List of Famous people named Dirk
Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Werner Nowitzki is a German former professional basketball player. Listed at 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), he is widely regarded as one of the best power forwards of all time and is considered by many to be the greatest European player of all time.
Dirk Kuyt
Dirk Kuijt is a Dutch former professional footballer. Originally starting out as a striker, he played much of his career as a winger.
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series and Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing.
Dirk Koetter
Dirk Jeffrey Koetter is a former American football coach. He was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 2016 to 2018. He was also the head coach at Boise State University from 1998 to 2000 and at Arizona State University from 2001 to 2006, compiling a career college football record of 66–44 (.600). Koetter was the offensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, and Buccaneers.
Dirk Brockmann
Dirk Brockmann is a German physicist and Professor at the Institute for Biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. Brockmann is known for his work in complex systems, complex networks, computational epidemiology, human mobility and anomalous diffusion.
Dirk Roßmann
Dirk Rossmann is a German billionaire businessman, founder of Rossmann, Germany's second-largest drug store chain.
Dirk Wiese
Dirk Wiese is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.
Dirk Schuster
Eberhard Dirk Schuster is a German professional football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Erzgebirge Aue.
Dirk Heidemann
Dirk Heidemann is a former professional ballroom dancer, fashion model, now author, dance sport coach and choreographer from Germany. He has several years of experience in the various fields of dancing.
Dirk von Lowtzow
Dirk von Lowtzow is a German musician. He has been the singer and guitarist with German rock band Tocotronic since 1994. Since 2001 he has also been active with the German electronic music project Phantom/Ghost. In 1997, he took part in the compilation disc Musik für junge Leute with the song Charlotte, which refers to a L'Âge d'or label employee by that name.