special agent in Criminal Minds
• Derek O'Farrell character in the 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 the spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap
• Derek Stevens, character in Saturday Night Live musical sketches
• Derek Stiles, character in Trauma Center series of video games
• Derek Trotter, character in the TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses
• Derek Venturi, character in the Canadian TV show Life with Derek
• Derek Vinyard in American History X
• Derek Wheeler aka Wheels, character in the Degrassi series
• Derek Wilton, character in the TV soap Coronation Street
• Derek Zoolander, eponymous character in the film Zoolander
• Prince Derek, Son of Queen Uberta, character of Swan Princess

Creative arts

Painting, sculpture, fashion

• Derek Besant (born 1950), Canadian artist
• Derek Boshier (born 1937), British pop artist
• Derek Brueckner, (born 1965) Canadian artist
• Derek Buckner, American realistic painter
• Derek Erdman (born 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 (born 1974), American cartoonist
• Derek Riggs, British artist

Writing

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

Entertainment

• Sean Catherine Derek (born 1953), American screenwriter
• Derek Brown, software developer
• Derek Drymon (born 1965), American writer and storyboard artist
• Derek Ford (1932-1995), English film director/writer
• Derek Harvie (born 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 (born 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 (born 1957), Hong Kong film director

Performing arts

Acting, presenting

• Bo Derek (born 1956), American actress
• John Derek (1926-1998), American actor
• Derek Acorah (born 1950), British TV personality
• Derek Batey (born 1928), British TV presenter
• Derek Benfield (born 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 (born 1967), Welsh meteorologist and TV presenter
• Derek Cecil (born 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 (born 1937), English actor
• Derek Francis (1923-1984), British comedy and character actor
• Derek Griffiths (born 1946), British actor
• Derek Guille, Australian radio presenter
• Derek Hartley (born 1969), American radio talk-show host
• Derek Jacobi (born 1938), English actor and director
• Derek Kelly (born 1964), American actor and firefighter
• Derek Kim aka Johnny Kim (born 1968), Korean actor in America
• Derek Kok Jing-Hung, Hong Kong actor
• Derek de Lint (born 1950), Dutch actor
• Derek Luke (born 1974), American actor
• Derek Martin (born 1933), English actor
• Derek McCulloch (1897-1967), BBC radio presenter and producer
• Derek McGrath (born 1951), Canadian actor
• Derek Mooney, Irish radio and TV personality and producer
• 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 Prince (born 1960), American voice actor and radio host
• Derek Rath, American radio presenter, born in England
• Derek Richardson (born 1976), American actor
• Derek Royle (1929-1990), English actor
• Derek Taylor, sportscaster anchor for the Fox Soccer Report
• Derek Thompson (born 1948), Northern Irish TV actor
• Derek Waring aka Derek Barton-Chapple (1927-2007), English actor

Music

• "Derek" aka Johnny Cymbal, 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 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 (born 1967), American composer, clarinetist and conductor
• Derek Bloom, drummer member of From First to Last band
• Derek Boland aka Derek B and EZQ (1965-2009), British DJ and rapper
• Derek Bourgeois (born 1941), English composer
• Derek Charke (born 1974), Canadian composer and flutist
• Derek Dick aka Fish (born 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 (born 1977), drummer for punk band Alkaline Trio
• Derek Hammond-Stroud (born 1926), English opera singer
• Derek Leckenby (1943-1994), English musician and guitarist, member of Herman's Hermits
• Derek Longmuir (born 1951), drummer with the Bay City Rollers
• Derek Morris aka DJ Derek (born 1942) is a Bristol-based DJ
• Derek Murphy aka Sadat X and Derek X, American rapper
• Derek O'Brien (born 1963), drummer and music producer
• Derek Oldham (1887-1968), English singer (tenor)
• Derek Paravicini (born 1979), English blind autistic savant and musical prodigy
• Derek Pascoe (born 1957), American vocalist
• Derek Pressnall, guitarist for the indie-pop group Tilly and the Wall
• Derek Lee Ragin (born 1958), American singer
• Derek Lee Rock aka Derek Lee Smith (born 1984), drummer in Suburban Legends
• Derek Sherinian (born 1966), American keyboard musician, composer and producer
• Derek Shulman (born 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 (born 1979), American blues-rock guitarist
• Derek Wadsworth (born 1939), British composer and arranger
• Derek Warfield (born 1943), Irish singer/songwriter and historian
• Derek Watkins (born 1945), British trumpeter and session musician
• Derek Webb (born 1974), American singer/songwriter
• Deryck Whibley (born 1980), Canadian singer/songwriter
• Derek Youngsma American drummer member of metalcore band Bleeding Through

Sports

Athletics (track and field)

