Dirks (surname)
Dirks is a patronymic surname. Some variant forms are Derks, Dircks, Dirkse, Dirksen, Dirksz and Dirkx. People with this name include:
- Andy Dirks, American Major League Baseball player
- Gordon Dirks, Canadian educator and former politician
- Howard Dirks, Canadian politician
- Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, American ecologist, biologist and author
- John Dirks , American cartoonist and sculptor
- John Dirks, Canadian physician
- Nicholas Dirks, American historian and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
- Robert Dirks, American chemist
- Rudolph Dirks, German-American comic strip artist, known for The Katzenjammer Kids
- Samantha Dirks, Belizean sprinter
- Tonnie Dirks, Dutch long distance runner
- Walter Dirks, German political commentator, theologian and journalist
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- Henry Dircks, English engineer
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