Derek

Derek Ho (1964 – 2020) was a Hawaiian Chinese surfer who won the world surfing championship in 1993. Ho was born in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii. He began surfing at the age of three, and won the world title at age 29, making him the first Native Hawaiian world champion. Derek Ho was the brother of Michael Ho, another champion surfer, and the first cousin of Don Ho, the Hawaiian singer. He was the uncle of professional surfers Mason Ho and Coco Ho.

Derek Muller from the youtube channel Veritasium. Just genuinely amazing. https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium

Derek Chauvin, Police Officer who killed George Floyd and charged with 2nd degree murder, 2nd degree manslaughter, and 3rd degree manslaughter.

Derek Morgan from Criminal Minds.

Derek Jeter! Go Yankees! #2 Shortstop!

Derek Chauvin, an officer involved in the death of George Floyd in late May 2020.

Famous bearers of this name are Derek "Hobbie" Klivian from Star Wars and Dr. Derek Shepherd from Grey's Anatomy.

Derek Murphy is a character in the book series STAR Academy. He is one of Amanda's best friends, and specializes in optics. He is quick-witted and often makes jabbing remarks at others. He seems to have a crush on Amanda.

Derek Shizuo Tatsuno is a former baseball pitcher. Tatsuno attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1977 to 1979 where he amassed an impressive record in collegiate baseball as a pitcher.

Derek Hough is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, director, actor, singer-songwriter, and musician. Since September 2007, Hough has become known for his work on the ABC dance-competition series, Dancing with the Stars, on which he has won a record six seasons. With a total of eight nominations, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography for several routines that he choreographed for the show. Hough has also starred in various stage productions, including the 2006 original production of Footloose: The Musical at the Novello Theatre in London's West End, as well as the 2015 New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In 2013, he starred in Make Your Move, a Romeo and Juliet-inspired South Korean-American independent dance film. As of 2014, he has held a recurring acting role on ABC's musical-drama, Nashville.

There was a Canadian TV series (that also aired in the US for a number of years) called "Life With Derek".

Derek Stephen Prince (born February 5, 1969 in Inglewood, California) is an American voice actor who is most memorable for his various roles in the 'Digimon' series, as well as the voice of Elgar in the live-action 'Power Rangers Turbo' and 'Power Rangers in Space'.

Prince Derek, one of the main characters of the 1994 move, 'The Swan Princess'.

Derek Jeter.

Derek was the birth name of American actor, director and photographer John Derek, who notably starred as Joshua in The Ten Commandments (1956) and Nick Romano in Knock on Any Door (1949). Derek was known for his good looks.

I've heard of two people with this name, one of whom has a different spelling. Derek Warfield, a member of an Irish band called the Wolfe Tones, and NASCAR driver Derrike Cope.

This reminds me of the character Derek Morgan, played by Shemar Moore, from the series Criminal Minds. I used to use this name, spelled Derrick, a lot for my characters when I was younger, but now I prefer this spelling. It's a solid name.

Derek Sanders is the lead singer of the band Mayday Parade.

Derek Hart (1921-86) was a well-known and very popular British television personality who was particularly associated with programmes on art. His full name was Derek Osborne Hart.
Derek is an attractive name, not over-used, and in England among men of Derek Hart's generation more posh-ish than not!

Derek Boshier is a sculptor, designer and experimental artist.

Derek was Eric Clapton's fake name. This was when he was in Derek and the Dominos, on the Layla album.

Around the end of the 16th century there was a famous Tyburn hangman called Derick. His name came to be used as a personification of hangmen in general, and subsequently as a metaphor for the ‘gallows’. Gradually, however, these macabre associations were lost, and by the 18th century derrick had progressed in meaning to ‘hoisting apparatus’.

There used to be a male doll in the "Barbie" series called Derek. I had one when I was a kid, as well as Barbie and Ken. I always thought that the Derek and Ken dolls were kind of dorky looking, so I guess that's part of why I don't like this name. It reminds me of a dim witted, shallow young man.

Derek Zoolander, a male model from the movie 'Zoolander'. (Played by Ben Stiller).

The main character of Trauma Center: Under the Knife (Nintendo DS) and its sequel and remake is Derek Stiles. His name is two puns in one- his initials are DS (the name of the system that it's on) and Stiles, which sounds like stylus.

Dr. Derek Shepherd on the ABC show Grey's Anatomy, who's commonly referred to as McDreamy. Not a bad association for a boy. ;)

British actor Derek Jacobi.

Derek Zoolander is a character in a comedy about male models.

David Jason plays Derek Trotter in Only Fools And Horse, an extremely popular British sitcom about two market traders living in Peckham, London. Derek is usually referred to as "Del" or "Del Boy".

Of course, who can forget DEREK JETER of the great New York Yankees! He's quite an amazing baseball player if I do say so myself!