Garrick is a personal name, and is both a

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and a

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(usually

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). The name has two identified points of origin. Garrick originated in

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

and/or

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

. Old English ''garrick'' means "one who governs with a spear", or "spear king". In French, ''garric'' is derived from an

Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...

word meaning "oak tree grove". Garrick is also an anglicised spelling and pronunciation of the Scottish name Garrioch. This variation originated in the Aberdeenshire area

Garioch Garioch (, , ) is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has a population of 46,254 (2006 estimate), which gives it the largest population of Aberdeenshire's six committee areas. The Garioch consists primarily of the distric ...

. The placename Garioch comes from the

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

word ''Gairbheach'', meaning "place of roughness". Examples of family members using Garrioch and Garrick can be seen on adjacent gravestones in

St Magnus Cathedral St Magnus Cathedral dominates the skyline of Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. Originally Roman Catholic, it is the oldest cathedral in Scotland and the most northerly cathedral in the ...

, Kirkwall, Orkney. People with the name Garrick include:

Given name

Garrick Dowhen Garrick Storm Dowhen (born December 21, 1945)''Who's Who in Entertainment''. (1992). Wilmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who. is an American actor and screenwriter, active as an actor mainly in the 1980s and early 1990s. Dark-haired and chisel-jaw ...

Garrick Hagon Garrick Hagon (; born September 27, 1939) is a British-Canadian actor. He is known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in '' Star Wars: A New Hope''. His films include ''Batman'', ''Spy Game'', '' Me and Orson Welles'' and '' The Message''. He ...

Garrick Ibbotson Garrick Ibbotson (born 15 March 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Ibbotson mainly played soccer as a junior and only converted to Aust ...

Garrick Morgan Garrick Morgan (born 25 January 1970), is an Australian rugby coach and former rugby footballer, who played rugby union for the Australian team from 1992 to 1997. In 2006, he became coach of the Gold Coast Breakers. He is currently head coach ...

(born 1970), former Australian rugby footballer *

Garrick Ohlsson Garrick Olaf Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948) is an American classical pianist. In 1970 Ohlsson became the first, and remains the only, competitor from the United States to win the gold medal awarded by the International Chopin Piano Competition, at ...

* Garrick Palmer *

Garrick Tremain Garrick Tremain (born 1941) is a New Zealand cartoonist and painter living in Queenstown. Biography He has been a professional painter since 1972 and a cartoonist since 1988. Tremain has produced a cartoon six or seven days a week for various ...

(born 1941), New Zealand cartoonist and painter *

Garrick Utley Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014) was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent coveri ...

Surname

Barbara Garrick Barbara Garrick is an American actress. Garrick has appeared on stage, television and in film. Life and career Garrick appeared in several New York-based television soap operas, including the roles of villainous nurse Charlotte Wheaton on ''Gu ...

(born 1965), American actress *

David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1716 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, Actor-manager, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil a ...

(1717–1779), English actor * David Garrick (singer) (1945–2013), English singer * Edward Garrick (1757-?), instigator of the Boston Massacre * Francis James Garrick (1833–1890), New Zealand politician * Horrie Garrick (1918–1982), Australian politician *

Jack Garrick John Andrew Frank Garrick (24 March 1928 – 30 August 2018) was a New Zealand ichthyologist. Career Garrick specialised in elasmobranchs and published many books and articles about shark and ray biology. In 1982, he published a thorough taxonom ...

(1928–1999), New Zealand zoologist * John Garrick (1902–1966), British film actor * Jordon Garrick (born 1998), Jamaican footballer *

Jay Garrick Jason Peter "Jay" Garrick is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first character known as the Flash. The character first appeared in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (January 1940), created by writer Gardner Fox and ...

, a DC Comics superhero and the first to use the name Flash *

Leon Garrick Leon Vivian Garrick (born 11 November 1976) is a West Indian cricketer who played one Test and three One Day Internationals in 2001. Garrick was born in Saint Ann, Jamaica, and played for the Jamaican youth side before making his first-class ...

(born 1976), Jamaican cricketer * Martin Garrick (born 1953), American politician *

Michael Garrick Michael Garrick (30 May 1933 – 11 November 2011)Peter VacheObituary: Michael Garrick ''The Guardian'', 15 November 2011 was an English jazz pianist and composer, and a pioneer in mixing jazz with poetry recitations and in the use of jazz in ...

(born 1933), English pianist and composer *

Neville Garrick Kenneth Neville Anthony Garrick (28 July 1950 – 14 November 2023) was a Jamaican graphic artist and photographer who was based in Los Angeles. He was a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is best known as Bob Marle ...

, Jamaican graphic artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer *

Reuben Garrick Reuben Garrick (born 30 June 1997) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He has played at representative level for the Prime Minister's XIII and f ...

, Australian rugby league player *

Richard Garrick Richard Garrick (December 27, 1878 – August 21, 1962) was an Irish-born American actor and director. Life and career Garrick was born Richard Thomas O'Brien in the townland of Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland. His father, James E. O'Brien ...

(1878–1962), American director and actor * Stanley Garrick (1888–1958), Kingdom of Benin senior administrator and courtier * Tom Garrick (born 1966), American basketball player {{Given name, type=both English masculine given names English-language surnames