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Dyck is a form of the Dutch surname (van) Dijck, which is also common among
Russian Mennonites The Russian Mennonites ( it. "Russia Mennonites", i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire are a group of Mennonites who are the descendants of Dutch and North German Anabaptists who settled in the Vistula delta in West Prussia for about 2 ...
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Notable surnames

* Aganetha Dyck (born 1937), Canadian artist *
Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of ...
(1599–1641), Flemish artist *
Arnold Dyck Arnold (Abram Bernhard) Dyck (January 19, 1889 – July 10, 1970) was a Russian Mennonite writer born in Hochfeld, Ukraine. He immigrated to Canada in 1923, residing in Steinbach, Manitoba, where he purchased and edited the ''Steinbach Post''. He is ...
(1889-1970), Canadian author *
Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, M.D. (August 13, 1818 – November 13, 1895) was an American missionary physician, teacher and translator of the Protestant Bible into Arabic.Erika Dyck (born 1975), Canadian historian *
Howard Dyck Howard Dyck, CM (born November 17, 1942) is a Canadian conductor, public speaker, and radio broadcaster born in Winkler, Manitoba, now living in Waterloo, Ontario. He is most well known as the longtime host of CBC Radio programmes ''Choral Concert ...
(born 1942), Canadian conductor * Jonathan Dyck, Canadian graphic novelist *
Lillian Dyck Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, (born August 24, 1945) is a retired Canadian senator from Saskatchewan. A member of the Cree Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, and a first generation Chinese Canadian, she is the first female First Nations senator and ...
(born 1945), Canadian senator * Lionel Dyck (1944–2024), Rhodesian-born mercenary * Paul Dyck (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player * Peter George Dyck (1946–2020), Canadian politician * Rand Dyck (born 1943), Canadian professor *
Walther von Dyck Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck () and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in . He laid the foundation ...
(1856–1934), German mathematician


Fictional characters

* Elsie Dyck, fictional Mennonite writer in
Andrew Unger Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian novelist and satirist. He is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review (formerly The Daily Bonnet), as well as the novel '' Once Removed'' and the collection ''The Best of the B ...
's novel '' Once Removed'' * Harry Dyck, recurring character in ''
The Daily Bonnet ''The Daily Bonnet'' is a satirical Mennonite website, known as ''The Unger Review'' as of 2023. It was created by Andrew Unger and launched in May 2016. It features news stories and editorials, with the structure of conventional newspapers, bu ...
'' * Noah and Anita Dyck, fictional Mennonite couple in the television show ''
Letterkenny Letterkenny ( , meaning "hillside of the O'Cannons"), nicknamed the Cathedral Town, is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster. Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is a regional eco ...
'' * A common misspelling of the movie '' Dick'' since the movie's box art title and logo on the trailer have the hands of a person pointed out to shape like a "Y".


Other

* Schloss Dyck, a castle in
North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
, Germany * Dyck Advisory Group, a private military company based in Velddrif,
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...


See also

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Dick (surname) Dick is used as a surname in English language, English, German language, German and other languages. In English, the surname is patronymic surname, patronymic based on the use of Dick (nickname), ''Dick'' as a first name, meaning 'son of Dick' or ...
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Dyck language In the theory of formal languages of computer science, mathematics, and linguistics, a Dyck word is a balanced string of brackets. The set of Dyck words forms a Dyck language. The simplest, Dyck-1, uses just two matching brackets, e.g. ( and ). ...
* Dyke (disambiguation) or Dike,
Van Dyke (disambiguation) Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke is an Americanized or anglicized form of the Dutch-language toponymic surname '' Van Dijk'', ''Van Dijke'', '' Van Dijck'', or ''Van Dyck''. Meaning living near the dike. Van Dyke, VanDyke or Vandyke may refer to: As ...
* Dueck or Dück (surname) {{surname