Derrick (name)
Derrick is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Derrick Adkins (born 1970), American 400 m hurdles world and Olympic champion
- Derrick Atkins (born 1984), Bahamian sprinter
- Derrick Atterberry (born 1972), American football player
- Derrick Bell (born 1930), professor of law
- Derrick Bird, the perpetrator of the 2010 Cumbria shootings
- Derrick Bostrom (born 1960), original drummer for the band Meat Puppets
- Derrick Brew (born 1977), American 4x100 m relay runner
- Derrick Brooks (born 1973), former National Football League (NFL) player
- Derrick Burgess (born 1978), former NFL player
- Derrick Caracter (born 1988) National Basketball Association (NBA) player
- Derrick Chievous (born 1967), retired collegiate and NBA basketball player
- Derrick Coleman (born 1967), retired NBA player
- Derrick Dockery (born 1980), NFL player
- Derrick Fenner (born 1967), former NFL player
- Derrick Frost (born 1980), former NFL punter
- Derrick Gardner (born 1965), American jazz trumpeter
- Derrick Gardner (American football) (born 1977), American football player
- Derrick Green (born 1971), heavy metal vocalist
- Derrick Harriott (born 1939), Jamaican singer and record producer
- Derrick Harvey (born 1986), NFL player
- Derrick Z. Jackson (born 1955), African American journalist
- Derrick Jensen (born 1960), American author and environmental activist
- Derrick Johnson (born 1987), African American, Perfesonal Chef
- Derrick Johnson (cornerback) (born 1982), former NFL player
- Derrick Todd Lee (born 1968), convicted serial killer
- Derrick Henry Lehmer (1905–1991), American mathematician
- Derrick Mason (born 1974), NFL player
- Derrick May (baseball) (born 1968), former Major League Baseball (MLB) player
- Derrick May (musician) (born 1963), American electronic musician
- Derrick McKey (born 1966), former NBA player
- Derrick Morgan (born 1940), reggae and ska musician
- Derrick Morgan (American football) (born 1989), NFL player
- Derrick Oden (born 1970), American football player
- Derrick Plourde (1971–2005), American punk rock drummer
- Derrick Pope (born 1982), former NFL player
- Derrick Rose (born 1988), NBA player
- Derrick Sebagala (born 1984), Ugandan web developer, web designer, entrepreneur and businessman
- Derrick Shepherd (born c. 1960), American attorney and politician, former Louisiana state senator
- Derrick Sherwin (born 1936), British television producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the Dr. Who series
- Derrick Strait (born 1980), former NFL player
- Derrick Thomas (1967–2000), NFL player
- Derrick Turnbow (born 1978), former MLB player
- Derrick Walker (born 1945), British auto racing team owner
- Derrick Walker (American football) (born 1967), retired NFL player
- Derrick Ward (born 1980), NFL player
- Derrick Williams (American football) (born 1986), NFL player
- Derrick Williams (basketball) (born 1991), American basketball player
Surname:
- Chris Derrick, American collegiate distance runner
- Christopher Derrick (1921–2007), English Catholic writer
- Edward Holbrook Derrick (1898–1976), Australian pathologist
- Kimberly Derrick (born 1985), American short track speed skater
- Thomas Derrick, English executioner, for whom the derrick device is named
- Tom Derrick (1914–1945), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
See also
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