Dirck is a

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

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Dirck Barendsz Dirck Barendsz or Theodor Barendszoon (1534–1592) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam who traveled to Italy in his youth to learn from the Italian masters, most notably Titian. Biography He was trained by his father, a painter known ...

(1534–1592), Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam *

Dirck Bleker Dirck Bleker (1621 in Haarlem – 1702 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he painted a Danae for the ''Lord of Halsteren, Baljuw of Kennemerland'', that was made famous by a poem by Joost van den Vondel. ...

(1621–1702), Dutch Golden Age painter * Dirck Coornhert (1522–1590), Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian * Dirck Cornelis de Hooch (1613–1651), 17th-century Dutch portrait painter * Dirck de Bray (1635–1694), Dutch Golden Age painter * Dirck Ferreris (1639–1693), Dutch Golden Age painter * Dirck Gerritsz Pomp (1544–1608), Dutch sailor, the first known Dutchman to visit Japan * Dirck Hals (1591–1656), Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes * Dirck Halstead, (born 1936), photojournalist, and editor and publisher of ''The Digital Journalist'' * Dirck Helmbreker (1633–1696), Dutch Golden Age painter of Italianate landscapes * Dirck Jacobsz. (1496–1567), Dutch Renaissance painter * Dirck Pesser (1585–1651), Dutch brewer from Rotterdam * Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (1610–1682), Dutch cartographer, mathematician, surveyor, astronomer, teacher and preacher * Dirck Storm (1630–1716), early colonial American, recorded the history of the Dutch community at Sleepy Hollow * Dirck Ten Broeck (1765–1832), American lawyer and politician * Dirck Tulp or Diederik Tulp (1624–1682), son of surgeon professor Nicolaes Tulp, involved in the Dutch East India Company and the Civic guard *

Dirck van Baburen Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen ( – 21 February 1624) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and one of the Utrecht School, Utrecht Caravaggisti. Biography Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family moved to ...

(1595–1624), Dutch painter associated with the Utrecht Caravaggisti * Dirck van Bergen (1645–1700), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter *

Dirck van Cloon Dirck van Cloon (also Dirk and Theodoor van Cloon; 1684 – 10 March 1735) was Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He died of malaria at the age of 50. He was born in Batavia sometime in 1684. For his education and training he ...

(1684–1735), Eurasian Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies *

Dirck van der Lisse Dirck van der Lisse (6 August 1607, The Hague - buried 31 January 1669, The Hague) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Van der Lisse was born in The Hague. He learned to paint from Cornelis van Poelenburch, and later lived in Utrecht from ...

(1607–1669), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Dirck van Santvoort Dirck Dircksz van Santvoort (bapt. 16 December 1609 – bur. 9 March 1680) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Santvoort was born and died in Amsterdam, where he married in 1648 and had a son named Rembrandt.Peter Dirck Keyser (born 1835), United States ophthalmologist

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