Top Celebrity Names Starting With Derek

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   Derek Jeter

   Age 37 Male
   

   Professional Baseball Player

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   Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American baseball shortstop who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. A twelve-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, Jeter has been a central figure of the Yankees during their success of the 1990s and 2000s due to his clubhouse presence, on-field leadership, hitting ability, and baserunning. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits (3,088), games played (2,426), stolen bases (329), and at bats (9,868).… read more

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   Derek Hough

   Age 27 Male
   

   Dancer, Actor, Musician

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   Derek Hough is an American dancer, choreographer, musician and actor. A world champion in Latin American Dance, Hough has appeared since September 2007 on the hit U.S. television series Dancing with the Stars, where he is currently the only three-time champion, one-time finalist, three-time semi-finalist, and a quarter-finalist. Hough has earned three Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography (2009 and 2010) for his work on the show.… read more

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   Derek Fisher

   Age 37 Male
   

   Basketball Player

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   Derek Lamar Fisher is an American professional basketball point guard for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His NBA career has spanned more than 14 years, during which he has won five NBA Championships. He currently serves as the president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Fisher started out his basketball career at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.… read more

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   Derek Lowe

   Age 39 Male
   

   Baseball Player

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   Derek Christopher Lowe is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. He throws and bats right-handed. He is 6'6", weighing in at 230 pounds.

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   Derek Jacobi

   Age 73 Male
   

   Actor, King, Director

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   Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director. A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing. His stage work also included playing Edward II, Octavius Caesar, Richard III, and Cyrano de Bergerac.… read more

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   Derek Anderson

   Age 28 Male
   

   Player of American Football

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   Derek Matthew Anderson is an American football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State. Anderson has previously played for the Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals.… read more

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   Derek Ridgers

   Age 59 Male
   

   Photographer, Musician

   
   

   Derek Ridgers, is an established and well-known English photographer with a career spanning over thirty years. Most famous for his work among the milieu of music, film and club/street culture - photographing everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood to Johnny Depp - as well as photographing politicians, gangsters, artists, writers, fashion designers and sportsmen.… read more

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   Derek Trucks

   Age 32 Male
   

   Blues Musician

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   Derek Trucks is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010 with his wife Susan Tedeschi. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stones' list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.… read more

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   Derek Sherinian

   Age 45 Male
   

   Musician, Songwriter, Composer

   
   
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    Derek Boogaard

    1982 - 2011 Male
    

    Hockey Player

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    Derek Leendert Boogaard was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). A native of Saskatchewan, where he grew up in several different communities as the son of a Mountie, he was known primarily as a fighter and enforcer throughout his career, from junior hockey to the pros.… read more

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    Derek Laud

    Age 47 Male
    

    Politician, Speechwriter, Lobbyist

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    Derek George Henry Laud is a former British political adviser and Government Relations specialist, who has advised the Bank of England, The Securities and Investments Board, British Steel and Takcare PLC. He is a one-time Conservative parliamentary candidate, who achieved celebrity status during his run as a contestant in the 2005 series of the UK TV show Big Brother. He is a regular TV and Radio Broadcaster and writes regularly for the Mail on Sunday newspaper.… read more

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    Derek Acorah

    1950 - 4712 BC Male
    

    Television Personality/spiritual Medium

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    Derek Acorah is an English medium. He is best known for his work on Most Haunted, broadcast on Living TV, between 2002 and 2005. He recently presented the series Derek Acorah on Sky Real Lives. Although he continues to be a popular figure in live tours and television work, he has been criticised and parodied, often casting doubt over his legitimacy as a medium.… read more

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    Derek Raymond

    1931 - 1994 Male
    

    Novelist

    
    

    Robert William Arthur Cook, better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being the founder of English noir.

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    Derek Webb

    Age 38 Male
    

    Musician

    
    

    Derek Walsh Webb is an American singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career. Webb graduated from Klein High School in Klein, Texas in 1992. He was active in Young Life and spent a month working at Young Life's Frontier Ranch in 1999.… read more

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    Derek Conway

    Age 59 Male
    

    Member of Parliament, Politician, Scholar

    
    

    Derek Leslie Conway TD is an English politician, and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010. He announced that he would stand down in January 2008 after a Commons standards committee adjudged that he had employed his son Freddie (a full-time student at Newcastle University) as a political researcher using public funds, despite there being no record of his son doing any work at Westminster.… read more

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    Derek Prince

    1915 - 2003 Male
    

    Teacher, Expositor, Theologian

    
    

    Peter Derek Vaughan Prince was an international Bible teacher whose daily radio programme Derek Prince Legacy Radio broadcasts to half the population of the world in various languages. These languages include English, Arabic, Spanish, Croatian, Russian, Malagasy, Tongan, Samoan and four dialects of Chinese. He was probably most noted for his teachings about deliverance from demonic oppression and about Israel.… read more

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    Derek Freeman

    1916 - 2001 Male
    

    Anthropologist, Scientist, Social Scientist

    
    

    John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work in Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa. His effort "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology.… read more

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    Derek George Smyth

    Age 85 Male
    

    Scientist

    
    

    Derek Smyth is a British born scientist who specialises in peptide chemistry.

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    Derek Bell

    1935 - 2002 Male
    

    Harpist, Songwriter, Oboist

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    George Derek Fleetwood Bell, MBE was an Northern Irish harpist, pianist, oboist, musicologist, and composer, best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with The Chieftains.

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    Derek Shepherd

    Male
    

    Neurosurgeon, Surgeon, Actor

    
    

    Derek Christopher Shepherd, also referred to as McDreamy, is a fictional surgeon on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actor Patrick Dempsey, who was nominated in 2006 and 2007 Golden Globe for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series Drama for the role, and the 2006 SAG Award for the Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series award. He is happily married to longtime girlfriend Meredith Grey-Shepherd.… read more

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    Derek Wyatt

    Age 62 Male
    

    England Rugby Union Player - Mp

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    Derek Murray Wyatt FRSA is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sittingbourne and Sheppey from 1997 to 2010, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey.… read more

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    Derek Underwood

    Age 67 Male
    

    Test and County Cricketer

    
    

    Derek Underwood MBE is an English former international cricketer, and a former President of the MCC. Underwood was one of the foremost spin bowlers in the world for over a decade, starting from the late 1960s. Not a classical spinner, Underwood bowled at around medium pace and was often unplayable on seaming English wickets, particularly sticky wickets, earning his nickname 'Deadly', and accounting for the saying that England would "carry Underwood like an umbrella, in case of rain".… read more

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    Derek Wall

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    Politician, Academic, Speaker

    
    

    Derek Wall is an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales. Formerly the party's Principal Speaker, he is known as a prominent ecosocialist, campaigning both for environmentalism and socialism. Alongside his political role, Wall is an academic and a writer, having published various books on the subject of ecosocialism and the wider Green politics movement. He is a writer for The Morning Star and keeps a regular blog.… read more

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    Derek Walcott

    Age 82 Male
    

    Poet

    
    

    Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros. Robert Graves wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries”.… read more

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    Derek Quigley

    Age 80 Male
    

    Politician, Lawyer, Philosopher

    
    

    Derek Francis Quigley, QSO is a former New Zealand politician. He was a prominent member of the National Party during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and was known for his support of free market economics and trade liberalization. Quigley left the National Party after clashing with its leadership, and later co-founded the ACT New Zealand party.… read more