Dirks (surname)

Dirks is a patronymic surname ("son of Dirk"). Some variant forms are Derks, Dircks, Dirkse, Dirksen, Dirksz and Dirkx. People with this name include:

* Andy Dirks (born 1986), American Major League Baseball player
* Alexa Dirks (using stage name Begonia), 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 for The 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

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* Dirks (disambiguation)
* Dierckx or Dierkx, surname
* DIRKS, an Australian government methodology for record keeping

Surname list

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