# Diederik

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Diederik Gender Male Language Dutch Origin Word/name From Theodoric Region of origin Netherlands, Flanders Other names Alternative spelling Dirk, Diderik, Diederick Derived Dirk, Derick, Derek, Related names Diderik

**Diederik** is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) male given name. People with the name include:

- [Diederik Aerts](/source/Diederik_Aerts) (born 1953), Belgian theoretical physicist

- [Diederik Bangma](/source/Diederik_Bangma) (born 1990), Dutch football goalkeeper

- [Diederik Boer](/source/Diederik_Boer) (born 1980), Dutch footballer

- [Diederik Boomsma](/source/Diederik_Boomsma) (born 1978), Dutch politician

- [Diederik van Dijk](/source/Diederik_van_Dijk) (born 1971), Dutch politician

- [Diederik van Domburg](/source/Diederik_van_Domburg) (1685–1736), Dutch governor of Ceylon

- [Diederik Durven](/source/Diederik_Durven) (1676–1740), Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

- [Diederik Foubert](/source/Diederik_Foubert) (born 1961), Belgian cyclist

- [Diederik Jansz. Graeff](/source/Diederik_Jansz._Graeff) (1532–1589), Dutch merchant, ship-owner and politician

- [Diederik Grit](/source/Diederik_Grit) (1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar

- [Diederik Hol](/source/Diederik_Hol) (born 1972), Dutch design engineer

- [Diederik Korteweg](/source/Diederik_Korteweg) (1848–1941), Dutch mathematician

- [Diederik Jekel](/source/Diederik_Jekel) (born 1984), Dutch science journalist and television presenter

- [Diederik Johannes Opperman](/source/Diederik_Johannes_Opperman) (1914–1985), Afrikaans poet

- [Diederik van Rooijen](/source/Diederik_van_Rooijen) (born 1975), Dutch film director

- [Diederik Samsom](/source/Diederik_Samsom) (born 1971), Dutch politician

- [Diederik van Silfhout](/source/Diederik_van_Silfhout) (born 1988), Dutch Olympic dressage rider

- [Diederik Simon](/source/Diederik_Simon) (born 1970), Dutch rower

- [Diederik Sonoy](/source/Diederik_Sonoy) (1529–1597), Dutch rebel leader during the Eighty Years' War

- [Diederik Stapel](/source/Diederik_Stapel) (born 1966), Dutch social psychologist

- [Diederik Tulp](/source/Diederik_Tulp) (1624–1682), Dutch merchant

- [Diederik Jacob van Tuyll van Serooskerken](/source/Diederik_Jacob_van_Tuyll_van_Serooskerken) (1772–1826), Dutch nobleman, later Russian major general and ambassador

- [Diederik van Weel](/source/Diederik_van_Weel) (born 1973), Dutch field hockey player

- [Diederik Wissels](/source/Diederik_Wissels) (born 1960), Dutch jazz pianist

## See also

- [Diederik cuckoo](/source/Diederik_cuckoo), in which *Diederik* is an [onomatopoeic](/source/Onomatopoeic) rendition of the bird's call

- [Diedrick](/source/Diedrick), given name and surname

- [Theodoric](/source/Theodoric)

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