Dyck is a form of the Dutch surname
(van) Dijck, which is also common among
Russian Mennonites.
Notable surnames
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Aganetha Dyck (born 1937), Canadian artist
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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
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Arnold Dyck (1889-1970), Canadian author
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Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck (1818–1895), American missionary
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Erika Dyck (born 1975), Canadian historian
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Howard Dyck (born 1942), Canadian conductor
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Jonathan Dyck, Canadian graphic novelist
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Lillian Dyck (born 1945), Canadian senator
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Lionel Dyck (1944–2024), Rhodesian-born mercenary
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Paul Dyck (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
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Peter George Dyck (1946–2020), Canadian politician
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Rand Dyck (born 1943), Canadian professor
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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's novel ''
Once Removed''
* Harry Dyck, recurring character in ''
The Daily Bonnet''
* 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 ...
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* 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
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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
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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)
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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 ).
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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:
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Dueck or Dück (surname)
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