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

Baseball

• Derek Bell (born 1968), former Major League Baseball player
• Derek Jeter (born 1974), American baseball player (shortstop)
• Derek Lilliquist (born 1966) Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the First round in 1987. Last pitched Sept. 6, 1996
• Derek Lowe (born 1973), American baseball player
• Derek Tatsuno (born c. 1959), American college baseball player

Basketball

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

Boxing and wrestling

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

Car racing

• Derek Bell (born 1941), F1 racing car driver
• Derek Daly (born 1953), Irish F1 racing car driver
• Derek Higgins (born 1966), Irish Indy Lights racing car driver
• Derek Hill (born 1975), American former Formula 3000 driver
• Derek Ringer (born 1956), Scottish rally driver
• Derek Warwick (born 1954), English F1 racing car driver

Cricket

• Derek de Boorder (born 1985), New Zealand cricketer
• Derek Crookes (born 1969), South African cricketer
• Derek Hall (1932-1983), English cricketer
• Derek Heasley (born 1972), Irish cricketer
• Derek Kenway (born 1978), English cricketer
• Derek Morgan (born 1929), English cricketer
• Derek Pringle (born 1958), English cricketer and cricket journalist
• Derek Randall (born 1951), English cricketer
• Derek Sealy (born 1912), West Indian cricketer
• Derek Shackleton (1924-2007), English cricketer
• Derek Stirling (born 1961), New Zealand cricketer
• Derek Underwood (born 1945), English cricketer
• Derek Varnals (born 1935), South African cricketer

Football (American and Canadian)

• Derek Abney (born 1980), American football wide receiver
• Derek Anderson (born 1983), NFL quarterback
• Derek Darnell Brown (born 1971), American football player (RB)
• Derek Combs (born 1979), American football player
• Derek Cox (born 1986), American football player (cornerback)
• Derek Curry, American footballer
• Derek Dooley (born c. 1968), American football player and coach
• Derek Hagan (born 1984), American football player (wide receiver)
• Derek Rackley (born 1977), American football player (tight end)
• Derek Smith (born 1975), American football player (linebacker)
• Derek Smith (born 1980), American football player (tight end)

Football (soccer)

• Derek Asamoah (born 1981), Ghanaian footballer playing in England
• Derek Bell (footballer) (born 1956), English football player
• Derek Bellotti (born 1946), English football player
• Derek Boateng (born 1983), Ghanaian footballer
• Derek Collins (born 1969), Scottish footballer and football coach
• Derek Dawkins (born 1959), English professional footballer
• Derek Dooley (1929-2008), English footballer, manager and club chairman
• Derek Dougan (1938-2007), Northern Irish footballer and club chairman
• Derek Fazackerley (born c. 1952), English football player and coach
• Derek Ferguson (born 1967), Scottish footballer and club manager
• Derek Geary (born 1980), Irish footballer who played in England
• Derek Hales (born 1951), English footballer
• Derek Hawksworth (born 1927), English footballer
• Derek Holmes (born 1978), Scottish footballer
• Derek Johnstone (born 1953), Scottish footballer
• Derek Kevan (born 1935), English footballer
• Derek Lilley (born 1974), Scottish footballer
• Derek Lyle (born 1981), Scottish footballer
• Derek McInnes (born 1971), Scottish footballer
• Derek Mountfield (born 1962), English footballer
• Derek Niven (born 1983), Scottish footballer
• Derek Pace (1932-1989), English footballer
• Derek Parker (born 1926), English footballer
• Derek Parkin (born 1948), English footballer
• Derek Parlane (born 1953), Scottish footballer
• Derek Phillips (born 1975), Trinidad and Tobago footballer
• Derek Popovich (born 1981), American footballer (soccer)
• Derek Rae, Scottish soccer commentator
• Derek Reeves, English footballer
• Derek Riordan aka Rearend (born 1983), Scottish footballer (striker)
• Derek Saunders (born 1928), English footballer
• Derek Shaw, English football club chairman
• Derek Smethurst (born 1948), South African footballer, author and sports consultant
• Derek Soutar (born 1981), Scottish footballer (goalkeeper)
• Derek Stillie (born 1973), Scottish footbally (goalkeeper)
• Derek Tapscott (born 1932), Welsh footballer
• Derek Temple (born 1938), English footballer
• Derek Tracey (born 1971), Irish footballer
• Derek Whyte (born 1968), Scottish footballer

Football (other rules)

• Derek Murray Irish Gaelic footballer
• Derek Turner (born 1933), English rugby league player
• Derek Quinnell (born 1949), Welsh rugby player
• Derek Woodcock, Australian Rules football field umpire

