Dirks (surname)
Appearance
Dirksis apatronymic surname( "son ofDirk"). Some variant forms areDerks,Dircks,Dirkse,Dirksen,DirkszandDirkx.People with this name include:
- Andy Dirks(born 1986), American Major League Baseball player
- Alexa Dirks (using stage nameBegonia), Canadian musician
- Gordon Dirks(born 1947), Canadian educator and former politician
- Howard Dirks(1938–2018), Canadian politician
- Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds(1912–2003), American ecologist, biologist and author
- John Dirks (cartoonist)(1917–2010), American cartoonist and sculptor
- John Dirks (physician)(born 1933), Canadian physician
- Nicholas Dirks(born 1950), American historian and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
- Robert Dirks(1978–2015), American chemist
- Rudolph Dirks(1877–1968), German-American comic strip artist, known forThe Katzenjammer Kids
- Samantha Dirks(born 1992), Belizean sprinter
- Tonnie Dirks(born 1961), Dutch long distance runner
- Walter Dirks(1901–1991), German political commentator, theologian and journalist
- Dircks
- Henry Dircks(1806–1873), English engineer
- Dirksz
- Germain Dirksz(born 1976), Aruban footballer
- Lucien Dirksz(born 1968), Aruban racing cyclist
See also
[edit]- Dirks (disambiguation)
- DierckxorDierkx,surname
- DIRKS,an Australian government methodology for record keeping