# Diderik

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Diderik Gender Male Language Norwegian Origin Word/name From Theodoric Other names Alternative spelling Didrik Related names Diederik

**Diderik** or **Didrik** is a [Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language) male given name. In [North Germanic languages](/source/North_Germanic_languages), the native form would be *Tjodrik*, but *Diderik* and *Didrik* have been loaned from Low German and are now a common name in Norway. It may also be a variant of the related [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) name [Diederik](/source/Diederik). People with the name include:

- [Diderik Batens](/source/Diderik_Batens) (born 1944), Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent

- [Diderik Bøgvad](/source/Diderik_B%C3%B8gvad) (1792–1857), Norwegian politician

- [Diderik von Cappelen](/source/Diderik_von_Cappelen) (1761–1828), Norwegian merchant and politician

- [Diderik Hegermann Rye](/source/Diderik_Hegermann_Rye) (1832–1914), Norwegian civil servant

- [Diderik Hegermann](/source/Diderik_Hegermann) (1763–1835), Norwegian councillor of state and Minister of the Army

- [Diderik Schnitler](/source/Diderik_Schnitler) (born 1946), Norwegian businessperson

- [Diderik Iversen Tønseth](/source/Diderik_Iversen_T%C3%B8nseth) (1818–1893), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party

- [Diderik Wagenaar](/source/Diderik_Wagenaar) (born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist

- [Didrik Pining](/source/Didrik_Pining) (c. 1430–1491), German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland

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