Sports on ice

• Derek Armstrong (born 1973), Canadian Professional Hockey Centerman
• Derek Boogaard (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Campbell (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Joslin (born 1987), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek King (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek MacKenzie (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Meech (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Morris (born 1978), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Parra (born 1970), Mexican-American speed skater (ice)
• Derek Plante (born 1971), American ice hockey player
• Derek Roy (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Sanderson (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player and business executive
• Derek Smith, (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
• Derek Trent, American ice skater (pairs)

Other sports

• Derek Hardiman (born 1981), Irish hurling player
• Derek Keenan, American lacrosse player
• Derek Lyng (born 1978), Irish hurling player
• Derek Malawsky (born 1973), Canadian lacrosse player
• Derek Oldbury aka DEO (1924-1994), British draughts champion and writer on the game
• Derek Piggott (born c. 1924) British glider pilot
• Derek Porter Canadian rower born in England
• Derek Poundstone (born 1981), American professional strongman

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 (born 1934), Canadian politician
• Derek Brownlee (born c. 1975), Scottish politician
• Derek Bryan (1910-2003), British diplomat
• Derek Burney (born 1939), Canadian businessman, diplomat and political strategist
• Derek Clark (born 1933), British politician and science teacher
• Derek Conway (born 1953), British politician
• Derek Coombs (born 1931), British politician and corporate executive
• Derek Corrigan (born about 1955), Canadian politician
• Derek Croxton American history researcher and writer
• Derek Denton (born 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 (born 1919) British politician and corporate executive
• Derek Fatchett (1945-1999), British politician
• Derek Fletcher (born 1951), Canadian politician born in England
• Derek Foster (born 1937), British politician
• Derek Freeman (1916-2001), New Zealand anthropologist
• Derek Gregory (born 1951), British geographer
• Derek Hatton (born 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 (born 1930), writer of the suicide handbook Final Exit and president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization
• Derek Hussey (born 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 (born 1964), English political lobbyist
• Derek Lee (born 1948), Canadian lawyer and politician
• Derek Lodge (1929-1996), English civil servant and statistician
• Derek McDowell (born 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 (born 1936), policeman, campaigner and politician
• Derek Oulton (born 1927), lawyer and civil servant
• Derek Page (1927-2005) aka Baron Whaddon, British politician
• Derek Prag, British politician
• Derek Quigley (born 1932), New Zealand politician
• Derek Robinson aka Red Tobbo, British motor industry shop steward
• Derek Schofield, Chief Justice of Gibraltar
• Derek Simpson (born 1944), British trade unionist
• Derek Spencer (born 1936), British politician
• Derek Taylor (born 1951), Caribbean politician
• Derek Twigg (born 1959) English politician
• Derek James Walding (born 1937), Canadian politician, born in England
• Derek Walker-Smith aka Baron Broxbourne (1910-1992), British politician
• Derek Wall, British politician
• Derek Watkins British docker shop steward member of the "Pentonville Five"
• Derek Watson (retired 2002), British churchman
• "Derek Wee", name used in a controversial blog by Wee Siew Kim (born 1960), Singaporean politician
• Derek Wells (born 1946), Canadian politician and lawyer
• Derek Worlock (1920-1996), British Roman Catholic bishop
• Derek Wyatt (born 1949), British politician

Science, education and academia

• Derek Abbott (born 1960), physicist and electronic engineer
• Derek Barton (1918-1998), British physical chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
• Derek Bickerton (born 1926), linguist and academic
• Derek Birley (1926-2002), academic and educator
• Derek Blake, academic and research scientist
• Derek Bok (born 1930), American lawyer and educator
• Derek Briggs (born c. 1945), Irish paleontologist
• Derek Hirst (born 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 Long (born 1925), former professor of structural chemistry at the University of Bradford, working in the field of Raman spectroscopy
• Derek McCormack, New Zealand biochemist and academic
• Derek Morley (1920-1969) independent science consultant and journalist noted for study of ants
• Derek Parfit (born 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, psychiatrist and writer
• Derek Taunt (1917-2004), British mathematician and codebreaker
• Derek van der Kooy (born c. 1955), scientist and academic working in stem cell research

Business

• Derek Burney Jr. (born 1962), Canadian corporate senior executive
• Derek Lambie (born 1975), Scottish newspaper editor
• Derek Smith, American business executive

Miscellaneous

• Derek Bentley (1933-1953), Englishman hanged for murder and subsequently pardoned
• Derek Anthony 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 (born 1943), Canadian politician
• Derrek Lee, baseball player
• Derrick, a lifting device
• Derrick Robins aka D.H. Robins (1914-2004), British sports promoter and cricketer
• Derrick Z. Jackson, American journalist (opinion columnist)
• Deryck Guyler (1924-1999), English actor
• Deryck Whibley, musician
• All pages beginning with Derek

References

1. ^ Behind the Name Article